Category | Western Europe

Escape the monotony of the Tube - London

Posted on 14 May 2008

Ok, so if you’re running late in the morning, buying your favourite newspaper is the last thing on your mind, and fighting for the last Metro beneath you. But [...]

Breakfast in Holywood

Posted on 19 March 2008

BREAKFAST IN HOLYWOOD
Panini, a small shop in a town 6 miles east of Belfast, Northern Ireland, is an Italianate delicatessen stocked with dried pasta, salad dressings, a wide variety of Olive oil, and cooked meats from continental Europe. Inside there are three raised tables and a counter bar and outside, three wrought iron tables. [...]

The best and the worst tube stations

Posted on 19 March 2008

Best station to see God

Medal of honour
Canary Wharf
Comments from cadets
“Coming over the water and into that high skylit ceiling [...]

Jorvik York

Posted on 03 January 2008

For a really different prehistoric experience, consider time travel at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England, devoted to the Viking City that was, in theearly Christian period, York, or Yorvik. Here you seat yourself in an electric cart and move quickly through the scenes typical, first, of 1976, when the archaeological digbegan, then the [...]