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BREMEN<br />
YOUR<br />
ULTIMATE<br />
GUIDE!<br />
MAGAZINE<br />
16 MAY - 15 JUNE <strong>2010</strong><br />
MEET MOROCCO’S OLDEST SURFER<br />
GIRLS WITH GUNS IN RIGA<br />
GHOSTS OF THE LONDON TUBE<br />
ONBOARD SHOPPING | FRAGRANCES, GIFTS, GADGETS, DRINKS, SNACKS & MORE | TURN TO PAGES 135 –162
PHOTO: STEVE RYAN 60<br />
ISSUE 39<br />
The Old Man<br />
& The Sea<br />
A real surfi ng<br />
haven, Taghazout’s<br />
rolling waves<br />
and laid-back<br />
atmosphere<br />
have attracted<br />
hipsters, hippies<br />
and Hendrix fans<br />
to Morocco in<br />
equal measure.<br />
We caught up with<br />
some of the locals.<br />
66<br />
DOWN THE TUBE<br />
London has the oldest<br />
underground system in<br />
the world, with a history<br />
that’s gruesome, inspiring<br />
and hilarious! Our writer<br />
swiped his Oyster card<br />
and went on a tour of its<br />
past, encountering ghost<br />
stations, famous artists and<br />
tall tales along the way…<br />
while always remembering<br />
to “Mind the Gap!”.<br />
72<br />
SHOOTING<br />
THROUGH RIGA<br />
With its present popularity<br />
as a stag-do destination,<br />
Riga <strong>may</strong> seem like a bit of<br />
a man’s world. But armed<br />
with a Glock pistol, a sense<br />
of adventure and her<br />
feminine wiles, Zoe Griffi n<br />
found she could have just<br />
as much fun as the boys on<br />
a hedonistic weekend in the<br />
Latvian capital.<br />
80<br />
BREWING UP<br />
A STORM<br />
Carlsberg <strong>may</strong> boast of<br />
being “Probably the best<br />
lager in the world”, but to<br />
really set your taste buds<br />
and beer bellies alight,<br />
take a trip around the<br />
Danish countryside. It’s<br />
here we found a host of<br />
microbreweries, where<br />
the suds are fresh and the<br />
names unpronounceable!<br />
CONTENTS<br />
86<br />
KINGS OF THE CASTLE<br />
They say a man’s home is<br />
his castle. Well, recently a<br />
castle in south-west France<br />
was a hotel for Mike Peake<br />
and his family, as well as<br />
a playground for their<br />
imaginations to run wild.<br />
Turrets, towers and twirling<br />
staircases are a childfriendly<br />
trip back in time at<br />
the fortifi ed medieval city<br />
of Carcassonne.<br />
RYANAIRMAGAZINE<br />
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Photocredit: KMazur/WireImage/Getty Images<br />
NEWBRIDGE SILVERWARE VISITOR CENTRE<br />
VISIT THE MICHAEL JACKSON COLLECTION<br />
MUSEUM OF<br />
STYLE<br />
ICONS<br />
Visit the Newbridge Silverware Visitor<br />
Centre, Ireland’s most unique visitor<br />
destination. Home to the Museum of<br />
Style Icons with memorabilia from<br />
Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe,<br />
Audrey Hepburn, the Beatles and<br />
many more. With great shopping, great<br />
food and the museum’s outstanding<br />
permament collection, this is an<br />
incredible experience for all visitors.<br />
IRELAND’S<br />
MOST UNIQUE<br />
VISITOR<br />
DESTINATION<br />
Open 7 days, Free entry.<br />
Parking facilities onsite.<br />
THE HEPBURN ROOM<br />
Directions: Take the M7 from Dublin.<br />
Leave M7 at Junction 12 signed<br />
CURRAGH / NEWBRIDGE and follow<br />
the signs into town. Turn right at shopping<br />
center. The Newbridge Silverware Visitor<br />
Centre is 600 metres on the right.<br />
Marilyn wears the Hollywood Heart Pendant<br />
VISIT THE MARILYN MONROE COLLECTION<br />
SHOWROOMS<br />
AND<br />
SILVER<br />
RESTAURANT<br />
MASTERCRAFTSMAN AT WORK
WELCOME ABOARD<br />
The World’s Favourite Airline<br />
Thank you for choosing to fl y with Ryanair, the<br />
world’s favourite airline.<br />
Ryanair now fl ies over 1,100 routes to/from<br />
over 155 destinations across Europe, and you<br />
are one of 73 million passengers who will fl y on<br />
one of our more than 240 aircraft this year<br />
enjoying Europe’s guaranteed lowest fares.<br />
This summer, we welcome the opening of<br />
many exciting new routes and our continued<br />
growth will ensure that we deliver the<br />
guaranteed lowest fares to record numbers of<br />
European passengers. This spring we celebrate<br />
the opening of new bases in Faro, Oslo and<br />
Leeds Bradford which will bring new routes, new<br />
aircraft and new jobs to each airport – oh, and<br />
of course even more low fares and choice to<br />
consumers and visitors at these great<br />
destinations. To celebrate the spring we have<br />
introduced a number of promotions to our infl<br />
ight sales menu. To see the best offers<br />
available at 30,000 feet just fl ip to the back of<br />
this magazine or ask your fl ight crew for a menu<br />
card and this month’s onboard promotions. A<br />
little treat, whether it is a gourmet snack, a full<br />
“Only by continuously challenging accepted conventions<br />
and questioning costs can we continue to lower costs and<br />
fares, while improving our customer service.” MICHAEL O’LEARY<br />
sized meal, a fl utter on our scratch cards or a<br />
special gift from our onboard shop can help you<br />
get your trip off to a great start.<br />
The world was once again talking about<br />
Ryanair, with news reports from Australia to the<br />
USA reporting on the passenger who won<br />
€10,000 on one of our scratch cards but then<br />
ate his winning. While this connoisseur of<br />
cardboard clearly didn’t need the money<br />
Ryanair decided that the €10,000 should go to<br />
charity and after over 40,000 passengers voted<br />
on our on-line poll we donated the winnings to<br />
When You Wish Upon a Star, who make ill<br />
children’s dreams come true.<br />
If winning €10,000, €40,000 or even a new<br />
car is your dream – then ask one of our crew for<br />
a scratch card and make that dream come true.<br />
However, if you are also a little hungry perhaps<br />
you should pick up a pizza at the same time –<br />
just to make sure you are not tempted to eat<br />
your winning ticket too.<br />
I hope you enjoy your fl ight with us as our<br />
fantastic crew take great care of you. Thank you<br />
for choosing to fl y with Ryanair and I look<br />
forward to welcoming you and your family<br />
onboard many more low-fare Ryanair fl ights in<br />
the near future.<br />
Best Wishes<br />
MICHAEL O’LEARY<br />
Chief Executive<br />
WELCOME<br />
A few words from Michael O’Leary<br />
RYANAIR COST-<br />
SAVING PROPOSAL:<br />
The following is a list of cost-saving<br />
proposals currently being developed<br />
by Ryanair, the world’s favourite<br />
airline, in order to reduce fares,<br />
increase effi ciencies and lower costs.<br />
UNLIMITED BAGGAGE<br />
SYNOPSIS: Ryanair <strong>may</strong> soon allow passengers to<br />
bring unlimited baggage, as long as they can bring<br />
it to the aircraft departure gate. Passengers will be<br />
allowed to bring one piece of hand baggage (10kg)<br />
onto the aircraft. Baggage handlers will load their<br />
remaining bags directly into the hold of the aircraft<br />
and place them at the bottom of the aircraft stairs<br />
upon arrival for retrieval by passengers.<br />
BENEFIT: No more lost bags (Ryanair already<br />
leads the industry with just 0.4 misplaced per<br />
1,000 passengers) and no more waiting at bag<br />
drop areas or at baggage carousels. This will<br />
allow greater effi ciencies and cost savings,<br />
which will lead to lower fares for all passengers.<br />
OTHER: Ryanair aims to test this proposal on<br />
selected routes by winter <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
RYANAIRMAGAZINE<br />
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IT’S ABOUT THIS TIME OF YEAR THAT<br />
the sun really starts to shine, and I fi nd myself<br />
on a beach somewhere hot and far away<br />
from the daily grind. All is relaxed as I lie in<br />
my hammock with a cold beer, till a voice in<br />
my ear says: “Sick sling dude. Like, no way!”<br />
My heart sinks – it’s Surfer Bum come to<br />
ruin my peace. Argh! Sure I like a bit of waveriding,<br />
and one of the best places we’ve found<br />
to surf on the Ryanair network is Taghazout,<br />
near Agadir in Morocco (see page 60).<br />
But what drives me mad is the crazed<br />
fundamentalism with which Surfer Bum<br />
preaches his faith. You see he has to,<br />
otherwise his whole reason for living would<br />
crumble around him. For Surfer Bum, life is<br />
an endless summer, the merits of which must<br />
be defended at all costs – for all else has been<br />
sacrifi ced in the pursuit of the perfect wave.<br />
University, career, any interest in anything in<br />
the outside world… gone.<br />
Thus, conversations with these sensitive<br />
souls must be handled delicately.<br />
Me: “It’s a nice hammock, yes.” Thinking: don’t<br />
you have any more complex words in your<br />
vocabulary, or have you spent so much time<br />
in the sun all you can manage is this lazy<br />
teenage drawl?<br />
Surfer Bum: “Super dude, did you see that<br />
WELCOME<br />
Feel the salt in your hair, ocean breeze in your face and be, like, totally king of the surfing world<br />
semi cover-up I just busted?”<br />
Me: “Um… uhuh, yeah. Great man, great.”<br />
Thinking: Yeah, whatever, a few more years<br />
and post-35 your 20-something protégés<br />
will take your place rendering you obsolete,<br />
Surfer Bum, so enjoy it while you can!<br />
Surfer Bum: “Cheers dude, you know my<br />
girlfriend doesn’t understand. She left me.”<br />
Me: “That’s a tough break.” Thinking: You<br />
mean you killed your relationship because<br />
surfi ng is number one in your life and she<br />
couldn’t handle the fear and pain of your<br />
potential death from a reckless big wave ride<br />
at any minute so she cut out fi rst?<br />
Surfer Bum: “Hey got my board though, dude.”<br />
Me: “True. Hey, check out that swell.”<br />
Thinking: please go fl ex your pecs out on the<br />
surf before my brain lobotomises itself.<br />
And, indeed, off goes Surfer Bum, making<br />
a beeline for the sea in his board shorts<br />
– ripped chest, tanned, good looks, without a<br />
care in the world, happy as Larry, at one with<br />
nature. And I fi nd myself sipping my beer,<br />
thinking, “Actually, that looks rather nice,<br />
has Surfer Bum got it right?” Eternally happy,<br />
without a care in the world, living in an<br />
endless summer, jetting from Tahiti to Fiji to<br />
Chile to Hawaii. Like, super siiiick dude!!!<br />
Enjoy the surf, and have a great fl ight!<br />
RAMSAY SHORT<br />
Editor<br />
CONTRIBUTORS<br />
PADRAIG LYNCH<br />
Padraig’s passion for travel began as a roving actor<br />
until he realised he could get paid to write about<br />
it. His travel journalism has appeared in National<br />
Geographic Traveller Magazine, The Guardian<br />
and Voyage Magazine. For us he tackled London’s<br />
famous underground system on page 66.<br />
VICKI COUCHMAN<br />
Photographer Vicki has shot for newspapers<br />
and magazines, published two travel books and<br />
directed a Channel 4 documentary in her career<br />
to date. For Ryanair Magazine, she travelled to<br />
the Latvian capital, Riga, for a hedonistic girls’<br />
weekend. See her action-packed trip on page 72.<br />
TIM FULDA<br />
Hamburg-based photographer Tim has been<br />
around the world in search of interesting faces<br />
for his portrait photography. This time though we<br />
sent him around the corner to Bremen, where he<br />
shot our On the Ground city focus (turn to pages<br />
43–57). See his snapshots of the town, then<br />
check out more of his work at www.timfulda.de<br />
RYANAIRMAGAZINE<br />
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“Spring begins in Avion.<br />
NEW FASHION COLLECTIONS<br />
IN THE LARGEST SHOPPING CENTRE IN SLOVAKIA<br />
NEAR BRATISLAVA AIRPORT<br />
I know why.”<br />
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PHOTO © CORBIS<br />
Rites of passage<br />
JOUSTING OF THE SARACENS<br />
19 JUNE, AREZZO, ITALY<br />
One sport that hasn’t survived into<br />
modern times is jousting — you know,<br />
two guys on horses galloping towards<br />
each other brandishing long sticks.<br />
Ah, those were the days! Except in<br />
some places in Europe they still are<br />
the days, like in the town of Arezzo,<br />
south-east of Florence.<br />
Popular during the 16th and 17th<br />
centuries, men would take part in<br />
jousting bouts for status. Aft er falling<br />
out of fashion, the joust was reinstated<br />
here as a historical re-enactment<br />
in the 1900s – this time with one<br />
man versus a massive, armour-clad<br />
rotating puppet called the Saracen.<br />
So, in keeping with modern times,<br />
there’s less blood — but the skill is still<br />
considerable. Aside from the jousting,<br />
the day is replete with colourful<br />
processions, fl ag waving and frankly<br />
hilarious costumes.<br />
WWW.GIOSTRADELSARACINO.AREZZO.IT<br />
FLY TO PISA (FLORENCE) FROM 47 DESTINATIONS,<br />
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TAKE OFF<br />
Facts, figures and fun from the Ryanair world of travel. Compiled by Ed Chamberlin<br />
The numbers<br />
IMPRESS YOUR TRAVELLING COMPANIONS<br />
74<br />
Percentage of European fl ags<br />
that use the colour red.<br />
72 53<br />
Percentage of<br />
European fl ags<br />
that use the<br />
colour white.<br />
4,807<br />
Metres to the top<br />
of Mont Blanc,<br />
Europe’s highest<br />
peak.<br />
Your shout<br />
BREMEN,<br />
GERMANY<br />
This month, we asked:<br />
If you could<br />
have a super<br />
power, what<br />
would it be<br />
and why?<br />
Percentage of<br />
European fl ags<br />
that use the<br />
colour blue.<br />
Metres to the<br />
bottom of the<br />
Mariana Trench,<br />
the deepest place<br />
on Earth.<br />
11,033<br />
“I’d like to be able<br />
to speak every<br />
language – and ask<br />
a lot of questions.”<br />
JANA OSINSKI, 32,<br />
MARKETING<br />
12,600<br />
1,700<br />
Number Number of of calories words in in the English world’s<br />
dictionaries largest invented gummi by bear. Shakespeare.<br />
3<br />
Number of words in English<br />
dictionaries invented by the<br />
Simpsons: “D’oh”, “meh” and<br />
“cromulent”.<br />
42,000<br />
Estimated bottles of Champagne<br />
drunk by Winston Churchill<br />
during his life.<br />
275,000<br />
Cost in dollars of the most expensive<br />
bottle of Champagne, a 1907 Heidsieck,<br />
which was shipwrecked in 1916.<br />
250,000,000<br />
Number of bubbles in an average<br />
bottle of Champagne.<br />
“See through walls,<br />
to fi gure out what the<br />
hell that noise is from<br />
my neighbours!”<br />
CARSTEN TOLNOW, 33,<br />
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIAL<br />
“I would make<br />
sure that everyone<br />
lived up to their full<br />
potential in life.”<br />
RONJA WEICHERN, 38,<br />
CULTURAL ORGANISER<br />
RYANAIRMAGAZINE<br />
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PHOTO © REX FEATURES<br />
How to be cool…<br />
AT YOUR LEAVING DO<br />
The cool way to behave at your<br />
leaving do depends on the<br />
circumstances surrounding your<br />
departure. For instance, if you’re in<br />
your 20s and have been headhunted<br />
for a better position and more money<br />
at a rival fi rm, that’s pretty cool on<br />
its own. Just work the room and<br />
be gracious. If, however, you are in<br />
your 20s and have been asked to<br />
leave because you’re useless, and/or<br />
because you gave them a reason to<br />
sack you when you put a Tampax<br />
in the toaster, then there’s not really<br />
much “cool” spin that can be applied.<br />
Cool reasons to be leaving a job<br />
› You’ve just won the lottery<br />
and want to travel.<br />
› You’ve been recruited by MI6.<br />
› You’ve reached retirement age after a<br />
lifetime of quiet and respected dedication.<br />
Uncool reasons to be leaving a job<br />
› You reckon that, after tax<br />
and National Insurance, you’ll<br />
make just as much on benefi ts.<br />
› You did a wee in the water cooler.<br />
› You were caught fi tting cameras in the<br />
opposite gender’s toilets.<br />
WORDS: WILL SMITH<br />
WILL’S BOOK HOW TO BE COOL (JOHN MURRAY) IS<br />
AVAILABLE AT ALL GOOD BOOKSHOPS. FOR MORE DETAILS,<br />
VISIT WWW.HOWTOBECOOL.CO.UK<br />
Getting a head in life<br />
NUOVA TESTA DEL DAVID<br />
Isaac Newton claimed that he was “standing on the shoulders of<br />
giants”, and now you can sit on the head of someone who fought<br />
one! This cubist vision of Michelangelo’s David – Nuova Testa<br />
del David – was conceived by up-and-coming designer Onur<br />
Mustak Cobanli, with inspiration from the world-famous artwork<br />
and from a Turkish saying: “Basimin ustunde yerin var”. This<br />
literally translates as “you have space on my head”, but actually<br />
means “you are the boss”. The result is either a chair or simply an<br />
ornament, depending on taste, which comes in ceramic black,<br />
white, metallic-red, silver or gold.<br />
FROM €270, WWW.OMCOMC.COM<br />
TAKE OFF<br />
Phrased &<br />
confused<br />
WHAT TO SAY IN<br />
LOTS OF LANGUAGES<br />
“¡Hola! Mein Name ist Ed.<br />
Ou est la gare? Grazie mille!”<br />
Phrasebooks are useful for<br />
basic situations, but rarely<br />
tell you what you really<br />
need to know on holiday.<br />
Ryanair Magazine is here<br />
to change all that with our<br />
truly important phrases in<br />
the languages of Europe.<br />
This month:<br />
“The pot<br />
calling the<br />
kettle black”<br />
French: C’est l’hôpital<br />
qui se moque de la<br />
charité. It’s the hospital<br />
that mocks charity.<br />
Hungarian: Bagoly<br />
mondja verébnek, hogy<br />
nagyfejű. The owl calls<br />
the sparrow big-headed.<br />
Italian: Il bue che<br />
dice cornuto all’asino.<br />
The ox saying “horned”<br />
to the donkey.<br />
Romanian: Rîde ciob<br />
de oală spartă. The<br />
splinter laughs at the<br />
broken pot.<br />
Croatian: Rugala se<br />
sova sjenici. The owl<br />
mocked the tit.<br />
German: Ein Esel<br />
schimp den anderen<br />
Langohr. A donkey gets<br />
cross with a bunny.<br />
BY ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD,<br />
AUTHOR OF THE MEANING OF TINGO<br />
(PENGUIN BOOKS).<br />
RYANAIRMAGAZINE<br />
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14<br />
TAKE OFF<br />
Golden opportunity<br />
NATIONAL LEPRECHAUN MUSEUM<br />
“Find us at the end of the rainbow,” the<br />
website says. Or Jervis Street, Dublin,<br />
to be precise. The iconic folkloric<br />
symbol of Ireland, the leprechaun, has<br />
had its fi rst museum dedicated to it.<br />
But this is no throwaway tourist trap – it<br />
is admirably dedicated to explaining<br />
the history and iconography of this<br />
famous fi gure in almost fairy-tale<br />
format. The museum is divided into 12<br />
“chapters”, which give you an insight<br />
into leprechaun culture, legends and<br />
Irish history. And it’s all there for you to<br />
visit, somewhere under the rainbow.<br />
WWW.LEPRECHAUNMUSEUM.IE<br />
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Would you eat this?<br />
PATATJE OORLOG, NETHERLANDS<br />
It takes a couple of tries to get used to the fact<br />
that the Dutch smother their fries with <strong>may</strong>o,<br />
although it soon makes sense… sort of. Patatje<br />
oorlog (“war chips”) on the other hand seem<br />
to have been invented by someone trying to<br />
fashion an explosive device out of condiments.<br />
Perhaps that’s why they’re called war chips.<br />
Mayo, ketchup, garlic sauce, onions and peanut<br />
butter are mashed together to give the intrepid<br />
consumer a compelling impression of how normal<br />
chips look once they reach your lower intestine. If<br />
you order this on a date, you can kiss any kissing<br />
goodbye – probably for a number of years in fact,<br />
as you clearly do not know how to treat a lady.<br />
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Post modern<br />
POSTCARDEN<br />
When was the last time you got a<br />
postcard? Probably quite a while ago;<br />
people don’t seem to send them out<br />
any more these days. What a shame!<br />
Perhaps we need a new approach to<br />
get them back in fashion. PostCarden<br />
has found a cute way of updating the<br />
format – delivering a postcard-sized<br />
package that folds out like a piece of<br />
origami into a Kew-style greenhouse,<br />
city allotment, or small back garden.<br />
Each package comes with a bag of<br />
seeds to plant in your little box to<br />
grow your own bonsai rainforest. Well,<br />
cress actually, but the scale is more or<br />
less accurate! They cost £7.50 (€8.30)<br />
and can be delivered anywhere<br />
