They say a holiday can make or break a relationship, so make things easy by choosing Venice! This city essentially does all the hard work for you, and you’d be hard pressed to want to break-up with someone after a trip to Venice. For centuries, its landscape has sent poets, artists and composers into raptures,
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When I Think Of Warsaw, I Think Of Christmas.
Names really are important, aren’t they? That’s why Warsaw’s an unfortunate little chap. Collectively, ‘War’ and ‘Saw’ makes him sound more like the title of a horror movie, rather than the surprisingly handsome boy he is. Warsaw hasn’t had it easy, I think everyone knows that. To take the meaning out of his name (once
Getting to know Łódź through its street art
Admittedly, the main urge for me to visit Łódź was my obsession with David Lynch; I knew there must be something unique about a city if it played a muse to one of the world’s greatest creative minds. But fulfilling my Lynchian desires was just one facet of Łódź that I wanted to get
Łódź: The Black Sheep of Poland. Or so it seems….
Don’t go to Łódź if you want to explore a beautiful city. Łódź is everything which beauty is not… at least in the stereotypical sense of the word. But you should go to Łódź if you want to get your creativity ticking through film, art and history. Moreover, you should go if you want to
HAVE A ‘SCREAM’ OF A TIME IN THE EDVARD MUNCH MUSEUM
The Munch Museum is very lucky to have The Scream, because along with the Madonna, both were stolen in August 2004 by masked gunmen. Reward money was offered, people went on trial, but nothing was found. Then shockingly in early 2006, the paintings were recovered. Details of how the paintings were recovered have never been
THE TROLLSTIGEN ROAD: HAVE THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE!
Norway steals the crown for the most beautiful country in the world. But when it comes to being fun and sexy, it gets overshadowed by its Nordic neighbour, Iceland. No, I’m not talking about the jaw-dropping blondes of the Scandinavian persuasion; I’m talking about exciting landscapes that notch up the sexy factor of a country.
CELEBRATE YORKSHIRE TALES ON NATIONAL POETRY DAY
What do Ted Hughes, Alan Bennett, W H Auden, Tony Harrison, Simon Armitage and the Bronte sisters have in common? Besides the glaringly obvious answer that they are all famous writers, the answer I’m looking for is Yorkshire. All of these writers were born in Yorkshire, and have used their birthplace as the setting to
ALESUND: BORN FROM DESTRUCTION
Wooden buildings, fire and oxygen was always going to be a recipe for destruction, and the night of 23 January 1904 would be no exception. A great fire blazed through Alesund and in the space of 16 hours, the whole town burnt to the ground and ten thousand people were left homeless. Incredibly, only one
A JOURNEY TO COASTAL ENGLAND – FLAMBOROUGH HEAD
Again, taking advantage of my girlfriends travel website, I have to decided to write (or rather forced to write…ahem) about a day trip myself and a couple of friends went on sometime during the summer last year to Flamborough Head. Flamborough is located on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington
SCULPTURE PARKS: MAKING ART MORE ACCESSIBLE
Taking your child to a museum is almost as bad as taking a screaming baby on a plane Museums can often be stereotyped as being boring and not child friendly. This is understandable – nobody wants a screaming child in a museum, least of all your own child. As one friend once said, ‘taking your child
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