Category: Balkans

Last Christmas…

• anjci
• on Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Last Friday, our internal office paper published a submission call for fiasco Christmas stories. Not the heart-warming ones which would bring a cheerful glow on your face and make you...

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Balkan Odyssey 2009. Part II: Mostar, Sarajevo, train to Zagreb, Plitvice

• anjci
• on Thursday, September 10th, 2009

(continued from Part I) Mostar-bound Good thing I had already had some mental border-crossing experience with BiH. The next day brought three such crossings. Some of you may be familiar...

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Balkan Odyssey 2009. Part I: Zadar, Split, Hvar, Korčula, Dubrovnik

• anjci
• on Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Balkan getaway – route planning My holiday is finally over! Thank goodness. In fact, I am not sure if it was a holiday at all. In just over two weeks...

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Greek illusions

Greece: Illusions no more II

• anjci
• on Friday, July 31st, 2009

I didn’t quite finish expressing myself on Greece in my first “Illusions no more” piece: https://anjci.com/greece-illusions-no-more/. Let this come as a (surely long-awaited) continuation. As the summer passes by, I...

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Job search in Athens: The truth revealed

• anjci
• on Thursday, May 7th, 2009

It was a crazy idea from the start. Here I was in mid 2008 – a 24-year-old female; two years of full-time investment banking experience and a handful of internships;...

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Greek illusions

Greece: Illusions no more

• anjci
• on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

I mean, Greece is a great country. The food is generous and tasty. The islands are, erm, blue, white and surrounded by the sea. The sun shines abundantly during the...

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Guide to walking on Athenian pavements (good luck finding any!)

• anjci
• on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

While I am still discovering this multi-faced country called Greece, one thing never fails to amaze me. The Athenian pavements. Believe me, sometimes there is an actual little road for...

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