within the EU (postage varies).<br />
WWW.POSTCARDEN.COM
PHOTO © GETTY, ROS BEIAARDCOMITE VZW<br />
18 MAY—6 JUN<br />
ROLAND GARROS<br />
FRENCH OPEN<br />
PARIS, FRANCE<br />
Who will conquer the clay<br />
this year? The Roland<br />
Garros French Open is<br />
considered by many to<br />
be the most physically<br />
demanding tournament<br />
on the tour. The clay<br />
surface creates a slower<br />
pace of play, which is a<br />
disadvantage to anyone<br />
relying on big serves and<br />
volleys. Rafael Nadal has<br />
been dominant in recent<br />
years but the reigning<br />
champion is Roger<br />
Federer. Be at centre court<br />
this year to see who will<br />
walk away with the trophy<br />
and about €5 million in<br />
prize money.<br />
WWW.ROLANDGARROS.COM<br />
TEXT BY: LOÏC KERBOAS<br />
FLY TO PARIS (BEAUVAIS) FROM 27<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING BARI, FARO,<br />
AND PORTO. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
30 MAY<br />
ROS BEIAARD<br />
DENDERMONDE, BELGIUM<br />
TAKE OFF<br />
Hip news and events across the network from our European correspondents<br />
An opportunity like this comes along once in a decade, literally! During this<br />
elaborate procession, a gigantic wooden horse is carried through the town<br />
of Dendermonde, near Brussels. It goes back to a medieval legend about a<br />
feud between a nobleman with four sons and Charlemagne – the horse being<br />
a peace offering to end the dispute. Thousands of extras, fl oats and folklore<br />
groups all join in the event, which fi nishes with a musical fi reworks display.<br />
WWW.ROSBEIAARD.BE | TEXT BY: ZSOLT FINTA<br />
FLY TO BRUSSELS (CHARLEROI) FROM 57 DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING FUERTEVENTURA,<br />
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24–29 MAY<br />
AALBORG CARNIVAL<br />
AALBORG, DENMARK<br />
A hip-shaking wave of rhythms and colours<br />
from around the world washes through Aalborg<br />
during Carnival. It’s the largest such event in<br />
Northern Europe, with 25,000 revellers in the<br />
Grand Parade cheered on by more than 100,000<br />
spectators. The best part of Aalborg’s spectacle<br />
is that anyone can march in the parade and strut<br />
their stuff. This year’s theme is Mars and Venus,<br />
so start working on your costume!<br />
WWW.KARNEVALIAALBORG.DK | TEXT BY: ZSOLT FINTA<br />
FLY TO AARHUS FROM ALICANTE, BARCELONA (GIRONA),<br />
LONDON (STANSTED), MALAGA AND OSLO (RYGGE).<br />
VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
TAKE OFF<br />
11–13 JUN<br />
DOWNLOAD<br />
DONINGTON PARK, UK<br />
Download festival is a<br />
mammoth concert in the<br />
spiritual home of rock<br />
– Donington Park. First held in<br />
1980 (aka Monsters of Rock),<br />
this stage was a mecca for rock<br />
legends like AC/DC, ZZ Top, Def<br />
Leppard and Guns N’ Roses.<br />
Headliners for Download this<br />
year include Rage Against<br />
the Machine, AC/DC and<br />
Aerosmith. This is open-air rock<br />
at its grimy, sweaty, beer-fuelled<br />
best! The venue is walking<br />
distance from East Midlands<br />
airport, or the shuttle service<br />
can drop you off in minutes.<br />
WWW.DOWNLOADFESTIVAL.CO.UK<br />
TEXT BY: EDWARD WIESE<br />
FLY TO EAST MIDLANDS FROM 35<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING MILAN (BERGAMO).<br />
VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
11–14 JUN<br />
INFIORATA<br />
GENZANO DI ROMA, ITALY<br />
Since 1778 the residents of Genzano di Roma, just south of the capital, have<br />
greeted visitors with a red carpet – sorry, fl ower carpet – that has to be seen to be<br />
believed. The whole of Via Italo Belardi is covered with allegorical images you’d<br />
expect to be roped off like a masterpiece. However, the townspeople actually<br />
parade atop the displays wearing hand-craft ed medieval and traditional outfi ts.<br />
WWW.INFIORATA.IT | TEXT BY: ANDREA DI TONTO<br />
FLY TO ROME (CIAMPINO) FROM 30 DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING KRAKOW AND STOCKHOLM (SKAVSTA). VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
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20<br />
TAKE OFF<br />
15–19 JUN<br />
ROYAL ASCOT<br />
ASCOT, UK<br />
The Queen arrives each day in an open-top carriage<br />
to preside over this world-famous horse-racing<br />
event. It’s hard to know if most people come to see<br />
the races or to be seen – but my guess is the latter.<br />
The dress code is enforced strictly – especially in the<br />
Royal Enclosure, where men must be in waistcoats<br />
with top hats and women in their very best hats. So<br />
you’re sure to have fun and look fantastic, too!<br />
WWW.ASCOT.CO.UK | TEXT BY: EDWARD WIESE<br />
FLY TO LONDON (GATWICK, LUTON AND STANSTED)<br />
FROM OVER 100 DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING ALMERIA,<br />
BIARRITZ AND GENOA. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
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28 MAY–5 SEP<br />
THE DEEP<br />
LONDON, UK<br />
Enter a deep-sea world, 11,000m down in the<br />
ocean, less explored than the surface of the<br />
moon. Surreal specimens, incredible images<br />
and eerie sounds are combined with interactive<br />
installations and the latest oceanographic<br />
discoveries, revealing a place of extraordinary<br />
beauty. Highlights of this Natural History<br />
Museum exhibition include over 50 preserved<br />
deep-sea creatures, and video accounts of life in<br />
the depths given by museum scientists.<br />
WWW.NHM.AC.UK | TEXT BY: EDWARD WIESE<br />
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DUSSELDORF (WEEZE) AND GLASGOW (PRESTWICK). VISIT<br />
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WANT MORE?<br />
6–30 MAY<br />
FOTOFESTIWAL<br />
LODZ, POLAND<br />
This international<br />
photography festival will<br />
feature over 50 exhibitions,<br />
as well as auctions,<br />
workshops and reviews.<br />
Most events are scheduled<br />
for the main weekend (6–9<br />
May), but the show will be<br />
open all month. The theme<br />
for this year is All My Lovin’,<br />
whose images invite you to<br />
explore deep relationships<br />
and their emotions: love,<br />
humour, passion, conflict<br />
and compromise.<br />
WWW.FOTOFESTIWAL.COM<br />
TEXT BY: ANDRZEJ OLSZEWSKI<br />
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INCLUDING DUBLIN. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
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PHOTO © REX FEATURES, PHILLIP TOLEDANO, DAYS WITH MY FATHER, CHRIS HURLEY, ECSTACY,<br />
AMELIA STEIN, LOSS AND MEMORY, HIS SHOES, EDITH MAYBIN, THE TENBY DOCUMENT
PHOTOGRAPHY: WWW.PIXELEYES.CO.UK<br />
1<br />
FLASHY NEW<br />
DIGITAL CAMERAS<br />
2<br />
1 / PANASONIC FT2<br />
From its sturdy looks,<br />
you can tell this camera<br />
means business. It’s<br />
waterproof to 10m<br />
and can withstand<br />
temperatures as low as<br />
-10ºC. The Leica lens also<br />
ensures it takes excellent<br />
photographs no matter<br />
what the weather.<br />
€400, WWW.PANASONIC.COM<br />
2 / OLYMPUS E-P1<br />
Despite its retro styling,<br />
this camera is packed<br />
full of the latest features<br />
and works on the “Micro<br />
Four Thirds” system. This<br />
“standard” offers DSLR<br />
quality in a compact<br />
design and allows you to<br />
swap parts from other<br />
manufacturers.<br />
€540, WWW.OLYMPUS.COM<br />
3<br />
THE SHORTLISTS<br />
Gadget expert Susi Weaser eyes up a fresh batch of techno toys<br />
3 / NIKON COOLPIX<br />
S1000PJ<br />
Start showing off your<br />
holiday snaps right away<br />
with the Coolpix’s built-in<br />
projector. It does make<br />
the camera a little bulky,<br />
but the ability to create<br />
slideshows complete<br />
with music certainly<br />
makes things interesting.<br />
€280, WWW.NIKON.COM<br />
5<br />
OUR<br />
FAVE<br />
THIS ISSUE<br />
4 / FUJI FINEPIX<br />
REAL 3D W1<br />
Armed with two lenses,<br />
this camera can take<br />
cool 3D images. But, be<br />
warned, if you want to<br />
view them in all their<br />
glory off the LCD screen<br />
you need to buy a special<br />
frame, or send off for a<br />
print at €5.70 (£5) a pop.<br />
€499, WWW.FUJIFILM.COM<br />
4<br />
5 / SAMSUNG ST550<br />
This model’s frontmounted<br />
screen will<br />
make dodgy self-portraits<br />
a thing of the past. It can<br />
also play cartoons to<br />
keep children’s attention,<br />
be used as a countdown<br />
clock and fl ash up a<br />
smiley face to get your<br />
subjects ready!<br />
€240, WWW.SAMSUNG.COM<br />
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PHOTO: REX FEATURES<br />
A new trend in 60 seconds<br />
THE NEW TRENCH<br />
As Andie MacDowell so woodenly put it in Four<br />
Weddings and a Funeral: “Is it raining? I hadn’t<br />
noticed.” Well, we have. Spring showers are your<br />
cue to leave the country, or belt up in a new,<br />
revamped trench coat.<br />
Think of the classic beige mac and I bet you<br />
have flashes of saucy French resistance types<br />
in belted numbers with fishnet stockings and<br />
berets. Ah yes, the trench coat has long been<br />
an object of fantasy for fashionistas, and now<br />
it’s back in a new <strong>2010</strong> incarnation to pull on<br />
when there are cloudy skies over Marseille or<br />
you’re sheltering from the Tuscan rain.<br />
A beautiful beatnik trench goes with<br />
everything from three-quarter-length cigarette<br />
pants and ballet flats, Audrey Hepburn-style,<br />
to bare legs, Victoria Beckham-style.<br />
But the key to the new trench (TNT) is period<br />
detailing. Burberry has reworked its classic<br />
piece into a pretty, feminine number with<br />
draped panels in gorgeous metallic taffeta. On<br />
the high street, Zara adds capped sleeves to<br />
accommodate all the shoulder detailing in your<br />
WE LOVE<br />
€69.95, WWW.ZARA.COM<br />
Try these shoulders<br />
with sass from Spanish<br />
label Zara.<br />
WILL IT TRAVEL?<br />
€188, WWW.TOPSHOP.COM<br />
It’s all in the behind with<br />
this Hitch Hem Trench<br />
Coat at Topshop.<br />
YES<br />
“Spanish women know<br />
that belted trenches<br />
give them sexy waists.”<br />
ZAIDA GALLEGOS MARTIN,<br />
27, BALEARICS TOURISM REP,<br />
PALMA, SPAIN<br />
spring wardrobe, and Topshop goes further with<br />
a cute bustle gathered at the rear for a touch of<br />
Marie Antoinette. The more French you can look,<br />
the better – baguettes and rusty bike optional.<br />
So which on-trend celebs love their fl asher<br />
mac? Gossip Girl, Blake Lively, hit the Lower East<br />
Side of Manhattan with her co-star squeeze in a<br />
silver metallic number that had us all jealously<br />
texting. But kudos to Victoria Beckham for<br />
leaving a cookery class in Milan looking like a<br />
modern day Brigitte Bardot in a Burberry minitrench<br />
with toned and tanned pins and supersize<br />
sunnies. TV’s Alexa Chung (pictured) has<br />
also been spotted with the look.<br />
As for you, sun-worshipping Ryanair<br />
lovelies, style it out with a nautical (read,<br />
naughtycal) top, slouchy denim shorts<br />
and espadrilles by day, or mix with skinny<br />
jeans and patent heels at night. TNT is<br />
also perfect for prettifying the utility trend<br />
this summer over khaki pants, riveted<br />
vest tops or military shorts. And if the<br />
thermometer pops this summer the only<br />
thing you need to wear underneath is your<br />
bikini. Hands up who wants to get soaking wet!<br />
€57, WWW.ASOS.COM<br />
Grab this Asos Double<br />
Breasted Mac in classic<br />
stone or orange.<br />
NO<br />
“Beige is boring, and<br />
the Irish never like to<br />
admit that it rains.”<br />
JEN MURRAY, 31, FASHION<br />
BUYER, DUBLIN, IRELAND<br />
THE SHORTLISTS<br />
Charlie Dawson helps you get dressed in the morning<br />
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PHOTO: GETTY<br />
7<br />
CUT-PRICE KATE<br />
& LEO MOMENTS*<br />
BIG-BOTTOMED BOATS IN BERGERAC<br />
They call the fl at-hulled craft that used to carry<br />
the wine up and down the Dordogne “gabares”,<br />
and every day during the summer one leaves<br />
the small quay in Bergerac laden with tourists.<br />
Pay the driver a fi ver, spread your arms and<br />
walk confi dently to the front.<br />
FLY TO BERGERAC FROM FIVE DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING<br />
BRISTOL AND LIVERPOOL. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
DO IT IN STYLE IN VENICE<br />
You can’t really get to the bow of Venice’s famous<br />
canal boats because that slippery wood is a bit<br />
precarious. But then you can always stand up in<br />
a chauffeur-driven speedboat as you hurtle past<br />
St Mark’s Square. Try www.venicewatertaxi.com.<br />
FLY TO VENICE (TREVISO) FROM 24 DESTINATIONS,<br />
INCLUDING BRINDISI, LEEDS, OSLO (RYGGE) AND PARIS<br />
(BEAUVAIS). VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
ANOTHER STOCKHOLM<br />
A fi ne way to enjoy the<br />
Swedish capital is to take a boat<br />
to one of the thousand-plus islands<br />
that form the Stockholm archipelago<br />
(www.boatcharterstockholm.com). If<br />
your romantic Kate and Leo standing-atthe-front-as-the-sun-goes-down<br />
moment<br />
goes well, you can stop off for the night<br />
on a deserted isle. Take a cardigan.<br />
FLY TO STOCKHOLM (SKAVSTA AND VASTERAS)<br />
FROM 39 DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING<br />
EDINBURGH AND MALTA (LUQA). VISIT<br />
WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
* Romantic standing at the bow of a boat, you know…<br />
MISSISSIPPI DREAMING, PARIS<br />
It <strong>may</strong> not be exactly how Mark Twain imagined<br />
paddle steamers would spend their salad days, but<br />
the Thunder Mesa riverboat at Disneyland Paris<br />
does a convincing rendition of turn-of-the-century<br />
America. Hike up your britches and get ready to<br />
canoodle in front of scores of confused onlookers.<br />
FLY TO PARIS (BEAUVAIS) FROM 27 DESTINATIONS,<br />
INCLUDING BARI AND MALAGA. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
FIRST TIME ON THE WATER, MADRID<br />
If you haven’t got your sea legs yet, try boating<br />
on the lake at Madrid’s Parque del Retiro. The<br />
water has been drawing a weekend crowd<br />
for more than 100 years, so if you fall in while<br />
gazing lovingly into your other half’s eyes, a<br />
friendly Spaniard is only an oar away.<br />
FLY TO MADRID FROM 37 DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING<br />
FARO, NADOR AND SANTANDER. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
THE SHORTLISTS<br />
Mike Peake wants to be the King of the World!<br />
ROYAL ROMANCE, EDINBURGH<br />
It once ferried the Queen of England around the<br />
world, but today The Royal Yacht Britannia is<br />
permanently moored at Leith docks, Edinburgh,<br />
a slow boat to nowhere. That’s no great loss,<br />
however, as for just £10.50 (€12) you can now<br />
pretend you are of blue-blooded stock, stand at<br />
an impressive bow… and think of Céline Dion.<br />
FLY TO EDINBURGH FROM 38 DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING<br />
BILLUND AND ZADAR. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
THE OLD GUARD, MALTA<br />
Valletta’s Grand Harbour is something else – a<br />
magnifi cent throwback to a bygone era best seen<br />
from the water. Do your “Jack and Rose” by night for<br />
added drama, and if you do it in a luzzu (traditional<br />
Maltese fi shing boat) you’ll be doing it with panache.<br />
FLY TO MALTA (LUQA) FROM 19 DESTINATIONS,<br />
INCLUDING DUBLIN AND SEVILLE. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
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THE SHORTLISTS<br />
We select some unique places for booze and a snooze<br />
CHÂTEAU CORDEILLAN-BAGES<br />
BORDEAUX, FRANCE<br />
HOTELS WITH<br />
VINEYARDS<br />
The cellar of this traditional,<br />
elegant French château is<br />
overflowing with about 200<br />
Champagnes and an exciting<br />
collection of really old vintages.<br />
Grab a cookery class with<br />
renowned chef Jean-Luc Rocha<br />
(€150), or get them to organise<br />
a trip around some of the most<br />
renowned vineyards in the world.<br />
DOUBLES FROM €178. ROUTE DES<br />
CHATEAUX, PAUILLAC, TEL: +33 (0)55 659<br />
2424, WWW.CORDEILLANBAGES.COM<br />
FLY TO BORDEAUX FROM FIVE<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING BOLOGNA, CORK<br />
AND PORTO. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
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MARQUÉS DE RISCAL<br />
ELCIEGO, SPAIN<br />
If you want to bed down in a<br />
vineyard with a hotel designed by<br />
living legend of architecture Frank<br />
Gehry, this 43-room mass of wavelike<br />
titanium ribbons is the place.<br />
Future and past come together<br />
in the avant-garde design and, as<br />
well as drinking Marqués de Riscal<br />
wine, you can bathe in it too at the<br />
hotel’s Vinotherapie Spa.<br />
DOUBLES FROM €414. 1 CALLE TORREA,<br />
TEL: + 34 945 180880,<br />
WWW.HOTEL-MARQUESDERISCAL.COM<br />
FLY TO ZARAGOZA FROM EIGHT<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING DUSSELDORF<br />
(WEEZE). VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
THORNBURY CASTLE<br />
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UK<br />
The phrase “fi t for a king” is spot on<br />
when describing rooms at this 16thcentury<br />
castle – you can even kip in<br />
a room where Henry VIII and Anne<br />
Boleyn once slept. Stone walls,<br />
tapestries, roaring fi res and carved<br />
ceilings create a sense of grandeur,<br />
and the grounds contain a 500year-old<br />
vineyard, where grapes for<br />
their white wine are still grown.<br />
DOUBLES FROM £190 (€218).<br />
THORNBURY, TEL: +44 (0)1454 281182,<br />
WWW.THORNBURYCASTLE.CO.UK<br />
FLY TO BIRMINGHAM FROM 25<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING ALICANTE, FARO<br />
AND PRAGUE. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
LOISIUM HOTEL<br />
LANGENLOIS, AUSTRIA<br />
Forget dusty monasteries,<br />
this acclaimed building in the<br />
picturesque town of Langenlois is<br />
built atop 900-year-old wine vaults,<br />
with an underground wine museum and<br />
a vinotherapy spa. You’ll sleep well in<br />
the spacious and individual rooms too.<br />
DOUBLES FROM €188. 2 LOISIUM ALLEE, TEL: +43<br />
(0)2734 771000, WWW.LOISIUMHOTEL.AT<br />
FLY TO LINZ FROM LONDON (STANSTED).<br />
VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
PAGO DE CIRSUS<br />
NAVARRA, SPAIN<br />
This vineyard has more awards<br />
than it has grapes. Well, not<br />
quite, but you get the idea. The<br />
renowned estate in northern<br />
Spain offers tasting weekends,<br />
tours and a top-class restaurant.<br />
Each of the 12 impeccably styled<br />
rooms is named after a wine, and<br />
the hotel’s medieval-esque tower<br />
boasts a rooftop terrace.<br />
DOUBLES FROM €102. CARRETERA DE<br />
ABLITAS A RIBAFORADA, KM 5, ABLITAS, TEL:<br />
+34 948 386212, WWW.PAGODECIRSUS.COM<br />
FLY TO ZARAGOZA FROM EIGHT<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING LONDON<br />
(STANSTED). VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
REVIEWS BY INDIA STURGIS, FELIX EL HAGE
UNWIND AND BREATHE IN THE BEAUTIFUL,<br />
UNSPOILED COUNTRYSIDE OF IRELAND<br />
You can do just that with a horse-drawn caravan holiday. Your<br />
horse-drawn covered wagon allows you, and three or four<br />
other people, to sleep and cook for yourselves as you travel<br />
over the roads of some of the most beautiful areas of Ireland.<br />
Clissmann Horse Caravans, Cronybyrne, Rathdrum, Wicklow, Ireland<br />
Tel: +353 404 46920 | Email: caravans@clissmann.com<br />
WWW.CLISSMANN.COM<br />
Priority Boarding<br />
at Clarion Hotels<br />
Clarion Hotels Ireland<br />
Stay in Dublin, Cork or Limerick<br />
€100 Dinner, Bed & Breakfast<br />
To book<br />
call 0818 333 000 & quote “PRIORITY”<br />
or go online<br />
www.clarionhotelsireland.com/priority<br />
Terms and Conditions apply<br />
€100.00 3 course Dinner, Bed & Breakfast rate is based on one or two adults sharing. Book & stay between<br />
15th May <strong>2010</strong> & 31st August <strong>2010</strong> / Rooms subject to availability some date restrictions apply. Dinner<br />
served in Kudos Restaurant in IFSC & Dublin Airport / Dinner served in Sinergie Restaurant in Dublin Liffey<br />
Valley & Limerick Hotel / Dinner served in Kudos Bar in Cork / Dinner served in Ardhu Bar in Limerick Suites.<br />
Children extra charged €10.00 per night / Maximum 2 children per room / Children classed 3-12 years.
