Eastern Europe: why it's the most intriguing part of Europe

By Lee Tulloch
Updated May 30 2016 - 5:35pm, first published 1:31pm
Carpathian mountains, Romania.  Photo: iStock
Carpathian mountains, Romania. Photo: iStock

With a possible Brexit looming, Europe might have a different face in the years to come. Since the 2004 and 2007 "eastern enlargements", when countries such as Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria were brought into the fold, it is already a quite different Europe from the one you might find on 1950s travel posters, where Frenchmen in berets with baguettes under their arms were emblematic of the continent.

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