The year of staycations: how one photographer swapped Bucharest for a life in the mountains
3 mountain retreats to stay at to escape the crowds
Psst, over here! Your guide to the under-the-radar Eastern European travel gems you need to visit in 2020
Discover the stunning wilderness of Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula
By land and water: from sparkling lakes to towering peaks, make this summer a New East adventure
Scaling the peaks of the New East
Estonia to grow taller in a single day
Savour the slopes at the Georgian ski resort crafted from shipping containers
Bulldozing Buddha: a final glimpse of a spiritual centre in the Urals
Watch this Slovenian cabin hitch a helicopter ride up a mountain
Don’t look down: would you stay in this precarious Slovenian mountain cabin?
Take some time out on a Romanian mountain
Off track: a guide to getting lost and finding yourself in Georgia without really trying
Days without sun: winter comes to a summer resort in Crimea
High plains drifter: getting back to nature in Kyrgyzstan, a land where time flows slow
The elusive beauty of the slagheap: searching for the sublime in a Russian mining town
What lies beneath: a quest to dig up the strange, secret history of uranium mining in Poland
Tell it to the mountain: a personal view from the top of the Caucasus