Just a quick note to draw your attention to the "related blogs" located to the right of my own blog (and below all those advertisments). I'm on the lookout ... Read More

When you travel to Russia, you will literally want to carry an empty bag tucked inside your suitcase so that you'll have room for all the Russian souvenirs ... Read More

Travel to Eastern Europe takes lots of advanced planning . . . there are visas to get, plane tickets to arrange, hostels or hotels to research, and destination choices to ... Read More

The Empire That Was Russia is a site dedicated to the photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, a photographer who worked for Tsar Nicholas II. Prokudin Gorskii traveled around the ... Read More

BBC has posted the most heartbreaking pictures yet of the flooding in Eastern Europe. There are several English-language Eastern European news agencies out there, but BBC has seemed to ... Read More

For Southeastern European countries, as well as Ukraine and Moldova, the flooding in Eastern Europe has yet to come to and end. More rain in Bulgaria has made the ... Read More

If you've ever been to Poland, you know that the food there is delicious. If you haven't been to Poland yet, Polish Food will whet your tastebuds. Restaurants ... Read More

For those of you who have been keeping tabs on the flood situation in Eastern and Central Europe, you may have become aware that the overflowing Danube's waters have rushed ... Read More

Hitchhiking remains a common means of transport for Eastern European locals. However, each country has its own hitchhiking customs and culture, so foreigners can be seen as easy prey ... Read More

So what's true Russian vodka? Not Stolichnaya, says Roustam Tariko, the man behind "Russian Standard" vodka. Are Americans being mislead with Stolichnaya's logo, "Genuine Russian Vodka" because it's ... Read More

Central and Eastern Europe seems to be recovering from the flooding and is now working on recovery efforts. The Czech Republic reports damage to national monuments, which, while to ... Read More

Excessive flooding in Eastern and Central Europe is certainly cause for alarm in the countries hit by rising waters. Hungarian officials suspect that water levels could rise past those ... Read More

You may have noticed by now that I have added a long-awaited Map of Eastern Europe. You can find it in the top right navigation bar under "Essentials" the ... Read More

The Spectator featured an article this week by Neil Clark entitled, "Bulgaria" (you may have to complete the free registration process in order to view the article in its entirety). ... Read More

Have you ever dreamed about traveling across Russia, from west to east (or east to west) on the Trans-Siberian Railroad? So have I, and it's definitely not out of ... Read More