Oslo to Bergen, Norway Take a trip from Oslo to Bergen on Vy, the Norwegian state railway (I was delighted to get a senior’s ticket – a usual Norwegian courtesy), a journey of scenic delight at any time of the year, and stop over at Myrdal. There, buy a return …
Read More »Britain’s first-ever eastern European mayor convicted of r@ping woman as she repeatedly begged him to stop
Britain’s first-ever Eastern European mayor has been convicted of [email protected] a woman who repeatedly asked him to stop. Aigars Balsevics, 42, who became Conservative mayor of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in May 2020, was found guilty of two counts of [email protected] at Peterborough Crown Court yesterday. The court heard how Balsevics went …
Read More »UEFA bans Juventus from European football
UEFA has banned Juventus from competing in the Europa Conference League this season due to financial irregularities. The expulsion of Juventus from the third-tier Europa Conference League was expected because of a false accounting case that already saw the two-time European champions deducted 10 points in Serie A. That …
Read More »Next stop Spain: how to start your European road trip on the sea
“Being able to watch the journey out of the cabin window, seeing France fade away and Spain come into view, you experience the travel and the journey itself as part of the trip, rather than it being a means to an end. We both really love that,” says Katie Nicholson, …
Read More »European Games Esports Championship to feature ‘PES’ and Rocket League
As kids, we all used to hear the same old spiel about how playing FIFA or PES on our Xbox or PlayStation was a waste of time, that it wouldn’t benefit us in later life and there were better things we could be doing. Well, that’s finally changed, as esports …
Read More »The rise of Parma from Serie B to European champions – where reserve goalkeeper Marco Ballotta would drive the team bus
Parma rose from Serie B to UEFA Cup champions in the space of just five years in the 1990s, before lifting the same trophy for a second time in 1999, though establishing themselves in Italy’s top tier and Europe still took some time. Gaining a historic promotion to Serie A …
Read More »‘Only 11 other people have completed it’: cycling the 7,600km European Divide
Last summer I cycled 7,600km (4,722 miles) along a route called the European Divide Trail, which runs through nine countries, all the way from Arctic Norway to the Atlantic coast in Portugal, mostly camping out along the way. The idea was sparked by an article I saw on the internet …
Read More »From Berlin to Brussels, the night train renaissance gathers speed with the new European Sleeper
In the beer gardens of Berlin, night trains are a conversation topic almost as hot as how to get the Berghain bouncers to let you into their nightclub. (“Be a single man, be ‘alright’-looking, don’t smile,” I’m told.) I’m in Prater Biergarten – the German capital’s oldest beer garden – …
Read More »Five European city breaks for art and culture on a budget
Malmö, Sweden Across the Øresund strait from Copenhagen, Sweden’s most southerly and culturally diverse city has developed into the region’s art and music hub with an opera house, concert hall, its own symphony orchestra, a museum complex and a contemporary art scene. It’s also close to sandy beaches, has a …
Read More »Lisbon revealed as best-value location for a European city break
In an annual travel survey which analysed typical tourist costs in 35 European cities, Lisbon has emerged as the best-value location for a city break on the continent – beating traditional budget-friendly eastern European destinations. The Post Office Travel Money City Costs Barometer found the Portuguese capital won the top …
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