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Reykjavik is the furthest north of any capital city in the world, and is only just outside the arctic circle. Staying there are any time of year can be a slightly strange experience for those who are used to more temperate climes. In the middle of winter,...

It’s thought that there have been people living where Sydney is now for about forty thousand years. For most of that time it wouldn’t have made a great destination for the tourist, but these days it’s of the most beautiful and modern coastal cities in...

There aren’t many cities in the world that can boast as much to see and do as Los Angeles, and there aren’t many districts with as much going on as Hollywood. Crossing the district boundary is like entering a whole other world – one which sticks in our...

The tourist trade has crept into almost every city in Europe in the last few decades, as far as even the smallest Mediterranean island or the most remote Romanian village. But even though the desire for tourist revenue has transformed some of Europe’s...

The 22nd August 79 A.D. would have been a very bad day to be visiting the city of Pompeii or the town of Herculaneum. In the course of that day and the day after it, the two Roman settlements were famously destroyed and buried under volcanic ash thrown...

Brussels is a name spoken with a sense of knowing dread in certain parts of Europe – it’s the site of the headquarters of the European Union, making it the de facto capital of the Union and so, in the eyes of a lot of Europeans, the origin of a lot of...

Minsk is a city with a long, fascinating and turbulent history – much of which is still reflected in the city today. Some of the city even survives from the days when it was one of the more prominent towns in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania across the fifteenth,...

In terms of culture and national identity, Bavaria is certainly the most distinct state in Germany today. It has identified itself almost as an independent nation for most of the fifteen hundred years since it could first be said to have existed, and...

The election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France is sure to spark some heated debated in the cafes and boulevards of Paris. ‘Sarko’, as he is known, is a born-and-raised Parisian. Plenty of left-wingers think he’s an authoritarian who’s going to...

When Bonaguida Lucari was given command of Siena in the mid-13th century, and told to defend it against a vast army of invading Florentines, it seemed like an impossible task. Lucari’s ploy was to walk barefoot across the city, at the head of a great...