ELYSIUM TRAVEL

The first time I set foot in this chaotic place I thought, “Wow, this feels like the center of the world!”. And Istanbul hasn't disproved me since. I moved to live here in the summer of 2003, and the first thing that shocked me was that no one spoke any

Over the past year I have had the opportunity to take a ‘gap year’ – when I was a student they hadn’t even been invented! I visited eight countries separately, for the first time going it alone, without family or friends. I travelled to Portugal, Madeira, South Africa, Antigua, Sicily,

It is a quiet morning in the rural countryside of the Tokushima district in Japan. Nestled in the green hills, the small town of Kamikatsu is slowly waking up. Walking down the sleepy streets one can’t help but notice the multitude of bags in front of the houses. They serve

If there is a fiery woman, it is Lyudmila Abadjieva.Finesse and laughter are the words that describe her best. We find her in Hawaii where she manages the entire catering of the officers’ club in United Pearl Harbor Base and Hickam. Bulgarian greetings from 12,831 kilometers. By Lyudmila Abadjieva When

On a hot summer day in the early 20th century a group of smartly dressed English gentlemen, led by the entrepreneur Tom Normanton from Brookside Mills, near Manchester, turned up at the factory of Ivan Hadzhiberov in Gabrovo to check out who dared to compete with them in their best