Private Tour Booking Process: How It Really Works (And When You Should Start Planning)

When people start planning a multi-day trip in Europe, they usually assume the real process begins when they contact a tour operator. In reality, most of the decision happens before the first email. This is something I recently discussed in an interview for an industry article on multi-day tours — and it closely reflects what […]

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Lepenski Vir – prehistorical cultural center

The Fore-mother from Lepenski Vir

„Hey! „ „ …man…„ „…what are you doing?„ „…are you up?„ Messenger notifications from my cell phone, on which I had forgotten to turn off the sound, were piercing my ears. It was Lazar, my high school friend, now working on his PhD in history. „ It is Saturday… 8 AM… I am sleeping… what […]

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Balkan tour in 1939

My father Augustin Heussen was born on the 20th of February 1921 in Krefeld, Germany. The following lines are summarizing impressions and experiences from his diary written during his 1939 Balkan tour. After school on the 17th of July 1939 he was ordered to do his crop service in Königsberg, now Kalinengrad, in East Prussia […]

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