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88Germany’s Most Famous Castle: Schloss Neuschwanstein
Ask a tourist – especially some of my Japanese students when they turn into snap-happy tourists – and they’ll likely tell you that the most famous landmark in Germany is Schloss...
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85Visiting Heilbronn, Germany - Where to Stay and What to Do
Heilbronn is a medium-sized town in south-western Germany, sitting on the Neckar River midway between Heidelberg and Stuttgart. It might not be famous as a tourist magnet, but if you want to experience a...
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853 days in Singapore - The perfect itinerary
Singapore is a great place for a short stopover holiday on the way to somewhere else. With Changi International Airport being a hub for flights in and out of Australasia, a three day break can both help you...
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82Train Travel in Wintry Finland
Finland isn’t the cheapest of destinations, even with the convenience of the Euro. Accommodation, activities and food costs can really eat up a lot of your Finnish travel budget. That’s why I...
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89An Austrian winter retreat at Hundertwasser's Bad Blumau spa
The Rogner-Bad Blumau Spa Resort south of Vienna is the kind of funky design, high concept hotel and spa complex that tends to get featured on travel shows and in magazines a lot – but the kind of...
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83Roman Ruins at Dougga, Tunisia
While plenty of tourists head to Tunisia simply for the nice beaches and long-lasting summer weather, there is actually a wealth of history to discover in this north-east African country. Apart from the more...
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82Ice Fishing Near the Finnish Arctic Circle
I've been fishing a few times before, but usually from a boat, or water I could stand in, or using a huge fishermen's net. So heading out to go ice fishing in Finnish Lapland, just shy of the Arctic Circle, in...
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79Exploring Southern Germany’s Bad Wimpfen
If you want to see a gorgeously typical southern German town, without all the foreign tourists, then I recommend the village of Bad Wimpfen. Apart from having a cute name, it is a historic town with old...
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79Seeing Lenin’s Body in the Mausoleum, Moscow
The first time I visited Moscow in 2003, Red Square was closed. Apparently, it was relatively common that for terrorist-related reasons or other random government excuses, Red Square would be declared out of...
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80Hard History: Visiting the Auschwitz Concentration Camp Site
You’ve learnt about it in history class, and you’ve seen it in movies, but nothing prepares you for the reality of visiting the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp site in southern Poland....
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