CZECHS HAVE A CAPITAL TO PRAGUE ABOUT

A dancing building called Fred and Ginger, couples tango-ing in the street, giant babies crawling up a 216m TV tower, and I was still stone-cold sober after six pints of beer. That’s Prague, a city full of surprises. It’s also full of some of Europe’s finest centuries-old architecture — and tourists...

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TITANIC TENDER SS NOMADIC IN PICTURES

The SS Nomadic, tender vessel to the Titanic and the last existing White Star Line ship in the world, was officially opened last Friday, May 31 at her Hamilton Dock berth in Belfast.Over the past seven years, the SS Nomadic — known as Titanic’s little sister — has undergone a £7m restoration programme...

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EL HIERRO: IT WAS LAVA AT FIRST SIGHT

The lunar landscapes of El Hierro, the smallest of the seven Canary Islands, are dotted with hundreds of extinct volcanoes and fireproof trees. Horizontal rain feeds the high-altitude pine forests, and a fish that comes shooting out of the sea ready-cooked — if a certain waiter is to be believed — feeds...

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