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read however, a very short and disappointing section on Slovakia, Michael Palin's account of his travels to the countries of Eastern and Central Europe which were once behind the iron curtain is interesting enough,though I didn't find it as compelling as two of his other books,Himalaya and Sahara.
The voyage takes him to twenty one countries,most of them sharing a communist past and many of them now part of the European Union.
The sheer number of countries visited doesn't allow for detailed exploration but there are some memorable bits,including his visits to Auschwitz and Romanian dictator Ceausescu's,room palace.
bill bryson wishes WISHES he were michael palin but then don't we all
i've had this book for years and im finally reading it in a time when traveling isn't possible but michael's descriptions of the people he met and the history of the places he visited in europe were a great escape.

i think this book is best read in one or two goes, or you just lose steam with it, or i did at least.
I was a teenager when the Berlin wall came down and so my geography lessons learned in school were about a world where countries such as the USSR and Czechoslovakia existed.
Unfortunately, as an adult, I never took the time to learn about these both New and very, very old Countries of Europe that have emerged now that communism has lost much of its stronghold.
Fortunately for me, this is now changing as in my work we are beginning to collaborate more and more with these formerly Soviet countries thanks to the EU.
So I guess I really should have read this book a long time ago as, for instance, it might have helped to know a little about Albania before we started that collaboration last year.


Written in/Michael Pailin visited a lot the countries he too had heard very little of as part of a travel program he was making with the BBC.
He writes with good humor and a genuine interest, hope and kindness for the places and people he meets along the way.
The historical facts are interesting though I see from another review that the Bulgarian history may be inaccurate, His hope that Europe can be unified by cooperation shines through the book I am guessing from this he was anti Brexit.


Unfortunately, though for my personal rating of the book, there were just too many countries and too much history to keep straight.
I felt like I have felt when I have spent too long in a Museum or Art Gallery, I love the places at first but after a few hours my headaches from the information overload.
Nevertheless, It has renewed my interest in traveling to every Country in the EU and now those that are looking to join.
It will also be a handy reference book for when I do so as it gives a snapshot in time of these countries, before the world recession but recently after communism.
It will be interesting to see how my own opinions compare to Palins at the time, Eme, Michael Palin decidiu aventurarse pelos países da “Nova Europa” a Europa que, durante décadas, se manteve escondida por trás da Cortina de Ferro, sob o jugo de regimes comunistas repressivos.


Embora este livro possa ser considerado “datado” alguns dos países que visita aguardavam ansiosamente pela entrada na Comunidade Europeia e, atualmente, são membros de pleno direito, com outras condições de vida Michael Palin é excelente a explorar os sonhos, as frustrações e as recordações dos habitantes destes países.
Penso que é esta dimensão humana que torna o livro tão apelativo, O autor parece ser um amigo a contarnos histórias, intercaladas com peripécias pessoais, e a escrita tornase muito viciante.


Vou descobrir mais obras de Michael Palin, porque gosto muito de ouvir o que este “meu amigo” tem para dizer.

Published into accompany Sir Michael Palin's trip round eastern Europe filmed for television between Mayandthis book consists of his diary notes during hiscountry adventure from Slovenia to Germany.
Reading it now makes you realise how fragile politics can be as there have already been many changes in these countries.
Europe is not as united as was thought and the UK has decided to leave the European Union, Nothing stands still however much we think it does, Classic Michael Palin, with his experiences of a journey of several months in Central Eastern Europe, While it is clearly a journey taken at a particular moment, there are some themes which have greater longevity than descriptions of particular areas.
Peering Through the 'Small Clouds' of Prejudice across the Newest Borders in Europe

Michael Palin's book from a little more than a decade ago has a simply stated title, but for a profound concept.
Palin's work was heretofore unfamiliar to me, I discovered his books in the UK Marketplace on Audible a separate login on the Audible app, After a career in comedy, he became a presenter on BBC and a Travel Writer, traveling around the world for different books.
In this one, he covered the entire swath of land that is Eastern Europe from Slovenia up to Berlin and the Sea.
Be prepared for a substantial amount of historic info for a travelogue, seeing that Palin covers such a large portion of country in a short time.


