JOHANN SCHAAS 1933-2023 Hans Schaas has died at home in Richis, his Reichesdorf, after a short illness. His wife, Hanne, was with him, so too were his family from Germany. Hans and Hanne refused to join the exodus of the…
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Reality & Beyond Ltd has had long links with Ukraine and with Crimea before the Russian grab. Our last organised visit was in September 2014: Krakow and Lviv while fighting was ongoing in the East. My husband’s brother, Christopher, has lived in Ukraine…
Not wishing to trail up and down the motorways twice in a short space of time I combined a few days fishing on the Awe, south of Oban with a family wedding in Ayrshire, in all taking up about twelve...
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11th to 20th October, 2019 Our journey through Serbia had three aims: perhaps four. Monastries, Roman sites and British war time experiences with Tito. The fourth was to see if Serbia would interest the friends of Reality & Beyond. It was…
2nd Feb to 12thFeb, 2019 It is not the best time in the Wadi Rum, if star gazing is your wont. The weather is unsettled. We had cold days with rain and some thunderstorms with hail the size of sugar…
13th to 16thSeptember, 2018 The sun shone on Medias and the villages hosting the festival, permitting at least eighty of us to eat ‘au plein air’, even in the evenings. The meeting and chatting over delicious food is an important part…
12th to 16th October 2017 Out journey began with one night in Sibiu. The visit to this capital of the Saxon area was necessarily short as the few days were concentrating on the villages to the West and East of…
Bosnia and Herzegovina has been in the limelight in the 20th century for, mostly, the wrong reasons; yet this is an extraordinary, beautiful and interesting country which Bosnians are doing their best to rebuild. Forbiddingly sparse in parts, lushly wooded…
Budapest and Transylvania 26th September to 3rd October 2015 “In a brown velvet jacket and wide trousers he walked a little self conscious from one desk to the other… ‘I am drawing here, am writing there, at the third one…
Until 1919, Krakow and Lviv (Lemburg) were Polish and part of Austro Hungary’s province of Galicia since the partition of Poland in 1772. Lemburg was the capital. Now Polish Krakow is in Nato and the EU and Lemburg (Lvov/Lviv) is…
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