Tag Archives: Europes

12 minutes on the clock, 159 champions to guess. Remember to tweet your scores @FourFourTwo and share with your friends. NOW TRY Quiz! Can you name every player to win the Champions League and Copa Libertadores? The football landscape has changed considerably across Europe since 1992. It was the year that brought the introduction of …

Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, Spain There is a wild and wonderful water world in the north-eastern corner of Spain. The Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici national park, in the central Pyrenees north of Lleida, is characterised by more than 200 lakes fed by melting snow and ice, …

No time limit for this one, 96 teams to guess. Remember to tweet your scores @FourFourTwo and share with your friends. NOW TRY Quiz! Can you name these South American stars’ first clubs in Europe? We use Kwizly for our quizzes – find out more here There’s a world beyond these shores, of course. European football is still king …

All the greats in one estate, France When you have a partner obsessed with architecture, you can’t expect to go on holiday without a detour to see some building or another. So if it’s a city break, that usually means a walking tour of the architectural highlights interspersed with visits …

Germany, various locations Germany is celebrating the 250th birthday of one of its best-loved painters, the Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). His work features mountains, ruins and stormy seas, often with human figures, such as Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. There are exhibitions in Hamburg (until 1 April), …

Opinion by Daud Khan, Leila Yasmine Khan (rome and amsterdam) Tuesday, January 02, 2024 Inter Press Service ROME and AMSTERDAM, Jan 02 (IPS) – The recent elections in the Netherlands signals the increasing power of the far right in Europe. The populist party of Geert Wilders, the Party for Freedom, won …

How best to rejuvenate? Many opt for doing less: loafing, lounging, luxuriating. The problem with this is that modern life is lived mostly in the mind. Even if you don’t have a job that requires control of an inbox, the exhausting PR project of modern social interaction is inescapable. If …

6 minutes on the clock, 25 players to guess. Remember to tweet your scores @FourFourTwo and share with your mates. THEN TRY Quiz! Can you name the top 10 Champions League scorers in each of the last 10 seasons  We use Kwizly for our quizzes – find out more here  …

Warsaw has just moved closer to Munich, Berlin nudged towards Paris, and Aachen slipped nearer to Salzburg. These are just three examples of city pairs that are newly linked, as of this week, by direct night trains. None of these city pairs currently has direct daytime trains, so the overnight …

Bernina Express: Chur, Switzerland, to Tirano, Italy Listed as a Unesco world heritage site since 2008, the Bernina line is one of the highest railways in the Alps, promising four hours of panoramic views from its glass-domed carriages: frozen lakes, rivers crashing down canyons and forests heavy with snow. Departing …