Backpacking in Germany: So are Hamburgers from here or not?
My reason for visiting Hamburg was not really to find out if the word Hamburger actually started there, although it did intrigue me, it was just a nice Northerly German city, and only a 2…
Backpacking in Germany: Osterweddingen!!
Youve got to love the name of this little village – Osterweddingen, a bizarre and picturesque little ‘Groomsport-esque habitat’ in the middle of Germany. Well actually, close to Magdeberg in the former East side again.…
Backpacking in Germany: Die Grune Zitadelle, Hundertwasser, Magdeburg
Having spent two days in Hannover, I then visited Magdeburg, a massive city in the former East Germany. Magdeberg is quite peaceful and beautiful, and there is no way I would have known it was…
Backpacking in Germany: Hangovers in Hannover
When I arrived in Hannover, Germany (following a fantastic train journey from Leipzig), my mate Rene was waiting there to meet me, which was class, seeing as I hadn’t had a phone for 6 weeks…
Inter Railing in Europe: Czechia to Former Communist East Germany
I caught a train from Prague’s Kolesovice station and the final destination was Hannover in Germany (part of the former West Germany), therefore it was a 9 hour journey and I would need to change…
Smith’s Not Dead!!! – Party up Prague
It was Lock in Lee that said to me three years ago (2004) that someday we should go to Prague. I don’t know why, but we always knew it would happen. So there I hopped…
Backpacking in Poland: Warszawa Skies They Wont Rain On You
I first visited post-communist Poland in 2005, getting a train from Berlin to Warsaw. I stayed there for two nights with my Northern Irish friends and sampled only a teeny bit of the Polish culture,…
Five Nil and you still Don’t sing! Belarus🇧🇾5-0 Northern Ireland🔴🤚☘️, in Bobruisk
“We’re in the army now” – Status Quo. I had watched the Northern Ireland ladies team in May 2007 in Gillingham, Kent. We lost 4-0 to England and played with passion and pride against full-time…
White Russia (Bel -a – Rus) – Where the hell is Bobruisk??
The short answer is Bobruisk is a very sublime and extremely bizarre city in the eastern part of Belarus (White Russia). The real answer is that the day I left Moscow for a flight to…
Backpacking in Russia: Stranger in Moscow and the 1917 Revolutions
One of the few things I remember from a school history lesson on the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. The whole USSR/Russia/Soviet always held an interest in me.…