A Polish billionaire and art aficionado has opened a museum in a small Swiss village after her idea was turned down in Poland. When negotiations fell through in both...
Culture, Travel & Sport
I love driving. It gives me the freedom of heading to where I feel like going. And sometimes it helps me get lost and discover places I wouldn’t experience...
Living in Budapest, I often say that the thing I miss the most about my home country of Italy is the sea. Diving in particular. I have explored shipwrecks under the...
Ever dreamt of working at passport control in a communist dictatorship? Now’s your chance. A computer game – which I was made aware of when my daughter put...
In Europe’s Shadow, by Robert D. Kaplan Amidst a sea of often wildly inaccurate and turgid rubbish churned out by hacks eager to make a quick buck in the wake of...
Fifty years after his death, Czech student Jan Palach remains a national hero and an inspiration for new generations. This year, dozens of public events were held across...
Plans to extend Bulgaria’s largest ski resort, Bansko, appear to have been dealt a fatal blow by the country’s highest court. On January 15, Bulgaria’s...
‘The universe has been generous’, I thought as I arrived at a bus stop on Pushkin Street in Tbilisi and saw an empty marshrutka about to leave with just one person...
The explosive flavour of Unicum, the well-known Hungarian liquor, might not be for everyone. But after more than 200 years of history and three million litres produced...
The Polish Coco Channel, or the Empress of Polish fashion, are just two of the titles Jadwiga Grabowska was given. Teresa Kuczyńska wrote in Ty i Ja magazine in August...
Edward von Lõngus, often nicknamed the Estonian Banksy, has been given the 2018 Culture Award by Estonia’s ministry of foreign affairs for his pan-European digital...
