I was only born in 1997, so I never got to experience the world beyond the Berlin Wall while it was still up, nor travel around Yugoslavia while it was still, well, a country, but the stories we were drip-fed through the media told tales of bleak, wintry landscapes and limited freedoms. Living in the …

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine intensifies, with air raids being carried out and a wave of refugees to the West being spurred, Europe has been met with a large-scale crisis of the kind never seen since World War II. For that reason, travel to the Old Continent may soon come with its own challenges, …