Inspiring Travel Writing from Vitali Vitaliev: Page 4 of 7
Articles by Vitali Vitaliev: Page 4 of 7
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Vermont
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United States
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Vermont
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Cavendish
It was like chasing a ghost... At least, it felt like that in the beginning, as I was driving through the forests of the Black River Valley which, according to New England tourism officials, were past their much-publicised "fall-foliage" peak. This...
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New Orleans
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United States
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Louisiana
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New Orleans
A life-long admirer of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, two Russian satirists, who travelled in the USA in 1935-36 and recorded their impressions in the book 'Little Golden America', I was rather disappointed by their sketchy and half-hearted description...
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Wales
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United Kingdom
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Wales
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Hay-on-Wye
What did I know about Wales? Unpronounceable place names (it took me several days to learn how to pronounce Llandudno without choking on my own alveoli)? My dark-eyed London friends with names like Davies and Morgan? Welsh rarebit? The Prince of...
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Moscow, Pennsylvania
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United States
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Pennsylvania
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Moscow
Eleven years after my defection from the Soviet Union, I was finally returning to Moscow. I was travelling without a Russian visa, for the Moscow I was heading for was in America, just a two-hour drive from New York. I consciously chose Moscow,...
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Tallinn and Riga
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Estonia
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Tallinn Region
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Tallinn
What a curious substance, human memory! It can be compared to an overflowing rubbish-bin, which our brain, this amnesiac dustman, chronically forgets to empty. Having forgotten many useful addresses, I still remember this one in Tallinn: 12, Sakala...
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Dresden
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Germany
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Saxony-Anhalt
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Dresden
On my first visit to Dresden in October 1992, I was mistaken for a Princess Di's bodyguard. I came there to report on the Queen’s first trip to the former East Germany for the now-defunct European newspaper. With a young lady from Her Majesty’s...
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Weekending in Salzburg
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Austria
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Upper Austria
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Salzburg
Why Go to Salzburg? Salzburg is an undisputed gem of Central Europe, “the heart of Europe’s heart”, as it was put by an Austrian poet. It offers an inspiring mixture of splendid cityscape, mountain views and historic monuments. Ruled for centuries...
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Meet the Bears
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United States
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Alaska
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Fraser Lake
Travelling in America is like being constantly exposed to one and the same familiar cliché. The only part of the country that beats all Hollywood-coined stereotypes is Alaska. Being so obviously “un-American”, Alaska nevertheless fits the USA well...
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Dresden
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Germany
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Saxony-Anhalt
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Dresden
On my first visit to Dresden in October 1992, I was mistaken for a Princess Di's bodyguard. I came there to report on the Queen’s first trip to the former East Germany for the now-defunct European newspaper. With a young lady from Her Majesty’s...
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Dundee
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Vitali Vitaliev
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United Kingdom
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Southern Scotland
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Dundee
I could hardly keep up with Professor McKean. His eyes gleaming excitedly from under the glasses, his coat tails flapping in the wind that he himself was creating (or so it seemed), he dragged me from one stinky gateway to another to show me what...
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