{"id":657,"date":"2007-09-16T22:07:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T21:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=657"},"modified":"2007-09-16T22:07:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T21:07:52","slug":"the-new-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"The New Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, I watched the first programme in a series of seven called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/palin\/\">&#8220;Michael Palin&#8217;s New Europe&#8221;<\/a>. The series is being shown on Sunday evenings on BBC1 and they will cover 20 countries in Eastern Europe.<br \/>\nI have an intense interest in this part of the world, mainly because my wife is half Czech and I&#8217;ve visited the Czech Republic 20 times (I&#8217;ll be making my 21st trip there later this month to attend a graudation). I&#8217;ve been to Slovakia several times and I&#8217;ve also visited Poland (twice), Hungary (twice), Bulgaria and Russia.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve not yet been to former Yugoslavia, but I&#8217;ll be going to Bosnia later this week &#8211; a visit to Sarajevo which featured in this evening&#8217;s programme &#8211; and to Croatia next month &#8211; a seminar in Zagreb. During his time in Sarajevo, Palin met and heard a Bosnian singer called Amira and, as part of my preparation for my trip there, I&#8217;ve been listening to her CD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Rosa-Amira\/dp\/B0007ZEBUI\/ref=sr_1_1\/026-1344573-5156400?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1189978271&#038;sr=1-1\">&#8220;Rosa&#8221;<\/a> which is hauntingly beautiful <i>sevdah<\/i> music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, I watched the first programme in a series of seven called &#8220;Michael Palin&#8217;s New Europe&#8221;. The series is being shown on Sunday evenings on BBC1 and they will cover 20 countries in Eastern Europe. I have an intense interest in this part of the world, mainly because my wife is half Czech and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}