Time for a new country! Today we travel to the capital of Belarus, often referred to as “Europe’s last dictatorship”.
Tag: Immigration
One day in… Transnistria
Welcome to Transnistria – the last Soviet territory in Europe.
I’m back!
After 61 days on the road I’m finally back home. Want to know how it all went? Read all the details here 🙂
South Korea in Brief
Going to South Korea? I’ve collected all the important things I have learned during my two weeks in the country 🙂
72 hours in… Beijing
The first ten days of my mini trip around the world have passed, and it’s time to post something again 🙂 My first stop to was Beijing, the capital of China, and in this post you can read what has happened while I was there.
Welcome to… the Republic of Moldova
Many people think that there are no white spaces on maps anymore. Tourists in the Himalayas seem to bump into each other at the top of Mount Everest and have been able to post to Instagram via a special mobile network for years. Former “insider locations” are now served by budget airlines. But one doesn’t have to travel far away: The Republic of Moldova, one of the world’s least visited countries, is located between Romania and Ukraine – just two hours from Frankfurt by plane. The exact numbers differ, but most statistics agree that much less than 20.000 international tourists
Russia: Planning, Preparations and Immigration
I’m a train nerd and so I’ve always wanted to go to Russia and ride both the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Сапсан (“Sapsan”, russian for “Peregrine falcon”, a variant of the german ICE). While sitting over my travel plans for the year 2017, it became apparent that there would be a two-week “hole” in my calendar between February and June. Somewhere in my mind a memory about a huge military parade in Moscow in early summer or so started shouting loudly. One Google search later I knew that the yearly “Victory Day” (День Победы) parade would be held on May 9, the