Classic East Berlin brunch spot to watch the world pass by Open since 1953 this was, and still is, one of Berlin’s most popular cafes. …
Food Review: Cafe Sibylle, 72 Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, Germany
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Travel: New York Sight-Seeing Passes
Planning to visit New York Attractions One of the best (or worst!) bits of a holiday is the planning. Thankfully Mrs Foodie loves a bit …
Travel To Do: Berlin TV Tower (Fernsehturm)
A sky-high view of Berlin from the TV Tower The Berlin TV Tower is one of the city’s most famous landmarks — a 368-meter-high needle-like …
ALECSA Hotel am Olympiastadion, Glockenturmstraße 30, 14055 Berlin Review
Budget Hotel in West Berlin We stumbled across the Alecsa Hotal am Olympiastadion whilst looking for somewhere cheap to place our heads. We just needed …
Travel To Do: Stasi Museum, Berlin
The Stasi Museum in the Friedrichshain area of Berlin is worth a visit (indeed is the whole of Friedrichshain!) This building housed The Ministry for …
Travel To Do: BierPinsel, Berlin, Germany
Bierpinsel Berlin Getting off at U9 Schloßstraße station gives you a bit of advance warning of what to expect at Bierpinsel. The garish colour scheme …
Travel: Easyjet Glasgow to Milan route starts today
EasyJet start new route from Glasgow to Milan It’s now easier to fly to Italy from Glasgow Airport to the Italian city of Milan …
Isle of Arran Distillery Visitor Centre celebrates award success
The visitor centre of the award-winning Isle of Arran Distillery has been recognised for the second year running in the Scottish Field Whisky Challenge. The …
Apple Apartments, Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, London Review
Situated between Paddington and Lancaster Gate underground stations, with Hyde Park on its doorstep, Apple Apartments Hyde Park are ideally suited for both business and pleasure …
New Wizzair route from Glasgow to Bucharest
Wizzair have announced the start of a twice weekly service from Glasgow Airport to Bucharest in Romania starting May 2016.
Top 5 things to do in Bamberg, Germany
If you like history, and all within walking distance as well as shopping, drinking beer and eating, then Bamberg in Germany is an ideal place …
Icelandair open Aberdeen to Iceland route
Icelandair are adding a new service between Aberdeen and Iceland starting on 9th March 2016. In cooperation with Air Iceland, Icelandair will provide passengers their …
Hotel Ilirija, Ilirija Resort, Biograd na Moru, Croatia Review
Croatian summer holiday part 1 As the weather in Scotland this summer has been rubbish perhaps it’s time to look to the Med for some sun, …
Boarding Pass requests at Airport
Need to show your boarding pass? Social media has been alight with the boarding pass/VAT discussion, so much so that a grassroots revolt is mounting …
Food Review: Shiso Burger, 29C August Str, Mitte, Berlin 10119
Take a leaf out of Shiso’s book… Shiso Burger on Auguststrasse in Mitte had been recommended to us so we headed there specifically. Inside it was full …
The Times Travel Awards Voting Opens
The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine Awards For the third year, The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sunday Times …
New Hotel for Aberdeen Airport
Crowne Plaza Hotel to open at Aberdeen Airport Situated just 100 metres from the passenger terminal, it will ideally located for business and leisure guests …
Holiday Inspiration – Berlin, Germany
Berlin break ideas Now Mrs Foodie loves Berlin a little too much. If only she had stuck in at school and passed that Higher German …
Feature: MSC Splendida tour and new Cuba cruise for winter 2015-6
MSC is one of the main cruise operators in Europe (the largest in the Mediterranean) and the MSC Splendida is one of the world’s top …
A visit to Chernobyl and Pripyat, Ukraine
Visiting history at Chernobyl and Pripyat At 1:23am on 26th April 1986 a nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station during a systems …
Food review: lunch at La Sultana, Rue de La Kasbah, Marrakesh 40000, Morocco
As part of our stay at the impressive La Sultana hotel in Marrakech we ate a relaxed lunch in their al fresco dining area, and the …
Volkswagen transparent factory ( Gläserne Manufaktur) Dresden, Germany
The transparent factory in Dresden is worth a visit to see the assembly of Volkswagen’s luxury sedan, the Phaeton, and to admire some modern architecture. …
Beer drinking in Germany’s oldest railway station
The historic city of Leipzig in Saxony is a much neglected tourist spot. Where else can you find the starting point for the fall of …
When in Morocco…we try out a Hammam at La Sultana
Reading up on Morocco, one thing that kept cropping up was the Hammam, which is an incredibly important part of Moroccan culture and life. Men, …