Christmas is coming, and for many people that will mean vast amounts of Christmas shopping – choosing presents for friends and family, trekking around the department stores and small shops, trying hard to come up with some new ideas. Can you really get Uncle Jim socks again this year? But wait a minute – why […]
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“There is no reason to postpone your trip to Prague” – so it says at www.prague.cz, Prague’s tourist website. And with Prague in recent years becoming one of Europe’s most popular spots for a city break, there is good reason to take those words to heart.
Prague is considered to be one of the most beautiful […]
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If you are of a scientific frame of mind then you may well have heard of CERN, which is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. CERN lies on the border between France and Switzerland, just northwest of Geneva. If particle physics is not quite your thing, then […]
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Winter is on its way, and many people considering winter holidays may well be thinking about skiing, and one of Europe’s top skiing destinations is Chamonix, in the French Alps. Chamonix is at the foot of Mont Blanc, on the River Arve, and is popular all year round for sports of various kinds ranging from […]
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I first discovered that wonderful Arabic dish known as couscous when visiting Paris. This delicious dish was brought to France by people from Morocco and Algeria who went to settle there, and the couscous restaurants that they established quickly became popular with students and Bohemians – especially due to the fact that they provide a […]
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If you make it as far north as Scotland on your European tour, you must try that famous Scottish dish known as haggis. Haggis is sheep’s offal, basically heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, spices, suet, salt and stock, and this mixture is then traditionally stuffed into a sheep’s stomach, and the whole […]
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If you are fond of perfume, and you happen to find yourself in Provence, in the south of France, then don’t forget to visit the Fragonard Perfumery at Grasse, as you will find it to be a real treat for the senses.
People often wonder why the area around Grasse developed as a perfume region, and […]
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In my last post I talked about the medieval city of York, which was founded by the Romans, and is one of Europe’s few walled cities.
One of the most fascinating streets in York is the medieval street known as The Shambles, with its overhanging timber-built shops. The Shambles gets its name from the fact that […]
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So many visitors to England confine themselves to London, Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon, but I reckon that if you don’t go up north, you are missing lots of things, and one of those things is the impressive and historic walled city of York.
The city was founded in AD 71 by the Romans, but after their departure […]
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Belgrade, built at the point where the Sava and Danube Rivers join, is the capital and largest city of Serbia, and has quite a history of flux of different peoples. First settled by the Celts, then later by the Romans, Belgrade has been under Byzantine, Frankish, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Serbian rulers. It has been part […]
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