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Gadgets
by DAVID ELKINS
Transplant surgery “Gardening starts with a spade,” goes the old adage. Best to shop around for this tool: ...
One Bottle
by JAMES NEVISON
In wine circles it’s not uncommon to have lengthy debates about “Old World” versus “New World” wines. Actually, ...
Travel News
by CAMILLE CHIN
Throughout 2013, Ireland will be full of craic. What country wouldn’t be with a year-long sched of countrywide ...
It’s a little surprising that David Bowie is is the first-ever international retrospective on a career that’s spanned ...
by ANNAROSA SABBADINI
French connection France’s edgy arts city of Marseille has been named a European Capital of Culture for 2013. ...
If ever there was a doubt that the journey is as important as the destination, Switzerland’s new CabriO ...
“You are virtually swimming in light when you are inside the Big Air Package,” said the 77-year-old, Bulgarian-born ...
If you’re not hooked on PBS’ Downton Abbey, chances are you know someone who’s been completely sucked in. ...
France’s rail company, SNCF, is expected to launch its economy high-speed train network, Ouigo (ouigo.com) this month. It’ll ...
by SOPHIE LORENZO
Think getting a room on a budget mean going somewhere dingy and uninspired? Try these.
Travel Deals
According to the Priceoftravel.com Backpacker Index, a database of travel costs in 110 cities, Europe’s cheapest can be ...
A Room in Paris, a five-room B&B in the 10th arrondissement, is a two-minute walk from the Gare ...
A river cruise on the Rhine, Danube or Seine make for an unforgettable holiday — especially if you ...
The 10 rooms in Rome’s newly furnished Pensione Paradise are as clean and as spartan as they get. ...
Skypicker.com is a good website to book a cheap flight from the UK to anywhere in Europe. You ...
Features
Five of the most charming European towns you’ve probably never heard of
» slideshow: Europe's most picturesque towns
by JOSEPHINE MATYAS
Scandinavia’s northernmost country isn’t short on raw beauty
by GERALD FITZPATRICK
The aristocratic “backyard” at Sissinghurst Castle is England’s most visited green space
by ROBB BEATTIE
The original outdoorsy retreat, the towns of Lake Lucerne have been drawing visitors for 180 years
Nutrition
by KIM N. ARREY
Studies on the Mediterranean diet are no longer observational. More recent ones are interventional, looking for specific measurable ...
Recipes
by COLMAN ANDREWS
The late cookbook author Theodora FitzGibbon adapted this recipe from “a handwritten recipe book, 1735;” she doesn’t specify ...
Because salmon was so plentiful in Ireland until recent times, it was often preserved, not only by smoking, ...
Tim Allen, son of Michelin-star chef Myrtle Allen, made this famous loaf one day at the Ballymaloe Cookery ...
