π Around the World with Beyondia 𧡠Mediterranean Region πͺ‘ Episode 9 Dubrovnik’s city walls are over 600 years old. Two kilometres of stone, built to protect a republic that lasted longer than most empires. But the best part isn’t the view from the top. It’s getting lost in the streets below. Ragusa β the […]
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π Around the World with Beyondia 𧡠Mediterranean Region πͺ‘ Episode 8 Vis was a military island until 1989. No tourists for fifty years. That’s why it still looks like this. Vis is the farthest inhabited island from the Croatian mainland It takes two and a half hours by ferry from Split, across a stretch
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π Around the World with Beyondia 𧡠Mediterranean Region πͺ‘ Episode 7 Ε ibenik’s cathedral took 105 years to build. Every stone carved by hand. No brick, no wood β the only cathedral in Europe made entirely of stone. Ε ibenik β Medieval Stone, Tesla’s Electricity The stone that built the Cathedral of St. James was quarried
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Around the World with Beyondia 𧡠Mediterranean Region πͺ‘ Journal 2 From sea level in Lovran to 1,396 metres. From a mountain summit to a city market in Zagreb. From a capital to Plitvice lakes that build their own world. Lovran I started the week looking up. Vojak β the highest peak of UΔka β
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π Around the World with Beyondia 𧡠Mediterranean Region πͺ‘ Episode 6 In Dalmatia, they say a fish should travel three times in its life. From the sea to the net. From the net to the fire. From the fire to your plate. Never further. There is a word in Dalmatia β pomalo Pomalo roughly
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π Around the World with Beyondia 𧡠Mediterranean Region πͺ‘ Episode 5 You hear Plitvice before you see it. I walked in from the upper entrance, to Plitvice lakes down a path thick with beech and fir, and the forest did what forests do β muffled the world, shrank my attention to the ten meters
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π Around the World with Beyondia 𧡠Mediterranean Region πͺ‘ Episode 4 Zagreb’s trams have been running since 1891. But the real heart of the city is Dolac β open every morning since 1930. Locals call it Zagreb’s belly. There are cities people visit to see landmarks. Zagreb is not one of them. Zagreb is
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π Around the World with Beyondia 𧡠Mediterranean Region πͺ‘ Episode 3 The morning in Istria doesn’t begin with coffee. It begins with a cow. She was already awake when I walked to the barn β the kind of cow that has done this so many times she finds the human’s nervousness slightly embarrassing. The
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I flew from Crete to Cairo. There was no ferry β that crossing stopped being practical decades ago. I watched the Mediterranean change colour through the window as Africa appeared, first as a brown line, then as a city so large it seemed to have no edges. Egypt The first Egypt moment β Giza The
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Route: Cairo (Pyramids, Souq, Nile) β Luxor (Valley of the Kings, Karnak, Luxor Temple) Distance: 510 km (by air or rail β not a driving route) Transport: Domestic flight (1 hour) or overnight Talgo sleeper train (9β10 hours) Recommended duration: 5β7 days (2β3 Cairo, 2β3 Luxor) Best months: OctoberβApril Currency: Egyptian Pound (EGP). Approximately 50β52
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