Park of Friendship, Belgrade. November 2020 – March 2021. In the autumn of 2020 Sladja and I landed in Belgrade following a three-week stay in Istanbul. Which had actually been a pitstop of sorts on the way home from Cambodia, where we’d been happily stuck for 8 months after the whole COVID-19 mess broke out. […]
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time in Prague. December 2002 & February 2012. In late 2002 I was living in Bratislava, where I worked as an English teacher. Any free time us teachers had (and there was plenty of it) went to the seemingly endless travel options in and around Slovakia. My first trip to Prague was […]
Read MoreSnippets of Vienna. October 2002 & June 2003. I always feel a bit uncomfortable when people ask me if I’ve ever been to Vienna. This is because while I have visited (twice actually), it isn’t a city I was able to get under the skin of. In fact, I barely brushed the surface. Circumstances very […]
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Read MoreJia Jia and the Warriors, a short story from China. After a prolonged period of stability, I finally bid farewell to Belgium in the summer of 2009. Uninspired by life in grey, uneventful Brussels, I headed off to China for an unforgettable year of teaching and traveling. —- The slow train from Beijing to Pingyao […]
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Read MoreBites & Gulps: Mouthwatering Moments in Istanbul. September-October 2020. Well, dear readers, we have at long last arrived at my final Istanbul article. It is my 20th piece, and with today’s focus firmly on the city’s excellent food and drink scene, I hope very much to go out with a bang. So let’s get going, […]
Read MoreCool Spots Around Istanbul (Part II). September-October 2020. Following my recent article, Cool spots Around Istanbul, it’s time to wrap up my last batch of sights from across the city. So let’s get going with… Cool Spots Around Istanbul Part II. Sometimes the most memorable travel moments can just be soaking up the atmosphere of […]
Read MoreCool Spots Around Istanbul. September-October 2020. At long last I am edging towards the end of my Istanbul series. What an incredible city it is, something I have hopefully succeeded in showing over the last seventeen articles. Now, as per Leighton Travels tradition, it’s time to round up the best of the rest. And boy […]
Read MoreThe Magnificent Mosques of Istanbul. September-October 2020. The mosques, the mosques, the mosques of Istanbul. Much like the city’s ubiquitous cats they are an ever-present feature wherever you go and whatever you do. Punctuating the skyline on both sides of The Bosphorus, these often stunning structures stand as vessels of community, faith, Turkish history and Islamic […]
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