Oft-eclipsed by its larger and more illustrious neighbours, Sasha Arms discovers that for good looks and luxury you can’t go far wrong with Luxembourg city. Tiny, picturesque and astoundingly internationalised, is how you would have to sum up Luxembourg if you were short on words. As the founding member of the European Union, its old [...]
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The Juice: Sydney
Travel writer Richard Tulloch has been to his fair share of great cities, but none have tempted him to cut his ties with his home town of Sydney. In this edition of The Juice he distills the best of the capital… Australians who don’t live in Sydney are jealous. Melbourne people in particular enjoy niggling [...]
The Juice: Yerevan
In the latest of a series of city guides on the Caucasus, Stuart Wadsworth reports on Armenia’s cognac capital, Yerevan. In the shadow of the fabled Mount Ararat, Yerevan stands at a crossroads between Asian and European civilization, and for centuries has been a battleground between Christians and Muslims. Armenia was once a vast empire [...]
The Juice: Amsterdam
With it’s famed tolerance of soft drugs and prostitution, Amsterdam’s hedonistic aspects have often eclipsed its homely charms, cultural treasures and ‘normal’ nightlife. Richard Tulloch takes a look at the whole picture… Lose yourself in a canal maze. Window-shop where live merchandise is lit with red neon, or duck into a smoky little ‘coffeeshop’ selling [...]
The Juice: Tbilisi
On the cusp of Europe and Asia, Tbilisi offers a fascinating glimpse into a rapidly changing post-Soviet city, with echoes of a grand past. Stuart Wadsworth takes a midnight flight to Georgia… Flying in the first thing you see is the TV mast: a huge, flashing monument which President Sakashvili has, for reasons best known [...]
