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Travelling the world, talking to people, listening to music, dancing to a beat.
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Linz, 2009 European Capital of Capital
The Austrian city of Linz is in the news at the moment, as it's holding a No Music Day on Saturday. The project is all part of Linz's time as the 2009 European Capital of Culture, a title it shares with Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.I visited Lin...
كرة القدم! Football with London\'s Algerian fans.
I wanted to watch Bosnia & Herzegovina -v- Portugal on Saturday, but finding Bosnian fans proved difficult. Phone calls weren't answered, cafés and restaurants seemed to have shut down.I called a Bosnian charity shop in Hackney, and sp...
Work in Progress, ice Berlin Wall at German embassy
Yesterday, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall, the German Embassy in London installed Work in Progress, a fragment of a wall, made from ice blocks, slowly and surely melting away....
Fall of the Berlin Wall exhibition
It has been twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. To mark the occasion, the Goethe Institute in London are holding an exhibition of Norbert Enker's photography taken in and around the wall and what remains of it.Taken from Decembe...
East from Shooter\'s Hill: The Urals?
Shooter's Hill in Greenwich is among one of the highest points in London.Someone once told me that if you go due east from Shooters Hill, the next highest land is the Urals in Russia. This didn't seen right to me. Shooter's Hill is only 133m high.So ...
Fodbold! Football with London's Danish fans.
I went last night to Zoo Bar, venue of the Scandinavian Party, to watch two matches: Denmark -v- Hungary & Sweden -v- Albania.Sweden & Denmark - how would I tell them apart?! It turned out to be easy. The Danes stood, while the Swedes sat. I'...
