Travel
Every summer, the beaches of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula are taken over by KaZantip - billed as the “biggest, longest, craziest and most unusual music event in the world”. Already notorious among Russian-speaking clubbers, the dance party is now drawing an increasingly international crowd.
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Fine French food is delicious and Paris certainly has no shortage of restaurants. But how do you sift though the myriad of suggestions on the internet and in hundreds of guidebooks to find the perfect meal? One group of Anglophone food writers has teamed up to try to solve the problem.
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Paris is the most visited city in the world. Tourists flock there for the French joie de vivre, the food and wine, the monuments and museums. But it wouldn't top most people's lists of eco-destinations, a state of affairs that one hotelier has set his sights on changing.
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The opening of two new metro stations in the Russian capital should be a cause for celebration for Moscow's commuters, but the station named after Dostoyevsky is already winning an unwelcome reputation thanks to the dark and violent scenes from the great writer's work depicted on its walls.
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Tourists in Italy this summer may be in for an unpleasant surprise if they buy knock-off goods from street vendors. One Austrian visitor to the resort of Jesolo hit the headlines recently after she thought she'd snagged a fashion bargain, but was then stung with a whopping €1,000 fine.
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Six astronauts are today facing the daunting task of a 520-day mission to Mars, where they will be locked in close quarters with only each other for company. The necessity of the arduous journey can be called into question however, when you realise they are not actually leaving Earth.
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EU leaders are expected to give Russia a political promise of visa-free travel at an upcoming summit in the town of Rostov-on-Don.
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