Le Corbusier in Berlin
Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, Corbusier (6 Oct. 1887 – 27 Aug. 1965) renamed himself in the early 1920s as his design ideas around urban housing and standards of living began to trend. Not an… Continue reading
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Tempelhofer Feld
Standing at 1.2 kilometres long, the terminal at Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin’s west was the beginnings of Hitler’s Welthauptstadt Germania in the 1930s, becoming the largest building in continental Europe and still one… Continue reading
Berlin Art Week 2015: ABC Contemporary
As part of Berlin Art Week 2015, the ABC Contemporary show at Station Berlin in the heart of the industrial parkland at Gleisdreieck UBahn in Kreuzberg’s far west is on again. This annual… Continue reading
Bamburgh Castle
Dotted across the coastline of the north-east coast of England lies a 10-mile stretch of fortresses. An ideal day trip from Durham, Newcastle or Edinburgh, Bamburgh Castle is the pièce de résistance towering… Continue reading
Dots in Neukölln
Hidden under scaffolding for most of this year, Dots is an inconspicuous delight amongst the dive bars along Weserstraße in Neukölln. Literally dotted with graffiti art the façade can only have proved as… Continue reading
Paris in July.
In a tiny side street shadowed by apartment buildings laced with French doors and balconies, I spot one of the few cafes open in the month of July. Despite tourism fluxing at the… Continue reading
Le Tour de France 2015: Stage 21 Grand Paris Seine Ouest to Paris Champs-Élysée
Arriving on the Champes-Élysée at 1pm, I was both surprised and shocked to see so few spectators cueing up for the day ahead. Sure, Norwegian corner was roaring and ready to go and… Continue reading
Le Tour de France 2015: Stage 19 Saint Jean de Maurienne to La Toussuire Les Sybelles.
We made it through the night, woken after a short nap by excited middle-aged French men setting up their camp next to us. Unlike us, they’d (already started drinking) calculated exactly 1km out… Continue reading
Le Tour de France 2015: Stage 18 Gap to Saint-Jean de Maurienne.
On Thursday morning we pack our bags at 4am ahead of two adventurous days living out of our Ford Fiesta in the mountains. Ben drove the four hours of winding, fog heavy roads… Continue reading
Le Tour de France 2015 Stage 17: Digne-les-Bains to Pra Loup.
After our day of rest it was time to prove our preparation had not gone to waste. We left our accommodation at 6am via a baguette and croissant stop to drive to the start… Continue reading
Le Tour de France 2015 Stage 16: Bourg-de-Péage to Gap
After years of dedicated 2am watching from my couch, bed and Bar domestique huddled around a tiny computer toggling between SBS’s tour tracker, the docile tones of Phil Liggett and playing Keeno – Twitter’s… Continue reading
Hamburg.
As the second largest city in Germany, Hamburg is armed with the second biggest port in Europe, keeping no one wondering how the city is flushed with opportunity, money and visitors. A sovereign… Continue reading
Glasgow. Where tradition meets the contemporary.
Rolling hills, urban sprawl and hybrid city culture with history: This is Glasgow. What I expected to find was something different; a run down, crime-ridden city with “bad” graffiti laced atop building facades,… Continue reading
Spice makes its way to Berlin this summer.
Gone are the days of bland (but necessary) wurst and brot and enter the new phase of expatriate flavour, spice and zing: Jamaican. Jerk. Chicken. All over Berlin, Jamaican cuisine is popping up… Continue reading
56 hours in München this summer
Will that be weiß oder dunkel bier bitte? Munich, in the heartland of Bavaria is pouring with beer and culture. Home of Oktoberfest; Germany’s biggest export since beer itself, Munch is a plethora… Continue reading
District Mot – a long way from Vietnam
Since it’s opening in early 2013, District Mot has been thrust into becoming one of the hottest restaurants in town thanks to its hawker themed interior and menu. Covered in kitsch-Viet style, the… Continue reading
Potsdam: A quirky day trip from Berlin.
Potsdam is a great day trip from the city bustle and just forty minutes from Berlin on the S-Bahn. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1990, the greater area of Potsdam… Continue reading
Manchester: Home of more than just football soccer
Living in the shadows of football colour rivalry is England’s second largest city. Offering far more than just post-game pub clashes and riots, Manchester is once again a growing city with a proud… Continue reading
Leeds: A pit stop between the North and South
A prosperous Mill Town at the peak of the industrial revolution Leeds today, is UK’s third largest city and is predominantly a university town. The city is an ideal stopover between the North… Continue reading
Two cafes with a strict message for bored Londoners.
London is full of eateries, cafes, restaurants and take-away stores but most are a product of longevity rather than carefully crafted culinary ambitions. Despite this, two diversely different models are meeting the demands… Continue reading