Clarko Polos

Napflion once more, my favourite Greek town, for a couple of days swimming in the sea, good food and wanders around the old town before heading north for a round trip up the west coast to Nicopolis, across to Meteora and down the east coast via Thermopolae...

Lithuania is well known to we Scots as the source of the ill-fated, some would say downright corrupt, Russian-Lithuanian Vladimir Romanov, who used his bank Ukio Bankas (now bust) to fund a takeover then oversee the club’s collapse. He’s what’s commonly...

Art Nouveau
Latvia? Again, I had no preconceptions. Actually, this is not quite true, as I was drawn to Riga by its Art Nouveau architecture. Brussels is full of the stuff, as is Prague, but it’s only in Riga that you can see street after street of the stuff....

What do I know about Finland? Lapland, reindeer, Nokia and a world beating education system. I can’t name a single famous Finn (Santa doesn’t count). So off we set across the Baltic to Helsinki, not without trepidation, as the previous day we had come...