Some time back, in this blog we covered top options for souvenir shopping in Europe and Latin America. Given the popularity of retail therapy on holiday as much as...
29/01/2016
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Month: January 2016
The sultry, storied queen of Egypt in the first century BC still enthralls millions after all these millennia, and if you happen to be in Madrid through the first week...
28/01/2016
If you love the films of Anglo-American maestro of suspense Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) as much as I do, you’ll get an exhilarating rush from experiencing the exact locations where...
27/01/2016
Thanks to Miguel de Cervantes and his immortal creations Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the whitewashed brick molinos de viento of Spain’s central plateau are among this country’s better-known...
25/01/2016
Back in the 1960s and 70s, a famous Spanish tourism tag line proclaimed: “Spain is different”. And one of the things that does indeed make this country different in a...
20/01/2016
Germany's capital is of course one of Europe's coolest cities. But back during the Cold War (1945-1989), Berlin was, more than that, a hotbed of espionage, divided politically into the Communist east and...
19/01/2016
The increasingly world-popular dish consisting of raw seafood cured with lemon or lime is most commonly associated with Peru, where it originated. But residents of Panama's capital have embraced ceviche to...
18/01/2016
In recent years, the capital of Angola - the southern African country which has long left the devastation of its civil war behind and whose annual growth rates of...
14/01/2016
At least since the millennia-ago minotaur of Greek mythology, people have understood that the best place to get themselves nice and disoriented and lost is a labyrinth, and these elaborate...
13/01/2016
Along with its ecotourism, volcanoes, and historic cities such as Granada, Central America's largest country is a growing favourite among the world's surfers, and so a number of Nicaragua's coastal towns have...
12/01/2016
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