Street Art in Kep | Cambodia
More often than not, when buildings are abandoned it’s inevitable that street art and graffiti will soon follow. Considering the size of the town, Kep has a surprising amount of both street art and...
View ArticleStreet Art in Pristina… and the Newborn Monument
Seeking out street art in Pristina plus a look at the changing face of the Newborn Monument - a guide for independent travellers to Kosovo in the Balkans. If you look hard enough you will find street...
View ArticleStreet Art in Podgorica, Montenegro
On our first visit to Podgorica, a couple of years ago, the city’s unmissable ‘Transformer’ sculptures* were the best I could come up with in the way of street art. However, on our recent stay in the...
View ArticleStreet Art in Kiev: A Self-Guided Walking Tour
A self-guided walking tour of murals and street art in Kiev, an open-air art gallery. Street art in Kiev is big and bold and in your face. Of all the cities in which we’ve seen street art, I don’t...
View ArticleThe House of Revolution (Dom Revolucije) in Niksic, Montenegro
Urban exploration in Montenegro’s second city I must confess, creeping around abandoned buildings is not high on our list of ‘things-to-do’ at the best of times and least of all when rumours abound...
View ArticleStreet art in Mitrovica, Kosovo
On our visit to Mitrovica in Kosovo street art was an unexpected surprise. However the amount and quality of street art in North Mitrovica was a dramatic contrast compared with Kosovan Mitrovica - a...
View ArticleStreet Art in Ipoh, Malaysia
If there’s one thing that will lure me to a city, it’s the promise of exceptional street art. We had pinpointed Ipoh as a potential place to break our journey between Singapore and Hat Yai and as I...
View ArticleStreet Art in Hua Hin, Thailand
Finding street art and graffiti at an abandoned building in southern Thailand We could have been relaxing on the beach with a book or paddling in the waves, but instead we went looking for abandoned...
View ArticleWhere to break the journey between Singapore and Penang, Malaysia
Interesting places to visit when travelling from Thailand to Singapore We’ll be the first to admit that we’ve somewhat overlooked Malaysia these past few years. As a destination that both of us visited...
View ArticleSeeking out Street Art in Skopje, Macedonia
For a city with such an eclectic mix of architecture, I was expecting a lot more when it came to street art. However, Skopje is disappointing in that respect. I’d imagined that the colourful revolution...
View ArticleEast of the Dnipro River – Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk)
I could have been more sensational with the title for this series of posts on our travels in the eastern part of Ukraine. Travelling in war-torn Eastern Ukraine, What is it like to travel in Eastern...
View ArticleStreet Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
Whilst not a patch on the volume, quality and diversity of street art found in Athens, Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki has a good smattering of artwork and graffiti within a relatively small area....
View ArticleAbandoned Taiwan: The Qianyue building in Taichung
Located in Taiwan’s second most populous city, Taichung, the Qianyue building (千越大樓) is one of the most astonishing abandoned places we have ever explored. The fact that this desperate-looking...
View ArticleSoviet ‘street art’ in the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr
Deciphering the history behind Soviet-era plaques This wasn’t supposed to be a long post. Kirsty and I saw these Soviet-era symbols on the side of the PJSC Ukrtelecom (Ukrainian National...
View ArticleStreet Art in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Street art hunting in Kaohsiung wasn’t really on my radar until a friend who was visiting the city kept sending me photos of all the fantastic art he was passing. He’s not particularly a fan of street...
View ArticleStreet Art in Taichung City, Taiwan
Where to Find the Best Street Art in Taichung The main reason Taichung City found its way into our travel plans was that we wanted to seek out Encore Gardens, an abandoned theme park, and the Qianyue...
View ArticleWhat we got up to in the Baltic States and the Caucasus
Not the typical tourist attractions: Alternative sightseeing on our travels In no particular order, our priorities on our recent 2½ month trip to the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and...
View ArticleStreet Art in Taipei City, Taiwan
Where to Find the Best Street Art in Taiwan’s Capital We began our Taiwan trip in Kaohsiung in the far south, and then worked our way north, so by the time we’d reached Taipei we were starting to feel...
View ArticleStreet Art in Tainan City, Taiwan
Where to Find the Best Street Art in Tainan As a former Qing dynasty capital, Tainan is better known for its ancient temples and fortresses than for its street art. Despite the city seeming an unlikely...
View ArticleAbandoned Estonia: Rummu Prison
Urban Exploration at an Underwater Abandoned Jail in Estonia The bulk of the now-abandoned Rummu prison is best seen from under the water. Funnily enough, we don’t carry diving gear with us on a road...
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