On September 21 of 2025, I had the good fortune of sharing a bus ride with Simon Calder, travel correspondent for Independent Travel, while travelling from Ostrava to Brno.
We parted ways when the bus arrived in Brno, but arranged to meet in the evening. We had some beers and food and recorded this installment of his podcast for The Independent.
I must say it was a great honour:
While working on my next article and doing some behind the scenes work on the website, I’d like to share some photos of a week of holidays in Bulgaria that we just returned from.
Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast is one of a number of popular seasonal tourist destinations that is easy to reach from the Czech Republic. We’ve enjoyed trips to the region a couple of times before, this time we were near the small city of Tsarevo.
We flew direct from Brno to Burgas and reached our hotel in about 90 minutes via airport transfer.
Burgas is the main city in the region and very nice to visit, but Tsarevo and its surroundings are less touristy and have a charm all their own:
