You are in London for a few days and looking for a “typical” local park where you can roam and relax a little? Here are six reasons why you should shun the famous public gardens in Central London and pick another park instead, one on the fringe of the town centre but still easy-to-reach by…
All right, we do admit that many visitors of London and the United Kingdom will allot a good deal more than two hours to this famous university town in the east of England. For every day tripper from London (trains from King’s Cross or Liverpool Street take little more than one hour), there is at…
Rivalries between cities are always about more than mere topographical proximity, although physical closeness is of course a necessary ingredient. But so are envy and mutual resentment. Rivalries typically develop between cities when one of the two is bigger and the other just big enough to convince itself that it plays in the same league….
You may have come across urban art before (for example, here and here), but I bet you have never seen anything like the Kiefernstrasse in Düsseldorf. Where to find the Most Colourful Street in Germany Today, the Kiefernstrasse – located a few hundred meters to the east of Düsseldorf’s central station and just around the…
The showcase gardens of the Riviera fall into two categories: for drama and excitement, you can visit gardens like the Giardini Hanbury near Ventimiglia or Menton’s Val Rahmeh, which were conceived for maximum effect on the grandest of theatrical scales. But on the local tourist board’s shortlist of famous Jardins de la Cote d’Azur, you…
Finally, a few notes about the Veneto’s largest and most famous town. We must talk about Venice: this is as inevitable when posting about the Veneto region as it is inevitable to visit Venice when travelling there. No matter what you may have heard about the floods of water and visitors that threaten to destroy…
Beautiful provincial cities may be the true treasure of Italy, but the country’s beautiful landscapes are at least as attractive. The Veneto – rolling hills and scenic rivers wedged in between the Alps and the Adriatic coast – is near the top in the list of Italy’s most picturesque regions, and it would be a…
Beautiful provincial towns are Italy’s true treasure. Almost every country in Europe has one or two Grade 1 tourist attractions, but only Italy can tempt visitors with a seemingly endless list of Grade B sites, all of which merit a long weekend if not, perhaps, a full-length holiday. Vicenza is another of these hidden gems…
Here is a warning: If you cannot stand the sight of water … … and if you are particularly allergic against streams that are narrowly framed by rows of ancient buildings … … you should stay well clear of Treviso because, once you are there, you will find no way of escaping your nightmare. You…
Long urban and country walks are great but they do take up a lot of time: time to organize and to prepare, time to travel, time to do the actual walking. Such walks can easily become projects around which you have to structure not only the day itself but your entire weekend break, squeezing other…