Michael Palin covers every angle, He talks to people. Though he very humanly reveals a few of his own personal prejudices, he admits that they begin to fade away through his encounters with these 'new Europeans' who have been separated from him for fortyfive years of his life by the former Soviet Union by 'Iron Curtains and Cold Wars.
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With visits to the typical cathedrals and museums, and a number of unconventional places as well, Palin even stops at one point to be bled by leeches.
Why not! 'When in Estonia do as the Estonians' apparently applies to leeching, or hirudotherapy as it is known, By the time he arrives in Poland, things are a bit more serious with visits to the concentration camps, Overall, this is an excellent source book for Eastern Europe from the Balkans to the Baltic,

I will definitely need to read more of Palin's work in the future, I will share a few quotes, and leave the rest for you to discover, should you pick up this very good book.
I read this in the Audible with Kindle notquitewhispersynced, since the Audible was from a different market,

"I had always imagined this dreadful place to be utterly isolated in some apocryphal landscape, yet there are houses not half a mile from the camp, and quite substantial houses too, with balconies that look out at the evening sun.
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"Dresden, the capital of Saxony, the city we are approaching in low sunlight on a fast autobahn, which stands, alongside Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a synonym for the worst and darkest excesses of aerial destruction.
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" some people still have the Wall in their headsthat even seventeen years after reunification there is still segregation between the eastern part and the western part, and it will probably take another generation to get rid of that Wall.
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Palin tells the story of his series across the old Iron Curtain and into the new European states left behind by the USSR.
As I grew up partially with the Iron Curtain in place, it was a very interesting view at what has changed, and at countries I may not have considered visiting because of outofdate perceptions.


The book itself is now of course out of date, with many of the countries visited having now joined the EU and the Euro, but it was interesting nonetheless and told in Palin's trademark humour and humility.
Listened via Audible
Loved: conversations with interesting people Michaels narration learning interesting things about, for example, Moldovan politics that Id never previously thought to examine and the review of a Turkish wrestling match

Could have done without: Michaels generic “eastern European” accent for every encounter with a person from anywhere between Germany and Turkey and the almost breakneck speed with which the narration moved through some countries.
I normally enjoy Palins travel books but I found this one quite dreary, It could be because I know many of the countries well and felt that the coverage was too superficial, Despite some big historical inaccuracies about Bulgaria which I couldn't help noticing as a Bulgarian, it was a somehow enjoyable read.

I don't know how much of the historical facts about the other countries included might have been false, but I guess it comes with the book after all it's a more or less personal opinion, or at least a personal view mixed with the views of the staff the author worked with.

Michael Palin's New Europe starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is a half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastnesses of the Sahara.
Cut off for most of his life by Cold Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe's eastern lands are now open for business.

And it's as much a voyage of discovery as any of Michael's other journeys, as he finds himself in countries he'd barely heard of, many of them new names on the map, many unfamiliar and mysterious, all with tragic histories and much brighter futures.

Starting in the snows of the Julian Alps, on the borders of Italy and Slovenia, Michael heads east to discover the half of Europe he never knew.

Heading down the ancient trade route of the Adriatic coast he turns north into the Balkans, gingerly picking themselves up after the vicious fighting of the's.
Albania takes Michael into a different world of strongly eastern influence which he follows through Bulgaria, Macedonia and into Turkey, where Europe and Asia meet.
Turning north to Moldova and Romania, he follows the mighty Danube into Serbia and Hungary, the very heart of Europe, and on to the Ukraine.
A final sweep from north to south takes him through the Baltic States into Poland and across the Carpathian mountains into Slovakia, the Czech Republic and what was until recently East Germany.

Visiting twenty countries, more than in his Himalaya and Sahara journeys combined, he encounters painful memories and exuberant celebrations.
Throwing himself into local life with his usual reckless curiosity, he samples pig fat with a brandy chaser, meets Romanian lumberjacks, drives the.
stopping train from Poznan to Wolsztyn, learns about mineclearing in Bosnia,

treads the catwalk at a Budapest fashion show and watches Turkish gents wrestling in olive oil.

It's New Europe, but vintage Palin, Well rereading this was an entirely difference experience to sitelinkyears ago!