Tampere.<br />
For people like you.<br />
TAMPERE, FINLAND<br />
www.gotampere.fi<br />
gotampere@gotampere.fi
PHOTO: STOCKFOOD<br />
JABULA<br />
LIVERPOOL, UK<br />
SOUTH AFRICAN<br />
RESTAURANTS<br />
Overlooking the Manchester Ship<br />
Canal, this authentic eatery serves up<br />
homely dishes cooked with imported<br />
African meat. Think crocodile bites<br />
and biltong salad, but also street<br />
and beach food like vetkoek (mince<br />
pastry) and bunny chow (bread fi lled<br />
with curry). Don’t miss live drumming<br />
on Friday nights and their bush tucker<br />
trials organised for special occasions.<br />
TWO-COURSE MEAL WITH A GLASS OF<br />
WINE, APPROX €22. 1 SOUTH PIER ROAD,<br />
ELLESMERE PORT, TEL: +44 (0)151 355 1163,<br />
WWW.JABULA-RESTAURANT.CO.UK<br />
FLY TO LIVERPOOL FROM 46 DESTINATIONS,<br />
INCLUDING CORK. VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
CAPE TOWN<br />
THE SHORTLISTS<br />
Sejal Sukhadwala seeks out some food from the World Cup-hosting nation<br />
BERLIN, GERMANY<br />
Decorated in earthy hues that echo<br />
the South African landscape, this<br />
stylish restaurant is not for the<br />
fainthearted. Wildlife on the menu<br />
includes zebra, antelope, emu,<br />
wildebeest and Botswana beef, while<br />
imaginative, must-try dishes include<br />
red snapper and tilapia curry with<br />
clams and coconut rice.<br />
TWO-COURSE MEAL WITH A GLASS OF<br />
WINE, APPROX €32. 15 SCHONFLIESSER<br />
STRASSE, TEL: +49 (0)30 4005 7658,<br />
WWW.CAPETOWN-RESTAURANT.COM<br />
FLY TO BERLIN (SCHONEFELD) FROM 12<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING DUBLIN, MALAGA<br />
AND OSLO (RYGGE). VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM<br />
CHAKALAKA<br />
LONDON, UK<br />
Named aft er a spicy tomato<br />
relish, Chakalaka serves up ostrich,<br />
kudu, springbok (pictured) and even<br />
tangy “monkey gland sauce” (not made out<br />
of monkeys!). You can also opt for classics<br />
like bobotie (minced meat with egg topping).<br />
TWO-COURSE MEAL WITH A GLASS OF WINE, APPROX €33.<br />
136 UPPER RICHMOND ROAD, TEL: +44 (0)20 8789 5696,<br />
WWW.CHAKALAKARESTAURANT.COM<br />
FLY TO LONDON (GATWICK, LUTON AND STANSTED)<br />
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L’HORLOGE DU SUD<br />
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM<br />
This lively restaurant is the beating<br />
heart of a venue that promotes<br />
South African food and culture<br />
through its programme of concerts,<br />
fi lm screenings and art exhibitions.<br />
Attracting a cosmopolitan crowd, its<br />
smartly presented dishes like grilled<br />
quail salad and duck breast with<br />
hibiscus-fl ower butter belie the fact<br />
that prices are actually pretty low.<br />
MULTI-COURSE SET MENU WITHOUT DRINKS,<br />
€20–€27. 141 RUE DU TRONE, TEL: +32 (0)2 512<br />
1864, WWW.HORLOGEDUSUD.BE<br />
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THE<br />
FOODIES’<br />
COLUMN<br />
OUTDOOR AFRICAN<br />
COOKING COURSE<br />
NOTTINGHAM, UK<br />
Ideal for camping<br />
enthusiasts, this unique<br />
cookery class teaches<br />
you how to use the<br />
charcoal grill and castiron<br />
potjie cooking pots.<br />
In this hands-on, one-day<br />
course you’ll learn how<br />
to cook pan-African<br />
dishes such as bobotie.<br />
Classes are held in an<br />
outdoor shelter, and<br />
group bookings can also<br />
be arranged.<br />
WWW.COURSES<br />
4COOKS.CO.UK<br />
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INCLUDING LODZ AND RIGA.<br />
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VERJUICE<br />
Hard to fi nd until now,<br />
Verjuice is the latest<br />
must-have condiment of<br />
keen cooks and celebrity<br />
chefs. It’s made from<br />
the unfermented juice<br />
of unripe wine grapes<br />
grown in vineyards<br />
outside Cape Town and<br />
has a clean, fresh taste<br />
– at once subtle and<br />
complex. Use it in any<br />
dish that requires lemon<br />
juice or vinegar, including<br />
salad dressings, sauces,<br />
pickles, risotto, roast<br />
meat, poached fi sh and<br />
barbecue marinades.<br />
You can even have it<br />
with strawberries or<br />
in cocktails. Imported<br />
straight from South<br />
Africa, the three<br />
varieties (white, rose<br />
and caramelised syrup)<br />
are available online for<br />
delivery across Europe.<br />
WWW.VERJUICE.CO.UK<br />
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THE SHORTLISTS<br />
Sejal Sukhadwala raises a glass to the footie!<br />
STARS ’N’ BARS<br />
SPORTS BARS TO WATCH<br />
THE WORLD CUP IN<br />
MONACO<br />
Two indoor bars, a terrace,<br />
two restaurants, DJs and<br />
a games arcade are just<br />
some of the attractions<br />
at this vast, three-floor<br />
complex overlooking the<br />
harbour. Expect a party-like<br />
atmosphere, an enormous<br />
variety of cocktails, beers<br />
and wines, and some 36<br />
screens showing all the<br />
World Cup games live.<br />
6 QUAI ANTOINE 1ER, TEL: +377<br />
97 979595, WWW.STARSNBARS.COM<br />
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THE SPORTS CAFE<br />
LONDON, UK<br />
Two fl oors with four bars,<br />
three restaurants, private<br />
areas, an executive box and<br />
Wii games make this the<br />
London venue for the World<br />
Cup. Drinks include draught<br />
beers and cocktail pitchers,<br />
and they have 50 42-inch<br />
TVs and two super-screens.<br />
80 HAYMARKET, TEL: +44 (0)20<br />
7839 8300, WWW.THESPORTSCAFE.<br />
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ALBERTS PUB<br />
RIGA, LATVIA<br />
Choose from 15 beers and<br />
ciders on tap from England, Belgium,<br />
the Czech Republic, Denmark and<br />
Latvia, or the more unusual herbal<br />
liqueur Riga Black Balsam. All the games<br />
will be shown live on four large TV screens,<br />
and there’ll be promotions on beers like<br />
Carlsberg and Paulaner, too.<br />
THE CALEDONIA<br />
19 SKUNU IELA, TEL: +371 2935 9779,<br />
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BUDAPEST, HUNGARY<br />
What are the chances of<br />
finding a Scottish pub in<br />
Budapest? This cheerful<br />
venue serves an excellent<br />
selection of Scottish and<br />
Hungarian drinks, including<br />
flavoured palinka and<br />
over 50 whiskies. Four HD<br />
plasma screens and a large<br />
projector will be showing all<br />
the World Cup games.<br />
9 MOZSAR UTCA, TEL: +36 1311<br />
7611, WWW.CALEDONIA.HU<br />
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CHAMPS<br />
SHEFFIELD, UK<br />
Boasting highly prized<br />
sports memorabilia, this<br />
popular American-style<br />
sports bar and restaurant<br />
is showing all the matches<br />
on its 40 TVs inside and<br />
50-inch screen on the<br />
terrace. Choose from<br />
wines, ciders and beers,<br />
including UK guest ales.<br />
315–319 ECCLESALL ROAD,<br />
TEL: +44 (0)1142 666333, WWW.<br />
CHAMPSSPORTSBAR.CO.UK<br />
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THE<br />
DRINKERS’<br />
COLUMN<br />
VIVAT BACCHUS<br />
WINE TASTINGS<br />
LONDON, UK<br />
Comprising two<br />
restaurants (Farringdon<br />
and London Bridge),<br />
Vivat Bacchus is<br />
as famous for its<br />
cavernous wine cellars<br />
as it is contemporary<br />
South African cuisine.<br />
Farringdon holds an<br />
informal Wine Club every<br />
Monday and both venues<br />
offer bespoke tasting<br />
events and team-building<br />
blending sessions. Look<br />
out for their wine dinners,<br />
where the chef creates<br />
dishes to highlight a<br />
selection of top wines.<br />
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BACCHUS.CO.UK<br />
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There’s the famous Cape<br />
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a delicious blend of<br />
brandy and cream that<br />
also comes in English<br />
toffee and strawberry<br />
fl avours, as well as<br />
the cult Sedgwick’s<br />
Old Brown Sherry and<br />
Hunter’s Gold natural<br />
cider. Deliveries can be<br />
made all over Europe<br />
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THE CALENDAR GIRLS OF <strong>2010</strong><br />
MISS MAY<br />
The sun is coming out and so are the<br />
Ryanair cabin crew! Getting all beachy<br />
for our May edition is the magnifi cent<br />
Marguerite. She is just one of our<br />
Ryanair Calendar girls who stripped<br />
off for charity in this incredible picture<br />
by the sea in Alicante. Marguerite<br />
and the rest of the cabin crew raised<br />
€110,000 for disabled children’s<br />
charity KIDS when the calendar sold<br />
out within weeks of going on sale<br />
earlier this year.<br />
If you missed out on a copy don’t<br />
worry, help is at hand. Visit www.<br />
ryanairmag.com/girls to see all the<br />
photos of all our gorgeous girls<br />
online, and check out the “making<br />
of” fi lm at www.ryanairmag.com/<br />
videos. It just goes to show that the<br />
most gorgeous cabin crew in the skies<br />
are on Ryanair.<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY: JOHN WRIGHT ON BEHALF<br />
OF VICTORIA LEES MANAGEMENT (VLM) /<br />
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NATALYA POSUKHOVA / STYLIST: LISA NICOLAOU @<br />
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MURRAY / PHOTO DIRECTOR: HELEN CATHCART /<br />
RYANAIR COORDINATOR: THOMAS DEPOORTER /<br />
RETOUCHING: LORNA NEWMAN<br />
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“HAVING DJED FOR 19 YEARS I KNOW HOW<br />
different cultures like to party. How I play in<br />
New York is not how I play in Miami. In Portugal<br />
they like a tougher, techno kind of scene and<br />
in the north of England they’re all about the<br />
vocals. Down on the French Riviera the VIPs<br />
like all the commercial house, and in Paris and<br />
Lyon they know their music – they’re educated<br />
and into edgy, groovier stuff.<br />
“I grew up in Colombia and my first holiday<br />
away with friends was when I was about 15<br />
– it was amazing to be going out without<br />
telling anyone where, then staying out crazy<br />
late. My last holiday was Brazil, right after New<br />
Year, and I went to meet a bunch of friends and<br />
stayed out all night, without any teenage guilt!<br />
“Have I ever done anything superadventurous<br />
on my travels? A year and a half<br />
ago I went deep-sea fishing in Mexico. It wasn’t<br />
really my kind of thing and I’d probably never<br />
do it again. It took a whole hour to reel a fish in.<br />
It seemed a little inhumane, but we threw them<br />
back in. Apparently they don’t have nerves<br />
around the mouth so they don’t feel the pain.<br />
“My favourite hideout in Europe has got to<br />
be Ibiza. I’ve owned a house there for the past<br />
six years and been visiting the island since<br />
1992. Not only do you have some of the best<br />
clubs in the world but beautiful beaches, great<br />
restaurants and Formentera only a boat ride<br />
away. My secret eat is a place called Balafi a<br />
in middle-of-nowhere Sant Joan de Labritja.<br />
It’s busy every night, even though the menu<br />
is limited to barbecued chicken, beef, lamb<br />
chops, French fries and wonderful salad grown<br />
in the back yard. It’s my 11th season playing<br />
Wednesday nights at Pacha in Ibiza town, and in<br />
all that time I’ve only missed one session when<br />
my friend got married in Bali. Now that’s love!<br />
“This summer I’ll be listening to all my<br />
COMMENT<br />
The globetrotting DJ on Ibiza, music and some stand-out luggage<br />
Erick Morillo<br />
sets on my iPod – and the new Subliminal<br />
Sessions: Voodoo Nights, which is out end<br />
of May. I also love Prince, James Brown, Bob<br />
Marley and Aretha Franklin. I can’t keep up<br />
with new stuff and I don’t watch MTV. When I<br />
come home all I want to do is chill out.<br />
“Having said that, I’ve been working with<br />
Knomo on designing some cool luggage for a<br />
new range I’m ambassador for. A good bag is<br />
“Standing at the baggage carousel I’m always glad I’ve got something in cow print”<br />
about longevity – knowing the wheels aren’t<br />
going to fall off. Standing at the baggage<br />
carousel I’m always glad I’ve got something<br />
in cow print or bright yellow. I’m always first<br />
outta there through ‘nothing to declare’!”<br />
INTERVIEW: LUCILLE HOWE<br />
ERICK MORILLO PLAYS WEDNESDAY NIGHTS AT PACHA<br />
IN IBIZA TOWN ALL SUMMER. FOR MORE ON KNOMO’S<br />
RANGE, VISIT WWW.KNOMO.COM<br />
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ILLUSTRATION: SPENCER WILSON / SYNERGY ART<br />
THIS IS A BIG MONTH FOR ME. I’M GETTING<br />
married. Yes, sorry ladies, this stud is going<br />
out of circulation, the love tiger is being<br />
chained, the stallion is finally in his stable<br />
– alright, I’ll stop. Anyway, this momentous<br />
event means one thing: I’m going to have to<br />
have a stag night.<br />
Stag night, bachelor party, whatever you<br />
call it, this is the unwritten law: no man can<br />
get married unless a large group of his male<br />
friends first join together to make sure he<br />
drinks himself senseless, loses his clothes<br />
and, if things go really well, ends up in hospital<br />
missing the wedding.<br />
This life-endangering “last night of freedom”<br />
used to take place in your home town, but<br />
now you’re nobody unless you have a stag trip<br />
abroad. Paris, Dublin, Prague, Barcelona, Riga<br />
COMMENT<br />
Comedian and Travel Channel presenter Danny Robins gets ready for a night to remember<br />
– I even went on a stag trip to Finland once. We<br />
went paintballing in the snow. I will never forget<br />
the sight of the bloke who was getting married<br />
running around in a Spiderman costume in<br />
-30ºC as we tried to shoot him in the bottom.<br />
Nowhere is safe. In much the same way as<br />
the Vikings once ran amok throughout Europe,<br />
large groups of men can now be seen in cities<br />
across the Continent exhorting each other to<br />
“down it in one”. The “it” in question being a<br />
large glass filled with every available spirit at<br />
the bar, plus a raw egg for good measure.<br />
Individually, all the men on that trip are<br />
probably decent, honest, law-abiding citizens.<br />
Together, they are like orcs in The Lord of the<br />
Rings, a marauding force bent on destruction.<br />
You must have seen them. It’s one of the<br />
pitfalls of modern travel – like sunburn,<br />
pickpockets or lengthy queues at baggage<br />
reclaim. “Oh darling, I’m so glad we came<br />
on this lovely city break, the architecture is<br />
exquisite, look how the sun sets behind the<br />
cathedral and – oh, is that a half-naked drunk<br />
man being sick in a fountain?”<br />
As a regular traveller and a stag-to-be, I feel<br />
a dilemma. In the words of the lovely Natalie<br />
Imbruglia, I am torn. Part of me is totally on the<br />
They are like orcs in The Lord of the Rings, a marauding force bent on destruction<br />
side of those of you who tut disapprovingly at<br />
the sight of 20 men with stolen traffic cones<br />
on their heads. The other part of me, my<br />
inner Viking, acknowledges this is one rite of<br />
passage I have to embrace. I will join with my<br />
brothers, I will run with the wolves, I will annoy<br />
fellow travellers by being excessively raucous<br />
and downing pints of sambuca. You’d just<br />
better hope I’m not on your flight.<br />
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COMMENT<br />
Things can always be worse when travelling with children, says Guardian newspaper columnist Zoe Williams<br />
PARENTS SPEND A LOT OF TIME TRYING<br />
to outdo one another on what counts as<br />
“Your Total Travel Nightmare”. To be honest,<br />
whatever you’re enduring at the moment,<br />
whatever screaming, mess-making or other<br />
child-based <strong>may</strong>hem is occurring all about<br />
you, it probably wouldn’t count as “total”<br />
because you’re probably not on a seven-hour<br />
flight. You can give me “hell on Earth” this and<br />
“projectile” that, but it doesn’t amount to a hill<br />
of beans (well, literally it probably does) on a<br />
two-hour hop to Milan.<br />
We thought we had a bad time on the way<br />
back from Hong Kong two years ago, with one<br />
13-month-old. He had (and, lest he sound<br />
fi ckle, still has) a bit of a thing for pretty young<br />
women, which normally couldn’t matter less.<br />
But then every hostess that passed him would<br />
smile and he thought they were all employed<br />
specifi cally to entertain him. So when they<br />
deserted their post – or, to put it another way,<br />
went off to do their jobs – he yelled. He smiled<br />
every time one approached and yelled every<br />
time she left, every fi ve minutes for 13 hours.<br />
By the end of the fl ight, even other passengers<br />
were shouting: “Never mind my hot towel! Stay<br />
with the infernal child, woman, that one whose<br />
own mother isn’t pretty enough to divert him.”<br />
(Harsh, but basically fair.)<br />
Ha, and I thought that counted as a bad<br />
fl ight. That would only count as a bad fl ight in a<br />
world where vomit didn’t exist and gravitational<br />
pull went simultaneously in all directions, so<br />
spillages just disappeared. My cousin got on a<br />
plane back to the US the other day, whereupon<br />
her son got norovirus one hour in and her<br />
daughter got it one hour later. An hour after<br />
that, the steward was taping blankets to the<br />
fl oor – he’d basically given up trying to clear<br />
and was aiming for “contain”. Later on he was<br />
asking for their details, with a mind to refusing<br />
them entry aboard the plane home. An hour<br />
after that, she claims they asked the entire<br />
family never to use their airline again.<br />
If I’d told you that, I’d say don’t believe me,<br />
I exaggerate. But she tends not to. So things<br />
must have been phenomenally, atrociously<br />
He’d basically given up trying to clear and was aiming for “contain”<br />
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bad. On balance, though, because her kids<br />
are seven and nine, it was still not as bad as it<br />
could have been, with the ages scaled down<br />
just far enough that they would accompany<br />
this whole circus with screaming.<br />
Why am I telling you all this? To make you<br />
feel better. One degree of calamity worse<br />
always makes everyone feel better. It’s like one<br />
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ON THE GROUND<br />
Pay a visit to a city full of famous fairy-tale<br />
characters, Unesco World Heritage sites,<br />
massive breweries, charming old quarters<br />
and exciting modern ones too! Words by<br />
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BREMEN TOWN HALL<br />
45 GET THE VIBE 46 ON THE STREET 48 AT THE HOTEL<br />
50 AT THE TABLE 52 AT THE BAR 54 IN THE BAG 57 WHERE IT’S AT
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GET THE VIBE…<br />
SEEK OUT SOME NORTHERN SOUL<br />
Stepping out of Bremen’s magnificent Town<br />
Hall, I am promptly greeted by a donkey. “You<br />
must be Edward,” says the donkey. “Indeed I<br />
am,” I reply. “Well, stand back a moment, I’m<br />
about to attract some attention.”<br />
My new donkey friend launches into a loud<br />
recitation of the story of the Town Musicians of<br />
Bremen, and is soon joined by a barking dog,<br />
a meowing cat and a squawking rooster, to<br />
the considerable amusement of a gathering of<br />
tourists on the old-town square.<br />
The donkey is in fact Christina Renken, part<br />
of a local street theatre troupe called Theater<br />
Interaktiwo (www.theater-interaktiwo.de), who<br />
will be performing this Brothers Grimm tale in<br />
full animal outfits every Sunday at 12pm (until<br />
October) in front of St Peter’s Cathedral.<br />
The story about these plucky animal<br />
musicians is referenced all over town. It is a tale<br />
about strength in numbers, and it’s easy to see<br />
how this would appeal to Bremers. A member of<br />
the Hanseatic League, Bremen’s residents have<br />
long understood that trade and cooperation is<br />
part of what makes their city great.<br />
Your visit will likely start in the historical<br />
town centre where the Unesco bigwigs decided<br />
to bestow the status of World Heritage Site on<br />
not one, but two objects within mere metres<br />
of each another: the gothic/neo-Renaissance<br />
Town Hall, and the statue of Roland, the brave<br />
knight of Charlemagne, slyly grinning at St<br />
Peter’s Cathedral with sword and shield at the<br />
ready. He is a symbol of the city’s defiant and<br />
autonomous nature.<br />
Entrepreneurial fl air is rife in the city – across<br />
the square you’ll fi nd Böttcherstrasse, Bremen’s<br />
most famous street. It’s actually more like<br />
a massive outdoor work of art, its intriguing<br />
architecture an initiative of Café HAG founder<br />
and decaf coffee inventor Ludwig Roselius.<br />
Today, the street’s artisans can be found creating<br />
everything from luxury jewellery to sweets and<br />
bonbons in the windows before your very eyes.<br />
The other end of Böttcherstrasse spills out<br />
onto the Schlachte – a catwalk where people<br />
parade up and down in snazzy clothes while<br />
denizens of the beer gardens and cafés look<br />
ON THE GROUND BREMEN<br />
on in appreciation. The Schlachte runs along<br />
the Weser river, from which much of Bremen’s<br />
industrial history stems – with cargo ships<br />
running back and forth ferrying everything<br />
from wool to fish. Along the Schlachte, a<br />
tower with a familiar logo looms: the Beck’s<br />
beer brewery. Well, don’t you think the folk<br />
transporting stuff up and down the river<br />
deserved a drink once they were done?<br />
Two of Bremen’s most distinctive districts,<br />
Schnoor and Viertel, sit next door to one<br />
another, yet are diametrically opposite in<br />
terms of style. Schnoor is the oldest area of<br />
town – impossibly cute, with narrow streets<br />
framed by 17th-century buildings. Here you’ll<br />
find shops selling arts, crafts and traditional<br />
Bremen sweets, as well as a muddle of<br />
tourists hypnotised by its sheer charm.<br />
Nearby is Viertel (a shortening of<br />
Funny farm<br />
Bremen’s all-singing,<br />
all-dancing musicians show<br />
off their latest routine<br />
Ostertorviertel). Awash with design shops and<br />
bars, this is where you can temporarily escape<br />
the tourism and immerse yourself in the<br />
actual life of the Bremers. Go here after dark<br />
and you’ll experience the nightlife in full flow:<br />
smoky bars, live music, weird hairstyles and<br />
seemingly non-existent closing times.<br />
To describe Bremen in brief is almost<br />
impossible, but if I <strong>may</strong> over-extend an<br />
analogy for a moment, the city is much like its<br />
famous musicians: doggedly industrious like<br />
a donkey, alert and friendly like a dog, agile<br />
and pretty like a cat, and raucously loud like a<br />
rooster. And, like the musicians themselves,<br />
together these aspects add up to more than<br />
the sum of their parts.<br />
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RYANAIRMAGAZINE<br />
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I’D LIKE TO DO A<br />
JAMES BOND OPERA<br />
ONE DAY WITH<br />
SCUBA DIVERS AND<br />
HELICOPTERS!<br />
HANS-JOACHIM FREY<br />
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THEATER BREMEN
ON THE STREET…<br />
ON THE STREET…<br />
MUSIC, MUSEUMS AND MORE<br />
Bremen is so full of historic places that simply<br />
wandering around town can feel like a museum<br />
visit. Of course, the pièce de résistance is<br />
the Rathaus (Town Hall), which is one-third<br />
gothic, two-thirds neo-Renaissance and was<br />
