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Exploring the Hidden Europe in 2004 and 2009

In 2004, I visited every country in Eastern Europe.  On this page you can read my blog entries from that trip.

In 2008-2009, I returned to see what had changed since that time. 

With these two visits, five years apart, I accumulated enough material for my new book, The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us

Follow the thin black line to retrace my steps in Eastern Europe in 2004! The thick black line is a plane flight.

Map of Francis Tapon's 2004 Eastern Europe trip

 

 

1 Fun in Finland
2 Excitement in Estonia
3 Lost in Latvia
4 Loving Lithuania
5 Miseries in Minsk
6 A Promenade through Poland
7 Stupidities in Slovakia
8 Cruising the Czech Republic
9 Anal Austrians
10 Suicidal in Slovenia
11 Cavorting Croatia
12 Hooking up with a Hawaiian in Hungary
13 Surviving Serbia
14 Bomb Damage in Bosnia-Hercegovina
15 Moving to Montenegro
16 Alert in Albania
17 Mixed up in Macedonia
18 Camping in Kosovo
19 Braving Bulgaria
20 Roaming Romania
21 Marauding Moldova
22 Uncanny Ukraine
23 Trekking in Turkey
24 Final Thoughts on Eastern Europe
25 Western Russia