For centuries, the Balkans have been described as Europe’s troubled borderland: a region where empires met, religions confronted one another, and political boundaries repeatedly shifted.…
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Cycling Prague to Odessa: Through Europe’s Borderlands
Somewhere between Botoșani in northeastern Romania and Rîșcani in Moldova, I passed a funeral procession moving through a small village. Men in everyday clothes carried…
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Cycling Toward the Atlantic: A Bicycle Journey Through France
My new book, Cycling Toward the Atlantic: A Bicycle Journey Through France, is now available on Amazon. This is not a guidebook. There are no…
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Glimpses of the Past: Cycling Ukraine 2018
In 2018, I bicycled from Prague to Odessa. While I rode across five other countries in Eastern Europe – Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova,…
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