Iran
Iran - the land of the Persians awaits explorers
Iran beyond the stereotypes: Isfahan's bridges and Imam Square, the village of Abyaneh, Kashan's gardens and merchant houses, the shrine in Qom and the ancient Zurkhaneh…
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Culture and heritage
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Italy
Naples and its surroundings offer more than you expect
A few days in Naples and a drive around the area reveal a surprising variety of attractions in a small space, from the Spanish Quarter and…
Egypt
The mysterious world of the pharaohs in Luxor, Egypt
Luxor, the capital of ancient Egypt, is a place of mighty temples and tombs, of the world of the living and the world of the dead,…
Croatia
Croatia's Istria - ranking the top attractions
Istria, Croatia's northernmost region bordering Italy and Slovenia, offers far more than the Adriatic coast. Here is my subjective ranking of its greatest attractions, from Rovinj…
Belgium
Brussels - from the European Parliament to the glorification of peeing
Brussels has a few places you simply must see, food and drink worth trying and charming corners off the obvious track. You can start with serious…
China
A crazy stopover, or 24 hours in Beijing
China is full of mysteries, and some of them can be solved by numerology. My crazy one-day stopover in Beijing can be summed up in three…
Thailand
Thailand - etiquette and behaviour, or Thai savoir-vivre
Thailand is a friendly and tolerant country, which is all the more reason to follow a few rules of etiquette so as not to offend the…
Thailand
Thailand - land of mountains, hill tribes and the legend of opium
Northern Thailand, on the borders of Burma and Laos and once the heart of the opium Golden Triangle, is a land of colourful hill tribes, rafting,…
Singapore
Singapore's 5 greatest attractions
Singapore is a global one-off: an ethnic and cultural collage, a city-state where many races, languages and religions live side by side. Here is my subjective…
India
Mumbai - a city of contrasts
Mumbai, formerly Bombay, is a teeming metropolis bursting with energy: noisy, usually dirty, yet at times dripping with luxury. From the Gateway of India and Elephanta…
Jordan
Jordan, Petra and Wadi Rum: beautiful, cheap and close
Cheap flights to Eilat put southern Jordan within easy reach: a short hop across the border lies Petra, the rock city of the Nabataeans, and the…
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka - live your own Asia Express
Two weeks of the Polish winter are enough to see Sri Lanka properly. A self-drive route from the Negombo fish market and Colombo through Dambulla, Sigiriya,…