December 2021

BULGARIA Some guys tried to convince us not to go to Bulgaria. According to them, it would be a waste of time as it 'did not have much to offer'. That was funny as we heard the same story about every single country that we crossed on our way: Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and even Poland. 'I never heard of someone traveling in that region the way you

IMAGINARY LINE While the car moved slowly, I flew away to the realm of my imagination. On the top page of the notebook, I engraved letters I.R.A.N. At that point in time, Iran was the main goal of our journey. In order to reach it, some smaller steps had to be taken. For now, it was Hungary and Romania. The Slovak driver noticed my writings. He con

Yes, Denmark still pulls me back in every once in a while. I did some calculations and it seems like altogether I've spent about 1 year in this Scandinavian country. All the visits happened in the span of the last 7 years and the first one was back in 2015. Last summer I ended up in Denmark again. This time, as a Team Leader at the construction com

A unique sense of humor is my Dad's sharpest weapon! He uses it impeccably against any hardship that pops up in his path. A certain state of his joints is one of them, and even it could not stop him from hiking 25 km along the coast of the Baltic Sea. This part of the country was his home for over three months when he was a civil engineering studen

Once upon a time, there was a man who had a wife and a child. He spent many months working long hours, building those grain storage silos one after another, never being home. All this time he kept in mind that his lady was working twice as hard as she had to take care of their tiny little daughter which had indescribable capabilities of both, radia

Samogitia (lt. Žemaitija) is one of the ethnographic regions of Lithuania. The homeland of my dearest wife. The land of the fearless warriors and one of the most preserved dialects that even I struggle to understand after so many years living with a Samogitian girl. This is my second dearest place in the whole wide world, even after so many years o

MAGIC REVEALED All I knew about Slovakia was only a handful of facts. During Soviet times this land of castles and high mountains was a part of so-called Czechoslovakia. Slovakia became an independent state only in 1993. Mostly because of countless caves, rivers, and national parks it is now a quickly developing tourist destination. “Good mornin

POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH The importance of the historical relationship between Lithuania and Poland is immense. For over two hundred years the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania formed a dual state. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reached its largest territorial extent, in the early 17th century. The state had a common ruler, w