Angus Bell Bats on the Bosphorus – An Eastern Europe Tour : Kathika Travel Website

Writing a book about playing the very British game of cricket in a series of Eastern European countries certainly sounds like a pretty specific niche: the funny thing is that Angus Bell makes it eminently readable for pretty much any travel (or sports) lover in his book Batting on the Bosphorus: A Skoda-Powered Cricket Tour Through Eastern Europe.

Bell is a cricket lover, but you don’t have to be to enjoy this book. But it’s important that he loves the sport and wants to spread the joy of it throughout Eastern Europe. From Estonia to Hungary and Slovakia to Slovenia, Bell travels all around the countries that have recently started joining the European Union, and he manages to meet the cricket teams, large and small, who play in these nations.

Batting on the Bosphorus says something about cricket, but a lot more about the constantly changing region of Eastern Europe. It’s a fascinating time to travel in these countries as they modernize and find new personalities in the post-Socialist era and by getting in touch with the locals – even if they are mostly cricketers – Bell is able to learn a lot about what makes these places tick. But above all, it’s a book that provides a good laugh.

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