Whether it’s your first trip to Barcelona or your fifth, here are a few suggestions – basic and bonus.
A quarter of a century ago Prague, throwing off its socialist past, was a little known city; today it attracts some 4 million tourists a year. In 1992, the Olga Havel Foundation was a newly formed organisation designed to help disabled, abandoned and discriminated people in their integration into Czech society.Twenty-five years later it continues its work and its yearly fund- raising marathon is a fixture.
If you watch the Netflix drama, The Crown, you will be enchanted by the game-viewing visit the then Princess Elizabeth and her young husband make to Treetops in Kenya. Treetops has undergone many transformations since then; this is what it was like in the ’80s.
Don’t miss reading The Dubliners by James Joyce.. A collection of 15 short stories including his masterpiece, ‘The Dead’. Dublin and the people who inhabit it are alive on the pages. Great to read for a taste before you get there, even better to read looking back on your stay.
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