Valentine’s breaks, romantic getaways and honeymoons: love has often inspired us to travel but – thanks to the turbulent lives of tacky celebs – we’ve recently seen how the end of a relationship is in fact the best time to get away from it all… Urban Travel Blog explores travel therapy for the broken-hearted.
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Rockin’, Ravin’ & Misbehavin’: Festival Guide 2010
As the fug lifts, the alcohol-to-blood ratio in your veins resumes normal service, and that rash resolution to go to the gym three times a week kicks in, you may find your first impressions of 2010 are fairly bleak. Especially if you made a prat of yourself at the office Christmas party…
What we all need [...]
Cycling in Armenia: Make For The Monasteries
Michael Bailey finally finds what he came for, as he sets off cycling amidst the monasteries and mountains of Armenia.
I was willing to admit my knowledge failings in the field of classical music but I had never realised the term included “Cotton Eye Joe”. I was in the Republic Square of Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, and I [...]
The New Klezmers of Krakow
The Jewish district of Kazimierz in Krakow has long been the home of the city’s traditional klezmer scene. Duncan Rhodes meets the Polish musicians who are breathing new life into old wedding songs.
In my mind I am a fresh-faced 19-year-old, full of the joy of youth, dancing and making merry at a village festival somewhere [...]
