Drowning in illegible Cyrillic-laden photocopies and bombarded with the incomprehensible "consulate-speak" spreading along my desktop, I almost gave up. But with the tiny goal of visiting Belarus, one of the world's least visited countries, now within eyeshot, I slogged on. Who knows, maybe this won't be so hard after all…After toughing out the Russian visa application, I refused to let a pint-sized problem like getting a Belarusian visa change my travel plans.Want to ensure a successful …
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3 Beautiful Cities in Eastern Europe Independent Travellers Should Not Ignore
To all you Cold War kids out there (just in case you didn't know) the news is officially out: Eastern Europe is no longer that strange, bleak, cold, and grey place we devoured images of while growing up.Times have changed—mostly for the better—and as it turns out, Eastern Europe is actually not so bad these days; it's even surprisingly pleasant.When I decided to travel independently to Eastern Europe for the first time almost 10 years ago, I was slammed with a multitude of blank stares …