Joel Weickgenant, Itinerant Writer

I am currently hard at work on the "manifesto of the avant-pat movement." So...be looking out for that...

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You can't imagine a city like Cairo.

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#Bucharest #romania #🇷🇴 #architecture (at Muzeul De Istorie)

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Up there #ceausescu gave his speeches. Was the central committee of the Romanian communist party. Now it's the interior ministry. #Bucharest #Romania. #history @realclearhistory #🇷🇴 (at Bucharest, Romania)

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#Bucharest #romania #🇷🇴 (at Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta)

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With #love from #Bucharest. #travel #travelgram #romania #balkans #bucuresti #architecture #europe #easterneurope (at Piata Universitatii)

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A sign of what, one wonders. #Bucharest #street

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#EU funding at work: #sofia #bulgaria's spiffy new and completely personality-free metro station, next to the spiffy new and completely personality-free central train station. Bon voyage! #софия #trains #transportation (at Sofia Central Station)

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Above exactingly restored remains of the ancient Roman city #serdica, above ground soar the communist-era behemoths of governance in #Sofia. The National Assembly straight ahead, to the left the council of ministers. #софия #bulgaria (at Античен Комплекс Сердика - Complex Ancient Serdica)

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#Sofia #streetstyle in August. #софия #bulgaria #streetphotography #panorama (at Sofia, Bulgaria)

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#train tracks in #Belgrade. Trains in #Serbia run slow. An €800 million euro loan was promised from #Russia and meant to be used on #railways, but according to my sources only 1/4 of the funds ever eventually came in. Path to #modernisation? #workinprogress? #politics #geopolitics #serbija #panorama #balkans (at Belgrade, Serbia)

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#Belgrade #modern #architecturelovers #serbia (at Belgrade, Serbia)

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#Belgrade #architecture is made for #panorama. #dramatic and monumental. #Serbia #београд (at Belgrade, Serbia)

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#Monday mornings for the #geopolitics traveler. #Poland is lovely. (at Gdańsk Strzyża)

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Just a bit of dramatic Kyiv, Ukraine.

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A scene from #Bucharest streets. #Romania #street #streetphotography #cities

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Kiev is dramatic.

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The winding entrancement of Siena.