Europe Tips & articles

Tips & articles

  1. City snapshot: Cork City, Ireland

    17 December 2009

    Population: City – 119,418; County – 361,877 Visitors per year: 204,300 international visitors ...

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  2. World’s best traditions

    16 December 2009

    Think Christmas traditions are special? What about these? High tea, The Ritz, London, England Take a...

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  3. Get your skates on: holiday-season ice-skating

    07 December 2009

    This winter, the world is your ice rink!  We pick the top spots to get your skates on and glide into...

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  4. Travel trivia: 10 geeky facts from around the globe

    07 December 2009

    All-surprising stats and fantastical facts, our info nerds’ world tour will have you pointing out the...

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  5. L’Escalade: Geneva’s chocolate festival

    02 December 2009

    Location: Geneva, Switzerland Dates: 11-15 December Level of Participation: 5 – festival…chocolate…happy...

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  6. Hogmanay: Edinburgh’s own New Year’s festival

    02 December 2009

    Dates: 29 December–1 January Description: For Scots, the New Year has always been a more important celebration...

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  7. The whirling dervishes of Konya’s Mevlâna Festival

    01 December 2009

    Konya turns on a show every December with the Mevlâna Festival, to honour Rumi, Islam’s greatest...

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  8. Best things to do in 2010

    27 November 2009

    Rest up while you can, dear travellers, because 2010 is going to be an action-packed year! Total eclipse...

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  9. Shopping à la Parisienne

    25 November 2009

    Paris’s reputation as a shopper’s paradise is not exaggerated. Its endless and endlessly...

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  10. O Tannenbaum: Germany’s Christmas Markets

    25 November 2009

    If you like your Christmas shopping with a generous side of tradition (and a cup of mulled wine), take...

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  11. The world’s top choc spots

    24 November 2009

    Love chocolate? Discover how to feel full of beans on this nonstop choc tour of the planet. Flanders,...

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  12. Raging bull: Festa do Boi in Allariz

    20 November 2009

    Dominic Bonuccelli travelled to Spain on assignment for Lonely Planet. You can follow his adventures...

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  13. La Rapa das Bestas, Morgadans

    20 November 2009

    Dominic Bonuccelli travelled to Spain on assignment for Lonely Planet. You can follow his adventures...

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  14. YOUR top 10 countries for 2010

    19 November 2009

    A couple of weeks ago, we published our list of hot destinations for 2010. You sure had a lot to say!...

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  15. Europe’s 8 best night trains

    17 November 2009

    The midnight thump and clunk of railway carriages being uncoupled and shunted in a station somewhere...

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  16. Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled Spain itinerary

    10 November 2009

    A circuit through the northern reaches of Spain, incorporating colourful local festivals, is an Odyssean...

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  17. Batalla del Vino: La Rioja’s great wine fight

    10 November 2009

    Festivals, food and sport are three primal passions of the Spaniards, and often they’re fused together...

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  18. The top 10 countries for 2010

    06 November 2009

    Want a sneak peek into the future? We’ve just released our newest edition of Best in Travel. We’re...

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  19. Graveyard goodtimes: the world’s best cemeteries

    29 October 2009

    With Halloween and Day of the Dead fast approaching, it’s only natural that our thoughts turn to...

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  20. Tell us your tale of the unexpected

    17 October 2009

    Ever found a Picasso in a flea market in Paris? Been lost in Lisbon? Ripped off in Rome? Romanced in...

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  21. Cash and jackets in Rome

    17 October 2009

    Lonely Planet’s Katie Falkiner gets more than she bargains for on the streets of Rome. We’d...

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  22. Five days in Croatia: day five

    16 October 2009

    Hvar town may be unique, the Pakleni Islands alluring, but I’m itching to explore the Hvar Island...

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  23. Five days in Croatia: day four

    15 October 2009

    Gorgeous Hvar Island is Croatia’s sunniest place, enjoying around 2,724 hours of sun per year....

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  24. Five days in Croatia: day three

    14 October 2009

    Hvar Island has always attracted a cosmopolitan mix. Its position on the Adriatic made it a coveted staging...

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  25. Five days in Croatia: day two

    13 October 2009

    There’s a whiff of freshly ground coffee, the Adriatic’s gleaming under the waking sun and...

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