Stumbling over Statues in Macedonia

24 – 27 June 2018 As I hinted at the end of my previous blog post, things didn’t really go as planned as Raquel and I left from Thessaloniki to Skopje in Macedonia. I’ll start at the beginning. We went to the train station in Thessaloniki to buy our tickets for Skopje. Naturally, we expectedContinue reading “Stumbling over Statues in Macedonia”

The Story of Ukraine (part 2)

24 May – 3 June 2018 On the early Sunday morning I arrived in Kyiv after a train ride of ten hours. It is not because of the distance that it took so long to get to Kyiv, since it’s only around 400 kilometers away from Lviv. But the trains are not exactly the latestContinue reading “The Story of Ukraine (part 2)”