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Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #46: Kosovo: Will there ever be a Balkans Nelson Mandela in the Land of Hatred? Part III – Kosovo

This part of Wee-Cheng’s journey finds the story of a people currently under siege and the circumstances they face, plus how hard reconciliation has become in Kosovo.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #44: Kosovo: Will there ever be a Balkans Nelson Mandela in the Land of Hatred? Part I – Kosovo

This part of Wee-Cheng’s journey finds the story of a people currently under siege and the circumstances they face, plus how hard reconciliation has become in Kosovo.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #43: Montenegro: Beach Bums, Mountain People And Dreams of Independence – Montenegro

Miami Beach has nothing on the blondes and studs of Budva, just as those in the Yukon will never be as hard as Montenegrins. No wonder they’re thinking independence.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #42: Montenegro or Bust: A 1,500 km Rush Around the Balkans in 48 Hours – Montenegro

More border confusion awaits, as does yet another 1500km journey to go to a 100km country.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #41: Croatia: Tales of Tragedies, A Grand Old Republic and 21st Century Mass Tourism – Croatia

Tourism is booming in Croatia, but while the scars of war on buildings aren’t easily noticed, the scars on the people are still raw.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #42: Montenegro or Bust: A 1,500 km Rush Around the Balkans in 48 Hours

More border confusion awaits, as does yet another 1500km journey to go to a 100km country.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #37: Bosnian Serb Republic (Republika Srpska): A Gentle People at Odds with the World, Part II – Bosnia

Will the Dayton Agreement help bring about peace, recognition of states and cooperation among them? Or will political instability plunge the region into more conflict?

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #38: Today in Kosovo – Kosovo, Serbia

Racial divides are so bad that buses won’t stop in Serbian areas, and Wee-Cheng even gets corrected like a schoolboy for using Serb place names.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #36: Bosnian Serb Republic (Republika Srpska): A Gentle People at Odds with the World, Part I – Bosnia

Wee-Cheng travels to the Serb Republic expecting to find some battle-hardened figures but finds instead a gentle people with their own story to tell.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #35: Newsflash: Hurrah! In Montenegro Now After 1500 km! – Montenegro

Rules? Montenegrin border guards don’t need no stinkin’ rules.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #33: Belgrade, Serbia: Broken Dreams & Phoenix Rising from Ashes – Belgrade, Serbia

Serbs are: beautiful, romantic, historically minded, misunderstood, tired of fighting, and trying to rebuild.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #34: Newsflash: Deported from Montenegro, Trying Again from Belgrade – Belgrade, Serbia

Think you don’t need a visa to enter Montenegro? Yeah, that’s what Wee-Cheng thought too.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #24: Yucatan, Mexico: Land of the Mayas

Wee-Cheng watches locals use Coca-Cola in religious ceremonies, chucks down a few fried grasshoppers and visits the birthplace of chocolate.

Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #25: Chiapas & Oaxaca, Mexico: Mayan Gods, Fried Grasshoppers & Beheaded Saints

Wee-Cheng is winding up his Latin American adventure, but he still has time to eat some more interesting food and have his photo taken with dead people.

Check Your Change: The Euro Cometh

Check Your Change: The Euro Cometh On January 1, 2002, all countries involved in the European Union (except Britain) will change currency to the euro (€). This is fantastic news for travellers, who will no longer have to change currency half a dozen times during a trip, be stuck with pocketloads of unchangeable coins, and

Where is the Deepest Canyon in the World? – Arequipa, Peru

While I’m Young

What would happen if standing in lines made you younger? Bob Pedersen couldn't help but wonder, while waiting in one of many queues he braved on his RTW …

Adventures and Hard Lessons in Publishing

Adventures and Hard Lessons in Publishing July 1, 2002 Both Travelers’ Tales and I had some pretty lofty expectations back in September 2000, when they first published “Take Me With You” in the States, in hardback. And when the media became excited by Tony’s and my coast-to-coast taxicab trip, well, we thought we might actually

BootsnAll Exotic Dancers

BootsnAll – Exotic Dancers When friends came asking, BootsnAll delivered. When a friend asked us, would you dance at a bachelorette party, we gladly obliged. It was quite funny as we’re not good looking blokes and have very little rhythm when it comes to dancing. Funniest quote of the night was by a waitress at

Summer in Bastion Square Performance Details – Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Summer in Bastion Square Performance Details For up-to-date details, phone the hotline: 361-0388 Wednesday, August 1-Friday, August 3 Noon: The Sinclair Academy of Performing Arts presents Broadway hits from My Fair Lady to Lion King. Saturday, August 4 Noon: Sinclair Academy 1:15pm: The Bel Canto Camber Ensemble works from the Baroque, classical, and romantic era

Two Days on Little Inisheer: An Aran Island Experience Part 2 of 3 – County Galway, Ireland

A. J. Neudecker finds that 2 days only scratches t

I Love Whitby! – Whitby, England

John Barth explores the lovely, peaceful, seaside

An American Redneck in Bulgaria Part 4 of 4- Bulgaria

Jay Winfrey finally leaves Bulgaria.

Daylight Robbery Part 4 of 4 – Madrid, Spain

Baggageless but happy, Jeanette Therese “Trouble”