The next issue of the magazine will be published on Friday 11 July 2014 — which we note is the Feast of St Benedict who happens to be one of the patron saints of Europe. In hidden europe 43 we shall visit the small Bosnian town of Visegrad where the Mehmed Pasa Sokolović Bridge stood centre stage in Ivo Andric’s 1945 novel The Bridge on the Drina.

Russia’s Black Sea Riviera has been in the spotlight of late, but there’s another Riviera that has always been popular with Russians, namely the Côte d’Azur. So we’ll take a look at Russia’s love affair with the French Riviera. And for devotees of border curiosities, we’ll make time and space for the Austrian village of Jungholz.