Valentine’s Day is catching up with us with the unstoppable force of a runaway train, and if you haven’t been organised enough to plan anything for your loved one, then good luck to you. But fret now, we’re here to offer up some last minute suggestions for you stragglers – and your partner won’t even [...]

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and your significant other may be dropping not-so-subtle hints to make sure you don’t forget it (again). But what if you can’t stand the idea of shelling out for roses that will die in a couple of days, and can’t stand the sight of another saccharine card? Well, if [...]

Despite the gradual decline of the British Empire, us Britons still excel at one task far greater than the rest of the globe: Queuing.   As the old saying goes, an Englishman, even if alone, will form an orderly queue of one.  We understand our place, never grumble (except for under our breath) and certainly wouldn’t [...]

Although the French capital now has its fair share of trendy wine bars, there is no replacing the traditional bars. Sitting in a an old-fashioned Parisian “bar à vins” with a “ballon de rouge” or a “petit blanc” is still considered as one of the great Gallic pleasures, something that has even survived the recent [...]

Гостиничный бренд Element Hotels объявил о своем намерении установить во всех отелях сети к концу 2009 года специальные заправки для электромобилей.
Программа получила одобрение после первого успешного испытания подобной заправки в отеле Element Lexington, который, как и все Element Hotels, относится к бренду экологичных отелей.
Система заправки была разработана в сотрудничестве с фирмами Coulomb Technologies и Carbon [...]

One evening after dinner, in our comfortable floating hotel, we were studying the map of Danube Delta to decide how to continue with our strategy for finding big groups of White Pelican. One thing I learnt, even if the linear distances  from A to B are not immense, being in the Delta you have to [...]