Category Archives: Balkans

Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro

“No trees have been felled in the park since the 19th century. Some trees in this forest are five hundred years old,” said Radovan. He was a local, and one of the many who had come to look inside our truck, The Beast, the evening we arrived. Biogradska Gora is the smallest of Montenegro’s fourContinue reading “Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro”

Kidnapped By Aliens In Slovakia! – The Perils of Being a Brit Abroad

I am thrilled that my piece Kidnapped By Aliens In Slovakia! – The Perils of Being a Brit Abroad has been featured by Robert Fear on his Fred’s Blog Creative Writing Showcase. What happened at Bzovic should really stay at Bzovic. But if you really want to know the true story about what happened atContinue reading “Kidnapped By Aliens In Slovakia! – The Perils of Being a Brit Abroad”

Welcome To Kosovo

Hungerford. Lockerbie. Dunblane. Sleepy backwaters whose syllables might have languished in obscurity forever, had they not become intertwined irrevocably with tragedy. I felt the same as we crossed into Kosovo. My knowledge of Europe’s newest country – a territory half the size of Wales, populated by fewer than two-million people – derived mostly from shockingContinue reading “Welcome To Kosovo”