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Top 10 winter destinations in Europe
05 December 2012
Winter comes in many guises in Europe, in the polar north there’s serious snow and sunless weeks, while you’ll find...
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Fangtastic! The world’s best vampire-spotting locations.
27 June 2012
Vampires and their stories seem to be enjoying an eternal renaissance in contemporary fiction and film. Anne Rice’s Interview with...
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Top 10 destinations for twitchers
27 June 2012
If you don’t know what a ‘twitcher’ is then this list is probably not for you – then again, perhaps...
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Edifice Complex: Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament
26 June 2012
This is an excerpt from Lonely Planet’s guide to Romania.Controversy still rages around this massive edifice. More than a symbol...
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Brutal buildings: the architecture of Eastern Europe
29 May 2012
Ugly or visionary? An architectural period to forget, or a legacy worth preserving? Few building styles have made an impact...
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Following in royal footsteps: Romania’s ‘Prince Charles Walk’
12 October 2011
Several years ago, Prince Charles developed a somewhat sudden preoccupation with Romania. During various visits he has added a commanding...
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Romania’s top 5 World Heritage sites
10 September 2011
Romania’s tourism profile has been slow to rise since EU membership and discount airlines both arrived in 2007. But with...
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Most fairytale-like European castles
01 August 2011
All you Cinderellas and Prince Charmings: you will go to the ball, at one of Europe’s grandly fortified fantasies.1. Prague...
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Destination at a glance: Romania
16 November 2010
Transylvania is hands-down Romania’s most well-known region, and Count Dracula its best-known resident. But Romania has a great deal more...
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In search of the real Dracula
30 July 2010
Long before Bram Stoker’s literary Dracula sparked a century-long, global obsession with vampires – both the torturing and tortured variety...
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Top 10 sustainable travel experiences
26 July 2010
Ditch modern civilisation and go wild! (Just be responsible about it.) In this excerpt from Lonely Planet’s 1000 Ultimate Experiences,...
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Table for one, please. Yes, just one.
26 July 2010
Please indulge me for a moment while I throw out a few stats from my current Lonely Planet research trip...
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7 spookiest buildings around the world
22 July 2010
Has a building ever given you the creeps? It could be a beautiful church, an office building, a small cottage…and...
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Robbed in Romania: a fast train to Skintsville
19 April 2010
Silver bullets and crucifixes may ward off Romanian vampires, but more conventional tools are needed to deter the predators prowling...
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10 places that don’t exist (but should)
05 January 2010
We’ve all read a book or watched a movie and wished the places it transported us to were real. ...
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