Inspiring Travel Writing from Vitali Vitaliev: Page 3 of 7
Articles by Vitali Vitaliev: Page 3 of 7
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Hotel Sittavia
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Vitali Vitaliev
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India
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Rajasthan
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Jaipur
Masochism has become a feature of modern travel. Luxury suites, candle-lit dinners and first-class flights are no longer enough to satisfy the demands of discerning holidaymakers, now looking for danger spots (even if imaginary), where their nerves...
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Hotel Langholmen
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Japan
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Kansai
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Osaka
Even if you choose to ignore drab oblong buildings, maze-like inner courtyards and watchtowers when approaching this most unusual hotel, the set of four clocks above the Reception Desk will bring the truth pounding back: they show the current time...
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Hotel Grodek
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Poland
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Krakow Region
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Krakow
Tucked away in a quiet cul-de-sac in the very centre of historic Krakow, next to the medieval Dominican convent, Grodek is a brand-new (opened September 2005) 4-star boutique hotel, one of the four small Krakow hotels owned by Donimirski Boutique...
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The Westin, Warsaw
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Poland
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Eastern Poland
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Warsaw
The irregularly shaped skyscraper of Westin Warsaw stands out among other, mostly nondescript, towers of the Polish capital’s ever-sprawling CBD, Warsaw’s new Manhattan. Analogies with the USA do not end here. The hotel’s central wing, squeezed...
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Prague
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Czech Republic
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Prague Region
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Prague
A rather reluctant beer drinker (I always preferred wine), I made sure I memorised one useful Czech expression before flying to Prague: “Uz nepiju” (“I don’t drink any more”). It was the best I could do, for visiting Prague without getting the feel...
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Island legacy
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United Kingdom
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Channel Islands
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Jersey
Swastika badges and swastika bookmarks. Key rings made of wartime German bullets. Pencil sharpeners in the shape of Nazi fighter planes and warships. Audio-tapes of ‘Hitler’s Radio Addresses to the Third Reich’ (a set of two) and ‘Music of the Third...
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Hotel from Hell
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Poland
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Baltic Coast
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Gdansk
At the railway station of Gdansk I was met by a fussy local official. “We have decided to put you up at one of our new hotels as a sort of ...er... experiment,” he chuckled. I never enjoyed being a guinea pig, but there wasn’t much of a choice. The...
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Old Believers in Alaska
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United States
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Alaska
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Anchorage
She was sitting on the pavement, or, as they say in America, "sidewalk", next to a ‘Paws for Coffee’ coffee shop for dogs, in a wind-swept suburb of Anchorage, Alaska's biggest city. Her slanting Inupiaq eyes stared straight in front of her, across...
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Flight from Hell
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United Kingdom
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Cotswolds
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Wiltshire
A civilian to the core of my bones, I have always been puzzled by the militaria. The only bad mark I got at my Soviet University was in Military Tactics - a compulsory discipline for every high-school student in the jingoistic and paranoid USSR. I...
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Oktoberfest
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Germany
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Bavaria
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Munich
“If you really want to dip into beer culture, go to Oktoberfest,” a beer-wise London friend advised. I started making inquiries and found out that Oktoberfest was held in Munich and - surprisingly - started on September 21st. How is it that an...
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