Travel
Travel stories across Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on landscapes, rail, heritage, cities and the cultural context that makes a journey more than a destination. Explore train connections, walking routes, working landscapes and cultural events, with practical details checked against the sources linked in each story.
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Two names, one landscape: looking around Fertő and Neusiedlersee
The lake known as Fertő in Hungary and Neusiedlersee in Austria sits within a cultural landscape of reeds, villages and cultivated land. Its World Heritage…
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Through the window: Semmering and the making of a mountain landscape
The Semmering Railway crosses an Austrian mountain landscape shaped by the railway itself. Built in the nineteenth century, its tunnels and viaducts invite a particular…
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A city at walking distance: reading Plečnik’s Ljubljana
In Ljubljana, Jože Plečnik’s architecture takes the form of crossings, embankments and shared spaces as well as buildings. Walking between them reveals a city understood…
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Beyond the church walls: reading Transylvania’s village landscape
The fortified churches of southern Transylvania are often photographed as separate monuments. Their setting tells a wider story. Streets, houses and shared spaces place the…
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Ostrava keeps the machinery in the picture
At Dolní Vítkovice, industrial structures remain prominent as cultural uses take their place around them. The Gong concert hall occupies a former gas holder, giving…
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The gate and the city: encountering Gdańsk’s shipyard memory
Gdańsk’s shipyard history can be approached through a gate, written demands and a building whose material recalls ship construction. At the European Solidarity Centre, political…
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Hvar’s other horizon: the working lines of Stari Grad Plain
On the Croatian island of Hvar, Stari Grad Plain carries an ancient arrangement of agricultural land into the present. Stone boundaries, cultivated plots and small…
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The shore that needs care: looking at Lithuania’s Curonian Spit
The Curonian Spit separates the Baltic Sea from a lagoon, holding dunes, forests and settlements within a narrow coastal landscape. Its appearance carries evidence of…
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Kaunas, where modernism becomes a neighbourhood
Kaunas’s interwar architecture carries a period of state-building into the scale of streets and homes. The World Heritage area connects a developing city centre with…