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The Albanian Riviera: beaches and prices

The same Ionian sea as Corfu, at roughly half the price, on a coast that had almost no tourism at all thirty years ago. The

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Liverpool and the Beatles: where to start

Four people from one city changed popular music, and the city has spent sixty years working out what to do about it. Liverpool and the

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The Tatra mountains: hiking, lakes, Zakopane

A chain only fifty seven kilometres long, split between Poland and Slovakia, and the only genuinely alpine mountains between the Alps and the Caucasus. The

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Transylvania: Sighisoara, Sibiu and the villages

Between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, German settlers were invited east to defend a frontier, and they built villages with churches you could live inside

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The Baltic states in one week: a full itinerary

The Baltic states are the most efficient combination of sovereign countries in Europe: three capitals, three languages, three quite different histories, and six hundred kilometres

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Tourist traps in Europe and how to avoid them

Tourist traps work the same way in Lisbon, Prague and Athens, which is convenient: learn the pattern once and it transfers to any city you

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eSIM Europe: staying online without the bill

An eSIM Europe package is the answer to a problem that, for most of the continent, no longer exists. Inside the European Union your phone

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Flight delay compensation: your rights in the EU

Flight delay compensation in Europe is one of the strongest consumer protections anywhere in the world, and most passengers who are entitled to it never

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Transfagarasan: driving Romania best road

The Transfagarasan is ninety kilometres of road across the highest mountains in Romania, built for reasons that had nothing to do with driving pleasure and

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