A Lady in London

After 15 unseasonably hot days of traveling in the Balkans, I expected to return to bitter cold weather in London. But when I arrived at Gatwick Airport, I was greeted by such warmth that I wondered whether my flight had been rerouted to the tropics. As it happened, the UK was experiencing a heat wave. It made me all the more glad that I would be traveling to Cornwall over the weekend.

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Most people thought I was crazy to travel to the Balkans by myself. I was lectured on safety, on health, on everything imaginable. But I had been curious about the region for years, not least because the only thing I really knew about it related to the conflicts in the 1990’s. There was surely more to the Balkans than that, and I couldn’t wait to discover it.

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