501 Places

In this week’s guest post Kathryn Bullock describes her recent experience of spending Easter in the lesser known parts of Romania. In fact I suspect all of Romania is unknown to the majority of travellers. After reading Kathryn’s account you might agree that it’s worthy of a closer look. The 12 day break between Good [...]

This week’s guest post comes from Violeta-Loredana Pascal, who runs a Romania-based PR agency. Lori has chosen to share with us her belief that a weekend should be a time for relaxing and not one that is interrupted by the pressures of  work. She also shows us how taking a perfect weekend break is not [...]

Have you ever been with people in a remote place and wished you could speak their language? I decided to do something about that desire one time, and had great success; although not in the way I would ever have intended. It was the mid 1990s and there was a glut of aid projects working [...]