My Danish delegation was not impressed by Slovakia. After one week they went: crazy politics, bad food, machos everywhere, homophobes, racists, islamophobes, Bratislava is a ghost town, people unwilling to talk to journalists, despite several Slovak media outlets being super committed (and totally underpaid). Lots of friendly people too, but with little hope of changing things for the better around here.

They told me: you could have gone anywhere, there are so many better places on earth, why did you move here??? Honestly, for the challenge of it all. I was scared the easy road would have made me soft, but now am thinking the harder road made me bitter and cynical. From my side: some cliches about Danes turned out to be true. Exceptionally talented journalists I must add. Had some really great conversations with several of them.

Abo