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Lifestyle / Travel

Official apology to Adelaide

May 12, 2021 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I would like to take the opportunity this somewhat public forum provides and sincerely apologise to Adelaide and to thewhole  state of South Australia. I have made fun of you many …

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krakow
Lifestyle / Travel

Shout out to Krakow the number 1

November 3, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A small survey, but it shows a consistent result: Members of leading British consumer association Which? have chosen Kraków as Europe’s best city break destination for the third year in …

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Lifestyle / Politics / Travel

Why everyone should visit a mine

August 6, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

If I were a state education minister I would endeavour to make it a compulsory part of a high school curriculum for students to have at least one field excursion …

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History / Lifestyle / Photography / Travel

Anzac Day Repost: Grandfather’s Bridge

April 25, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Note: I have originally published this long post two and a half ago, and since then it has become one of my and my readers’ favourite TDC stories. I have reposted …

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Fire in the City of Light

April 16, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A few days before I visited Notre Dame in September 2016, the French police arrested a cell of three female would-be terrorists who were planning a bombing of the cathedral …

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History / Lifestyle / Photography / Travel

This was my Poland

October 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Make sure to check out this stunning collection of photographs: In the early 1980s, while Gdansk and Warsaw were in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval of great impact on …

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Lifestyle / Politics / Travel

Where to buy beer and ciggies

October 26, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Thanks to the good people at Deutche Bank, and via Business Insider, you now know where to travel around the world to get the cheapest cigarettes and beer. Having compared …

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Lifestyle / Photography / Travel

Blowing up all over Iceland

September 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Just over a year ago, I was walking in the shadow of one of Iceland’s largest and most unsettled volcanoes. Katla – kettle or cauldron in Icelandic – looms like …

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eiffel
Travel / WTF

Pssssst, would you like to buy Eiffel Tower?

September 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One learns something every day, even if it’s not always (or even often) anything useful. Today I have learned that in France there seems to be a difference between licit …

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Lifestyle / Love / Travel

Aussie breasts spoil German Octoberfest

September 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Is it still cultural appropriation when the Anglos do it to the Krauts? Oktoberfest, the weekslong German celebration dating back to the 1800s is known for beer, traditional Bavarian food …

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krakow
Lifestyle / Photography / Travel

Krakow beats Amsterdam in Brit tourism stakes

August 30, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

This is, or isn’t, good news for Poland’s historical capital: The Polish city of Krakow has been named as the favourite destination for a short-haul city break for Brits by …

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Lifestyle / Photography / Travel

Nothing new under the sun

August 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s hard to be original in a world where everything has seemingly been tried and done before. Photography is no exception. Case in point – insta_repeat account on Instagram, which …

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History / Lifestyle / Travel

New Roman library to open in Cologne

August 4, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A nice archaeological discovery in the heart of the beautiful Cologne: The remains of the oldest public library in Germany, a building erected almost two millennia ago that may have housed …

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canberra
Lifestyle / Politics / Travel

Very Lonely Planet’s Guide to Canberra

October 25, 2017August 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The residents of Canberra have woken up this morning to a novel sensation: somebody out there actually likes their city. In fact, the travel guide gurus Lonely Planet have put …

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krakow
Lifestyle / Politics / Travel

Booze, girls and the Polish economic miracle

September 18, 2017August 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Poland is a land of mystery. Perhaps the biggest mystery is how the country has somehow managed to survive to the present (albeit far from intact) while being stuck for …

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Lifestyle / Politics / Travel

Egyptian notes

September 14, 2017August 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Much of Egypt looks like it has suffered through a decade of civil war bookended by powerful earthquakes. It hasn’t either; that’s just Egypt, a country so in love with …

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Lifestyle / Politics / Travel

Luxor Massacre – 20 Years On

September 11, 2017August 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Almost exactly twenty years ago, in the morning hours of 17 November 1997, six Islamist terrorists slaughtered two guards and 56 foreign tourists at the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut …

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Culture / Lifestyle / Politics / Travel

The German Notebook

September 11, 2017August 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

This is my second time in Germany. Actually, make that my third time. When I was two or three years old, my parents took me on a Baltic beach holiday …

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broadbeach
Lifestyle / Photography / Travel

I’ve got 21 beaches but the Gold Coast ain’t one

January 23, 2017August 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Another international ranking, another slap in the face of Queensland (“beautiful one day, perfect the next”). My local pride does not allow me to take it lying down on the …

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