For the record, technically your two inbound/outbound days don't have to be the first & last day. You can use them on any two days during the validity of your pass. So if you did want to go Dundee-London on day 1, stay overnight, then go London-Brussels-Cologne on day 2, and...
Step through the mirror into the city itself and you are at once bombarded by a cacophony of sound and smell. The jostling, the ding-ding of trams and the blare of horns; stores emit rich scents – here, traditional Chinese medicine; there, eau de cologne; car fumes mingl...
Finbarr Notte hadto be brought low before he could start his climb to street art stardom. Already in his mid-40s, at the turbulent end of a long-term relationship gone bad, denied access to his children, and in a job on the technical side of a digital advertising agency – from which...
Overland travel around China by train is an essential part of the experience, so once there, don't cheat and fly, stay on the ground! But if a long-haul flight is unavoidable to reach China in the first place, try Virgin Atlantic who fly direct from London to Beijing, Shanghai or Ho...
Confessions of a CEO: In a climate conscious world, does the train beat the plane? More and more climate-conscious travellers are opting to take the train instead of flying. With this in mind, and a business meeting coming up in Cologne, I decided to take the 580km trip by train. Lear...
2010 at the INeKo-Institute of the University of Cologne in a year-long training for mediators. The speakers are experienced practitioners, providing also the scientific state-of-the-art. In addition to the small and large mediation Basics training, headed by Prof. Dr. Egon Stephan, offers th...
Does that mean no French fries? “Having them sometimes is okay,” Knight says. “It’s the long-term habits that really matter. Being good to your microbiome over the next six months is a lot more important than what you ate yesterday, or what you eat tomorrow.”1. In the memory ...
When wine is exposed to the sun for too long, it is said to be “light-struck.” Consider it a sunburn for wine that never goes away—and smells awful. Ultraviolet (U.V.) rays interact with the compounds in wine to produce unpleasant changes in its structure and flavor. “Once they ...
Inside the bottle, there was still the faint aroma of a gentleman’s cologne. Custom-made for a rich traveler a century ago. (…) Women like the way it smells on a man. Like a symphony that begins loudly, then soon slides into subtle, entangling developments that grow on them. Or so...
Late December through the New Year is the exception. Families are reuniting or traveling together for the holidays, so you can expect to pay a premium for flights at that time of year. If you're budget-conscious, you also might avoid cities like Cologne and Salzburg, where Christmas festival...