Berlin
11 places to see the remains of the Berlin Wall
Where can you see the remains of the Berlin Wall today? From 1961 until 1989 Berlin was cut in half [Read more]
history
Canada
Visiting St. Lawrence Market, Toronto, Canada
Foodie heaven at St Lawrence Market In our previous post on Toronto, we visited the district of Kensington Market but [Read more]
London
Travel: Ten Rillington Place, London and John Christie
John Christie and Ten Rillington Place 10 Rillington Place is an infamous address, with both a famous movie starring Richard [Read more]
Berlin
East Berlin Stasi Trail
Guide to the Stasi sights of East Berlin Discover life in East Berlin during the time of the Stasi secret [Read more]
Travel
Travel: Memento Park, Budapest, Hungary
Memento Park – the Communist statue park Memento Park (also known as “Szoborpark”) is something different to visit when you [Read more]
Berlin
Berlin Wall now gone for as long as it stood
Dividing the city of Berlin for 28 years The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years, slicing through the city dividing [Read more]
Scotland
#UnlockScotland with ScotRail City Days Out Pass – day 2
Day 2 of #MyScotrail #UnlockScotland ticket trip The new ScotRail Glasgow Days Out travel pass (there’s also an Edinburgh days [Read more]
Berlin
Berlin Blog Day 3
Breakfast today was a highly technological affair at Data Kitchen. The courtyard setting could be a million miles from the busy [Read more]
Berlin
Berlin Blog Day 1
When you find £20 return flights to your favourite city it’s a no brainer. So off we went to Berlin [Read more]
lifestyle
St Peters Seminary, Cardross – A second coming?
History The original St. Peter’s Seminary in Bearsden, Glasgow suffered a fire in 1946 and therefore a new home was needed [Read more]
Glasgow
Attraction: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
A long overdue visit to Glasgow’s top visitor attraction Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is Glasgow’s most popular place for [Read more]
city centre
Walking lunch food tour in Glasgow
The story of the city in four courses Mr and Mrs Foodie are a couple of history geeks so we’ve [Read more]
Travel
Travel: 120 years of Glasgow Subway
120 years of the ‘shoogle’ Today (14th December 2016) marks the 120th birthday of the Glasgow Subway. Yay! Opened on [Read more]
Berlin
Travel To Do: Gleis 17, Grunewald, Berlin
The dark history of Platform 17 Located in the Grunewald area of Berlin is the railway station Berlin-Grunewald with its [Read more]
book review
Christmas gift idea: Britain from the rails
For the train or travel geek in your life Bradt travel guides have released a second edition of Benedict Le [Read more]
Glasgow
Doors Open Day 2015 launched
Doors Open Day 2015 for Glasgow is launched It’s nearly time for this years Doors Open Day with the brochure [Read more]
Travel
Marrakesh, Morocco
We were over in Marrakesh for a wee anniversary break at the beginning of December. We’d love to share some [Read more]
Berlin
Berlin
Ostel, Berlin Review. ** Closed **
Located in the Friedrichshain area of Berlin and a 5 min walk from Ostbahnhof is Ostel, a nostalgic hostel [Read more]
Food
The Anchor Line launches!
The Anchor Line restaurant which is in the Anchor Line building on St Vincent Place opens at 11am on Thursday [Read more]
Drink
Bar Review – Imperial Bar, 6 Howard Street, Glasgow
The Imperial Bar is located in a much neglected corner of town. With the decrepit ex Somerfield building [Read more]
Drink
Pub Review – Grant Arms, 188 Argyle Street, Glasgow
The Grant Arms is a bit of a special pub in that it is one of two remaining buildings (the [Read more]
Food
Preview – Anchor Line, St Vincent Place, Glasgow
Some much needed old world glamour comes to Glasgow later this month with the launch (pun intended!) of The Anchor [Read more]