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The Baltic Tears

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For those who read my blogs with the expectation of a light-hearted read, this is not one such story, in fact, I would say it’s a rather somber tale instead. I was on my way back from Tallin in Estonia. For those unaware, Estonia is the most digital country in the world. The tiny Baltic nation sits at the top end of Eastern Europe, about 80 Km away from Finland and bordering Russia. It is home to a population of just over 1.3m people with over a third of them living in the capital, Tallinn. It has the most Unicorn start-ups (a private company with valuation over $1bil) per capita of any nation in the world with 10. It is also home to the most supermodels per capita, which is something I can attest to. Not the most friendly of people, but nobody said art had to talk, it just has to create feeling and boy did I have the feels as I walked through the streets of Tallinn. However, my story actually takes place in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Latvia is yet another Baltic nation to the south ...
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The Bosnian Flame

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Vjecna vatra - Eternal Flame Most of my pieces thus far have been a bit short and overly light-hearted. If you are expecting something similar, I suggest you put down this piece and read another one of my earlier pieces. My story begins in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzagovina (BIH). You might be wondering where this country is and what I was doing there. Well for starters, the beautiful country is situated in an area known as the Balkans in the heart of the former state of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was made up of modern day Croatia, Serbia, BIH, Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo, but the latter might be a bit controversial (That’s a debate for another day). For those that still don’t have an idea where Yugoslavia was… Go back to school and ask your geography and History teacher for a refund. But seriously though, BIH is situated between Croatia and Montenegro along the Adriatic Sea. Having moved to the Netherlands recently for work, I felt that I was a little tired of...
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Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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