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The 5 habits of highly irritating travellers

1. Getting up before the fasten seat belt sign is switched off and other heinous crimes What is this about?…

In response to numerous appeals from first-time visitors to various destinations we’ve caved in to the pressure and decided to…

After the fabulous ‘Skyfall’, the world is holding its breath for the 24th James Bond film, ‘Spectre’ coming out in…

by Billy Idle When it comes to scenery, snow, glaciers and geysers, there aren’t many destinations to compare with Iceland. Throw…

As regular readers will be aware of by now, there are plenty of things to do in Berlin, whether the…

Ah, summer in Berlin. After the biting winds and bitter cold of the winter and the short but welcome spring,…

Ostalgie? What’s that, some kind of infection? Not exactly. In the words of Wikipedia, Ostalgie is a German term referring…

The ice-cold beer helped, it really did. The constant heat and humidity were taking their toll and it had only…

After the fabulous ‘Skyfall’, the world is holding its breath for the 24th James Bond film, ‘Spectre’ coming out…

Berlin’s lack of strict licensing laws means that many bars and clubs stay open round the clock and late nights…

What to do in Berlin? Let’s face it, the German capital has more to offer than the cold war, clubbing…

Having lived and worked in Berlin for a couple of years right after the fall of the Wall and visited…