I get out of the car at a Hungarian highway rest stop. Before having completely taken my first step, I count 11 security cameras. What’s more, several cameras monitor each and every onramp here. And […]

Motels. The epitome of modernity. Everything revolves around cars. You’re in the present, thoroughly contemporary. You come in from the day’s travels, shaking or showering the exhaustion off of your body in your rented room. […]

Hotel Hamburg, the first time that I’ve slept in a room since Greece. Lovely. But at Hotel Hamburg, they don’t speak German. I myself speak about eight words of Serbian, and the waiter’s knowledge of […]

One more thing on Greece: the picture from the post “Sustenance along the E75” below naturally represents a complete contrast to my mental image of Greek living. But of course, it is an aspect of […]

Initial statement at the Macedonian border So now I’ve arrived in the next country through which the E75 passes. And once again, it’s history-steeped ground I’m crossing. I think the different translations on this sign […]

Idomeni, a landscape that’s idyllic but not particularly humane. (The white dot on this picture’s right side, halfway between top and bottom, is the refugee camp.) “Information” is as information does.