Dusseldorf’s Top 3 Pubs

Located in the west of Germany, Dusseldorf is famous for its important role in European business and commerce. Over a million people visit the city each year to stay in a Dusseldorf trade fair hotel, and here they attend some of the largest trade fairs held anywhere in the world.

Cheese and Liverpool: A recipe for a good time

Cheese is the great equalizer. It can take on many forms, and many qualities, but cheese is in its own a right glorious and tantalizing dairy product that has been produced since the beginning of human history. The word ‘cheese’ as we know it in English is related to the Latin root ‘caseus’ which is now very similar to the word ‘casein’, a vital part of the cheese creation process. Fromageries are the ideal location for getting better acquainted with the world of cheese.

The Karabakh Horse: Pride for Baku and Azerbaijan

Horses have been instrumental in easing the burden of humans and in many ways aiding the development and settlement of many parts of the world. Horses are good companions, have unique personalities, are physically powerful, and often quite beautiful. In Azerbaijan, the national animal is a breed of horse that is a point of national pride.

What on Earth is the Blue Banana?

With a provocative name like that, this could be just about anything, but the Blue Banana is another name for the backbone of Europe, the European Megalopolis, the most populous region of Europe by far. Shaped like a banana, it bends from Liverpool and Cardiff in the UK at one end to the densest regions of Northern Italy and the South of France like Milan, Venice, Monaco and Nice.

Go International in Edinburgh

Every year, thousands of fans look forward to the annual Edinburgh International Festival, a three-week festival that showcases a variety of performing arts within the city.

Scotland's Evening Sky

Gazing towards the stars is something that I do on a frequent occasion, as it sparks a sense of wonder in me. There is no better place to observe the night sky than from the balcony of my Dunblane hotel; although I have heard great things about the night sky from people that have stayed in a few of the hotels in Ballater, I have never been there.

Azerbaijan

The capital city of Azerbaijan, Baku, has in the last few decades transformed itself into a vibrant modern city, but many of the surrounding villages and towns are still archaic and largely untouched by modernity.

A Short Introduction to Scouse

Scouse is both an accent and a dialect, commonly used around the English county of Merseyside – and in particular in the city of Liverpool. The sound of Scouse is highly distinctive, as anyone who’s ever stayed in a Liverpool centre hotel will know. It can be hard to understand for outsiders, and its use has been reported to reach as far and wide as Cheshire, Lancashire and Clwyd in Wales.