built over the course of six centuries. Join one<br />
of the daily tours (www.bremen-tourism.de)<br />
that take you through the magnificent Upper<br />
Hall, with its hanging model ships with working<br />
canons, and on to the regal Golden Chamber.<br />
Nearby Böttcherstrasse (www.<br />
boettcherstrasse.de 1 ) is another mustsee.<br />
Just over 100m long, it was constructed<br />
between 1922 and 1931. The entrance is<br />
announced by an eye-catching gold mural<br />
called the Bringer of Light, beckoning you into<br />
its Expressionist red-brick midst. There are<br />
shops, museums, a casino and restaurants<br />
here, but do pay attention to the architecture<br />
itself, which is brimming with exciting<br />
fl ourishes. At one end, a small crowd gathers<br />
every day from 12pm to 6pm on the hour to<br />
hear an orchestra of 30 porcelain bells ring out<br />
a sweet melody from the Glockenspiel House.<br />
Art fans need look no further than the<br />
Weserburg museum (www.weserburg.de 2 ),<br />
Bremen’s venue for contemporary art. Housed<br />
in a former cigarette factory, the collection<br />
includes notable works such as Anthony<br />
Gormley’s Quantum Cloud IX, and Maurizio<br />
Cattelan’s Love Saves Lives and Love Lasts<br />
Forever: a lifelike replica of the Town Musicians<br />
of Bremen facing a skeletal reflection of itself.<br />
Science buffs can sate themselves at the<br />
ON THE GROUND BREMEN<br />
Universum (www.universum-bremen.de<br />
3 ), a massive structure next door to the<br />
University, which looks like a UFO or perhaps a<br />
giant pistachio nut. Inside is a part museum/<br />
part playground for kids and adults alike<br />
– as you explore the human body, the Earth<br />
and cosmos via some ingeniously designed<br />
exhibits. After going all sciencey, a visit to the<br />
Überseemuseum (www.uebersee-museum.de<br />
4 ), just behind the main train station, offers<br />
inventive exhibitions about world culture.<br />
But in Bremen, music is what you want. And if<br />
you want music in the most bombastic fashion<br />
possible, Hans-Joachim Frey has just the ticket.<br />
For the past three years, the artistic director of<br />
Theater Bremen (www.theaterbremen.de 5 )<br />
has been realising a dream of bringing opera to<br />
the people with his spectacular Seebühne ( 6 )–<br />
a monolithic opera stage fl oating in the harbour<br />
by the Waterfront Mall. Following on from The<br />
Flying Dutchman in 2008 and Aida in 2009, Frey<br />
is bringing this wonderfully accessible version<br />
of opera back this year from 12–26 June, with<br />
Puccini’s Turandot – a complex love story set in<br />
ancient China (for tickets call +49 (0)421 365<br />
3333 or visit www.theaterbremen.de). Book by<br />
11 June, and you can enter yourself into a prize<br />
draw by sending your name and contact details<br />
to marketing@theaterbremen.de with “Ryanair”<br />
in the subject line, to win a meet and greet with<br />
the artists for the fi nal performance on 26 June.<br />
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Ship mate?<br />
Böttcherstrasse:<br />
Bremen’s quirkiest street<br />
Marvel at the elaborate<br />
ceilings of the Town Hall<br />
WISH UPON<br />
A BARD<br />
The city’s unoffi cial logo<br />
is a totem-like tower<br />
of the Town Musicians<br />
of Bremen standing on<br />
each other’s backs (the<br />
real logo is the Key of St<br />
Peter). The offi cial statue<br />
of the musicians stands<br />
in front of the Town Hall<br />
and was erected in 1953.<br />
The bronze piece is now<br />
a popular attraction for<br />
tourists, as much for its<br />
historical signifi cance<br />
as for its supposed<br />
ability to grant wishes.<br />
Here’s how you do it:<br />
grab the donkey by both<br />
its front hooves, close<br />
your eyes and make a<br />
wish. No one-hoofed<br />
wishes are allowed!<br />
Rubbing the donkey’s<br />
snout is also thought<br />
to bring good luck.<br />
The Brothers Grimm<br />
didn’t actually write<br />
The Town Musicians<br />
of Bremen; they were<br />
folklore collectors,<br />
and documented the<br />
stories attributed to<br />
them from local sources.<br />
However, Bremen is<br />
signifi cant to their work<br />
as it is the end of the<br />
so-called Fairy Tale<br />
Route (www.deutschemaerchenstrasse.com),<br />
which winds 580km<br />
from the brothers’<br />
birthplace in Hanau,<br />
to Bremen via many<br />
of the places that they<br />
collected their famous<br />
fairy tales.<br />
RYANAIRMAGAZINE<br />
47
AT THE HOTEL…<br />
EVERYTHING FROM BUDGET TO BLING<br />
Bremen is very well connected by a tram<br />
service that criss-crosses the city and<br />
connects most points of interest directly. This<br />
means that even if you aren’t staying in the<br />
very centre of town, you can access all the<br />
juicy stuff quickly and easily from your hotel.<br />
However, if you want to drop those bags<br />
off immediately after landing, the Holiday<br />
Inn Express Bremen (www.express-bremen-<br />
airport.de, doubles from €80 7 ) is less than a<br />
five-minute stroll from Bremen airport, and five<br />
minutes from the tram into the centre of town.<br />
Aside from all normal hotel amenities, you will<br />
be impressed by the fact that your pillows have<br />
been categorised in terms of their softness or<br />
firmness – solving that age-old “which pillow?”<br />
dilemma once and for all!<br />
For a good position in the city itself, the<br />
Swissôtel (www.swissotel.com, doubles from<br />
€120 8 ) sits right on the edge of the old<br />
city moat, and near the city’s last remaining<br />
windmill. Keeping things Swiss, the hotel is<br />
immaculately clean and stylish, with pieces of<br />
abstract art dotted about the public areas and<br />
even a quick quote from the classic story Heidi<br />
on the headboards. Follow the spiral staircase<br />
up to Hillmann’s (www.hillmanns-restaurant.<br />
de) on the first floor for a modern, seafoodheavy<br />
European menu, or seek out trendy café<br />
Ô Place on the ground floor for finger food.<br />
Not far away and slightly easier on the wallet<br />
is Best Western Hotel Schaper-Siedenburg<br />
(www.siedenburg.bestwestern.de, doubles<br />
ON THE GROUND BREMEN<br />
from €66 9 ), offering small apartments<br />
for families or simple double rooms. It’s<br />
conveniently located near the main train<br />
station and not far from the Old Town.<br />
Youths – or people who still think they<br />
are youths – can save even more money by<br />
checking into Jugendherberge Bremen (www.<br />
jugendherberge.de, B&B from €20.70 10 ), an<br />
eye-catching yellow-and-orange cube shining<br />
at one end of the Schlachte.<br />
Prizeotel (www.prizeotel.com, doubles from<br />
€59 11 ) is Bremen’s fi rst budget design hotel,<br />
part of what it describes as a “Designocrasy”<br />
– making high design concepts affordable to all.<br />
All neon green, purple and white, the colours are<br />
certainly very modern and the design gives the<br />
impression of staying in a Clockwork Orange-style<br />
futuristic pod hotel (in fact, the Prizeotel even<br />
has its own podcast). It has TVs hidden in the<br />
mirrors and eyes that follow you around the room<br />
courtesy of the artwork on the walls.<br />
More futuristic design can be found right<br />
by the massive Waterfront Mall and the<br />
Seebühne at Innside by Meliá hotel (www.<br />
innside.de, doubles from €99 12 ), which<br />
combines cosmic views of the universe on<br />
the walls with pop art furniture. High-tech<br />
relaxation is available at the Fit for Future<br />
wellness centre, or go interstellar by dining at<br />
the Starwalker Restaurant.<br />
FLY TO BREMEN FROM 22 DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING<br />
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Dream on<br />
Sleek, stylish and ever-<br />
so Swiss, the Swissôtel<br />
Enjoy wedded bliss at<br />
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Prizeotel bends the<br />
rules with its design<br />
WEDDED<br />
BLISS<br />
Bremen is home to<br />
one of the tiniest<br />
hotels in the world:<br />
the Hochzeitshaus,<br />
or “Wedding House”<br />
(www.hochzeitshausbremen.de,<br />
doubles<br />
€350 13 ). Carlsbergstyle,<br />
they advertise<br />
themselves as<br />
“probably the smallest<br />
hotel in the world”. It is<br />
but an intimate affair,<br />
with just one room<br />
for a couple, newly<br />
wed or not. If you’re<br />
looking for a romantic<br />
home of your own in<br />
Bremen, this is just<br />
the ticket – although<br />
bear in mind that it is<br />
located in the tightly<br />
cramped-together<br />
Schnoor district, so<br />
be sure to draw the<br />
curtains closed! In fact,<br />
the story goes that<br />
one young couple were<br />
simply too overcome in<br />
the heat of the moment<br />
to remember to do this,<br />
and found themselves<br />
receiving a hearty<br />
round of applause from<br />
nosy onlookers after<br />
their performance!<br />
However, rather than<br />
wilt in embarrassment,<br />
the bride apparently<br />
took her husband’s top<br />
hat and passed it from<br />
window to window for<br />
donations from their<br />
appreciative audience<br />
– which financed much<br />
of the rest of their<br />
honeymoon!<br />
RYANAIRMAGAZINE<br />
49
WE HAVE THE<br />
OLDEST BARREL<br />
OF GERMAN WINE<br />
IN GERMANY, A<br />
RÜDESHEIMER<br />
FROM 1653 —<br />
IT MIGHT BE PAST<br />
ITS VINTAGE NOW!<br />
FRITZ & OLIVER RÖSSLER<br />
62/31, BOTH MANAGERS OF RATSKELLER
ON THE TABLE…<br />
FINE FOOD AND FINER PRICES<br />
You find French appearing on menus quite<br />
a lot, as though words like jus, crème and<br />
flambé actually make the food taste better. But<br />
why are German words never used? Perhaps<br />
it’s because German food is the epitome of<br />
“no nonsense” – no excessive flourishes, no<br />
pointless garnish, just good, hearty, healthy<br />
nosh. And that’s a reason to love it. Another<br />
reason to love it is that you don’t have to spend<br />
much money to get loads of food on your plate.<br />
Take the Ratskeller (www.ratskeller-bremen.<br />
de 14 ), perhaps Bremen’s most venerable<br />
gastronomic institution. Nothing on the menu<br />
exceeds €20, yet I defy you not to be full after<br />
one dish. For local fl avour try Bremer Knipp, a<br />
satisfying dish of smoked pork, fried potatoes<br />
and apple sauce, for under €10. Or you could<br />
have the North Sea plaice with crab butter,<br />
potatoes and gherkins for just under €20 – the<br />
high end of the menu. Simple, yet delicious.<br />
Originally set up in 1405 to hold all of<br />
Bremen’s wine, the Ratskeller has been the<br />
largest repository of German wine for more<br />
than six centuries, with vintages spread over<br />
5,000m2 . So synonymous with German wine<br />
has the cellar become that outraged letters<br />
were sent to local newspapers just a few<br />
years ago when the establishment took the<br />
controversial step of serving beer!<br />
If you insist on spending money, you could<br />
find no better place to do so in Bremen than at<br />
ON THE GROUND BREMEN<br />
Schröter’s Leib und Seele (www.schroetersschnoor.de<br />
15 ) in Schnoor. After 15 years as a<br />
stand-out establishment headed by Rainer and<br />
Constanze Schröter, last September saw them<br />
hand over to their son, Daniel, who has taken to<br />
the job with inventive gusto. Try the painstakingly<br />
sculpted turbot on radicchio and mashed potato<br />
with fennel salad, or the Trio of Deer, in which<br />
deer is served with chestnut couscous, puréed<br />
red beetroot and fi nally a chocolate sauce. You’ll<br />
be surprised at how natural this seemingly<br />
incongruous combination tastes. Finish off your<br />
meal with a shot of Haas Edelbrennerei liqueur,<br />
which continues the chocolate theme, tasting<br />
and smelling exactly like Nutella! Choco fans will<br />
be pleased that on 6 May Daniel also opened<br />
his latest venture right next door in the form of<br />
Chocolaterie und Patisserie Schröter (www.<br />
schroeters-chocolaterie.de 16 ).<br />
For something a little more global, Le<br />
Madame Hô’ (www.madameho-bremen.de 17 )<br />
is your place, serving Eurasian cuisine in a<br />
luxurious Vietnamese setting. I only just got a<br />
seat when I turned up, so booking ahead is a<br />
good idea. But once sat, I enjoyed a mildly spicy<br />
tom sum of duck with sesame and shiitake<br />
mushroom to start, followed by succulent deer<br />
on a bed of potato salad and bean passatina.<br />
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Wine and dine<br />
Schröter’s has carved a<br />
fi ne niche in Bremen!<br />
Eat amid the hallowed<br />
halls of the Ratskeller<br />
SWEETS<br />
AHEAD<br />
OK, so you’ve stuffed<br />
yourself full of Bremer<br />
Knipp, but I hope you’ve<br />
saved some space for<br />
dessert. Germans love<br />
their sweets (not just<br />
Haribo either), and<br />
Bremen has a trio of<br />
treats that sound like<br />
fairy-tale characters:<br />
Klaben, Kluten and<br />
Babbeler. Klaben is<br />
normally eaten at<br />
Christmas and is a sweet<br />
bread baked with dried<br />
fruits and rum. ’Tis not<br />
the season, but try some<br />
anyway. Kluten are little<br />
cubes of peppermint<br />
partially covered in<br />
chocolate, and qualify<br />
as a sophisticated<br />
sweet. Babbeler are<br />
the kind of things that<br />
parents refuse to give<br />
their children in case<br />
they go hyper: a stick<br />
of pure peppermint<br />
caramel to eat like a<br />
lolly. All these can be<br />
bought at Bäckerei<br />
W. Schnaare (www.<br />
baeckerei-schnaare.de<br />
18 ). On Böttcherstrasse<br />
you can salivate while<br />
watching candy artisans<br />
at work, at Bremer<br />
Bonbon Manufaktur<br />
(www.bremer-bonbonmanufaktur.de<br />
19 ).<br />
And by the Town Hall you<br />
can pick up a packet of<br />
Bremen’s own classic<br />
chocolate Hachez (www.<br />
hachez.de 20 ) from<br />
their store.<br />
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THIS STRANGE GUY<br />
WAS STARING AT ME<br />
FOR HALF AN HOUR,<br />
BEFORE CLIMBING<br />
OVER THE BAR TO<br />
TRY AND HUG ME. HE<br />
SPILLED FOUR BEERS<br />
I WAS SERVING IN A<br />
BIG FOUNTAIN!<br />
ANNA PRAGER<br />
22, BARMAID AT LILA EULE
AT THE BAR…<br />
COOL CAVES AND ICE-COLD BEERS<br />
Right, I know it’s late and you’re all itching to<br />
go out, but after dark please take a moment to<br />
walk around the old town. It’s now that you can<br />
properly appreciate the beauty and elegance<br />
of the Town Hall, St Peter’s Cathedral and the<br />
Schütting – all lit up and free from locals and<br />
tourists buzzing around them.<br />
OK, that’s the equivalent of eating your<br />
vegetables! Now move on to dessert. Bremen’s<br />
nightlife is undoubtedly centred on the Viertel,<br />
a trendy scruffbag quarter. It’s a few hundred<br />
metres away from the old town geographically<br />
yet a million miles away stylistically. And if the<br />
Viertel has a beating heart, it would have to be<br />
Lila Eule (www.lilaeule.de 21 ).<br />
Bremen’s most iconic club, the “Purple Owl”<br />
opened in 1959 as a jazz bunker hosting the<br />
likes of Acker Bilk and Peter Brötzmann, and<br />
swiftly became caught up in the politics of the<br />
day. As the focal point in the city for the German<br />
Student Movement of 1968, it once hosted<br />
a rousing political talk by the movement’s<br />
fi gurehead, Rudi Dutschke, celebrated today by<br />
a poster of the man on one of the walls.<br />
Its calendar packs an exciting punch, hosting<br />
live open-stage jazz every Wednesday, followed<br />
by a mixture of local underground bands, highoctane<br />
DJs and late, late nights on Thursdays,<br />
Fridays and Saturdays. Party among an eclectic<br />
crowd of trendies and students as they galavant<br />
around the labyrinth of stairs and sections.<br />
But before hitting Lila Eule, veer off<br />
ON THE GROUND BREMEN<br />
Ostertorsteinweg onto Fehrfeld for some<br />
pre-drinks. Walk past the residential houses<br />
until you meet Urlaub ( 22 ), Heartbreak Hotel<br />
(www.myspace.com/heartbreakhotelbremen<br />
23 ) and Capri Bar ( 24 ), all within a few doors<br />
of each other. They’re like bars at a particularly<br />
dingy end of the universe and get crazier as<br />
you move along the street, from the chilled and<br />
dreamy Urlaub, through the Heartbreak Hotel,<br />
which seems to never close, along to Capri,<br />
which is set in a cave, but one that Wilma<br />
would never allow Fred to visit.<br />
Not far away on Humboldtstrasse is Rum<br />
Bumper’s (myspace.de/rumbumpersbremen 25 ),<br />
a vaguely pirate-themed bar so smoky I thought<br />
they had just been fi ring ship canons when I<br />
fi rst walked in! Slightly more down-to-earth<br />
venues can be found back on Ostertorsteinweg.<br />
Wohnzimmer (www.wohnzimmer-bremen.de 26 )<br />
is a sofatastic place to relax with friends, while<br />
Litfass (www.litfass-bremen.de 27 ) has a long<br />
bar lined with people engaged in animated chatter<br />
over Haake Beck beer, and abstract art on the walls.<br />
If you’re looking for more standard clubbing<br />
fare, leave the Viertel and drop into the wallto-wall<br />
techno of Daslebenmeintesgutmitdir<br />
(www.daslebenmeintesgutmitdir.com 28 ), or<br />
gravitate towards the cheesy flashing lights of<br />
Stubu (www.stubu.de 29 ).<br />
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MALLORCA, RIGA, STOCKHOLM (SKAVSTA) AND TAMPERE.<br />
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Big sippers<br />
Living room it up at<br />
comfy Wohnzimmer<br />
Join the locals for a<br />
beverage at Litfass<br />
DRINKERS<br />
UNITE<br />
In a number of cities<br />
around Germany,<br />
you <strong>may</strong> come<br />
across bars called<br />
Ständige Vertretung<br />
(meaning “permanent<br />
representation”). These<br />
venues were once<br />
administration centres<br />
that acted as quasiembassies<br />
between<br />
East and West Germany<br />
until reunification in<br />
1990. No longer serving<br />
their original function,<br />
the only logical option<br />
was taken – they were<br />
turned into pubs!<br />
Bremen is one of only<br />
five cities – alongside<br />
Berlin, Hamburg,<br />
Hanover and Cologne<br />
– to boast a Ständige<br />
Vertretung. Take a<br />
break from shopping<br />
in the old town and<br />
get yourself down to<br />
this historic boozer<br />
(www.staev.de 30 ),<br />
nestled nicely in the<br />
charming surrounds of<br />
Böttcherstrasse. Cosy<br />
and traditional, it’s a<br />
place for a chill and<br />
a chat. The walls are<br />
plastered with pictures<br />
from Germany’s<br />
history, including one<br />
of the UK’s Queen<br />
Elizabeth and Prince<br />
Philip visiting Bremen’s<br />
Town Hall, lending<br />
the venue a political<br />
atmosphere – which is<br />
probably why the beer<br />
is so essential!<br />
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IN THE BAG…<br />
TRADITIONAL AND DESIGNER GIFTS<br />
Bremen’s centre is characterised by an<br />
extensive collection of malls. While this <strong>may</strong><br />
make the heritage-minded among you wince,<br />
it has been achieved very tastefully. Walk down<br />
Sögestrasse – with its cute piglet statues and<br />
their master at the north end – and admire the<br />
lofty price tags that surround you.<br />
From here the streets snake off in different<br />
directions, seemingly entirely covered by glass<br />
awnings and containing all the retail goodness<br />
you could wish for. In particular, check out<br />
Katharinen-Passage, the even more palatial<br />
Domshof-Passage (www.domshof-passage.<br />
de) and Lloyd Passage (www.lloyd-passage.<br />
de). The latter is also known as the “Mall of<br />
Fame”, having taken a leaf out of Hollywood’s<br />
book with a series of famous handprints and<br />
signatures moulded into bronze plaques.<br />
These shopping havens bombard you with<br />
big-brand names – perfect if you want to purge<br />
your wallet in the afternoon.<br />
Mere metres away from all this gleaming<br />
modernism though is the old town, where<br />
a fl ower market takes place on Monday to<br />
Saturday mornings on Unsere Frauen Kirche<br />
Square, and numerous shops selling Bremenrelated<br />
objects line Böttcherstrasse.<br />
For a quainter shopping experience, head<br />
to the gorgeous Schnoor district – a charming<br />
muddle of 15th-, 16th- and 17th-century houses.<br />
Amble past the bakeries, shops selling ships in<br />
bottles and art shops, and tell me it doesn’t all<br />
make you smile! One particularly important shop<br />
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is Atelier GAG (www.ateliergag.de 31 ),<br />
a rather famous place dealing in the art of paper<br />
folding. You’ll be simply amazed: everything<br />
from animals to World War II bombers to entire<br />
cathedrals are available to fold and glue into<br />
realistic shapes. Some of the models hanging<br />
from the ceiling are intimidatingly brilliant. If you<br />
have the perseverance, sets cost €2.50–€29.50.<br />
A bit more surreal is Weinachtsträume<br />
(www.weihnachtstraeume.de 32 ) with its three<br />
higgledy-piggledy storeys devoted entirely to<br />
Christmas decorations. And it’s open 365 days<br />
a year! You might not need any decorations at<br />
this time of year, but it is still worth popping<br />
in briefl y to see the remains of the original<br />
Bremen fortifi cation wall as part of the shop.<br />
To the east in Viertel, walk down<br />
Ostertorsteinweg. Here you can feast your eyes<br />
on the beautiful musical instruments available<br />
at Hoins Intermusik (www.hoins-intermusik.<br />
de 33 ), buy some of the refreshingly down-toearth<br />
clothing from local fashion brand The<br />
Lucky Fish (www.theluckyfi sh.de 34 ), or pick up<br />
some classic and new vinyl or a dusty book from<br />
independent record and book store Golden Shop<br />
(www.thegoldenshop.org 35 ). After all that you’re<br />
probably in need of some refreshment, and you’re<br />
in the right place, since Viertel is overfl owing with<br />
cafés, bars and restaurants for weary shoppers to<br />
lay their bags down for a second.<br />
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In the fold<br />
Enticing sweets on<br />
Böttcherstrasse<br />
Work that paper at<br />
model shop Atelier GAG!<br />
GREEN<br />
BOTTLES<br />
Any visit to Bremen<br />
requires sampling<br />
their home-grown<br />
beer, Beck’s, which is<br />
on tap in almost every<br />
establishment in town.<br />
But if you’re interested<br />
in more than just the<br />
taste, head down to the<br />
imposing Beck’s Brewery<br />
(www.becks.de 36 )<br />
by the Weser river for<br />
their highly educational<br />
tour. Starting out in a<br />
lecture theatre, you are<br />
given a brief history of<br />
the company before<br />
touring the facilities and<br />
seeing how the beer<br />
goes from the basic<br />
three ingredients of<br />
barley, hops and yeast,<br />
to become Beck’s and all<br />
its various offshoots. At<br />
the end, the “education”<br />
continues with a tasting<br />
of their various beers.<br />
Costing €9.50, the tours<br />
operate from Thursday<br />
to Saturday and booking<br />
is required. Incidentally,<br />
take a look at the Beck’s<br />
“key“ logo, and compare<br />
it with Bremen’s key<br />
emblem. They are very<br />
similar, but you will<br />
notice that the Beck’s<br />
key is fl ipped to face the<br />
opposite direction. One<br />
story goes that Beck’s<br />
wanted to pay homage<br />
to their home town, but<br />
were required to change<br />
the image, so as not to<br />
associate the city with<br />
alcoholism!
