My splendid but troubled return to Ukraine

What’s up Mr. Putin’s sleeve this time?

2022 so far has been more of a game of poker rather than chess for President Putin, a man who has always had many tricks up his sleeve, played out at random to ultimately achieve his main desire – to gain further concessions and ...

Novi Sad / Нови Сад

A city with two alphabetical identities

Novi Sad, known as Újvidék in Hungarian, is a vibrant city 300 kilometres south by road, river, rail and bicycle lane from Budapest. It's located in the central heart of Voyvodina, a flat, agricultural province in northern Serbia and 75kilometres from Belgrade. For where ...

Hundreds of artists in opening ceremony

Year of culture under way at Novi Sad

Novi Sad’s opening ceremony on January 13 for its year as a European Capital of Culture marked a historic moment for the city on the Danube that is the capital of the Voyvodina region in northern Serbia. The country’s second city, 300 kilometres south ...

A gracious Mediterranean city with an advent time glow

From Zagreb with love

Those who have been to the admirable Adriatic city of Zagreb will invariably recognise the Croatian capital carries a light, Mediterranean atmosphere, even when it's advent time and the season of goodwill. So much so, the centre is ablaze at this time of the ...

Travel writers organisation returns to the road

Promoting tourism in post-plague times

It was a case of “worth the wait” when the Croatian sector of the Fédération Internationale des Jounalistes et Ecrivains du Tourisme (FIJET, World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers) held its annual Marco Polo awards ceremony in Zagreb on December 9, having had ...