Europe
Road Junky has 25 Europe articles. Scroll down to view.
Travelling in Lithuania
The cold, dark bus hurtled through the Lithuanian countryside. I was heading to Kaunas and not looking forward to my impending homelessness when I arrived at midnight.
I’d arrived in ...
Rediscovery: Travelling to Vukovar
There was no ignoring the fact that something bad happened in Vukovar. There was an abandoned tank parked on a front lawn, leading the way into town.
As I walked through ...
Pamplona, Spain Running with the Bulls
There comes a time in the life of every young man when he feels the need to test his mettle and tempt the hands of Fate. He might sign up ...
Germany Christmas Markets
The snow glistens with the array of coloured fairy lights. The smell of fresh gingerbread and grilled bratwurst wafts over the stalls. Carolers can be heard singing Christmas songs in ...
Prussian Parks and Palaces in Potsdam
The opulent and elegant castles of Brandenburg’s Prussian aristocracy attract visitors in throngs to the delightful city of Potsdam, 25km south of Berlin.
Standing in the glittering and glamorous Marmorgalerie (Marble ...
Berlin Bunkers Underground Germany
In the Berlin underground train station, Gesundbrunnen, there is a green door which thousands of people pass everyday, completely ignorant to the treasures that lie on the other side.
The lights ...
Oktoberfest - German Beer Festival
It is an event of world notoriety, and they come from everywhere to crowd the tents, down the one litre (Maß) beers and jostle for space at the urinals. For ...
Running With the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain
Well, I ran with the bulls of Pamplona for the second morning now.
Technically I didn’t run with them as I got into the arena before the bulls did. The experience ...
Mount Etna Travel Story, Italy - Road Junky
There were five of us traveling together at this point: myself, Eric, Alex, Mark, and Adrian. We were in Siracusa on the island of Sicily, enjoying the ancient ruins and ...
Hitchhiking in Spain with Homosexual Drivers
A 24 hour ride with a junky from Ibiza had landed me in the middle of Spain under a fig tree. I chewed some fruit and stared out at ...
Ibiza Night Clubs and Travel
It´s hard to write about islands in the Mediterranean Sea without slipping into the kind of cliched descriptions of picturesque nature normally found in a travel brochure. But no matter ...
Moroccans in Barcelona, Spain
Scholars generally agree that the period of Muslim rule in Spain was one of the highlights in the history of Western civilization. Jews and Muslims lived together side by ...
The Bilbao Museum, Spain and Basque Separatists
Finally. Finally after thirty-three years of missed opportunities, uncomfortable silences and the fear I’d take my thoughts on the subject to the grave, someone asked me what I thought about ...
Barcelona Las Ramblas, Spain
Every city has its street, it seems, that is supposed to be the showcase of the character and charm of the place. London has Portobello Road, visitors to
Ibiza Travel Hippie Spain
Back in ´99 I came back to England after a few years of absence and at once got itchy feet. I headed down to the travel agency to check out ...
Hitchhiking France Travel
Busking in the streets in Biarritz an Algerian and a Frenchman came along and threw me a few coins. In a mixture of broken French and English they laughed to ...
Seaside France Travel Story
Seaboard towns the world over have something slightly seedy about them, in Greece as in Jersey. Even if ships no longer sail in and out of their bustling ports carrying ...
Hitchhiking from England to France
Before I hitchhiked to India with no money, I made a stab at getting to Morocco on the same terms. I headed out of Brighton in the middle of ...
Visa - A Romanian Vacation
Visa: Don’t leave home without it. This is typically the catchphrase of American Express, not Visa. But if you’re an Australian about to travel to Eastern Europe, namely Romania, forget ...
On the Rocks in Tirana, Albania
When I can’t sleep, I replay the scene again and again in my mind and the child’s pitiful wails cause me to heave. I can still see him there, sitting ...
Berat, Albania - Haecietas
The ache never goes away. There is always a thread of loneliness or despair when I am not in physical contact with my little family. I may be sitting in ...
A Beautiful Word for a Beautiful Place
Pogradec, Albania
I roll its three syllables around my mouth like a fine wine. You could travel all your life and never find another place like this. The colours here are ...
Volunteer in Albania - A Nightmare Story
At the Albanian border they made us dismount the bus to check our passports and give us our visas to enter. My traveling companion, a mousy English girl named Alex ...
Europe Travel News
- Kuoni Launches New 2010 World Class Europe and Morocco Brochure - Earthtimes (press release)
- Seamless and streamlined travel - Financial Times
- Ukraine crisis will be first test for Lady Ashton - guardian.co.uk
- The new EU chiefs: Rompuy-pumpy and Cathy Who? - The Associated Press
- European Markets Fall, Led By Banks, Oils - European Commentary - RTT News
