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Traveling Through Transylvania with 'Dracula' as a Guide

Is it possible to use Bram Stoker's 1897 novel to explore Transylvania? Using Jonathan Harker's diary to travel from Munich to the Carpathian Mountains by train, staying in the same towns and hotels

Travel Writing

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Specializing in unusual destinations, forgotten history and urban exploration. From venturing through Chernobyl, gold panning in the Arctic Tundra and exploring Transylvania to secret tunnels, ghost towns and hidden treasures! Featured in Atlas Obscura, New York Times, BBC Travel, Daily Mail, Vogue, Mental Floss, Vanity Fair,

Messy Messy Chic, London Times. 

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Co-author of the best selling books

Don't Be A Tourist in New York and London

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Spending the Night in Chernobyl

Exploring the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and staying in the one working hotel left amid the abandoned towns, hospitals, apartment buildings and playgrounds 

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Exploring Graham Greene's Cuba

'Our Man in Havana' was published in 1958, and much of the city it describes remains intact. Following in Graham Greene's footsteps through the bars, hotels and locations of the the novel, that saw the author wind up in a Cuban prison!

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The Ruins of Pablo Escobar's Secret Island Mansion

Sailing to a remote island off the coast of Cartagena to venture through the mangrove swamps and find an abandoned 1980s mansion complex once owned by Pablo Escobar

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