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New Year’s Eve in Europe: what’ll be going on?

Wednesday 5 December 2012

New Year's Eve in Europe

Unlike many other holidays, usually bound by tradition or religion, New Year’s is a holiday that allows us to do… whatever we want. Europe boasts some epic NYE parties. If you’re planning a New Year’s trip, here’s our favorite pick of the best destinations and their New Year special programs across Europe, in order to make your last day of the year one to remember.

The best Christmas markets in Europe

Tuesday 20 November 2012

Best Christmas markets

Watch, taste and feel a traditional Christmas, visit Europe’s best Christmas markets. The living, the breathing yesteryear of a bustling outdoor marketplace. With our superb choice of Christmas markets in Europe, you are sure to find your perfect festive holiday destination.

Berlin Jazzfest – Get a wiggle on, it’s coming!

Thursday 25 October 2012

Berlin JazzFest

Once again in November this year, for the 40th time, Jazz lovers of all ages will flock to Berlin to attend Berlin Jazzfest, one of Europe’s greatest Jazz Festivals ever. 2012 JazzFest Berlin will last for 4 days from November 1st to 4th.

AquaDom Berlin – the world’s largest cylindrical aquarium

Thursday 12 April 2012

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The AquaDom in Berlin, Germany, is the world’s largest cylindrical, acrylic glass aquarium with built-in elevator. It is hosted inside the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin-Mitte, in one of the more exclusive areas of the city. It is maintained by the Sea Life Berlin, one of the most renowned chains of commercial sealife-themed attractions in the world.

Ready Steady… Pillow Fight Day 2012

Saturday 7 April 2012

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Have you ever heard of that phenomenon called flash mobbing? It involves crowds of people doing the same thing in the same place in a huge massive event that brings joy and fun to everyone. Now imagine millions of people contextually attending the same event throughout the world. Well, one of these events is going to happen at the right moment: on Saturday April 7th 2012, it will be time for Pillow Fight Day 2012, a massive… pillow fight in cities around the world!

Berlin East Side Gallery: from death to life, and vice-versa

Thursday 22 March 2012

east side gallery

After the Wall came down in Berlin, in 1989, more or less famous (at the time) artists, gathered and transformed the eastside of the Wall in the largest open air gallery in the world. The East Side Gallery is a special place, where art has become the expression for a new face in a new time: the time of Freedom.

Berlin for Museum Fans is: Museum Island

Tuesday 13 March 2012

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There are lots of great places to visit in Berlin, but the city is most of all a one stop place for lovers museums. If this is your perspective, then the first tourist attraction you should visit once there is the Museum Island.

Yummy destinations around Europe: the Food Museums

Monday 6 February 2012

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A quite different approach to the concept of museum. History, science, technology, nature, art and… taste, all together, to teach us everything, absolutely everything on the foods – historic and not – that we are accustomed to eating mechanically every day (or almost, depending on our nationality). The true lovers of taste can’t miss these yummy destinations! The food museums. In Europe, of course!

February concerts in Europe: top artists on tour

Wednesday 1 February 2012

Kasabian

Europe is full of musical events throughout the year. And although for most of the hottest concerts … we must wait for spring and summer, even February makes safe some… cool shows! We’ve been seeking out for you some of the not-to-be-missed concerts through February 2012 in major European capitals. So if you are traveling during this time and you love music, check out our recommendations for this month’s hottest events. All the best from the greatest artists of the moment.

Architectural Works of Art in Europe: on the trail of Frank Gehry

Thursday 24 November 2011

Dancing House, Prague

A trip may not always be undertaken to discover beautiful and unknown places. Sometimes it could be all about great passions, for example for architecture, lakes, animals, for a particular artist, etc. then you decide to make a series of journeys, not just one, on the trail of what attracts you most, in order to see things in person and enrich yourself with new experiences in a fun and dynamic way: traveling.