Author Archives: ianmacd

The lyric that forms the title of this entry is borrowed from Killing Joke and very appropriate. We’re spending our third night in the Hungarian capital of Budapest tonight. We had planned four nights in total, but have already decided … Continue reading →

We’ve now been on the road for a full month, have left some 3200 km behind us, done several loads of laundry en route, and made it as far as Eger in Hungary. This marks Eloïse’s tenth country in thirteen months, … Continue reading →

With the caves that we want to visit in the vicinity of Rožňava being closed on Mondays, we had another day to kill in Košice. Because we’d already seen most of what Košice had to offer, however, we spent only … Continue reading →

I’ll make this brief, as I’m in an Internet café in Košice in south-east Slovakia, about 50 km from the border with Hungary and 100 km from the one with Ukraine. We’re here for two nights, this being the second, after having … Continue reading →

Here we are in Starý Smokovec, for the last of our three nights. We made it here a couple of days ago, via the Dobšinská ice cave. That was an amazing experience, not least because the weather had turned and … Continue reading →