Month: August 2026

Slovak Paradise: ladders, chains and waterfalls

Slovak Paradise is a national park in eastern Slovakia where the trails do not go around the gorges but straight up through them, on metal

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Košice: the hidden gem of eastern Slovakia

Košice is the second city of Slovakia, with around two hundred and thirty thousand residents, at the far eastern end of the country. It has

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South Moravia: wine, castles and traditions

South Moravia holds almost the entire vineyard area of the Czech Republic, in a landscape of gentle hills, villages with whole streets of wine cellars,

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Bohemian Switzerland: sandstone arch and gorges

Bohemian Switzerland is a national park in northern Czechia, on the German border, made up of sandstone eroded into towers, walls and stone labyrinths. It

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Subotica: an Art Nouveau masterpiece in Serbia

Subotica is a town of around a hundred thousand people in northern Vojvodina, ten kilometres from the Hungarian border. It has the densest concentration of

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Fruška Gora: the wine route of Vojvodina

Fruška Gora is a low ridge rising out of the Vojvodina plain above the Danube, south of Novi Sad. It was declared the first national

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Kopački Rit: the Amazon of Europe in Croatia

Kopački Rit is a floodplain of about two hundred and thirty square kilometres in the north eastern corner of Croatia, where the Drava flows into

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Osijek: the Baroque capital of Slavonia

Osijek is the largest city in Slavonia, on the bank of the Drava in the eastern corner of Croatia. It has a Baroque fortress quarter

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Hvar island: beaches, lavender and nightlife

Hvar island is the sunniest in Croatia and, unusually, does three completely different things well: beaches with genuinely clear water, lavender fields that once made

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