Archive for May, 2022


Day one in the Balkans

May 12th, 2022 by Roger Darlington

I am a man who loves his sleep, so it was a tough gig for me to rise at 3.30 am on the departure day of my holiday. This was necessary because of the need to check in by 4.25 am for my flight from Luton Airport. I spent the night at the nearby Ibis […]

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BACK TO THE BALKANS: KOSOVO, ALBANIA & NORTH MACEDONIA

May 10th, 2022 by Roger Darlington

What was originally called on its formation in 1918 the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then in 1929 was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and in 1946 became the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia broke up in the course of three wars in the early 1990s into no less than seven small states.   […]

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A review of the new movie “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness”

May 8th, 2022 by Roger Darlington

Any film that has one of the words ‘strange’, ‘multiverse’ or ‘madness’ in the title is going to attract my interest and one that features all three in the title is cat-nip to me. Anyway it’s a Marvel movie and I never miss one of these. So expectations were high when I booked an early […]

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A review of ”The Yugoslav Wars Of The 1990s” by Catherine Baker before I return to the Balkans

May 4th, 2022 by Roger Darlington

Baker is Lecturer in 20th Century History at the University of Hull and her book is one of a series called Studies In European History published by Macmillan Education. It is, therefore, aimed at history students and consequently it is brief (164 pages) and balanced and it is written in an academic style with a […]

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Have you missed me?

May 4th, 2022 by Roger Darlington

I’ve been blogging almost every day now for 19 years, but I’ve been silent on NightHawk for three weeks – not through choice but because of technical problems. These are now sorted, thanks to my friend Gary. I’m especially pleased because shortly I’ll be going on a holiday to the Balkans and I’d like to […]

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