PHOTOGRAPHY: WWW.PIXELEYES.CO.UK<br />
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1 / HACHEZ<br />
BROWN LEAVES<br />
Bremen’s own Hachez<br />
chocolate brand is 120<br />
years old this year, and<br />
these leaves are its<br />
signature range. The<br />
Hachez shop is found<br />
right by the Ratskeller in<br />
an ornately wood-carved<br />
building fi tting of the<br />
quality of these treats.<br />
€4.50, WWW.HACHEZ.DE<br />
2 / WESERBURG BOOK<br />
In 2007, pioneering art<br />
gallery the Weserburg<br />
hosted an exhibition of<br />
works collected by jazz<br />
producer Siegfried Loch,<br />
who has a special affi nity<br />
for the colour blue – a very<br />
jazzy colour! This book<br />
contains images from the<br />
show and a Jasper van ’t<br />
Hof CD simply called Blau.<br />
€25, WWW.WESERBURG.DE<br />
ON THE GROUND BREMEN<br />
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3 / BREMEN BEER MUG<br />
Bremen has a split<br />
personality when it comes<br />
to alcohol. On the one hand<br />
it is the biggest repository<br />
of German wine in the<br />
country, and on the other it<br />
is the birthplace of Beck’s.<br />
This sturdy beer “krug”<br />
features the Town Hall on<br />
one side and the musicans<br />
of Bremen on the other.<br />
€22.50<br />
2<br />
4 / STADTMUSIKANTEN<br />
GUMMIS<br />
One thing you can’t fail to<br />
notice in Bremen is the<br />
profusion of musicians of<br />
Bremen souvenirs. They<br />
appear on mugs, shirts,<br />
bags, hats and puzzles<br />
– but these gummi sweets<br />
take the commercialisation<br />
of this story to its logical<br />
German extreme!<br />
€1.75<br />
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4<br />
5 / METAL FROG<br />
Böttcherstrasse is an<br />
industrious street, with all<br />
sorts of proper handson<br />
craftsmanship from<br />
jewellery to ceramics.<br />
This slightly drunk looking<br />
metal frog is an example<br />
of the more child-oriented<br />
objects available at<br />
Werkschau Laden (8–10<br />
Böttcherstrasse).<br />
€6.50<br />
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WHERE IT’S AT…<br />
MAP & CONTACTS<br />
1 Böttcherstrasse / 2 Weserburg 20<br />
Teerhof, tel: +49 (0)421 598390 / 3<br />
Universum Bremen 1a Wiener Strasse, tel:<br />
+49 (0)421 33460 / 4 Überseemuseum<br />
13 Beim Handelsmuseum, tel: +49 (0)421<br />
1603 8101 / 5 Theater Bremen 1–3<br />
Goetheplatz, tel: +49 (0)421 365 3653 / 6<br />
Seebühne 3 Weserstrasse / 7 Holiday Inn<br />
Express Bremen 5 Hanna-Kunath-Strasse,<br />
tel: +49 (0)421 322850 / 8 Swissôtel 20<br />
Hillmannplatz, tel: +49 (0)421 620000 / 9<br />
Best Western Hotel Schaper-Siedenburg<br />
8 Bahnhofstrasse, tel: +49 (0)421 30870 /<br />
10 Jugendherberge Bremen 6 Kalkstrasse,<br />
tel: +49 (0)421 163820 / 11 Prizeotel 12<br />
Theodor-Heuss-Allee, tel: +49 (0)421 222<br />
2100 / 12 Innside by Meliá 6 Sternentor,<br />
tel: +49 (0)421 24270 / 13 Hochzeitshaus<br />
5 Wüste Stätte, tel: +49 (0)175 488 3060<br />
/ 14 Ratskeller Am Markt, tel: +49 (0)421<br />
321676 / 15 Schröter’s Leib und Seele<br />
13 Schnoor, tel: +49 (0)421 326677 / 16<br />
Chocolaterie und Patisserie Schröter 14<br />
Schnoor, tel: +49 (0)421 326677 / 17 Le<br />
Madame Hô’ 41 Schlachte, tel: +49 (0)421<br />
168 3870 / 18 Bäckerei W. Schnaare 7<br />
Am Landherrnamt, tel: +49 (0)421 337<br />
9307 / 19 Bremer Bonbon Manufaktur 8<br />
Böttcherstrasse, tel: +49 (0)421 3649 1231 /<br />
20 Hachez 1 Am Markt, tel: +49 (0)421 339<br />
8898 / 21 Lila Eule 10–11 Bernhardstrasse,<br />
tel: +49 (0)421 794 0664 / 22 Urlaub 28<br />
Fehrfeld, tel: +49 (0)421 958 6370 / 23<br />
Heartbreak Hotel 29 Fehrfeld, tel: +49 (0)421<br />
794 8875 / 24 Capri Bar 35 Fehrfeld, tel:<br />
+49 (0)421 704957 / 25 Rum Bumper’s 34<br />
Humboldtstrasse, tel: +49 (0)421 794 7470<br />
/ 26 Wohnzimmer 99 Ostertorsteinweg,<br />
tel: +49 (0)421 163 2064 / 27 Litfass 22<br />
Ostertorsteinweg, tel: +49 (0)421 703292<br />
/ 28 Daslebenmeintesgutmitdir 45 Am<br />
Wall / 29 Stubu 21 Rembertiring, tel: +49<br />
(0)421 321423 / 30 Ständige Vertretung<br />
3–5 Böttcherstrasse, tel: +49 (0)421 320995<br />
/ 31 Atelier GAG 31 Schnoor, tel: +49<br />
(0)421 327463 / 32 Weihnachtsträume 45<br />
Marterburg, tel: +49 (0)421 323262 / 33<br />
Hoins Intermusik 49 Ostertorsteinweg, tel:<br />
+49 (0)421 325484 / 34 The Lucky Fish 31<br />
Ostertorsteinweg, tel: +49 (0)421 222 3422 /<br />
35 Golden Shop 4 Fehrfeld, tel: +49 (0)421<br />
2416 9552 / 36 Beck’s Brewery 18–19 Am<br />
Deich, tel: +49 (0)421 5094 5555<br />
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along the German Fairy Tale Route up to Bremerhaven at the North Sea.<br />
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The 3 star Star Inn Hotel Bremen Columbus boasts a traditional ambience<br />
and modern meeting facilities in the heart of the Hanseatic city Bremen.<br />
Thanks to its location in front of the main train station, the pet friendly hotel<br />
is the ideal accommodation in the centre of Bremen for business men as well<br />
as for travellers wishing to explore the tourist sights just a 10 minute walk<br />
away of this ancient and pictoresque city in Northern Germany.<br />
We welcome you in 148 redecorated air-conditioned<br />
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The limit for many airlines is 15kg. Every 1kg your bag<br />
weighs over this can cost up to an additional £20!<br />
Imagine the feeling when you discover those holiday<br />
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MOROCCAN SURFING<br />
A surfers’ paradise on Morocco’s<br />
Atlantic coast, Taghazout is<br />
known as much for its laid-back<br />
vibe as its excellent conditions.<br />
Conor Creighton meets one of<br />
the scene’s wise men and hears<br />
about the town’s hippie roots.<br />
Photography by Steve Ryan<br />
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Taghazout lies about a 25-minute drive north of Agadir. It’s built right<br />
on the shoreline. At high tide, you walk out the door and your feet get<br />
wet. And sometimes when storms batter the west coast of Morocco,<br />
you can’t even open that door. One storm back in the 1960s stayed for<br />
a week and left with the entire fi shing fl eet on its back. But in general<br />
the waves that creep towards the beach fall into the enticing rather than<br />
frightening bracket.<br />
It’s home to a traditional Berber community but, because of its<br />
proximity to the sea and good surfi ng breaks, has always had a healthy<br />
mix of foreigners coming and going. It started with the British Navy who<br />
used to stop by and swap their rusty Winchesters and venereal diseases<br />
for provisions and trinkets. Then US Marines stormed through during<br />
World War II liberating the Moroccans from the Nazis. In the late 1960s,<br />
the children of the war vets blew into town bringing their own form of<br />
liberation called peace and love, and after them the fi rst combi-vans full<br />
of surfers appeared.
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Ocean call<br />
Taghazout’s breaks have<br />
beckoned everyone from<br />
hippie travellers to today’s<br />
more serious surfers<br />
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Lahcen Aitidir (pictured, previous page) got<br />
his fi rst surfboard from an Australian in 1971,<br />
but he’d been surfi ng before that. “We surfed<br />
on tree bark or pieces of palm trees,” he says.<br />
“But it wasn’t so nice. It cut your skin.” They<br />
were the original boogie boards.<br />
Lahcen is 54. He’s a sinewy, short man and<br />
when you see him throwing himself off the<br />
rocks on a multi-coloured longboard you think<br />
he doesn’t stand a chance against the incoming<br />
waves. But then he ducks and weaves past the<br />
breakers and you remember he’s been in this<br />
water for half a century and is as comfortable<br />
on a wave as a mountain goat is on a mountain.<br />
Lahcen lives with his wife in a beachfront<br />
house at Hash Point – which got its name for<br />
being the lazy man’s surf spot in Taghazout. It’s<br />
a right-hander that breaks just in front of the<br />
town. You can pretty much down your tea, pay<br />
your bill, make a slow run for the water and be dropping into a wave in<br />
a few minutes. It’s the place where the fi rst hippies arrived in the 1960s,<br />
and Lahcen remembers the time well.<br />
“They had no passports and they didn’t use money. They traded<br />
necklaces and jeans for fi sh or even hash. They stayed all day without<br />
clothes. People were used to it. It was a great time and they were very<br />
nice people,” he says.<br />
The hippies stayed in Taghazout for nearly 10 years. They lived on<br />
the beach or with Berber families. Everyone in the town can produce<br />
old photos of them with some Joni Mitchell look-a-like. Hendrix visited<br />
during that time too. Rumours abound that his song Castles Made Of<br />
Sand was written about the vulnerable buildings along the beachfront,<br />
but since the track was written in 1967 and Hendrix did not actually visit<br />
Morocco until 1969, it remains unlikely. Lahcen doesn’t know if he met<br />
Hendrix or not. “I saw many people who looked like Jimi Hendrix then,<br />
and they all played music too. They were all Jimi Hendrix.”<br />
In 1973 the Moroccan military arrived in Taghazout with 20 trucks.<br />
They brought the hippies to the airport and deported them. People in<br />
the town cried and protested. “Their families in America were probably
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Beach boy<br />
Surfi ng is a way of life for<br />
many in Taghazout<br />
Lay down your board and<br />
check into Surf Berbere<br />
looking for them, but we were crying because they were our friends,<br />
our family too.” The surfers who arrived in the 1970s didn’t replace the<br />
hippies, but they were met with the same affection. Lahcen remembers<br />
the fi rst VW van. “It had a kangaroo on the side of it,” he says.<br />
Even today, the surf spots in Taghazout aren’t rammed compared with<br />
those in Europe and the US. Twenty surfers out in the line-up constitutes<br />
a busy day here, while most breaks in California or even Cornwall could<br />
only dream of such intimacy. But back when Lahcen was fi rst surfi ng,<br />
two other bodies in the water felt like a crowd. As the 1980s progressed,<br />
Taghazout became the only place in North African surfi ng.<br />
James Bailey, 26, runs the Surf Berbere hostel and surf school.<br />
He’s Lahcen’s neighbour. A short holiday and a £200 (€228) deposit<br />
later, he was swapping city life in London for a place where sun and<br />
unpredictable bowel movements are both guaranteed. Like Goa and<br />
Costa Rica, Taghazout is home to that brave breed of traveller with the<br />
ingenuity to make their favourite destination their place of business.<br />
Surfi ng is the only show in town these days, and any other tourism that<br />
exists is riding on the back of the industry. The surf schools offer lessons<br />
on what are probably some of the best breaks to learn on. The water’s<br />
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warm, the waves are consistent, and thanks to<br />
the scarcity of booze (it’s still available, don’t<br />
worry), you’re not paddling out every morning<br />
trying to piece together the night before.<br />
It’s a special, close-knit place. If you wander<br />
into the surf shops around the town and<br />
mention Lahcen’s name, they’ll tell you that<br />
the fi rst board they ever surfed on was his.<br />
Surfboards were, and still are, luxury items.<br />
Improvisation, repair and scrounging are<br />
as much bywords of the Taghazout surfi ng<br />
community as low and high tide. It wasn’t a<br />
million years ago that people here were using<br />
telephone cable as leashes, and let’s not forget<br />
those palm-tree surfboards.<br />
The generation that followed Lahcen grew<br />
up with an ownership over surfi ng. No longer<br />
just for blond Australians avoiding the winter<br />
back home, if one of their own could surf the<br />
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same waves then why shouldn’t they? Moroccan youngsters would<br />
hit the water before school, then come back out again after the last<br />
bell rang. Like Brazilian kids dreaming of getting signed up on football<br />
contracts, the kids in Taghazout dreamt of surf sponsorships, and if that<br />
didn’t work they could open a surf shop or school. It was still a nicer life<br />
than their fathers’ or grandfathers’ who fi shed or farmed in the mountains.<br />
Imane Zagraou, 30, is one of the fi rst female Moroccan surfers. She<br />
runs a surf school and has a sponsorship deal with Rip Curl. Which in<br />
the Moroccan surf world is pretty much like having it all. But in order to<br />
get that far she’s had to put up with an annoying amount of negativity<br />
that comes from being a pioneer. “I got strange looks and people<br />
dropped in on me [my waves] on purpose,” she says. On top of that her<br />
business and registration papers took twice as long to process as they<br />
would normally do for a man. Taghazout <strong>may</strong> stand out for its liberal<br />
internationalism but it’s surrounded on one side by the sea and the other<br />
by a conservative Muslim population.<br />
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“I GOT STRANGE LOOKS<br />
AND PEOPLE DROPPED IN<br />
ON ME ON PURPOSE”<br />
It’s this conservatism that starts funny<br />
rumours. One goes that during Ramadan the<br />
more devout surfers don’t go into the water<br />
for fear of swallowing and breaking their fast.<br />
Though that <strong>may</strong> be true for one or two, the<br />
people of Taghazout have grown up alongside<br />
hippies and travellers, and their laid-back attitude<br />
and curiosity is a product not only of their Berber<br />
roots but also a cosmopolitan mix of visitors.<br />
So long as the swell is working Lahcen<br />
Aitidir still surfs during Ramadan. “You’re not a<br />
fi sh. You just close your mouth,” he says.<br />
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DOWN<br />
THE TUBE<br />
Far from being boring, London’s<br />
subterranean railway holds a<br />
wealth of secrets and stories,<br />
as Padraig Lynch discovers<br />
on a tunnel-tastic tour.<br />
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TUBE TOUR<br />
In 1845, when a pamphlet was published advocating the “creation of<br />
a rail network under the streets of London”, a radical preacher named<br />
Dr Cumming called down “fi re and brimstone” on such folly. “The end<br />
of the world would be hastened by the construction of underground<br />
railways burrowing into the infernal regions and thereby disturbing the<br />
Devil,” he declared.<br />
Lisa, my guide from Insider London doesn’t look like an<br />
agent of the Devil. In fact, she has the appearance of a<br />
well-presented young schoolmistress. She does have the<br />
slightly pale complexion of someone who’s spent too long<br />
underground though, and when she describes the history<br />
and architecture of the Tube she trembles with a passion<br />
like that of an approaching train.<br />
Lisa is going to take me on a journey back in time – through<br />
the early history of what some might call the real London Dungeon<br />
– and, let’s face it, some of the staff down here are a hell of a lot scarier<br />
than the thesps over by London Bridge! She knows her way around the<br />
Underground, with an intimate knowledge of its nooks and crannies<br />
– and the knack of making you feel as if you are there by bringing its<br />
past and characters vividly to life. Of course, the set dressing helps. If<br />
you ignore the digital advertising screens, much of the Tube still looks as<br />
it did at the turn of the 20th century.<br />
We begin at Farringdon station on the Metropolitan line, the oldest<br />
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Mapped out<br />
A splash of colour to<br />
brighten up your journey<br />
People from all over<br />
the world descend on<br />
Piccadilly<br />
underground in the world, built in 1863. It would have been a dark<br />
experience. The carriages were lit by jets of naked gas (isn’t that a little<br />
dangerous?) and driven by a coal-fi red steam engine. Our imagination is<br />
getting fi red up now too – as we approach the arches of King’s Cross we<br />
are starting to cough, our clothes covered in soot, and we arrive on the<br />
platform like a couple of smoked kippers… well, almost.<br />
“It’s Dickensian,” I say, outraged. “How could anybody have<br />
travelled like this?” But oh no, Lisa tells me, steam trains<br />
were used on this line right up until the 1960s.<br />
We are now standing on the neo-gothic platform of<br />
King’s Cross station, a 1920s map of the Underground<br />
spread out before us. It looks ridiculously rustic, quaint even.<br />
Why would a system that was designed to provide urban<br />
transport begin and often end way out in the sticks, and why<br />
were some stations built so close to each other?<br />
Because, Lisa explains, the Underground in its infancy resembled<br />
a snake pit where ruthless entrepreneurs with huge moustaches<br />
were locked in a Darwinian struggle to become the masters of the<br />
underworld. Stations were built next to each other apparently in an effort<br />
to force rivals out of business.<br />
Scams were common. If a quicker buck was to be made by building<br />
under cheap farmland miles outside the city and selling the property<br />
above for a huge speculative profi t they did it, regardless of the
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consequences for the travelling public. A proper Tube for the city was<br />
fi nally created with the Circle Line, but only after the Metropolitan and<br />
District lines received a huge subsidy from the city fathers.<br />
This haphazard approach to planning has left a legacy of about 40<br />
ghost stations – most of them were built to no real purpose – scattered<br />
all over the network. You will occasionally catch a fl eeting<br />
glimpse of a ghost station as you travel between stops. The<br />
British Museum station was closed in 1933 after Holborn<br />
station, operated by an alternative company, proved better<br />
positioned and more convenient. But keep your eyes<br />
peeled between Holborn and Covent Garden and you’ll<br />
see it. It is said to be haunted, and has been the inspiration<br />
for some brilliantly ridiculous B-movies such as Death Line<br />
(1972), where a community of cannibals descended from<br />
Victorian railway workers try to eat commuters.<br />
Perhaps one of their antecedents was Whitaker Wright, who in 1898<br />
was responsible for fi nancing the Bakerloo line. A notorious swindler,<br />
the law fi nally caught up with him, and a sentence of seven years’ penal<br />
servitude was handed down at the Old Bailey. Minutes after the verdict<br />
was read out he collapsed and died – he had swallowed a cyanide capsule.<br />
The history of the London Underground is fi lled with such stories.<br />
The real godfather of the Tube was Charles Tyson Yerkes, “the street car<br />
czar” of Chicago and a convicted embezzler. He narrowly escaped being<br />
Walk of art<br />
Notting Hill station,<br />
which opened in 1868<br />
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lynched by a mob of angry investors in his home city. But it appears that<br />
he had the perfect CV for a boss of the Underground. He fi nanced the<br />
electrifi cation of the District Line and the building of the Piccadilly using<br />
“complicated fi nancial instruments” (read bribery and kickbacks!).<br />
Yerkes managed to bring most of the various lines under his control<br />
acquiring them from the separate operators. He also introduced<br />
the 2p standard fare, hence the “Tuppenny Tube”, which<br />
became a popular method of transport for all Londoners<br />
or “strap-handlers” as Yerkes condescendingly called his<br />
passengers. But enough of the dark side. Where are the<br />
visionaries, designers and engineers who succeeded in<br />
creating the world’s fi rst underground rail system, often<br />
against the odds?<br />
Having navigated the Victoria line we are now standing<br />
outside Oxford Circus station. In front of us are a series of arches<br />
(vaguely reminiscent of the McDonald’s logo) created by deep bloodred<br />
tiles. This is the work of the artist Leslie Green, and his tiled motifs<br />
became the distinctive feature of the underground. The blood-red is<br />
pertinent – perhaps inspired by the consumption he suffered from all his<br />
working life. It <strong>may</strong> have been the lead in the paint that fi nished him off<br />
