Lana Del Rey’s ‘Summertime Sadness’ is filling the air of the restaurant in Odesa…. “Done my hair up real big, beauty queen …
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Autobiography & Travel
The Invincible Children of Kharkiv – Musicians in the ‘City without Windows’
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleKharkiv, in the far north-east of Ukraine, has been described as ‘a city without windows’ (Mayor Ihor Terekhov in a Twitter post …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
Geography and the Bronze Age Battle at Tollense, Germany
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOne of the beauties of modern archaeological technique is the ability to analyse ancient battle, or massacre sites, in a forensic way. …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
1066 and the Dead Parrot (The weird things going on in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …
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So where the heck is Smyrna? I’d heard a little about the awful days of 1922, but despite having made a few …
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Autobiography & Travel
Nominated: Content Catnip award for Most Interesting Blog on WordPress!
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleLast week I checked my email, to find that I had been nominated for the Content Catnip award for Most Interesting Blog …
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Autobiography & Travel
A Chilling Thought about Travel – is it mostly Hoarding?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSeven months of travelling nearly done, and I’m siting in a plane, about to watch a documentary on Martin Phillipps of ‘The …
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The passport control officer at Minsk Airport seemed genuinely shocked to see me (well, OK, I can have that effect on people). …
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My first impression of Odesa was not good. It was back in 2006 when I was merely transiting on the way to …
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“Only First-Class!” Well darn, that wasn’t in the script – there were no other berths on the train from Poltava to Odesa. …
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