Especially as the weather starts warming up again, I find I have a soft spot for northern Germany's most vibrant city. As a European looking for a stimulating city...
31/03/2015
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Month: March 2015
Sniff, they grow up so fast, don't they? Seems like just yesterday one of the world's most popular resort cities was a clutch of clapboard buildings on a muggy, buggy, glorified...
30/03/2015
In a country where resort zones such as Punta Cana and Puerto Plata have become household names to holidaymakers in the Americas, Europe, and beyond, the new frontier in exotic, sunsplashed...
23/03/2015
When it comes to the fine arts in Europe, Spain has produced a phenomenal wealth of painting and literature, while in terms of music - the glories of flamenco...
20/03/2015
Of all the capitals in Central America, I've found perhaps the most sophisticated and varied to be Panama's, a city with a greater metro population of 1.5 million, to be...
19/03/2015
Fewer foodstuffs in the world today seem to have more fans than xocolātl, the cacao-based infusion the Spanish conquistadors found quaffed by the elites of Aztec, Mayan, and other Mesoamerica societies...
18/03/2015
One of Europe's greenest, loveliest lands, the Emerald Isle - also fondly dubbed "the Oud Sod" - is a delightful mix of small, fetching cities; bucolic landscapes; and of course friendly, gregarious folk. At...
17/03/2015
Crashing spectacularly over the Niagara Gorge astride the USA/Canada border, Niagara Falls may not be the world's highest (that would be Venezuela's Angel Falls) waterfall, nor its most voluminous (prize...
16/03/2015
Of Belgian cities, Brussels is certainly better known. And of canal cities, ditto Amsterdam. But for true connoisseurs of historic urban Europe, the Belgian canal city of Bruges (Brugge,...
12/03/2015
Quick, what's Ecuador's biggest city? If you said capital Quito, that's altogether a logical guess, but sorry, no cigar. The answer lies not up in the Andes more than 400 kilometres...
11/03/2015
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