by skibum | Feb 20, 2023 | Eastern Europe, Europe, Harvey Falcon
Everyone knows of the mythical and magical Czech capital of Prague. It first came on my radar when watching the original installment of my all time favorite movie franchise: Mission Impossible 1. Watching Tom Cruise run across the Charles Bridge with all the fog...
by skibum | Jan 28, 2023 | Eastern Europe, Europe, Harvey Falcon
I cannot tell you exactly why I became so fascinated with this beautiful town in the western hills of Czechia. The more research I did into it, the cooler it seemed. Karlovy Vary is the 22nd largest city in the Czech Republic (according to Wikipedia), a country with a...
by skibum | Jan 28, 2023 | Eastern Europe, Harvey Falcon
If you google “biggest festivals in the world” the results will yield four festivals that are not really music festivals. They’re one day events like Street Parade in Zurich every July or Summerfest in Milwaukee, USA. I have been to the latter and it...
by skibum | Jan 13, 2023 | Eastern Europe, Europe, Harvey Falcon, Uncategorized
One of the highlights of Eastern Europe is undoubtedly Romania. Tucked in a forgotten corner of Europe and bordering a multitude of different kinds of countries, Romania is a diverse place with some incredible features of its own. Although I am partial to the smaller...
by skibum | Jan 13, 2023 | Eastern Europe, Europe, Harvey Falcon
Nothing in the Czech Republic is very big. The cities, doused in incredible history, are all pretty close together and not large, even by European standards. The nation that was formerly a region of Europe known as Bohemia (when a neighborhood around the world is...
by skibum | Jan 13, 2023 | Eastern Europe, Europe, Harvey Falcon
An often forgotten part of Eastern Europe, I was warned prior to visiting Moldova: there’s nothing to do there and no young people. Apparently, they all leave the country as soon as they can because it’s such a dismal place. I found neither of these things...
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