Saalburg Fort, Bad Homburg, Germany

Visit the Saalburg Roman fort

When the Romans were at their peak in the second century, these fortifications in Germany protected their frontier. Now, one fort’s been reconstructed.

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Eating London

A food tour through East London reveals as much about the local cuisine as it does the history and culture of this interesting part of the city.

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Why is Sri Lanka so expensive?

After visiting a few sites in Sri Lanka, it’s when I reach the Sacred City of Anuradhapura that something hits home. Sri Lanka can be really expensive!

dambulla cave temple

Sri Lanka’s painted caves

For hundreds of years the statues and the cave paintings of Dambulla have survived, carefully looked after by the devoted. So who created who?

Wadden Sea, Norden, Germany

Mud in Germany

Holidaymakers come here to relax by the beach – many not even realising this is a unique landscape that hosts a habitat found nowhere else in the world.

Fagus Factory, Alfeld, Germany

Visit the Fagus Factory

One of the first Modernist buildings in Europe, the Fagus Factory is amazingly still used by the same company today!