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A cross-portrait of the two worst European performers, after two alarming reports published in August confirm an inconvenient truth
Passportless, with a dictionary under the arm, Europe’s ‘globetrotter’ travels cheap through today’s InterRail, low-cost airline Europe. Borders are crossed, but they no longer exist. Youtube or travel blogs capture moments of culture shock-cum-love; are you a Eurotrotter?
Feeling that they are nothing more than a transition generation, young Serbs are losing interest in politics. But the lively debate goes on in bars and restaurants. Final diary from a three-part travel series
The environmentally-powered model is well established in the USA and Japan. Can it make the transition in Europe as well?
Between a war of information and the disinformation of war – how to judge the effects of the war in the former Yugoslavia. Second in our three-part series
After finishing their studies and work placements, three French friends head to Serbia to meet their Balkan counterparts. What is it like to embark on your adult life at the other end of Europe? Partying - the first in a series of three of our Serbian travel diary
Clearly Berlin has a soft spot for the bear, the symbol of the city. After the Knut-mania surrounding the polar bear at the city’s zoo, teddy bears now have their own tour operator to visit the German capital. Seriously…
You can’t evade the underground in everyday life in Budapest, which has the second oldest metro system in Europe after London
A linguist and voyager, the Italian painter transported her Jewish origins from the United States to Portugal, where her multiple identities are exhibited by a flourishing brushstroke
Two of Europe’s politicians talk ‘global solutions, global problems’ but sometime forget to put their words into action
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I’ve returned from my intensive week of ceremonies, back in London but quite exhausted from moving around so much. Though I’m disappointed to have been in the US during all of the post-Ireland-referendum-panic last week, perhaps it was for the best. After all, it was good to get ...
When in Lisbon, there are two key dates that stay on the mind: 1755 and 1974. During a visit I made to the city last weekend, these two pivotal turning points constantly came up. They were both times of regeneration, of a culture and a city redefining itself after a ...
Last week I went on a ski trip to the Austrian Alps. Yes I know, I feel as if I’ve been on a bit of Alps overload over the past year. I’ve now driven through them in four different countries and just the previous weekend I had taken ...
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