Belarus recently changed its visa policy, allowing for the first time EU citizens to enter the country without a visa. Given this opportunity to remove one more of the very few remaining European countries from my bucket list, a chilly autumn afternoon I boarded that plane heading to Belarus for the first time. I spent one week there exploring this disremembered city. And here … [Read more...]
First time entering Belarus: the last European Dictatorship
Belarus was one of those very few European countries I’ve never been to... that until a few hours ago. Now I’m sitting and having a beer in this vacant hostel in downtown Minsk, writing my first impressions of this new country.This mysterious little country, hidden in the heart of Eastern Europe, whose name will sound to most Americans like a … [Read more...]
