Dr Jan Telensky is a man who likes to talk – and his track record shows that he talks sense.
travel
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 […]
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 […]
…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. […]
I feel more alive, alive alive oh. I’ve been to Ireland again, home to my blood city of Limerick, with diverts to Tipperary and Clare. As soon as my feet kiss Irish soil I feel rooted, my senses more atuned to all around me, more my true self. I’ve nothing […]
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 […]
Have you ever heard of Slovakia? Beautiful place to be… Last century, Slovakia was among the countries hidden behind The Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union for years. So, we had few options to show the rest of the world who we were […]
It might be time to kiss and make-up with one of the big fast-food chains after it appears to have reacted well to a campaign by the consumerwatchfoundation.com demanding they give us back our big burgers – even if it is only for six weeks! CWF researchers had travelled Europe […]
QUESTION: My wife and I set off on an extended break in Europe on June 11, 2017, intending to return to the UK in mid to late September. Before we went we called in our the HSBC branch in the Midlands to inform them that our cards etc would […]