How Edinburgh Castle just got a little biggerSHN ROSS
1. Skip Airbnb homes –Airbnb is one of the biggest villains in this whole drama. Don’t rent an entire Airbnb home unless you can be 100% sure that you are renting from a real human who is just on vacation. Look at the photos, talk to the host, ask them if they live there. ...
Walter J. Turnbull for so much of his success. "You have to walk boys to manhood." He went to Fiorello LaGuardia High School. Tyranny always targets artists and intellectuals. "Believe me, when you're 40 feet up in the air, about to turn a triple somersault, you could care less if...
Room for a little more geekery? TheBooth Museum of Natural Historyis home to over half a million specimens, including a Victorian taxidermy collection and some dinosaur bones — and entry is free. Brighton Architecture If your budget's a bit tight or you're keen to keep moving, just wanderi...
Japan has an extensive and incredibly efficient rail network, you can pretty much assume that trains go everywhere you'd want to visit. Japanese trains are clean, comfortable and punctual. The average delay to a high-speed shinkansen train is measured in seconds. Train travel in Japan is easy...
Train to Milan, overnight stop. High-speed train to Paris and Eurostar to London. The whole journey from London to Athens takes 2 nights, you arrive in London in the evening of day 5. How much does it cost? For London to Athens costs, see the London to Greece page. Piraeus to ...
thesis, regardless of whether they actually happened.I lived through much of what is shown here, sometimes quite closely. I visited the Windsors’ house in Paris the day before the Queen in 1972, and I was present at the Duke’s funeral some days later. I knew quite a number of those...
Cash –Cash is by far the worst way to pay for transport in London, and should be avoided in pretty much all cases, with the exception of taxis (although these accept contactless and credit cards too). Usually, cash fares are much higher than the other payment options, plus some services...
With next to no barriers to entry and negligible startup costs—think J. K. Rowling with that pencil and notebook, scribbling away in an Edinburgh café—there is nothing to stop anyone making a name for themselves. And as everybody “has a book in them,” or so the story goes, ever...
yet is now enjoying a mini renaissance. Some locals believe the county should be upgraded to a country in its own right. At which point the correct sounding of “Mousehole” may become an entry requirement.