Cheap and filling, it’s sometimes hard to separate the Polish pierog from hard times under the Communist hammer… but with exotic fillings increasingly en vogue the doughty dumpling is reinventing itself as a decidedly bourgeois treat. Simon Taylor samples the best in Krakow, old and new. There’s no denying that the Poles love their pierogi [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2010’
Reef Encounter: Conservation in Tobago
More used to eating the local wildlife than preserving it, Michael Bailey breaks from tradition and signs up for two weeks conservation work on Tobago’s tropical reefs. Additional photography by Jason Flowers. “So you’ve never actually done anything useful then?” said the girl across the table as I hit her with one of my favourite [...]
Top Five: London’s Alternative Treasures
London’s main attractions are known by virtually every nursery school child from Chile to China, but for this top five we asked Sam Chimes from STA travelbuzz to recommend five of the capital’s forgotten treasures… London is a vast and versatile city, which makes picking out things to do an easy task – Tower Bridge, [...]
Photo Story: Ticket to Ride
Krakow’s trams are an integral part of the city’s infrastructure and aesthetic. These rumbling blue machines stretch out from the medieval Old Town, with its spires and steeples, to the outskirts of the city, where a mix of Communist and modern apartment blocks house the majority of the population, ferrying students, grannies and workers between [...]
Prison Breaks: The Inside Story
Whilst millions flock to historic prisons like Alcatraz and S-21 every year, Sasha Arms reports on one of the 21st Century’s most bewildering and controversial travel trends: visiting inmates at high security foreign jails. Defunct prisons have long made for unlikely success stories in the world of tourism: sites like Alcatraz, Robben Island in Cape [...]
