Cameron Marlow has an interesting guide on planning a trip to europe, with some good links for evaluating accomodation.
I’m a little skeptical of the need to search out restaurants in advance, however…
The Guardian presents some amazing photos of Antwerp, Belgium.
Europe’s biggest rock festival, the Roskilde Festival is on again this July, this year featuring The Who, Björk, Queens of the Stone Age and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. It’s held in, not surprisingly, Roskilde, Denmark, a small city about twenty minutes west of Copenhagen.
Camping and caravan sites are available, but if you want hostel or hotel accomodation, you’re probably going to have to book well in advance, and more likely, at this point, look further afield for suitable options. Copenhagen will have the widest variety of options, but those who don’t want to stay in a large city might prefer to try Køge.
Possible accomodation options:
The Toronto Star has a feature on the castles and ruins of northern England.
“Thanks to 400 years of bitter border skirmishes, wars and invasions, the counties that dot the north of England can today proudly boast more than 800 fortresses ranging from the ruinous to the downright sumptuous.”
The people at shortwalk.blog.co.uk have put together a great map of London’s tube showing the walking times between stations.
Rodcorp also has a tube map with walklines.
For the first time in over 50 years, trains have crossed between North and South Korea, on two restored tracks between the countries.
However, any travellers looking forward to easy access to the North are advised not to hold their breath; this was just a one-off trial, with no guarantee on any further trips.
Meanwhile, The Independent uses a bit of artistic licence to envisage a future where we can travel from Inverness to Seoul, entirely by train.
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