When I wrote that, I was, had spent a week in Berlin the previous summer and fallen head over heels with it.
However, I had to face the reality of one more year in my small town in arguably one of the most isolated parts of England, where my closest connection to "Eastern Europe" was the kids of Polish and Lithuanian migrant workers at my school who mainly kept to themselves.
These were countries that I'd barely paid any mind to, never mind ever thought of visiting, One thing was certain in my mind, though: by having been to Berlin, I'd got my foot in the door to this mysterious part of the world.
I maintained the fascination and hope of returning wherever I could, by continuing to learn German and dabbling in Russian.


Fastforward to, and not only have I been living in Berlin for the past five years, I have also visited many of the countries and cities explored by Michael Palin in this book.
Therefore, much of the mystique that made this book so appealing to me back then is gone,

More than anything, though, this book made me feel rather sad, because it was all before therefugee crisis andBrexit vote, which respectively emboldened fascists all over Europe and signified the general trend of rightwing politics all over the world.
For example, at the time of writing, a lot of the places were not yet EU member states, but of their pending memberships, Palin wrote in the introduction, 'After a century of power struggles which have visited unimaginable horrors upon the continent this comingtogether is breathtakingly fresh and promising'  this is the thesis upon which theday trip is founded.
At the end of the book, Palin reflects on how this Europe could finally be united by cooperation and not conflict.
The tone of the book manages to be not naively optimistic, but it was certainly sobering whenever I came across passages like those, especially in the chapter on Hungary.


With that in mind, it's still an enjoyable and accessible read, especially for incurable Europhiles who want to indulge in a snapshot of that moment before things went to shit.
It's a good crash course of all those European countries formerly tucked away behind the Iron Curtain, It will fill lots of gaps in knowledge as well as give a refresher on more wellknown events, I still have a lot to see, Lanno nuovo inizia per me con un bel twist avventuroso, in Val di Susa in compagnia del documentarista inglese ed ex Monty Python Michael Palin.


Mentre la neve scarseggia, le giornate si allunganoe la variante Omicron ahinoi dilaga, mi sono letteralmente divorata un gustoso reportage di viaggio:

nazioni in poco più digiorni, venti fragili repubbliche postsovietiche e post Guerra Fredda raccontate con locchio vigile del reporter e il tocco di humour dissacrante del vero Englishman.


Ricchissimo di riferimenti storici, il libro si compone di brevi capitoli che sono al contempo densi e godibilissimi, nonché un inserto fotografico a colori targato Basil Pao, fotografo di viaggio di fama mondiale.


Consigliato a chi non è immune al fascino un po decadente di una certa est Europa ed attendeva con ansia le ore di storia e geografia.
Komt niet zo vaak voor dat ik een boek niet uitlees maar dit is er zo een, Leek veelbelovend: de beroemde Palin die indoor Oost en ZuidEuropa reist, Het is het net niet, Ik las tegelijk een stukje uit een boek uit vrijwel dezelfde tijd van Lieve Joris over Hongarije, Veel sprankelender, de mensen die ze ontmoet gaan voor je leven, This is true to form of Palin's other, well known travel books, He travels pretty quickly through a lot of places, and touches on them briefly in his books, accompanied by good photographs to illustrate his story.
In each place he picks an interesting place, or person, or event, and focusses on that primarily for the chapter on that city.
It is successful in a fairly light way, and I often find that Palin's introduction is where he does his deepest theorising.

New Europe is Palin's effort to catch up with those countries in Europe Eastern Europe mainly which have undergone the most change in the last decade.
Completed in, it is hard to reconcile that this book is alreadyyears out of date,
He touches on twenty countries, across a book approxpages long, gives aboutpages each, around a third of which are taken up by photos By Basil Pao, as all of Palins travel books are.
So a brief touch in each country listed in the shelving above,

I rated his earlier books when I joined Goodreads, and they mostly sit inorstar slots except Saraha, which I found a head above the rest atstars.
for these books reflects that the enjoyed them, but didn't find them great, I guess one day I might reread them, and might change my view, perhaps they are better than,
For me, this was a goodstar read, .