Category | Western Europe

Westminster Tube Station

Posted on 01 October 2008

 

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A dem fine piece of engineering, wot!

Address
Westminster, London

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A tube ticket!

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Each of the new stations [...]

Cote d’ Azur (French Riveria)

Posted on 28 September 2008

Certain cultures give off different feelings to the viewer, resonate different auras. Two places, that are only a few hundred metres apart geographically, can give off a totally different emotional response on an outsider.
After London, I took a train along the coast to Scotland. I instantly fell in love with the area and all [...]

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 [...]

Ludlow Man

Posted on 02 January 2008

Once inside, visitors could marvel over "Ludlow Man," the body of a Kelt ritually murdered and preserved in a bog, a man whose stomach was found to contain mistletoe pollen from the drink administered, probably by Druids (to whom mistletoe was sacred), before his death. He was stunned by blows to the head, then garroted, [...]

London Underground (Tube) Myths

Posted on 27 December 2007

Our helpful guide explodes some of the more bizarre and disturbing stories about the tube. Each story gets a plausibility rating of between 1 and 10 (1 being extremely [...]

Busking Licence

Posted on 27 December 2007

Some find them irritating; others are soothed by them on their rush hour commute. Whatever your opinion, buskers are an integral part of the London Underground experience. [...]

Luxembourg hotels, inns, restaurants and guest houses

Posted on 24 November 2007

A guide to hotels, inns, restaurants and guest houses is available from the tourist office. Some hotels have special weekend rates from $200 a person, which usually includes all meals from dinner on Friday thru lunch on Sunday. Other hotels start at Eur70 to Eur80 a day, based on double occupancy.
Findel Airport is four miles [...]