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Here’s to Prague

Here’s to Prague

VISITING Prague can prove adventurous, writes Richard Finnila after a night flirting with the green fairy in a Czech nightclub and a hungover day at a torture museum.

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sauna/ Finnish Tourism

Sauna’s clean Finnish

JUST in case you ever wanted to, the Finnish tradition of sauna offers the perfect excuse for rolling around naked in the snow, writes Jonathon Moran.

Europe
Bonjour, Paris

Bonjour, Paris

IT’S quite possible to fall madly in love on a first trip to France, writes Jodie Minus.

Europe
Ice hotel

Lapland’s friendly fire

LIZ Johnston was nervous about her solo trip to Lapland to stay at an ice hotel after an elegant couple in Helsinki made no effort to contain their mirth.

Europe
snowmobile / Finnish Tourism

Ice safaris with flying Finns

‘TAXIS are for wimps’ was clearly the message, as Jenny Stevens climbed aboard a sleek snowmobile at the start of her Lapland adventure.

Europe
A week in Languedoc

A week in Languedoc

THE dream of spending a year à la Française in Provence might have been truncated to a week in Languedoc, but what a week it was, writes Colin Fraser.

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Guggenheim Museum/Reuters

Basquing in Bilbao’s glow

FOR the locals, football comes first and last – but, in between, their historic Spanish city offers tourists so much, writes Mike Smith.

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St Petersburg Church on the Spilled Blood/Bell

St Petersburg’s tsar turn

Life in St Petersburg is lived as if there’s no tomorrow and, during mid-summer White Nights when the sun never sets, the city barely sleeps.

Europe
Step out in Porto

Step out in Porto

OBSESSED with Lisbon and the Algarve, visitors to Portugal are missing out on the richly textured northern city of Porto.

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