Below the sunny squares of Poland’s royal capital lies a shadowy world of legends and fantasy, music and cabaret… vodka and beer. Nick Hodge is your guide as we delve deep into the five best cellar joints in Krakow. Beelzebub comes in many guises and, according to local legend, the Dark One once lurked beneath [...]
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Top Five: Pierogi in Krakow
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 [...]
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, [...]
Top Five: Quirky Sights in Paris
Paris connoisseur and guidebook writer Marsha Moore shares five of the most weird and wonderful secrets of the French capital… In a city as beautiful as Paris, it’s tempting to stick to the beaten paths leading straight to the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the Champs Elysée. But Paris is so much more than a [...]
