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Revised 25 August 2025 | First published 14 October 2024 ~ Telegraph in Svetlogorsk Good Coffee Unique Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to received wisdom<\/em><\/strong>, it is not always necessary or indeed advisable for travellers to stick to the beaten track. Verily, by doing so the chances of missing out on some hidden cultural gem or other, or hitherto unencountered esoteric and unusual experience, are magnified manifold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indubitably, there are some parts of the world, some sinister and dubious places, where keeping to the beaten track is less a question for tourism than an action guided by common sense in the interests of survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take London, for example, that patchwork quilt of small towns wherein no boundaries lie. One minute, you, the traveller, can almost believe what the travel guides tell you, that London is, indeed, one of the world’s most civilised cities; the next, having strayed from the beaten track, that you are up S*it Creek without a paddle in, what to all intents and purposes, is the Black Hole of Calcutta. Is it Africa or Pakistan? There’s no point leaving the beaten track to be beaten in your tracks. Best to beat a hasty retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A link \ud83d\udc49 My Special Day Out in Svetlogorsk by Mick Hart – Expat in Kaliningrad, Russia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telegraph in Svetlogorsk <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Enrichments of this nature do not apply, thank goodness, to a small, secluded backstreet in the seaside town of  Svetlogorsk on Russia\u2019s Baltic Coast. Not officially known as \u2018Off the Beaten Track\u2019, Street Ostrovskogo  (\u2018Off the Beaten Track’ is easier to say) is a quaint, leafy, meandering avenue that wends its way from Street Oktyabr’skaya (if you find it easier, \u2018Off the Beaten Track\u2019 will do).   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Svetlogorsk, the streets run off from a large, open public space in the centre of the town, which, during clement months, overflows with tourists eagerly taking advantage of the outside drinking and eating areas. One of the streets that travels from this lively, bustling hub is Ulitsa Oktyabr’skaya. It is the street you will need to walk to get you to the Telegraph caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The route is a rewarding one. It takes you past a Svetlogorsk landmark, the 1908 Art Nouveau water tower<\/a>, past the town’s pretty Larch Park with its copy of Hermann Brachert\u2019s ‘Water Carrier’ sculpture ~ the original is in the Brachert Museum<\/a> ~  past my favourite and recently renovated neo-Gothic\/Art Nouveau house <\/a>and onto the Hartman Hotel<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To say that you cannot miss Ulitsa Ostrovskogo would be a silly thing to say, because if your sense of direction is anything like mine \u2026 Sorry? Oh, it isn\u2019t. Well then just look for a clothes shop on your right. You won\u2019t be able to miss it, because your sense of direction is better than mine and also because in the summer months some of its garments are hung outside in order to make the shop more visible, and besides it is located within one of those charming old German edifices that have at their gable end an all-in-one veranda-balcony glazed and enclosed in wood. This then is the junction at which you turn for Telegraph. This is the end of the beaten track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Halfway along this quiet backwater, at the point where streets meet chevron-fashion, stand a permanent cluster of market stalls. You didn\u2019t miss the turning, so there\u2019s no earthly reason you should miss these either, especially those with roofs, which give them the quaint appearance of modest garden summer houses. Here, artisans working in various materials, from leather and ceramics to metalware, together with artists of paint and palette, regularly gather to sell their goods. The range and novelty of their handmade products really are surprising and the quality of them consistently high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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