Eastern europe Quote by Tim Cope

In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the peninsula in…

— Tim Cope

For the traveller, Kazakhstan offers more than just a staging post for the Silk Road, as is often perceived, and there is more than…

— Tim Cope

I miss roaming around the Basant Lok market, eating out, the Capital's wide roads.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside…

— Salman Rushdie

“This is always always always what she wished a bazaar to be. Demre, proudly claiming to be the birthplace of Santa Claus, was direly…

— Ian McDonald

[Vladimir] Putin intended to provide for a broad safety corridor [for the Olympic Games]. That's why Abkhazia was a more important and desired goal…

— Garry Kasparov

“This northerly route of east–west transit and trade, extending from the Panjab and the upper Indus to Bihar and the lower Ganga, now became…

— John Keay

Every year we go to Shirali, which is between Murudeshwar and Bhatkal. We have our roots there. The most special part of the trip…

— Radhika Pandit

Hyperloop can improve life dramatically for the 16 million people in the greater Moscow area, cutting their commute to a fraction of what it…

— Shervin Pishevar

“Early railway journeys took him to Ceylon, Thailand, and Burma; he would later describe his wanderlust as the “peripatetics of a Jewish prince”.”

— V.O. Blum

No one in my town had ever gone to Kota. I mean, it was a big deal if people went to Bhubaneswar.

— Ritesh Agarwal

When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends,…

— Sergei Lavrov