Experience

Stop gawping for a while and learn to live the city instead! In these “Experience” features we send our intrepid journalists to investigate everything from funky festivals and fiestas, bizarre traditions and original / alternative tours. See what they got up to… maybe you’d like to do the same?

There’s much more to Northern Ireland than basalt rocks, no matter how famous they might be. Sasha Arms gives the causeway a giant elbow and opts for a spot of “aquaplaning” instead… Ask any traveller heading to Northern Ireland where they plan to visit and the Giant’s Causeway will be…

To run or not to run, that is the question. Urban Travel Blog editor Duncan Rhodes reports from Los Sanfermines – aka The Running of the Bulls – in Pamplona Spain. When I set off a fortnight ago for the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, with its infamous running of…

After hours of training, intrepid UTB explorer Sasha Arms is ready to take on all 13 museums of Frankfurt’s famous ‘Museumsufer’ embankment… The question is, are they ready for her? I practised my strategy for the Museumsufer challenge for several arduous days before my visit to Frankfurt. My friends wondered…

They’ve taken place in New York, LA, Chicago, Paris, Vienna and, now in 2010, in London. StreetWars is a three-week long water assassination competition and our reporter, Sameer Patel, is a marked man. (Photos by RJ Fernandez, released courtesy of The Shadow Government). Monday morning, a ringing wakes me up.…

Goodbye Lenin? Not quite, Krakow’s Communist district of Nowa Huta lives on, and whilst the area has few local fans, it has proved a big hit with tourists. Stuart Wadsworth investigates. Krakow: a city of dreaming spires, ancient castles, dragons, myths, cobbled streets, cosy bars and coffee shops; an intellectual…