Book Lover’s Guide to Bulgaria: Sofia
Our last destination before jetting off to frosty Iceland, Sofia delighted and surprised us with its modernity and its culture. Rapidly developing and expanding...
Book Lover’s Guide to Romania: Bucharest
After our brief, out-of-the-way diversion to Iași, we jumped on the train and made our way to Romania’s beautiful capital, Bucharest. We’ve heard gr...
Book Lover’s Guide to Serbia: Novi Sad & Subotica
Five nights in Belgrade and we’re off again, this time to Novi Sad and then Subotica. Up here to the north of Serbia, the architecture shifts and changes, the c...
Book Lover’s Guide to Serbia: Belgrade
Continuing our adventures across Eastern Europe, we spent 4 nights in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. We learned about Tesla, Yugoslavia, and Serbia’s troubled...
Book Lover’s Guide to Montenegro: Budva and surrounds
Only recently split from Serbia, the newly-independent nation of Montenegro is something of an oddity in Eastern Europe. Though they possess a strong sense of c...
Book Lover’s Guide to Albania: Tirana
With Greece ticked and thoroughly completed, we jumped on a plane headed for Tirana, the capital of Albania. For those unfamiliar with Albania, it’s a tiny Balk...
Book Lover’s Guide to Greece: Athens
Athens is a beautiful, flawed and ancient city. We saw sights that delighted, surprised and saddened us, much like Greece overall. But one thing above all else ...
Book Lover’s Guide to Greece: Thessaloniki & Surrounds
A Book Lover’s Guide to Greece: Thessaloniki and Surrounds Thessaloniki is a city of contrast, with a long history of conquest and war stretching back into anti...
Geelong Australia Library – Babbling Abroad
“Libraries really are the gates to the future.” – Neil Gaiman I have many fond memories of trips to the various libraries around Geelong, the ...
Why I Read: Translated Literature (And How You Can Too)
I love to read because it makes my world a bigger and smaller place at the same time. Bigger because it broadens my horizons, takes me to places both real and i...