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Author: Josh Ferry Woodard

Josh Ferry Woodard is a freelance travel writer based in London. You can find his work on sites such as Reader's Digest, Huffington Post, Roads & Kingdoms, Slate, Paste, Spotted By Locals & many more.

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Driving Communist-era Trabants in Dresden, climbing Bolt Tower in Ostrava (yes, it is named after Usain!) and attending a literary festival in Kosice… Josh Ferry-Woodard journeys to Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia by train. Dresden: Dolls & a Trabant Safari “Anarchists and bohemians made this neighbourhood what it is today,”…

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From the capital Vilnius to the Curonian spit, Josh Ferry Woodard takes a whistle stop tour of the best places to visit in Lithuania. On the way he experiences street art, saunas and saltibarsciai soup… and that’s just for starters. “Here in Lithuania, everybody forages for mushrooms and berries,” said…

Castles, Counts, caverns and (potentially) record-breaking chimney cakes… we sent our palinka-loving correspondent Josh Ferry-Woodard to track down the best things to see and do in Covasna, Romania. Covasna County is a beautiful, bucolic region of Transylvania. It’s a place largely untouched by the hands of change: where many families…

Two nights in the Countess’ Boudoir? Don’t mind if we do! Urban Travel Blog sends our intrepid reporter to the Covasna region of Romania, where he checks himself into the ancestral home of the Daniel family… In A Nutshell Castle Hotel Daniel is a boutique hotel set in a renovated…

A British film festival in Bretagne? Josh Ferry-Woodard hops the Brittany Ferry across the Channel and enjoys two scoops of the silver screen with a French connection on top… Politics may divide us but during the Dinard British Film Festival at least, Britain and Europe still share a special relationship.…