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Built for Speed, Switzerland
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I’ve always loved watching the bobsled, luge and skeleton events during the Winter Olympics. In Luzern, Switzerland, I had the chance to check out some of the hardware close-up.
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Where Eagles Dare, Austria
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Summer or winter games, the Olympics are a two week festival of sport that has me glued to the telly. I’ve visited a few Olympic sites during my travels, and when I arrived in Innsbruck, Austria, I was keen to add another one to the list.
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Hangar 7, Austria
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When you make a zillion bucks flogging unhealthy energy drinks, you can do all kinds of expensive things, like fly historic aircraft. I went along to Hangar 7 in Salzburg, Austria, to check out where the money went.
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Beneath the Streets of Prague, Czechia
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I find Cold War history frightening and fascinating, so when I found out there was a museum in a nuclear bunker right under the city centre of Prague, Czechia, I promptly booked myself a tour.
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Sampling a Sachertorte, Austria
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While in Austria I looked into the history of Vienna’s Sachertorte, and found I had something strikingly in common with the famous cake’s creator.
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Visiting the Freuds’, Part II, Austria
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Eighty-five years too late for an appointment, I turned up at Sigmund Freud’s practice in Vienna, Austria
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Visiting the Freuds’, Part I, Austria
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During the depths of my midlife crisis, a mate suggested I give psychoanalysis a try. Now this particular friend knows a lot about pretty much everything, and feeling I had nothing to lose, I took his advice.
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What’s In a Name? Hungary
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The history of just about everything in Europe is complicated, and a case in point is how Hungary’s capital came to be called Budapest.
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Driving the Transfagarasan Road, Romania
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Whilst researching places to visit in Romania, I came across photos of a spectacular winding road, snaking its way high up to a pass over the mighty Carpathian Mountains. It looked amazing and a blast to drive, so I put the Transfagarasan Road on the must-do list.
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An Introduction to Moldova
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Seeing as I knew very little about Moldova, and nothing about Chisinau, I figured a visit to the National Museum of the History of Moldova would be a good place to start.