I’ve recently been focusing on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states, having rewritten or written pages anew on Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Slovakia also fits the bill, but was previously published as part of a joint trip to Vienna in 2013. I visited some of these places twenty years ago, and it’s been great rediscovering each city and retracing my footsteps, particularly through Google Maps and Street View.
From the oldest to the newest, our Russian circuit in 2004 took us from Helsinki to Saint Petersburg and Moscow, then on to Riga and Tallinn before heading home. Next up was Ukraine in 2014 to realise a longstanding ambition to explore Chernobyl, not to mention Kyiv itself, mere days after the Maidan Revolution. Later the same year I found myself in Poland with a trip to Krakow for a wedding. Turkmenistan in 2016 took us from Ashgabat through the Karakum Desert to Turkmenbashi on the Caspian Coast, and Czechia in 2017 was a short city break to Prague at Easter.
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