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Someone asked where in the Olympic Park is the Excitement Building the media keep talking about. A small jaunt into town this afternoon, in ...

Any excuse for a photo of a sailing-ship, in this case the Stad Amsterdam . This is just one of the new arrivals at Canary Wharf. There ha...

It may be a belated discovery, but that's what comes of being taught a language with a view to studying the high literary culture rather...

Feeling that you've arrived in a stage set may be a common feeling for the tourist, in the midst of images familiar from films and books...

The stories associated with the Olympics haven't done much to soften most Londoners' habitual weary cynicism, but the hoopla around ...

Every morning, our hotel in the Stubaital would give us an overview of the day's weather and some suggestions for the day's activiti...

Not bad for a view from one's hotel room, is it? This was what greeted me on arrival in the Tirol: a view all the way up the Stubaital t...

You don't realise that Austria isn't that small a country, at least from side to side, until you travel the five hours by train from...

My last day's photographs in Vienna managed to get lost, since the camera that took them went for a holiday of its own somewhere en rout...

It wasn't all bling and pomposity in Vienna, or even in the Hofburg. This vast palace includes lots of different collections under the b...

You rarely get the best view of a city on the journey into it, and Vienna is no exception. The train from the airport loops around this refi...

A rare fine day invites a trip into the country; but on this occasion, rather than walking, a train ride beckoned. After an hour or so glidi...

After days of near stir-craziness from watching the rain and finally confronting the unpruned accumulation of memory-hogging clutter on my ...

Something that caught my eye in today's paper : on the sample list of words that the government expects primary school children to spell...

Today's river pageant will be the biggest of its kind for hundreds of years. So was there ever really a choice between seeing it in pers...

As part of the gearing up for the weekend of Jubilee bunting and frolic, we're starting to see boats arriving for Sunday's grand riv...