at the tender age of 33.<br />
If the Tube can be said to have had a golden age it probably began<br />
around the time that Green died. The new boss and successor to<br />
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London eye<br />
I’m watching you, yes<br />
you with the blue jacket…<br />
Sometimes it feels like<br />
you’re waiting for a<br />
“ghost train”<br />
Yerkes, Frank Pick, seems to have been on the side of beauty. Pick<br />
created the world’s fi rst “underground art movement”, commissioning<br />
posters by Man Ray, Edward Nash and Graham Sutherland, and the<br />
Tube became something of a vast public gallery for the travelling<br />
masses. Interestingly, Pick turned down a knighthood but accepted an<br />
honour from Stalin.<br />
But his real genius was for design: in 1931 he paid Harry Beck, an<br />
unemployed electrical engineer, fi ve guineas (about two weeks’ wages)<br />
for creating a new map of the Tube. Middle management hated it, but<br />
Beck’s brilliant idea – to imagine the Tube as a circuit of coloured lines<br />
independent of the geography above – was a huge hit with the public.<br />
It still is. In 2006 it was voted the second-most popular design of all<br />
time by BBC viewers and is now a jealously guarded piece of intellectual<br />
property. Some claim that TFL (Transport for London) has made more<br />
money from merchandising and selling rights to the map than they ever<br />
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did by selling tickets! Poor Harry Beck never<br />
saw another penny.<br />
Beck’s map is a joy to travel – mentally. I<br />
am doing so now, from the inside of a carriage<br />
of a stalled train on the Northern line (Bank<br />
branch). The tour is over. But we can’t leave.<br />
We are being “held by a red light” somewhere<br />
in the “infernal regions” of the tunnels.<br />
Perhaps preacher Cumming was right – he<br />
also declared that “it is better to wait for the<br />
Devil than to make roads down into hell!”.<br />
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RIGA<br />
Stag parties jet in for the cheap beer<br />
and strip clubs, so what thrills can a<br />
girl expect over a fast-paced weekend<br />
in the Latvian capital? Party princess<br />
Zoe Griffi n goes there to fi nd out.<br />
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It’s a cold Saturday morning in the Latvian<br />
capital and the owner and matriarch of Riga’s<br />
Big Gun shooting range, Ludmila Belikova,<br />
is gesturing towards a James Bond-shaped<br />
silhouette. “We aim for the head and the pants<br />
fi rst,” she says, laying a Glock handgun on<br />
the table in front of me, 15m from the target.<br />
“And then we kill him through the heart with<br />
an AK-47.”<br />
I gulp, trying to keep down my breakfast and<br />
stifl e my hangover. Ludmila is the second-best<br />
marksman (or woman) in the country I’m<br />
told – deadlier with a gun than thousands of<br />
Latvia’s men. Exactly the sort of woman I like!<br />
Having never fi red a gun before, common<br />
sense tells me I should aim for the chest as<br />
it’s the biggest part of the body and I’m more<br />
likely to hit it. I line up, square my shoulders<br />
and squeeze off a few rounds. Thinking of all<br />
the men who’ve ever done me wrong I actually<br />
manage to hit the target. Woo hoo! Riga is<br />
turning out to be quite a surprise for this party<br />
princess, and I fi nd myself slowly dismissing<br />
my preconceptions about the city.<br />
Flying in late on Friday night, I had expected<br />
to see a city awash with stag-dos. I looked<br />
out for bar owners trying to lure in boozed-up<br />
tourists with offers of yet more cheap beer,<br />
and for scantily clad women tempting lads into<br />
strip clubs.<br />
I found none. Indeed, visiting the Skyline Bar<br />
on the 26th fl oor of the Reval Hotel Latvija that<br />
evening, the ale <strong>may</strong> have been cheap but it was<br />
all about the cocktails. We found an extensive<br />
list – bound in a luxurious brown leather<br />
book at least 20 pages long – with a smart<br />
clientele to match. From martinis and mojitos<br />
to Champagne cocktails and ones containing<br />
local spirit Balsam (avoid unless you like cough<br />
medicine… I almost threw up), it’s all there.<br />
Prices are an average 3 lati (€4.25), a third of<br />
what you’d pay in Paris or London. Cheap drinks<br />
didn’t mean cheap decor, either. Gorgeous<br />
leather sofas dot the room, and Skyline’s fl oorto-ceiling<br />
windows give panoramic views of this<br />
chocolate-box-pretty city.<br />
My guides in Riga are Austin and Graham,<br />
two Englishmen who run Riga Out There<br />
– a company that creates custom trips for<br />
individuals and groups. Before my arrival, I’d<br />
told them I wanted to do Riga to the max,<br />
with crazy activities like shooting but also<br />
luxury spas and bars – hence the Saturday<br />
morning hangover! To keep me satisfi ed, for<br />
lunch Austin and Graham took me to one of<br />
the city’s trendiest restaurants, Istaba, run<br />
THINKING OF ALL THE MEN<br />
WHO’VE EVER DONE ME<br />
WRONG I ACTUALLY<br />
MANAGE TO HIT THE TARGET<br />
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Austin, Zoe and Graham<br />
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by Latvia’s equivalent of Jamie Oliver, chef<br />
Martins Sirmais. Walking the cobbled streets<br />
to the place I saw no beer-bellied Brits – just<br />
young, good-looking people who weren’t<br />
trying too hard to dress up yet still looked<br />
fashionable. Leather jackets, fur coats, trendy<br />
haircuts – and that was just the men! For girls,<br />
it was all tight tops and tight jeans showing<br />
off waif-like fi gures, but with no need to get<br />
everything out by wearing mini-skirts. Riga was<br />
giving off a very cool vibe!<br />
At Istaba, we ate warm, creamy garlic bread<br />
served with sundried tomatoes, olive tapenade<br />
and hummus with a fi ery salsa, all made with<br />
ingredients bought at the local market. We<br />
followed that with a waistline-friendly roast<br />
trout, served with bowls of steaming fresh<br />
vegetables and salad with mashed potatoes<br />
on the side. Contented – and relieved because<br />
I had feared the food would consist of heavy<br />
borscht (soup), meat and dumplings – I reached<br />
over to top up my wine and noticed the bottle<br />
was in something a bit different from the regular<br />
silver ice buckets used at restaurants. “Yes, that<br />
is a chamber pot. When it comes to Riga, be<br />
prepared for randomness,” Austin joked.<br />
When it comes to clubbing, the city is<br />
divided into places favoured by Riga’s Russian<br />
population and those frequented by the<br />
Latvians. Our fi rst stop was the decadent,<br />
bling-tastic Russian experience at a club called<br />
Push (www.push.lv), which has the biggest<br />
sound-system in the Baltics. Eat your heart<br />
out Ibiza, I thought, as I stood on the balcony<br />
overlooking the main dance fl oor and watched<br />
podium dancers in fl uorescent costumes strut<br />
to the pumping house beat. In a side room,<br />
reggae and R&B played, and in another people<br />
gambled at the in-house casino.<br />
We hit a few more bars before ending up at<br />
one of the Latvians’ favourite hangouts. At fi rst<br />
I thought its name was Penis – which would<br />
have been the ultimate for a girls’ wild weekend<br />
GIRLS’ WEEKEND<br />
Going potty<br />
Cocktails at Skyline Bar<br />
Party boys at Push!<br />
Can I have a go… please!<br />
Our unique wine cooler<br />
Whatever you do, don’t<br />
ask for 13 red roses!<br />
in Riga – but in fact the name was “Piens”, Latvian for milk. More my<br />
style than Push, the atmosphere focused on drinking and chatting (and<br />
fl irting), while a DJ rocked jazz and groove. Here it’s all about comfort,<br />
with sofas, armchairs and vintage lampshades. Under-dressing is the way<br />
to get in, so ditch the high heels and bling or you’ll be turned away.<br />
Post Penis, sorry Piens, in the early hours at around 5.30am the boys<br />
escorted me to Riga’s famous fl ower market. Open 24/7 there’s no excuse<br />
for men here to buy their lovers cheap petrol-station bouquets, as rows<br />
and rows of bright, beautiful roses, lilies, orchids and bluebells line the<br />
stalls. And randomly (as Austin had suggested) I found that absolutely no<br />
one would sell me an odd number of fl owers, just evens – it’s a bad-luck<br />
superstition thing apparently and they simply won’t back down!<br />
Sunday saw more surprises – no freezing outdoor public lido here in<br />
Riga but more than one top-class spa. I spent the morning at the ESPA<br />
(www.espariga.com), a pampering paradise over six fl oors. I sweated<br />
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High fliers<br />
Giant green roller skates<br />
are the in thing in Riga!<br />
Locked in for the long haul<br />
We do the Aerodium<br />
Pretty shop fronts on our<br />
walking tour of the city<br />
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out the alcohol in the sauna, relaxed in the open-air rooftop vitality pool<br />
and stretched my body swimming lengths in the downstairs 18m lap<br />
pool – before topping up on Champagne at the poolside bar.<br />
Then it was more action. I considered bob-sledding, curling, or a cycle<br />
tour, but fi nally opted for a maximum adrenalin rush in what is known as<br />
Aerodium in the town of Sigulda, 45 minutes from Riga. It’s a massive<br />
wind tunnel surrounded by crash mats with an air stream of 200km/h.<br />
Suited and helmeted, I was blasted up in the air, feeling like I was fl ying<br />
– or falling. It’s like skydiving without the stress of jumping out of a<br />
plane. “Girls tend to be better at this than men,” said the instructor as he<br />
congratulated me for reaching greater heights than Graham. What a high!<br />
Back in town there was just enough time for a walking tour before<br />
heading to the airport, and yet more randomness to discover. In one<br />
park we crossed a small bridge whose railings were festooned with<br />
padlocks – left by married couples on their wedding day as a symbol of<br />
everlasting love. An incredibly ugly shop front we came across on a high<br />
street changed the moment I looked above<br />
eye level and found an incredible art nouveau<br />
building – a style Riga is famous for.<br />
As we stood at the main bridge that joins<br />
the old town to the new I was told that every<br />
year without fail a homeless person threatens<br />
to throw themselves from the bridge unless<br />
he is bought a can of Coke and a chocolate<br />
éclair – random, or what? And with that I was<br />
whisked off to the airport in Riga Out There’s<br />
very own Moskovitch, or “Milly”, the classic<br />
car from Soviet days.<br />
It has been a fast, crazy and sensational<br />
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where the women are in charge not the men.<br />
Then the magnifi cent Ludmila appears in my<br />
mind, saying: “Don’t point a loaded gun at<br />
anything you defi nitely don’t want to kill.” And<br />
I know it must be true.<br />
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You can “probably” be sure of some great<br />
beers in Denmark, and that includes their<br />
outstanding rural microbreweries, says<br />
Peter Geoghegan, who heads north to<br />
fi nd out more (someone else was driving!).<br />
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Frank Sinatra once said: “I feel sorry for<br />
people who don’t drink. They wake up in the<br />
morning and that’s the best they’re going to<br />
feel all day.” Ol’ Blue Eyes was no morning<br />
person – but then again he never woke up<br />
in Thisted, a pretty harbour town two hours<br />
north of Billund, Denmark. It’s barely noon<br />
and already I’m halfway through my second<br />
beer of the day, a cheeky little American-style<br />
IPA with a crisp aftertaste and enough alcohol<br />
to blow the cobwebs out of any sleepy head.<br />
Denmark is famous for Carlsberg<br />
and Tuborg, but over the last decade<br />
Scandinavia’s biggest beer drinkers have<br />
gone microbrew crazy. Home brewing is<br />
all the rage, and when they are not making<br />
their own, Danes are busy sipping handmade<br />
ales, stouts and lagers from over 100<br />
microbreweries that have sprung up across<br />
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THURE’S AMPLE<br />
FRAME, BEARD<br />
AND PATTER ALL<br />
HINT AT A BEER<br />
DRINKER<br />
the country. A road trip getting me acquainted<br />
with a land that’s home to Europe’s largest<br />
concentration of breweries would be the<br />
perfect way to really get a taste for this<br />
quintessentially Danish revolution.<br />
Our cross-country jaunt starts with lunch<br />
at Restaurant Bryggen (www.bryggen.eu),<br />
overlooking Thisted’s frozen harbour. It’s also<br />
the perfect excuse for some early lubrication.<br />
Thure, our resident beer expert, needs no<br />
second invitation. “Did I mention I’m a hop<br />
head?” he smiles, before polishing off a glass<br />
of sweet, zesty Easter beer brewed on the<br />
premises. Thure’s ample frame, beard and<br />
languid patter all hint at a beer drinker, but it’s<br />
the matching Beer Network hoodie, bum bag<br />
and fl at cap (their logo is a hand grenade in the<br />
shape of a hop bud) that attest to the passions<br />
of a dedicated home brewer.<br />
“Ah, that smell. The hops in the air puts<br />
hairs on your chest!” Thure says as, an hour<br />
later, our car pulls into Bryggerivej (literally,<br />
“Brewery Road”) a little further along the fjord.<br />
At the end of the lane sits Thisted Bryghus<br />
(www.thisted-bryghus.dk), one of Denmark’s<br />
Chin chin<br />
Thure knows a thing<br />
or two about beers<br />
If you can count all 14<br />
of these, sober up quick!<br />
oldest independent breweries and still its most popular. Nowadays,<br />
Thisted makes over 25 different types of beer – but it’s no sleek,<br />
multinational operation. The factory shuts for two days during the<br />
summer when workers and their families hit the fi elds to pick bog<br />
myrtle for the rich Porse Guld brew.<br />
After downing a glass of Thisted’s speciality “Stone Beer” to a<br />
Thure-led chorus of “skål!” (“cheers”) I’m feeling decidedly squiffy.<br />
Nevertheless, I persevere – it is research, after all. Next up is the<br />
double brown Limfjords Porter. Named after the fjord the brewery<br />
looks out across, the heady brew clocks in at a hefty 7.9%, and took<br />
former brewmaster Peter Cleminson 13 years to develop.<br />
“The brewmaster is an artist, the beer is his canvas,” Thure says,<br />
coming over all Jedi as he swirls the chocolate-coloured liquid in his<br />
glass. “Yeah, right,” I slur mockingly. But one mouthful of the fruits<br />
of Cleminson’s labours puts paid to my scoffi ng. Thick, sweet and<br />
DANISH BEER<br />
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You don’t have to put on<br />
your wellies and hit the<br />
countryside to sample<br />
Danish microbrewing<br />
– plenty of great city<br />
centre pubs and bars sell<br />
handmade beers too. The<br />
Wharf (www.charlies.<br />
dk) is a little piece of<br />
England in the heart of<br />
Aalborg. With Fergus<br />
Southwell, brother of<br />
Scottish rugby union<br />
legend Hugo, behind<br />
the bar and anything<br />
up to 21 taps open at<br />
any one time it’s the<br />
perfect place to watch<br />
some football over a pie<br />
and a pint. Try the cask<br />
ales shipped all the way<br />
from Blighty! Around the<br />
corner, The Irish House<br />
(www.theirishhouse.<br />
dk) <strong>may</strong> look like a<br />
generic Irish bar with<br />
its shamrocks and<br />
Guinness memorabilia,<br />
but it stocks the full<br />
range of Søgaards beer.<br />
In the town of Aarhus,<br />
Café Under Masken (3<br />
Bispegade) is full of hip<br />
20-somethings knocking<br />
back bottles from the<br />
excellent Fur brewery. As<br />
well as an aquarium, the<br />
café is decorated with<br />
original artwork from<br />
Hans Krull, a well-known<br />
Danish artist who often<br />
visits on Sundays to<br />
make sketches of the<br />
customers. Nearby,<br />
the oddly titled Ris Ras<br />
Filliongongong boasts<br />
opulent chaise lounges,<br />
a healthy tolerance for<br />
cigar smoke and great<br />
draught beers from<br />
Denmark and Germany.<br />
Get there early at<br />
weekends, as it fi lls up by<br />
about 6pm.<br />
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luscious, this is the best stout I’ve ever tasted.<br />
And coming from an Irishman that’s no idle<br />
claim. After a blurry, whistle-stop tour of the<br />
factory fl oor – think Willy Wonka’s, but with<br />
beer – it’s back on the road again. Next up is<br />
Nibe, a tranquil fi shing village on the fjord’s<br />
southern side. With so many bridges and boats,<br />
crossing the fjord is pretty easy. However,<br />
staying awake after an afternoon’s beer tasting<br />
is less so. As we speed along the fl at, snowcovered<br />
fl ood plains I drift off into a light doze.<br />
“Rise and shine! We’re here,” Thure yells,<br />
his giant hand shaking my shoulder. “Here” is<br />
a quaint former sail-makers’ workshop hidden<br />
among the rows of traditional wooden holiday<br />
cottages on the edge of the fjord. Inside,<br />
below a bust of Neptune, brewmaster Antoni<br />
Madsen guides us around a selection of the<br />
30-plus beers produced at Nibe Bryghus (www.<br />
nibebryghus.dk). Best of the lot is the Clipper,<br />
made with English-style breakfast tea.<br />
Next morning, 75km south, on an icy<br />
industrial estate just outside the city of Randers,<br />
another brewmaster, Stefan Kappel, is explaining<br />
why he left a career in electronic engineering<br />
to make beer. “After pushing the pencil for 25<br />
years, I thought some manual work would do<br />
no harm,” says the head honcho of Randers<br />
Bryghus (www.randersbryghus.dk).<br />
On a Czech-built brewery, mothballed after<br />
the fall of Communism and bought for a song<br />
fi ve years ago, Kappel has produced some of<br />
Denmark’s fi nest microbrews. His Midnight Oil<br />
Imperial Stout has been nominated for Danish<br />
beer of the year, yet with only two bottles of<br />
a one-off batch left it’s not on today’s tasting<br />
table. Instead, we sample an assortment of<br />
strong, distinctive black beers, IPAs and lagers.<br />
With night drawing in we say our goodbyes<br />
and head an hour north along the motorway to<br />
the medieval city of Aalborg. After a day spent<br />
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AS WE SPEED ALONG THE<br />
FLOOD PLAINS I DRIFT OFF<br />
INTO A LIGHT DOZE<br />
quaffi ng ale, Thure isn’t the only one with Viking hunger. But just before<br />
we settle down for dinner at Søgaards Bryghus (www.soegaardsbryghus.<br />
dk), we partake in one fi nal tasting session in the basement of the<br />
restaurant’s legendary in-house brewery.<br />
Proprietor Claus Søgaard has just driven back from a microbrewers’<br />
meeting in Germany but skips between the beer-fi lled tanks like an excited<br />
schoolboy, drawing off samples of white beer from one vat, lager from<br />
another. “This is the best place to taste beer,” he smiles, leaning against<br />
a bag of malt. “You don’t pay any tax!” Claus did have to pay duty on his<br />
most famous creation, the “2003 brew”, an ale based on a recipe found in<br />
a Viking burial grave that retails at a cool 2,003DKK (€269) a bottle.<br />
Later we round off our dinner with a brown-ale crème brûlée dessert,<br />
served with a snifter of the unusual key ingredient. Our road-trip has<br />
drawn to a close, but as the silky custard and ale combo slips down I feel<br />
better than I’ve done all day. Sinatra would surely have approved.<br />
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Whether they’re a marauding<br />
knight or a pampered princess,<br />
children get a kick out of castles<br />
most adults can only dream of.<br />
Mike Peake and his family bed<br />
down in a citadel to beat them all<br />
OF THE CASTLE<br />
It is 7.30am on a crisp Sunday morning and,<br />
while the kids sleep off the exertions of the<br />
day before, I slip out of the hotel to take some<br />
pictures. We’re in Carcassonne in south-west<br />
France, inside the ancient and magnifi cent<br />
fortifi ed town that has stood here at the edge<br />
of the Pyrénées for centuries. I’d be lying if I<br />
said I didn’t feel a bit like Richard the Lionheart<br />
as I stride atop its silent ramparts.<br />
I haven’t seen a soul in half an hour until<br />
suddenly, on a high wall with a 50ft plunge<br />
