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Slovakia counts more than 100 castles and hundreds of manor houses across a country smaller than Denmark, giving it one of the highest castle densities on Earth.
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Slovakia · Europe
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A car passed us so fast the mirrors shook. Our host later explained the unwritten rule: the left lane is not a place to live, it is a place to visit. We drove more politely for the rest of the trip.
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Bavaria, Germany · Europe
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Budapest sits on more than 100 thermal springs, feeding grand bathhouses where locals play chess in steaming water in the middle of winter.
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Budapest, Hungary · Europe
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Eisriesenwelt near Werfen stretches 42 kilometres into the Alps and is the largest ice cave in the world, lit only by carbide lamps carried by visitors.
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Werfen, Austria · Europe
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The staircase in our rental was steeper than a ladder. The landlord explained that houses were taxed on width, so everything went up instead of out, and furniture still arrives through the windows on a hoist.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands · Europe
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Vienna's drinking water arrives by gravity alone through pipelines from Alpine springs more than 100 kilometres away, no pumping required.
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Vienna, Austria · Europe
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Swiss law long required fallout shelters in new buildings, leaving the country with enough bunker space for its entire population, now often used as wine cellars and hostels.
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Switzerland · Europe
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It rained for four days without pause. On the fifth we gave up on sightseeing, sat in a cafe for six hours with two waffles and a notebook, and had the best day of the trip.
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Ghent, Belgium · Europe
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The Matterhorn is so recognisable that its silhouette became the model for the Toblerone chocolate bar, made in Bern since 1908.
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Zermatt, Switzerland · Europe
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The entire principality of Liechtenstein was once offered for rent for corporate events, complete with temporary street signs and a night in the village.
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Liechtenstein · Europe
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At 00:58 the platform at Chatelet was full of people all pretending not to run. When the train came, a busker got on with an accordion and played the same song for four stops while nobody looked up and everybody listened.
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Paris, France · Europe
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About half of Germany's autobahn network has no general speed limit, though an advisory 130 km/h applies and trucks are strictly capped.
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Germany · Europe
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We arrived at half past eleven and thought we had time. The stallholders were already packing. One olive seller pressed a bag into my hands, refused payment, and said the word for tomorrow twice, pointing at his watch.
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Provence, France · Europe
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Berlin's rivers and canals are crossed by more than 900 bridges, comfortably outnumbering those in Venice.
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Berlin, Germany · Europe
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Roughly a quarter of the Netherlands lies below sea level, and much of the province of Flevoland was seabed until the 20th century.
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Netherlands · Europe
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The bus smelled of oranges because the man behind me had a crate of them. He offered one to every passenger who woke up. By dawn the whole bus smelled like a grove and nobody had slept.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Europe
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The old centre of Amsterdam rests on millions of wooden piles driven into sand, including the 13,000 that hold up the Royal Palace.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands · Europe
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Brussels has painted more than fifty giant comic-strip murals across the city, turning blank walls into a free open-air museum of Belgian cartooning.
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Brussels, Belgium · Europe
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Everyone says tram 28 is unbearable. At seven in the morning it is a commuter service full of people going to work, the windows are cold, and you can hear the wheels complain on every corner.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Europe
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In 2020 Luxembourg became the first country to make all public transport free nationwide, buses, trams and trains included.
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Luxembourg · Europe
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The waiter held the bottle above his head and the glass at his hip and poured without looking. He gave me the bottle to try. I hit my own shoe, and he refilled my glass without comment.
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Asturias, Spain · Europe
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Thanks to overseas territories from Polynesia to the Caribbean, France spans twelve time zones, more than any other country.
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France · Europe
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Beneath Paris lie some 300 kilometres of quarry tunnels, part of which hold the bones of about six million people moved from overflowing cemeteries.
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Paris, France · Europe
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At noon in August the plaza emptied so completely that pigeons walked down the middle of the street. By eight in the evening the same square held four hundred people and a brass band.
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Seville, Spain · Europe
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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