Barons and Bonaparte, gastro-bistros and Velib bikes, have all left their mark on the French capital and its characteristic twenty arrondissements. Sophie Massie lifts the shroud off the City of Light. For hundreds of years Paris reigned as the world’s undisputed capital of literature, culture and cuisine. In more recent times however many tourists overlooked [...]
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The Juice: Singapore
Modern and sanitized, Singapore’s lack of Asian adrenaline doesn’t mean it should be entirely overlooked. Richard Tulloch discovers botanical gardens and billion dollar developments, alongside serious street food and a shoppers’ paradise. When I first began travelling, Singapore was not a favoured destination. If the rumours of the 1970s were correct, Singaporean officials, obsessed with [...]
The Juice: Budapest
Cultural influences from both East and West have left their mark on Hungary’s capital, from the grand cafes of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to neglected statues of one-time Soviet heroes. Stuart Wadsworth delves into Budapest. Centre of Europe, grand old dame of the Habsburg Empire, inventor of ‘Goulash Communism’ and, more recently, one of central/eastern Europe’s [...]
The Juice: Florence
Inspired by his many Florentine wanderings and wonderings, Thymn Chase takes a break from researching the Firenze City Spy Map and introduces us to the city of David and Dante. Photos by Katarzyna Adamek. The world has been obsessed with this little Tuscan outpost ever since she was a blushing bambino. For more than two [...]
The Juice: Baku
In the final of a series of guides on the Caucasian capitals, Stuart Wadsworth reports from Baku, an oil-rich boomtown on the Caspian sea. Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, the most populous of the three Caucasian capitals with around two million inhabitants, has come a long way since the unlamented collapse of the U.S.S.R. After coming [...]
