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Tag along for the impromptu travels with our European correspondent, Gilbert Carlson as he crosses the continent with his thumb out and his eyes open: prepared for anything life on the road might take from him or the kindness of strangers might bring.
“Amsterdam is the greatest city in the world.”
With such a recommendation we knew we couldn’t go wrong. We felt we had to break up the trip from Paris to Berlin by stopping in Amsterdam for a couple nights. Our drivers on the way up all had great things to say about the...
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We hitched into Sarajevo in separate groups after splitting up in Tirana. Nathan and I had enjoyed the oddest succession of rides and a night in a sixteenth century monastery in the mountains of Montenegro while Aby and Jamie had slept on a bloodstained floor in a dodgy apartment in Durres, the Albanian...
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