Poprad? Have you heard of it? No? Well, it’s a very small, but beautifully historic, city at the foot of the High Tatras Mountains, right at the beating heart of Europe. And it is so colourfully historic… a chequered archive so to speak … now red, white and blue. Oh […]
Hotels – Heaven and Hell
As some pilots flap around over more pay for their 90-hour month and flight computers crash-land for summer … once again the great British getaway to the sun is being tripped up by things beyond the average family’s control. But what appears to be worrying bruised and battered holidaymakers the […]
Sometimes, it’s not easy being green – and the oft-voted most environmentally friendly hotel in Europe plugged a gap in its environmental credentials recently. AquaCity Poprad, in the glorious Tatra Mountains at the heart of Slovakia, has become so respected in the world of alternative living and sustainability that tourists […]
As the United Kingdom claws its way through the rubble that Brexit is becoming, more and more countries across the European Union are telling British ex-pats that life will go on as normal. The European Commission has asked – but not ordered – member states to grant temporary residence permits […]
I grew up in a small town on the north east of Slovakia called Poprad. I believe I was one of the lucky ones to be born there (writes Alena Dulakova) To be able to breath fresh air and see a beautiful mountain silhouette every day is something that, at […]
It’s 2am on a Saturday in the big bright bristling city and you’re hungry… well, believe it or not since the 1940s in the UK you’ve been able to get a big grease-ball kebab. A lump of meat roasted on a stick might have been a ‘rare’ thing back in […]
…Well, I’m stuck here gents, in the last Starbucks at the World’s End. I’m drinking hallucinogenic brandy in my cappuccino. This is a very strange posting indeed. God, I’m bored. Just me, Starbucks, hallucinogenic brandy and these snow-capped mountains. I’m thousands of miles away from anywhere anybody’s ever heard of. […]
To whom it may concern: It has come to my attention that Britain (aka England in this context) is perceived or portrayed as a festering cesspit of racist bile and behaviour and you wouldn’t try to make a life in the country unless you were a demented fish or cloud. […]
Arms wrapped tightly around my driver as he weaves our moped through cars to an orchestra of horns. The wind whips through my hair and the smells that fill it are heady, awakening my senses with sweet perfumes and spices that quickly flit to a stomach-turning sewer and rot. The […]
Modest central Europen who loves Britain so much he rebuilds it in the mountains If we could dial ‘P’ for past what stories would be revealed about this old telephone box… It stood for decades in rainy Mayfair, just yards from the famous Playboy club and arrangements for many a […]