Cultural

Skyline of Tokyo

Tsukiji to Toyosu

In 1935, the world’s largest wholesale fish market opened in a neighborhood called Tsukiji, occupying prime Tokyo real estate right in the center of the city. 83 years later, on October 6th 2018, it finally symbolically shuttered its doors and…

Soccer around the World

It is the most popular sport in the world – played by over 250 million people across more than 200 countries. And there is a simple reason for it – all you need is a spherical object which can be…

Old computer monitors on the walls of the ruin pub, Szimpla Kert, Budapest

Eastern European Bar Scene (Budapest, Hungary)

Imagine yourself in an alternate edgy futuristic society in the year 2050. A Blade Runner – Altered Carbon – 5th Element mash up for your cityscape.   Imagine, getting off work at 6pm one cold, dark, winter evening, hopping on…

KGB Bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, with it’s mysterious smoke-filled atmosphere and communist era memorabilia.

Eastern European Bar Scene (Slovakia)

Since their Velvet Revolution and Velvet Divorce (so named, because there wasn’t a drop of blood shed this time around) in 1989, bars in Bratislava (and Slovakia, in general) have poked fun at their communist past, specifically building Soviet themed…

Sunset across the old town and city walls of Dubrovnik, Croatia

An Austro-Hungarian State of Mind

Our experience with Ottoman (Turkish) flags in Bosnia left us a little curious about the leanings of the people of Croatia and other Yugoslav states. Were people happier in modern day states? Did they prefer the erstwhile state of Yugoslavia?…