by Matthew Allison | Apr 26, 2018 | Europe
April 2018: As part of a 10-day trip across Eastern Europe with my friends Jimmie and Frank, we spent two days in Kosovo. Given our limited time, I chose to visit Prizren instead of the capital, Pristina, because it was smaller and featured a well-preserved...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 16, 2018 | Europe
March 2018: As part of a larger one-week Eastern Europe trip, I flew into Vienna on a day long layover with my friend Frank to join another friend Jimmie in Vienna. Together we explored the old city of Vienna, once the capitol of the Austria Hungarian Empire before...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 15, 2018 | Asia
Journey to the Ghost City of Ani March 2018: My friends Jimmie, Frank, and I set off on a 12-day journey through Romania, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Georgia. The primary goal of this leg of the trip was to explore Armenia, but there was one place I couldn’t...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 14, 2018 | Europe
March 2018: Sleeping in Dracula’s Castle A Mission of Superstition, Shadows, and Sheer Stubbornness I returned to Romania with one goal: to spend the night in Dracula’s Castle. Back in 2005, I had missed my chance during my first trip across Transylvania—a journey...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 13, 2018 | Asia
March 2018: As part of a 10-day trip that also included Romania, Turkey and Nagorno Karabakh, my friends Jimmie and I spent 3 days traveling across Armenia. I hired an Armenian driver with an old Mercedes Benz to drive us across the country and the driver served...