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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
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