New Europe by Michael Palin. 288 pp.
A recent (2007) one of Palin's travel books. Reading this made me acutely conscious of how weak my grasp of recent important events is, especially when he was in the former Yugoslavia talking about the war in the 1990s. My memories of that are embarrassingly fuzzy. (Also my grasp of Central European geography is embarrassingly bad, but I already knew that.) Palin revisits a couple of places that he went in one of his earlier books, Pole to Pole, which makes me want to re-read that now.
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