03Pillar · Worth knowing
The small things no one tells you.
The Tuesday market that beats any restaurant. The 30 minutes that turn a museum visit around. The detail no guidebook prints. The difference between a nice trip and a memorable one is almost always tiny.
82Pocket notes from the road
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Adam Jones Dhaka
Dhaka's painted rickshaws have been World Heritage since 2023
Zairon Manama
Here the World Heritage Site is a 3.5 km path, not a monument
Bernard Gagnon Baku
Half the world's mud volcanoes are next to Baku
Armen Manukov Yerevan
Yerevan has a birth certificate, and it is written in cuneiform
Staselnik Vatican City
The Vatican has the shortest national railway in the world
Ad Meskens Stockholm
The Vasa survived because the Baltic is too fresh
Bern
In Bern you swim the river downstream, and there is a last-exit sign
Žiga Ljubljana
The world's oldest wooden wheel came out of the marsh next door
Lure Bratislava
From Bratislava you leave the country by bicycle over a 500-metre bridge
Gmihail Belgrade
You can only walk to the island in the middle of Belgrade for three months a year
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