Craig Turp dives deep into the past - and the present - of the Athénée Palace Hilton in Bucharest, the first in a new series featuring the finest hotels in emerging...
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August is a month for packing bags. More than 70 per cent of Italians own a holiday house somewhere close to the beach, and the remaining 30 per cent will eventually...
It’s the footwear which gives them away. Sandals, trainers, sometimes even flip-flops. It’s why Romanians call them pantofari, not an easy word to translate...
Completing the sentence “Before I die…”, which was written on a massive blackboard at the heart of Sziget this year, became one of the must-dos for music lovers...
Croatia’s musical legend Oliver Dragojević (pictured above), whose career lasted 50 years, passed away at the age of 70, one year after his lung cancer was diagnosed...
Despite being the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest in the Republika Srpska, tourism is still something of a new concept in Banja Luka. That...
English-born but proudly Kosovan pop star Dua Lipa is set to headline the Sunny Hill Music Festival in Priština on August 10, the biggest music festival ever to take...
It is Saturday night and I am strolling along Nezalezhnastsy (Independence) Street in Minsk, the Belarusian capital. It is as loud as an area of inner city London might...
Almost 25 years have passed since the armed conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia, a breakaway republic in the northwest of the country. The war, which started on August...
Buddhist meditation teaches us that anger towards someone else is only a reflection of our own failures and fears. As this is true in everyday life, it becomes even more...
The village of Staro Zhelezare, near Plovdiv in central Bulgaria, has been turned into an open-air gallery by a Polish-Bulgarian artist couple, husband and wife...
It is hard to imagine living abroad without missing your national cuisine. Especially when the food from your country is exotic for your country of residence, and it is...
