The Sex Machines Museum in Prague is one of the city's adult-themed features that those seeking either entertainment or education will enjoy. Three floors of "appliances," clothing, art, and ... Read More

Krasnoyarsk is one of my favorite cities in Eastern Russia. Easily walkable, somewhat cosmopolitan, and bereft of targeted tourist traps, Krasnoyarsk has everything you need . . . without ... Read More

There have been some interesting recent events in Eastern Europe this past week. While not the castle of the real Dracula, Bran Castle (in which Bram Stoker's Dracula might ... Read More

You may be surprised at the number of beggars you see in Eastern Europe. It is a sad fact that the old, sick, poor, and ethnically different may have no ... Read More

As social outcasts, the Roma of Eastern Europe have gotten a raw deal. Their opportunities for social integration are few due to biases from mainstream populations, which means that the ... Read More

Today was the second day of Dayton's International Festival, A World A'Fair. This is an especially interesting annual tradition for the city, when the various ethnic clubs get to ... Read More

Romania, like many parts of Eastern Europe, has beautiful natural refuges that most visitors are not privy to. However, Barefoot Tours, a small tour company specializing in Romanian adventure ... Read More

Let's be frank: Victory Day in Russia is not an event that tourists should look forward to, such as Maslenitsa, but its relevance to Russian culture, Russian history, and ... Read More

Bob, over at Barefoot Tours managed to make some pictures available of the flooding in Eastern and Central Europe. The photographer, Andrei Parciog, has been kind enough to allow ... Read More

As another group from Ohio State University will soon be leaving for Tomsk, I was thinking back upon my experiences with group travel and all of the things I had ... Read More

Izmaylovo Market in Moscow is the place to pick up all the Russian souvenirs you want. Shopping there last summer, I found a unique pair of silver earrings with a ... Read More

The Prague Spring Music Festival in the Czech Republic is gearing up for a month-long celebration of chamber music, opera, and symphonies. Given the importance of this ... Read More

Hungary, with its hidden wine culture, never prepared its citizens for what happened to some builders in Szegad. A pickled corpse was found at the bottom of a rum ... Read More