down one side onto hard stone below, I almost<br />
bump into a man coming the other way. He’s<br />
not exactly what you’d call menacing – but you<br />
never know, do you? What if he’s the resident<br />
maniac? What if this is it?<br />
As we come face to face I murmur<br />
“Bonjour”, and valiantly take the more<br />
dangerous route. Which means stepping out<br />
towards the unguarded edge of the ramparts<br />
so the stranger can shuffl e past – and I steel<br />
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myself for the inevitable moment that he turns and shoves me off.<br />
He doesn’t, of course, and I am able to return to my knight fantasies,<br />
which now involve lying in wait until my adversary returns, beneath<br />
me, so I can drop a vat of bubbling oil on his head.<br />
Oh, come on – there’s just something about castles that sets the<br />
imagination on fi re. It’s a fascination that starts aged four, tucked up in<br />
bed, lost in a sea of stories about dragons, armour and jousting. And here<br />
in Carcassonne, Europe’s most spectacular medieval city, it all comes<br />
fl ooding back. When people talk about Carcassonne, they mostly mean<br />
what the locals call the “Cité”, the fortifi ed town and Unesco World<br />
Heritage site that occupies 7ha on a hilltop at the edge of the more<br />
modern riverside conurbation. To all intents and purposes, the Cité is a<br />
vast, fairy-tale castle, and seen from a mile or two in the distance it takes<br />
your breath away. Those old stone walls, dotted with 52 towers and turrets,<br />
snake their way around the hill. You couldn’t think up a more perfect<br />
medieval vision – and under a setting sun it is little short of awesome.<br />
I’m here with my children, who probably prefer Star Wars to castles<br />
– but the latter comes a very close second. And we’re lucky enough to be<br />
staying inside the citadel itself. There are only a couple of hotels within<br />
the stronghold, and to be in one that Rudyard Kipling, Winston Churchill<br />
and Jacques Chirac have all bedded down in feels like a rare treat. The<br />
last time I visited Carcassonne I was in somewhat less salubrious lodgings<br />
outside the castle, but as guests of the sumptuous Orient Express Hôtel<br />
IT’S A<br />
FASCINATION<br />
THAT STARTS<br />
AGED FOUR…<br />
LOST IN A SEA<br />
OF STORIES<br />
ABOUT<br />
DRAGONS AND<br />
ARMOUR<br />
de la Cité we get to feel like we actually live here,<br />
perhaps en route to a crusade.<br />
One of the nicest things about this historic<br />
landmark is that it is always open, and it’s free<br />
to get in – although it can get busy during the<br />
day. When the tourists have all gone home the<br />
Cité is at its most magical. A warren of ancient<br />
streets lined with enchanting shops, a handful<br />
of museums and what looks like a handful of<br />
old stone houses means a night-time stroll is<br />
like stepping back in time. Cars are a rare sight<br />
too – so it’s easy to wander a while without<br />
seeing another human being or anything to<br />
remind you this is the 21st century.<br />
The combination of being inside a castle<br />
and out after dark sends the kids’ sense of<br />
excitement into overdrive. And there’s no let-up<br />
back at the hotel, a beautiful, sprawling building<br />
that occupies the site of a former bishop’s<br />
palace. It is full of nooks and crannies – and to<br />
the kids it quickly becomes another medieval<br />
playground. Patterns in the carpet become<br />
trapdoors, huge wooden staircases become<br />
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drawbridges. In such an inspiring setting, their creativity knows no bounds.<br />
We’re deep in Cathar country and, as well as Carcassonne’s rich<br />
pickings, history fans can take in such local treasures as Rennes-le-<br />
Château, as mentioned in The Da Vinci Code. The children, however, have<br />
no time for the Holy Grail and are more interested in the intergalactic<br />
wonders of the Cité de l’Espace (www.cite-espace.com) at nearby<br />
Toulouse. The city is at the epicentre of France’s space industry, and the<br />
local knowledge of all things stellar has been put to good use in a museum<br />
that is brimming with things for children to do, such as bouncing around as<br />
if walking on the moon, or making televised weather bulletins.<br />
They leave happy and with careers as astronauts carefully mapped<br />
out. But their resolve weakens as we return to Carcassonne, where<br />
thoughts of dragon slaying return to their heads. They can’t believe it<br />
when I tell them that Napoleon and his successors wanted to knock the<br />
whole place down because it had fallen into such a state. Writer Kate<br />
Mosse, who set her bestselling book Labyrinth here, says: “Whenever I<br />
see Carcassonne, I can hardly believe it’s real.”<br />
Back at the hotel, we’re midway through a battle with plastic swords<br />
when I ask my eldest what it’s been like staying in a castle. “Brilliant!” he<br />
beams, hitting me with a punishing blow to the abdomen. “Actually, no,” he<br />
corrects himself. “It’s been better than that. It’s been brilliant to infi nity!”<br />
HÔTEL DE LA CITÉ, PLACE AUGUSTE-PIERRE PONT, CARCASSONNE,<br />
TEL: +33 (0)46 871 9871, WWW.HOTELDELACITE.COM<br />
Axe men<br />
The fairy-tale setting<br />
transports children into a<br />
world of make-believe<br />
Tourists in baseball caps<br />
replace knights in armour<br />
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CARCASSONNE<br />
600BC: Carcassonne’s hilltop site fi rst used as a trading post.<br />
100BC: Romans fortify the site.<br />
AD725: Visigoths lose the Cité to the Saracens.<br />
1355: Edward, the Black Prince fails in his attempt to take the fortifi ed town<br />
during the Hundred Years’ War.<br />
1853: A major restoration at the Cité begins, which takes the best part of<br />
50 years. Though not entirely authentic, it is deemed a great success. Today it<br />
pulls in 2 million people a year.<br />
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SECRET PARIS UNLOCKED<br />
Lookotel.com<br />
reveals a selection<br />
of five carefully<br />
chosen Paris hotels<br />
for you<br />
When looking for<br />
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LUXURY<br />
HOTEL DE L’ABBAYE 4★ €€€€€<br />
If you’re looking for luxury<br />
in the most romantic part<br />
of Paris – Saint Germain<br />
– but can’t afford a luxury<br />
hotel like the Ritz, then<br />
Hotel de l’Abbaye is the<br />
place for you. The staff<br />
will treat you like royalty<br />
and the hotel is a haven of<br />
peace and tranquillity. As<br />
well as the crackling woodfi<br />
re in the lobby, there’s<br />
also a quiet private garden<br />
to wind down in after a<br />
day’s shopping.<br />
ROOMS FROM €251 PER NIGHT.<br />
10 RUE CASSETTE,<br />
75006 PARIS, FRANCE,<br />
TEL: +33 (0)14 544 3811<br />
WWW.LOOKOTEL.COM/ABBAYE<br />
DESIGN<br />
HOTEL ARES EIFFEL 4★ €€€€€<br />
At the end of the Champ<br />
de Mars, and facing the<br />
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design hotel ideally suited<br />
to those who won’t settle for<br />
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With luxury offerings from<br />
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Hermes in the bathrooms,<br />
large fl at panel TVs by<br />
Bang & Olufsen in the<br />
bedrooms, and much more<br />
– not to mention extremely<br />
competitive prices – Hotel<br />
Ares is a true gem.<br />
ROOMS FROM €162 PER NIGHT.<br />
7 RUE DU GENERAL DE LARMINAT,<br />
75015 PARIS, FRANCE,<br />
TEL: +33 (0)14 734 7404<br />
WWW.LOOKOTEL.COM/ARES<br />
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HOTEL SEVEN 4★ €€€€€<br />
If you’re looking for a unique<br />
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levitating beds, levitating<br />
bathtubs and a starlit ceiling<br />
– and that’s just the ‘regular’<br />
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ROOMS FROM €138 PER NIGHT.<br />
20 RUE BERTHOLLET,<br />
75005 PARIS, FRANCE,<br />
TEL: +33 (0)14 331 7421<br />
WWW.LOOKOTEL.COM/SEVEN<br />
L’OPERA<br />
HOTEL LAUTREC OPERA 3★ €€€€€<br />
The Opéra district has<br />
always been one of Paris’s<br />
most sought-after locations.<br />
A stone’s throw from the<br />
Opéra Garnier in a quiet and<br />
charming street right off the<br />
main boulevard is the former<br />
home of Toulouse-Lautrec, the<br />
iconic painter of the bohemian<br />
era. It has since been turned<br />
into the aptly named Hotel<br />
Lautrec, an oasis of calm in the<br />
centre of Paris and the perfect<br />
base for exploring all that the<br />
city has to offer.<br />
ROOMS FROM €105 PER NIGHT.<br />
8-10 RUE D’AMBOISE,<br />
75002 PARIS, FRANCE,<br />
TEL: +33 (0)14 296 6790<br />
WWW.LOOKOTEL.COM/LAUTREC<br />
GREAT VALUE<br />
HOTEL DAUPHIN 3★ €€€€€<br />
Just beside La Défense<br />
shopping mall, Hotel<br />
Dauphin is a quality threestar<br />
hotel at the price of a<br />
two-star, with great value<br />
weekend specials. Located<br />
just outside of the walls of<br />
Paris, it has the advantage<br />
of being cheaper than more<br />
central hotels, with excellent<br />
service and everything<br />
necessary for a quality stay.<br />
And it’s just three metro<br />
stops from the airport<br />
shuttle.<br />
ROOMS FROM €75 PER NIGHT.<br />
45 RUE JEAN-JAURES,<br />
92800 PUTEAUX, FRANCE,<br />
TEL: +33 (0)14 773 7163<br />
WWW.LOOKOTEL.COM/DAUPHIN
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GET ACTIVE IN<br />
LIMOUSIN<br />
From top-class golfi ng to fi shing, riding and mountainbiking,<br />
France’s most peaceful region is its most exciting<br />
when it comes to outdoor entertainment<br />
The region of Limousin <strong>may</strong> just be<br />
France’s best-kept secret. Nestled<br />
in the country’s verdant interior, it is<br />
remote and rural, with cattle grazing<br />
on pasture land and rivers and lakes<br />
in abundance. With the smallest population in<br />
mainland France, Limousin is refreshingly unspoilt;<br />
a place that begs to be discovered. Until recently,<br />
few bothered to stop and explore it, but now<br />
the word is out, and Limousin is an increasingly<br />
popular destination for tourists seeking to discover<br />
France as it once was.<br />
Divided into three glorious departments –<br />
Corrèze, Creuse and Haute-Vienne – Limousin is<br />
one of the most beautiful areas of France and also<br />
one of its gastronomic highlights: it is the birthplace<br />
of clafoutis, one of the world’s best-loved desserts,<br />
and home to some of the best beef farming in<br />
the world. As well as being world-famous for its<br />
Limoges porcelain and tapestries, Limousin also has<br />
golf courses to rival Saint Andrews, superb trails for<br />
horseback and mountain-bike riding, rivers and lakes<br />
teeming with fi sh and a wide array of charming<br />
places to bed down in at night.<br />
THE GREAT OUTDOORS<br />
Golf is one of the foremost tourist activities in<br />
Limousin. With 10 golf courses, ranging from nine<br />
to 18 holes, dotted throughout the region – with<br />
four in Haute-Vienne, two in Creuse and four in<br />
Corrèze – there is much to choose from for golf<br />
fanatics. A great way to sample these outstanding<br />
courses is by investing in a Golf Pass, which gives<br />
you preferential rates on green fees and great<br />
access. With most courses nestled amid lakes<br />
and hills, there are few spots in Europe offering a<br />
more picturesque golfi ng experience. For more<br />
information, please visit www.golfenlimousin.fr<br />
With its still, glassy lakes and fast-fl owing rivers,<br />
Limousin is a fi sherman’s dream. Known as the<br />
“land of a thousand lakes”, there is no shortage<br />
of fi sh here. Carp-fi shing holidays in Creuse are<br />
particularly popular!<br />
Limousin is also an excellent destination for<br />
horse lovers. With over 1,000 breeders and nearly<br />
15,000 horses, including over 9,000 thoroughbreds,<br />
there are few places better equipped to cater to<br />
equestrian-minded visitors. There are some 50<br />
approved equestrian centres where anyone from<br />
beginners to accomplished horsemen can go for<br />
riding lessons or hacking about. The hippodrome<br />
This is the life!<br />
Catch your dinner in one<br />
of the many rivers and lakes<br />
in the region<br />
Thoroughbreds are a<br />
passion in Limousin<br />
One of 10 golf courses in<br />
the region<br />
at Pompadour is also the venue for many national<br />
and international events between March and<br />
October, as well as being home to the national stud<br />
and site of the Jumenterie de la Rivière, home of<br />
France’s most distinguished brood mares.<br />
For those who prefer to ride on bicycles,<br />
Limousin is also a fantastic mountain-biking<br />
location. There are seven FFC (French Cycling<br />
Federation) centres with circuits signposted<br />
according to ability. Equipment hire and guided<br />
circuits are also available upon request.<br />
HEAVEN’S KITCHEN<br />
Limousin is well known for being a land of<br />
gastronomic pleasures. First and foremost, it is<br />
known for its meat, with some of the best beef<br />
farming in France. Beef, veal, lamb and the cul<br />
noir pig are all delicious. Limousin apples are also<br />
valued for their taste and quality, while walnuts,<br />
chestnuts, strawberries, ceps and truffl es complete<br />
the list of top regional produce.<br />
All of these can be found in restaurants and<br />
inns throughout the region. Local farmers’ markets<br />
are also great places to snap up delicious local<br />
produce, as is a trip down the apple trail and<br />
walnut route.<br />
Beers from the local breweries, vin paillé (a<br />
sweet wine from Corrèze), kaolin (Limousin<br />
pastis) and various liqueurs (walnut is especially<br />
popular) make Limousin a great destination for<br />
eaters and drinkers!<br />
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT<br />
WWW.TOURISMELIMOUSIN.COM, TEL: +33 (0)55 511 0609<br />
FLY TO LIMOGES FROM BRISTOL, EAST MIDLANDS, LEEDS,<br />
LONDON (STANSTED) AND LIVERPOOL.<br />
VISIT WWW.RYANAIR.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION<br />
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BALTIC HOTELS<br />
For something diff erent this summer, check out Ryanair<br />
fl ights to Gdansk, Szczecin and Riga and jet off to the<br />
Baltic coast. Pick one of these four comfortable seaside<br />
hotels to make your stay memorable<br />
AMBER SPA HOTEL, LATVIA<br />
The Amber SPA Boutique Hotel is the place to<br />
be if you want to explore the sights, eat locally<br />
sourced food and enjoy luxurious spa treatments<br />
while staying in a family-run hotel.<br />
The hotel’s team of experts have developed<br />
a comprehensive spa programme that aims<br />
to de-stress you on your visit. Treatments are<br />
traditional yet modern and use mud therapies<br />
as well as Latvian amber. Yoga, Pilates and tai chi<br />
are also on offer and tennis, golf, horse riding and<br />
cycling can be organised during your visit.<br />
The hotel’s 21 suites are light and airy and<br />
decorated in soft colours for a warm ambience.<br />
My Life restaurant serves a selection of<br />
traditional, homemade dishes and the chef will<br />
advise you on what’s best for you.<br />
AMBER SPA BOUTIQUE HOTEL,<br />
MEZA PR. 49, JURMALA, LATVIA,<br />
TEL: +371 67 755330,<br />
WWW.AMBERSPAHOTEL.LV<br />
ARKA MEDICAL SPA,<br />
KOŁOBRZEG, POLAND<br />
The four-star Arka Medical SPA hotel is situated<br />
beside the Baltic Sea, 50m from a golden beach<br />
and has 800 comfortable rooms (singles,<br />
doubles and family suites).<br />
There’s something for everyone at the hotel.<br />
You can chill out at the beach, beside the seawater<br />
pool or in the relaxing zone with its saunas<br />
and hot tubs. If you’re more active you can work<br />
out in the gym and indoor tennis courts.<br />
Pampering sessions in the Spa include<br />
Ayurveda, shiatsu and hot stone massages.<br />
The Biological Recuperation Centre offers<br />
laser, magnet and mud therapies plus cosmetic<br />
surgery and dentistry.<br />
The spa is only 90km from Szczecin Airport.<br />
ARKA MEDICAL SPA,<br />
ST SUŁKOWSKIEGO 11, KOŁOBRZEG, POLAND,<br />
TEL: + 48 94 35 281 51,<br />
WWW.ARKA-MEGA.PL<br />
HOTEL JURMALA SPA, LATVIA<br />
Why not relax with family or friends, or spend a<br />
romantic weekend at one of the best spa hotels<br />
in the Baltic States – the four-star Hotel Jurmala<br />
SPA? With 190 comfortable and spacious rooms,<br />
it is ideally located just a few hundred metres<br />
from the golden beaches of the Gulf of Riga and<br />
only 15 minutes from the airport.<br />
The restaurant has a cosy atmosphere and<br />
serves international cuisine with delicious meals<br />
to suit any taste. And the Seaside bar on the top<br />
fl oor has a panoramic view of the sea.<br />
The hotel offers more than 100 treatments,<br />
including massages, plus three swimming pools<br />
of varying temperatures, a gym, fi ve different<br />
saunas, a hot tub and cascade to make your<br />
chill-out time unforgettable!<br />
HOTEL JURMALA SPA, JOMAS<br />
STREET 47/49, JURMALA,<br />
LATVIA, TEL: +371 67 784400,<br />
WWW.HOTELJURMALA.COM<br />
SCHLOSS KRUGSDORF HOTEL<br />
& GOLF RESORT, GERMANY<br />
On 29 May the new Schloss Krugsdorf Hotel &<br />
Golf Resort offi cially opens to a grand audience<br />
of prominent guests, and is expected to win the<br />
hearts of sportsmen and holidaymakers alike.<br />
This fi rst-class destination connects historical<br />
architecture with the beautiful landscape<br />
surrounding Ueckermünder. The completely<br />
restored and protected château is now<br />
complemented by an 18-hole golf course and<br />
nature park, as well as an ambitious restaurant<br />
and a wellness centre, which is currently under<br />
construction. All water elements have been<br />
designed by US architects Brian Willett and<br />
James Harbuck. The resort is located within easy<br />
reach of airports such as Berlin and Szczecin.<br />
2–3 ZERRENTHINER STRASSE,<br />
KRUGSDORF, GERMANY,<br />
TEL: +49 (0)397 435 1580,<br />
WWW.SCHLOSSKRUGSDORF.DE
HOME WHEN<br />
YOU’RE NOT<br />
Frogner House Apartments represent a new<br />
generation of accommodation, enshrining the<br />
idea that travellers should have an alternative<br />
place to stay without the constant reminder<br />
that they are just passing through.<br />
Our philosophy is “Home when you’re not”,<br />
and at our three apartment buildings in central<br />
Oslo we encourage guests to treat the place<br />
as their own. Whether you want to get some<br />
friends over for coffee or just have an inviting<br />
place to come back to, our apartments will feel<br />
like a home away from home.<br />
Located in the heart of Oslo’s fashionable<br />
Frogner district, our Skovveien building was<br />
formerly an esteemed hotel and opened in<br />
2004. It features gorgeous plasterwork and<br />
wrought-iron railings. On nearby Arbinsgate,<br />
our modern apartments are in the exclusive<br />
Vika area, with the Royal Palace and the Aker<br />
Brygge quayside just up the road.<br />
Our third location on Ullevålsveien caters<br />
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Hanshaugen, with its cafés, boutiques and park<br />
for exercising or just relaxing in.<br />
Each apartment comes with modern facilities,<br />
including wi-fi , fl atscreen TVs and kitchenettes.<br />
And unlike a hotel, housekeeping services are<br />
available only if you want them. Our Skovveien<br />
reception is open during the day and also 24/7<br />
by telephone – so we’re always on hand should<br />
you need us.<br />
Frogner House Apartments is run by a small<br />
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them the power to decide what makes them<br />
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FROGNER HOUSE<br />
APARTMENTS, SKOVVEIEN<br />
8 / POSTAL ADDRESS:<br />
COLBJØRNSENSGATE 1, 0256<br />
OSLO, NORWAY. TEL: +47 9301<br />
0009, FAX: +47 2255 3880,<br />
WWW.FROGNERHOUSE.NO<br />
Experience South Moravia<br />
TIPS TO FEEL<br />
AT HOME<br />
1. Bring your favourite<br />
book, or buy a new one.<br />
2. Find a local<br />
restaurant you like.<br />
3. Decorate your<br />
apartment with<br />
seasonal festive<br />
decorations.<br />
4. Make your own<br />
breakfast.<br />
5. Find a good place to<br />
go for a run.<br />
6. Invite a new friend<br />
round for a drink.<br />
7. Do something<br />
homely, like making<br />
pancakes.<br />
8. Strike up a<br />
conversation with your<br />
neighbour.<br />
9. Pamper yourself a<br />
little – or a lot!<br />
10. Visit<br />
www.frognerhouse.no<br />
for more.
