Day trip to ARMENIA – Sevan, Dilijan, Gosh and Haghartsin | Europe in a Day

Բարի գալուստ Հայաստան – Sevanavank overlooking Lake Sevan - Source: James Scanlan Set amongst the towering peaks of the Caucasus Mountains, Armenia sits at the crossroads of continents, being considered geographically in Asia but historically and culturally European. While covering the Junior Eurovision Song Contest as press, I arranged for a group of us to…

Day Trip to TRANSNISTRIA – Bender and Tiraspol | Europe in a Day

Добро пожаловать в Приднестровье – Lenin outside Tiraspol’s Supreme Soviet - Source: James Scanlan As reform began to sweep the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, a narrow strip of land along the River Dniester unilaterally declared itself as a separate republic within the USSR. Months later when the Soviet Union began to break up,…