Tallinn Christmas Market – one of Europe’s finest
If you're thinking of booking a Christmas break, you could do a lot worse than sample the Yuletide charm of the Estonian capital We’d been wanting to visit a Christmas Market for some time, and our first thought was to book a trip to a 'traditional' German one. A little research telling us that one of the finest in Europe was to be found in the ...
Chernobyl, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster
Chernobyl and Pripyat: after the Wormwood nuclear holocaust I’m not really sure what I expected of my trip to Chernobyl. I’d read plenty about the subject for many months before my eventual arrival in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, weighed up time and again the moral and safety issues and ultimately decided to take the plunge. The world’s worst nuclear disaster was, ironically, the result of a ...
Murmansk – experience the Arctic city and Kola Peninsula
Situated in northwest Russia, Murmansk is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle, and midway between Moscow and the North Pole. Murmansk, nestling high up in the Kola Inlet and half way between Moscow and the North Pole, is not usually high on the priority list of those who want to visit the mighty expanse of Russia. It’s true to say that, for those whose ...
Belarusian capital Minsk is Europe’s best value city break
Built as a model Soviet city after the Second World War, the Minsk of today is a stunning example of a grand Stalinist metropolis As I stood at the top of the abandoned apartment block, ankle deep in the detritus of people’s lives, the brilliant afternoon sunshine cut like a laser into my line of sight. It almost obscured the towering, rusty ferris wheel, long forsaken ...
How pink was my Felicia? Prague city tours the Škoda way
Tour the Czech capital in cheeky style - in a 1950s Škoda cabrio The domes and spires providing the romantic backdrop to one of Europe’s most breathtakingly beautiful cities have inspired poetry, literature and music for centuries. The very air around Prague, the magical Czech capital, seems filled with monsters and ghosts; even the name conjures images of fantasy and intrigue, Bohemian hagiographies and bargains with ...
Menorca, Spain’s best kept island secret
The Balearic island of Menorca is truly the road to Heaven We Brits still visit Spain by the plane load for our summer holidays, despite the ever broadening geographical horizons demanded by today’s more adventurous and savvy tourist. That said, we are quite set in our ways when it comes to choosing our Hispanic destinations, and particularly so when it comes to the islands. The Canaries ...
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- Jim: Thanks for sharing your experiences. I am doing a similar trip in September and I am greatly looking forward to...
- karo: Thanks for sharing! Believe it or, this helps me better plan the four days i’ll be spending in Crimea.
- Gonzalo Casielles: I went to Menorca for the first time when I was seventeen and fell deeply in love with the island....
- Matoses: Great article Nige. Please find my opinion about Sa Pedrera D´es Pujol and a compilation of Menorca´s best...
- Nige Burton: Hi Dean – St Mary’s Church in Happisburgh is indeed the church used in the film, as...
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