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THE EUROPEAN<br />
GOLFGUIDE<br />
Part 4 Ireland: With its historic and modern,<br />
inland and links courses, Ireland is a true<br />
BUNCLODY GOLF & FISHING CLUB<br />
Bunclody Golf & Fishing Club is situated in 300 acres of<br />
golfers’ paradise with something to suit all<br />
breathtaking parkland on the former Hall-Dare estate on the Carlow<br />
players as they tee off .<br />
Welcome to the European Golf Guide, the fourth of an ongoing<br />
series, where the best golf courses across the Ryanair network<br />
will be highlighted so you can have a clear picture of the top<br />
places to hit the fairways. For those keen golfers flying on<br />
Ryanair who want top-notch advice on where to play in Ireland, read on. And<br />
look out for more of our European Golf Guides over the coming months.<br />
Also, if you want to read more and see a detailed feature of the leading golf<br />
courses in Ireland and around the network, then go online to www.ryanairmag.<br />
com/golf where all our European Golf Guides will appear. Here you’ll find<br />
constantly updated listings featuring top courses listed region by region with full<br />
contact details, costs, amenities, hotel resorts, nearby entertainment, shops and<br />
other vital information that’s important to any golfer planning their next trip.<br />
PORTMARNOCK<br />
HOTEL & GOLF LINKS<br />
Come to Dublin and you’ll fi nd one of the world’s top<br />
value a ue links s courses cou ses at Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links.<br />
Designed by Bernhard Langer and playable all<br />
year round, rou the championship links course<br />
is set in the grounds of the old Jameson<br />
Estate Esta of St Marnocks alongside a<br />
deluxe del international hotel.<br />
At A Portmarnock you can enjoy the<br />
traditions trad of an original links course,<br />
with all the challenges of the modern<br />
game. What’s more such beautiful<br />
scenery and a splendid golfi ng are just 11<br />
miles from Dublin Dub city centre. And the airport is<br />
even closer.<br />
PORTMARNOCK PORTMARNOCK HOTEL & GOLF LINKS,<br />
PORTMARNOCK, PORTMARNOCK, CO CO DUBLIN, IRELAND,<br />
TEL: TEL: +353 +353 (0)1 (0)1 846 846<br />
0611, WWW.PORTMARNOCK.COM<br />
DOOKS GOLF LINKS<br />
Golf has been played in Dooks since 1889 and the<br />
club is renowned for its hospitality and spectacular<br />
scenery. From its gentle rolling fairways, you have<br />
breathtaking views of Dingle Bay, the stunning<br />
beaches of Rossbeigh and Inch and the magnifi cent<br />
McGillycuddy Reeks. The narrow sandy fairways and<br />
well-contoured greens offer a taste of traditional links<br />
golf at its best that will test even the best golfers. In<br />
2002, 16 holes were redesigned and the course now<br />
measures 6,586 yards.<br />
The club is renowned for its friendliness and<br />
visitors are welcome to sample its old-world charm.<br />
The bar was designed so that people at one end<br />
can speak to those at the other. It also has a wellequipped<br />
and purpose-built pro shop, which stocks<br />
all the top brands.<br />
DOOKS GOLF LINKS, GLENBEIGH, CO KERRY, IRELAND,<br />
TEL: +353 (0)66 976 8205, WWW.DOOKS.COM<br />
and Wexford border. Though new to the Irish golfi ng tradition, the<br />
club has become a major player on the golf scene.<br />
This championship golf course is more than 7,100 yards with<br />
greens described by visitors as the best in the country. The<br />
architect-designed clubhouse looks like a historic golf club yet it<br />
boasts state-of-the-art amenities. The course also includes Ireland’s<br />
fi rst-ever lift linking the 17th green with the 18th tee box.<br />
Weary golfers can unwind in the luxurious locker rooms and<br />
sauna before relaxing in the top-class bar and restaurant with its<br />
stunning views of Mount Leinster.<br />
BUNCLODY GOLF & FISHING CLUB, CARIGDUFF,<br />
BUNCLODY, CO WEXFORD, IRELAND, TEL: +353 (0)53 937 4444,<br />
INFO@BUNCLODYGFC.IE, WWW.BUNCLODYGFC.IE<br />
CITYWEST GOLF CLUB<br />
CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE: Situated in a wonderful<br />
parkland setting with manicured fairways, superb<br />
putting greens and beautiful mature trees, the<br />
Christy O’Connor Jnr Championship course offers<br />
an inspiring golfi ng experience. The 16th, 17th and<br />
18th holes on the Championship course provide<br />
one of the greatest fi nishes in Ireland.<br />
FLEXI-BREAK 2 NIGHT PACKAGE OFFER:<br />
Relax and enjoy two nights bed & breakfast<br />
at Citywest Hotel with a round of golf on the<br />
Championship course. Pamper yourself with<br />
preferential rates in LIME Hair and Beauty Rooms<br />
and refresh with complimentary access to Citywest<br />
Leisure centre. Rate: €135 per person sharing<br />
(2 person minimum).<br />
SAGGART, CO DUBLIN, IRELAND, TEL: +353 (0)1 401 0500,<br />
SALES@CITYWESTHOTEL.COM, WWW.CITYWESTHOTEL.COM
SEAPOINT GOLF CLUB<br />
Providing everything a visiting golfer could wish for, Seapoint Golf Club offers a<br />
warm welcome, superb links course, outstanding facilities and excellent value for<br />
money. Ranked No. 27 in Ireland’s Top 100 Courses by Golf Digest magazine in<br />
2009, this fantastic links plays all of its 7,150 yards and offers a great test<br />
of golf for all handicaps.<br />
Seapoint is hosting the Irish PGA Championships this September and is<br />
close to Droheda, only 30 minutes north of Dublin airport on the M1 motorway,<br />
which makes it accessible from both Dublin and Northern Ireland. Excellent local<br />
accommodation is also available.<br />
SEAPOINT GOLF CLUB, TERMONFECKIN, DROGHEDA, CO LOUTH, IRELAND,<br />
TEL: +353 (0)41 982 2333, WWW.SEAPOINTGOLFCLUB.COM<br />
DUN LAOGHAIRE GOLF CLUB<br />
A mere 30 minutes from Dublin city centre, Dun Laoghaire Golf Club’s<br />
27-hole championship course has been designed by international golf<br />
architect Martin Hawtree to allow different combinations of the three<br />
nine-hole courses to be played. The championship courses range from<br />
6,543 to 6,281 metres, although with fi ve sets of tees, the course provides<br />
a challenge to professional and club golfers alike.<br />
The magnifi cent clubhouse, which has a spectacular terrace with<br />
stunning views of the Wicklow Mountains, has spacious locker, dining and<br />
bar facilities, meeting rooms and offi ces and can cater to any function.<br />
There’s also an indoor swing studio, indoor putting studio, 13-bay<br />
driving range, a pitching and chipping area, bunker area and gym.<br />
DUN LAOGHAIRE GOLF CLUB, BALLYMAN ROAD,<br />
ENNISKERRY, CO WICKLOW, IRELAND,<br />
TEL: +353 (0)1 272 1866, WWW.DUNLAOGHAIREGOLFCLUB.IE<br />
TULFARRIS HOTEL & GOLF RESORT<br />
A championship 18-hole golf course attached to a luxury hotel with fantastic<br />
treatment rooms, exciting Irish cuisine and an idyllic setting make Tulfarris the<br />
perfect destination – whatever the occasion.<br />
Our course is one of the fi nest in Ireland, featuring challenging fairways,<br />
immaculately kept greens, and an experience that all golfers will enjoy – from<br />
novice to professional.<br />
Set on three peninsulas overlooking Blessington Lakes, the course<br />
preserves the integrity of the natural environment, and was designed by<br />
renowned golf architect Patrick J Merrigan. His imaginative use of the natural<br />
surroundings to create an exciting design and excellent golf layout is evident<br />
throughout the course.<br />
The crowning glory of the layout is the attention to detail. Bunkering,<br />
contouring, featured stonework and environmentally friendly wetlands are<br />
fi nished to the highest standards.<br />
TULFARRIS HOTEL & GOLF RESORT, BLESSINGTON LAKES, CO WICKLOW, IRELAND,<br />
TEL: +353 (0)4 586 7600, WWW.TULFARRIS.COM<br />
CARTON HOUSE<br />
Built in 1739, Carton House is one of Ireland’s most magnifi cent country estates.<br />
Just 14 miles west of Dublin’s city centre and only 30 minutes from the airport,<br />
the historic 1,100-acre estate is now home to a stylish hotel, a luxurious spa and<br />
leisure centre and two championship golf courses that have held the Irish Open<br />
Championship and the Irish Amateur Championship, and will host the Handa<br />
Irish Senior Open from 11-13 June.<br />
The Golfi ng Union of Ireland has its headquarters on the estate with a national<br />
academy and training centre that attracts emerging golfi ng talent.<br />
Other activities include angling, cycling, archery and walking. With the arrival<br />
of Ireland Xtreme, Carton also offers exhilarating 4x4 off-road driving, high and<br />
low rope challenges and other team building adventures<br />
CARTON HOUSE, MAYNOOTH, CO KILDARE, IRELAND,<br />
TEL: +353 (0)1 505 2000, WWW.CARTONHOUSE.COM
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ELITE IRISH COURSES<br />
Ireland off ers some of the best golf courses in the world! In part 4 of our European ropean<br />
Golf Guide, we have selected three of the fi nest elite courses available. We present a<br />
breathtaking links, a Ryder Cup venue and one of the best new courses in the he world.<br />
THE FALDO COURSE<br />
LOUGH ERNE RESORT<br />
Lough Erne is the Gateway to North<br />
West Ireland.<br />
“A great place to play. A great place<br />
to stay,” says Rory McIlroy, Lough<br />
Erne Resort’s touring professional. An<br />
exciting and spectacular challenge for<br />
all golfers, the Faldo Championship<br />
Course was designed by Nick Faldo<br />
and is situated between Castle Hume<br />
Lough and Lower Lough Erne and<br />
within a two-hour drive of Dublin and<br />
Belfast airports. The 18th hole was<br />
Protruding two miles into the<br />
Atlantic Ocean, Old Head is<br />
a dramatic part of southwest<br />
Ireland. The Old Head of Kinsale<br />
is home to a world-class golf<br />
course and luxury members’<br />
accommodation, a 45-minute<br />
drive from Cork airport. The<br />
course stretches to more than<br />
7,000 yards with a minimum of<br />
fi ve tees per hole. Nine holes play<br />
along the cliff tops, and all 18 holes<br />
provide stunning ocean views.<br />
After a game you can dine at<br />
the fi ve-star à la carte de Courcey<br />
restaurant or enjoy the more<br />
voted the best par-three fi nishing hole<br />
in the UK and Ireland by Golf World<br />
magazine.<br />
The fi ve-star resort features 120<br />
luxury rooms, including 25 two- and<br />
three-bedroom Loughside Lodges, a Thai<br />
Spa and innovative dining experiences<br />
from acclaimed chef, Noel McMeel.<br />
LOUGH ERNE RESORT, ENNISKILLEN,<br />
CO FERMANAGH, NORTHERN IRELAND,<br />
TEL: +44 (0)28 6632 3230,<br />
WWW.LOUGHERNEGOLFRESORT.COM<br />
OLD HEAD GOLF LINKS<br />
informal environment of the<br />
Lusitania Bar. Accommodation<br />
is available on the headland<br />
in one of the 15 luxurious<br />
members’ suites.<br />
The course has been<br />
described by Links magazine as<br />
“the most spectacular course on<br />
earth” and since its creation in<br />
1997 has become a “must play”<br />
for all discerning golfers the<br />
world over.<br />
OLD HEAD GOLF LINKS,<br />
KINSALE, CO CORK, IRELAND,<br />
TEL: +353 (0)21 4778 444,<br />
WWW.OLDHEAD.COM<br />
10th Hole ‘Emerald Isle’<br />
K CLUB<br />
Designed by Arnold Palmer, the<br />
Palmer Ryder Cup Course and<br />
the Palmer Smurfi t Course are<br />
considered two of Europe’s fi nest<br />
championship courses.<br />
Golf holidays in Ireland are not<br />
complete without a visit to The K Club<br />
– let’s face it, where else can you play<br />
the Ryder Cup and European Open<br />
golf courses at one venue?<br />
As you would expect, at the The K<br />
Club golf resort in Ireland our aim<br />
is to match and exceed customer<br />
expectations for your golfi ng<br />
holiday! The K Club Golf Guest<br />
Services will organise tee times,<br />
golf lessons, caddies, corporate<br />
gifts, discuss group rates and<br />
tailor your day to suit your needs.<br />
Comprehensive practice facilities<br />
are available to all golfers visiting<br />
the resort. The K Club has been host<br />
venue to 13 European Opens and<br />
one Ryder Cup.<br />
THE KILDARE GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB,<br />
STRAFFAN, CO KILDARE, IRELAND,<br />
TEL: +353 (0)1 601 7200,<br />
RESORTSALES@KCLUB.IE,<br />
WWW.KCLUB.IE
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The third largest of the Balearics, Ibiza is famous for its nightlife and<br />
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If relaxing on the beach, soaking up the sun and swimming in the<br />
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but if you want a more active holiday, there’s plenty of choice.<br />
You could bring your local football or rugby team to the island<br />
and Ibiza Sports Tours will organise games, or for some adrenaline<br />
rush you can explore the island off-road with Allriders Adventure<br />
Motorcycle Tours. Then there’s scuba diving in the Mediterranean<br />
with Vellmarí Ibiza Dive Centre or you can charter a yacht and fi nd a<br />
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To sample local produce dine at Cicale restaurant, for a<br />
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you’ll feel at home at the Ring O’ Bells.<br />
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We’re only a few minutes away from the two best dive spots in the<br />
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barracudas, and Don Pedro, the largest wreck in the Mediterranean<br />
accessible to divers.<br />
We provide free Nitrox and offer free pick-ups from your hotel.<br />
VELLMARÍ IBIZA DIVE CENTRE, TEL: +34 971 192884, WWW.VELLMARI.COM<br />
BOAT CHARTER IN IBIZA<br />
Come to us for an unforgettable experience in Ibiza on the fantastic<br />
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The beauty of chartering one of our high-standard, privately owned<br />
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Our prices start from 950 euros per day for up to nine people.<br />
BOAT CHARTER IN IBIZA, TEL: +44 (0)7836 385888 OR +34 620 366036,<br />
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IBIZA SPORTS TOURS<br />
If you’re like us and have a passion for sport, then you’ll agree that taking<br />
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We offer games and tournaments for a wide variety of sports, including<br />
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IBIZA SPORTS TOURS, TEL: +34 616 148730, WWW.IBIZASPORTSTOURS.COM
ALLRIDERS IBIZA<br />
Allriders Ibiza Motorcycle Training is a unique idea that allows<br />
bike-lovers to experience Ibiza on a motorcycle. We specialise in<br />
professional training for off-road riding. The utmost care is taken<br />
in preparing and training each individual. Allriders is a great option<br />
for riders of all levels because we cater to our clients’ individual<br />
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We offer day rides and package deals. For the more adventurous,<br />
we organise tours in Morocco. All tours are guided by experienced<br />
off-road guides.<br />
ALLRIDERS ADVENTURE MOTORCYCLE AND 4X4 TOURS, TEL: +34 630 922677, WWW.ALLRIDERS.NET<br />
CICALE RESTAURANT<br />
Housed in the fi rst Ibicencan fi nca ever to be converted into a restaurant,<br />
Cicale not only boasts outstanding Italian cuisine, but also a rich history<br />
of hospitality.<br />
Serving locally produced ingredients, all freshly picked or plucked from the<br />
sea, Cicale’s constantly changing menu has guests returning time and again to<br />
experience the seemingly endless list of culinary treasures.<br />
Tucked away in the San Lorenzo Valley, Cicale combines summery yellows,<br />
whites and blues in its decor to create a clean and carefree atmosphere –<br />
perfectly suited for summer evenings on the terrace. Clients can recline under<br />
the restaurant’s 100-year-old carob and enjoy dishes like homemade seabass<br />
ravioli or beef straccetti in a crispy parmesan basket. Cicale also serves some<br />
inspired desserts and delightful cocktails. Open from April till October.<br />
CICALE, CTRA SAN JUAN, KM12, IBIZA, TEL: +34 971 325151, WWW.CICALEIBIZA.COM<br />
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RING O’ BELLS<br />
Yvette and Hayden welcome you to the Ring O’ Bells bar in Santa<br />
Eulalia, where you can enjoy a drink while the breeze wafts in from<br />
the marina. Our terrace is located on the promenade where you have<br />
wonderful views of the Mediterranean and the yachts while you sip<br />
your drink.<br />
You can relax on comfy sofas in our long bar, which sells a wide<br />
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people as you chill out in the salon, which has a large TV screen with<br />
a covered terrace. We also have two pool tables, free wi-fi and games<br />
for the children.<br />
RING O’ BELLS, SANTA EULALIA, IBIZA, TEL: +34 609 655257<br />
ISPIRTO BAR & RESTAURANT<br />
A cocktail bar and restaurant, Ispirto is situated in the old part of Ibiza<br />
town. Its cosy pavement terrace has comfy sofas and inside you’ll fi nd<br />
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The cuisine is a sophisticated fusion of French and Mediterranean<br />
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DJs play a few nights a week and the eclectic music attracts a<br />
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ISPIRTO BAR, CALLE CONDE ROSELLO, Nº1, IBIZA TOWN, IBIZA (NEXT TO THEATRE PEREIRA),<br />
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FRANCE<br />
NUMBER CRUNCHER<br />
The number of bottles of wine produced<br />
800,000,000 annually in the Bordeaux region.<br />
Bordeaux<br />
EAT: LE BO BAR<br />
You could just get a plate of charcuterie to<br />
go with your choice of red at this wine bar,<br />
but why not indulge in a plate of ilar goria,<br />
tuna axoa, or one of their other delicious,<br />
if unpronounceable, Basque specialities?<br />
8 PLACE ST-PIERRE, TEL: +33 (0)55 679<br />
3820, WWW.LEBOBAR.FR<br />
DRINK: MUSHROOM CAFE<br />
This friendly spot specialises in cocktails:<br />
try the Sudja (mango and dark rum) or<br />
the Vellini (peach nectar and champagne).<br />
Look out for live music and theme nights;<br />
happy hour is from 6pm on Wednesdays.<br />
5 RUE GEORGES BONNAC,<br />
TEL: +33 (0)55 651 3878<br />
STAY: LA MAISON BORD’EAUX<br />
With only six rooms, it’s hard to say if this<br />
is an exclusive B&B or a boutique hotel<br />
(pictured), but whatever it is, it’s lovely.<br />
Beyond the 18th-century courtyard lie<br />
sleek lodgings that combine limestone<br />
walls with vibrant colours. Chauffeured<br />
wine tasting excursions are available.<br />
113 RUE ALBERT BARRAUD, TEL: +33 (0)55<br />
644 0045, WWW.LAMAISONBORD-EAUX.COM<br />
SEE: MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS<br />
Paintings from the 16th to 20th century<br />
are on display in this grand museum,<br />
created in 1801 at the bequest of<br />
Napoleon himself. The collection<br />
includes works by native legends such as<br />
Delacroix, Corot and Matisse, as well as<br />
Dutch masters including Van Dyck.<br />
20 COURS D’ALBRET, TEL: +33 (0)55 610 2056,<br />
WWW.CULTURE.GOUV.FR/CULTURE/BORDEAUX<br />
FLY TO BORDEAUX FROM FIVE<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING CORK AND PORTO<br />
La Rochelle<br />
EAT: LA TAVERNE DE TASDON<br />
Onion and bacon tart, rib steak, and<br />
roasted cockerel are accompanied<br />
by singular Samurs, Chiroubles and<br />
Chevernys at this no-frills restaurant just<br />
outside the city centre. Owner Jean-Marie<br />
Trichard has good reason to be proud of<br />
his excellent wine list, as does chef Maria<br />
for her culinary know-how.<br />
83 RUE EMILE NORMANDIN,<br />
TEL: +33 (0)54 644 9514<br />
DRINK: CAFE DE LA PAIX<br />
The Belle Epoque lives on in this historic<br />
meeting place, whose decor features<br />
swirls, curlicues and ceiling murals. Sit<br />
down and watch the world go by at an<br />
outdoor table on the Place de Verdun.<br />
54 RUE CHAUDRIER, TEL: +33 (0)54 641 3979<br />
STAY: HOTEL CHAMPLAIN<br />
FRANCE ANGLETERRE<br />
While the name is grandiose, the lodgings<br />
are relatively discreet at these classy digs<br />
in the centre of town. Breakfast is served<br />
in the lovely fl ower garden, which blooms<br />
in a serene interior courtyard.<br />
30 RUE RAMBAUD, TEL: +33 (0)54 641<br />
2399, WWW.HOTELCHAMPLAIN.COM<br />
VISIT: ILE DE RE<br />
Connected to the city by a 2.9 km-long<br />
bridge, this tranquil island (pictured) is<br />
bordered by wide sandy beaches and<br />
laced with bike paths, making it a major<br />
holiday haven for low-key pleasure seekers.<br />
Fortunately, there are plenty of quiet<br />
corners to hide in, even in high season.<br />
TEL: +33 (0)54 609 0055, WWW.ILEDERE.COM<br />
FLY TO LA ROCHELLE FROM FIVE<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING LONDON (STANSTED)<br />
Montpellier<br />
EAT: LE PRE VERT<br />
Stretch out in a lounge chair on the<br />
terrace after a meal in this arty eatery,<br />
located in a gallery-heavy neighbourhood<br />
next to Saint Anne’s Church. Specialising<br />
in light meals and teas, this is also a<br />
happening spot for “le brunch”.<br />
10 RUE ST-ANNE, TEL: +33 (0)46 702 7281<br />
DRINK: CAFE JOSEPH<br />
You don’t have to be a student to enjoy<br />
the vast terrace at this historic café, but<br />
it doesn’t hurt. When the sun is out, head<br />
for the outdoor tables, which spill onto<br />
the vast Place Jean Jaurès. At night, DJs<br />
take over and the party goes on until the<br />
wee hours of the morning.<br />
3 PLACE JEAN JAURES,<br />
TEL: +33 (0)46 766 3195<br />
STAY: HOTEL LE GUILHEM<br />
What was once a 16th-century townhouse<br />
is now a cosy hotel with a lovely garden.<br />
Rooms are modern but decorated with<br />
respect for the building’s long history, and<br />
the pretty views are the icing on the cake.<br />
18 RUE JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, TEL:<br />
+33 (0)46 752 9090, WWW.LEGUILHEM.COM<br />
SEE: MUSEE FABRE<br />
Until 27 June, this prestigious art museum<br />
will be hosting the works of sculptor<br />
Jean-Antoine Houdon (pictured), who<br />
rendered portraits in marble of many<br />
of the superstars of the Enlightenment,<br />
including Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin.<br />
39 BOULEVARD BONNE NOUVELLE, TEL:<br />
+33 (0)46 714 8300, HTTP://MUSEEFABRE.<br />
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DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING FRANKFURT (HAHN)<br />
CURRENCY EURO<br />
POPULATION 65.4 MILLION<br />
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GERMANY<br />
NUMBER CRUNCHER<br />
446m<br />
Altenburg<br />
EAT: DUNEWALD<br />
Altenburg’s premier Fischladen, or fi sh<br />
shop, this place doubles up as a friendly<br />
fi shmonger and seafood eatery,<br />
specialising in lunches and early-evening<br />
servings of whatever arrived fresh that day.<br />
2 WEIBERMARKT, TEL: +49 (0)3447 314<br />
000, WWW.DUENEWALD-FISCH.DE<br />
DRINK: ALTENBURG<br />
BREWERY MUSEUM<br />
The Altenburg Brewery was the fi rst<br />
German beer producer in the 1990s to<br />
revive the forgotten handle-catch bottles.<br />
This museum (pictured) documents<br />
centuries of beer-brewing tradition.<br />
20 BRAUEREISTRASSE, TEL: +49 (0)3447<br />
31290, WWW.ALTENBURGER-BRAUEREI.DE<br />
SHOP: COLDITZ<br />
Famous for its status as a high-security<br />
prisoner of war camp, Colditz castle,<br />
located 28km from Altenburg, is almost<br />
1,000 years old, and was also previously<br />
used as a sanatorium and psychiatric<br />
hospital. Tours offered daily.<br />
1 SCHLOSSGASSE, TEL: +49 (0)3438 143<br />
777, WWW.SCHLOSS-COLDITZ.COM<br />
SEE: PLAYING CARDS MUSEUM<br />
It’s more than just luck of the draw<br />
that Altenburg Castle should house a<br />
world-class museum dedicated to the art<br />
of playing cards: as the birthplace of the<br />
wacky German card game Skat, in the late<br />
19th century, it all makes sense. Peruse a<br />
collection of decks spanning fi ve centuries.<br />
2-4 SCHLOSS, TEL: +49 (0)3447 512 712,<br />
WWW.ALTENBURG.EU<br />
FLY TO ALTENBURG FROM THREE<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING ALICANTE<br />
The number of kilometres German<br />
commuters travel every day.<br />
Koblenz<br />
EAT: ALT COBLENZ<br />
Situated in Koblenz’s old-town<br />
neighbourhood, this rustic-style German<br />
restaurant is the place to sample regional<br />
specialties. Smoke-free, it’s overfl owing<br />
with typical German Gemütlichkeit.<br />
Reservations recommended.<br />
13 AM PLAN, TEL: +49 (0)261 160 656,<br />
WWW.ALT-COBLENZ.DE<br />
DRINK: WEINGUT GOHLEN<br />
In an area famed for its production of<br />
world-class wines, Weingut Göhlen stands<br />
out. Nestled in the idyllic valley next to<br />
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, the rock cellars<br />
and oak barrels leave a lasting impression.<br />
33 MUHLENTAL, TEL: +49 (0)261 77322,<br />
WWW.WEINGUT-GOEHLEN.DE<br />
GO: BURG ELTZ<br />
Like a fairy tale cast in stone, the medieval<br />
Burg Eltz castle is situated 20km from<br />
Koblenz on what was once an important<br />
Roman trading route. In the same family<br />
for 33 generations, its lavishly decorated<br />
rooms, fi lled with antique furniture and<br />
weaponry, are now open to the public.<br />
BURG ELTZ, TEL: +49 (0)267 295 0500,<br />
WWW.BURG-ELTZ.DE<br />
SEE: FESTUNG EHRENBREITSTEIN<br />
Koblenz’s huge Ehrenbreitstein Fortress<br />
(pictured), perched on a hill overlooking<br />
the city on the east side of the River Rhine,<br />
is the largest of its kind in Europe second<br />
only to Gibraltar – and like Gibraltar boasts<br />
of having never been conquered militarily.<br />
FESTUNG EHRENBREITSTEIN, TEL: +49 (0)261<br />
6675 4000, WWW.FESTUNGEHRENBREITSTEIN.DE<br />
FLY TO FRANKFURT (HAHN) FROM 55<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING EDINBURGH<br />
Memmingen<br />
STAY: HOTEL FALKEN<br />
This four-star is easy to identify thanks to<br />
its ornate facade and, at only 15 minutes<br />
from the airport, is well placed if you’re<br />
looking to explore Memmingen’s compact<br />
centre. Business suites include steam<br />
rooms, and secure parking is available.<br />
3-5 ROSSMARKT, TEL: +49 (0)8331 94510,<br />
WWW.HOTEL-FALKEN-MEMMINGEN.COM<br />
DANCE: DISKO PARTIZANI<br />
Touring with a full eight-piece band,<br />
former DJ and BBC World Music awardwinner<br />
Shantel is bringing his Disko<br />
Partizani sound and Bucovina Club Band<br />
to the Kaminwerk (pictured) for a night of<br />
Balkan beats on 23 May.<br />
1 ANSCHUTZSTRASSE, TEL: +49 (0)8331<br />
991 199, WWW.KAMINWERK.DE<br />
DO: STADTFEST<br />
Memmingen’s annual festival, on 12 June,<br />
is the ideal time to end up getting drunk<br />
under the table by the locals. Don’t miss<br />
this traditional picnic of heavy drinking,<br />
cheerful strangers and lard-smeared<br />
bread, all accompanied by live music.<br />
MEMMINGEN ALTSTADT, TEL: +49 (0)8331<br />
109 190, WWW.WERBEGEMEINSCHAFT-MM.DE/<br />
AKTIVITAETEN/STADTFEST.HTML<br />
SEE: OTTOBEUREN ABBEY<br />
Founded in 764, Ottobeuren Abbey<br />
represents the zenith of German baroque<br />
architecture. Still inhabited by monks, the<br />
building is open to visitors, with concerts<br />
held every Saturday.<br />
1 SEBASTIAN-KNEIPP-STRASSE, TEL: +49<br />
(0)8332 7980, WWW.ABTEI-OTTOBEUREN.DE<br />
FLY TO MEMMINGEN (MUNICH WEST) FROM<br />
14 DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING MALAGA<br />
CURRENCY EURO<br />
POPULATION 81.8 MILLION<br />
LANGUAGE GERMAN<br />
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Located on the Greek island of<br />
Rhodes, an ideal location for family<br />
holidays as well as a perfect setting<br />
for a relaxing escape, Sheraton<br />
Rhodes Resort welcomes guests with<br />
gracious Mediterranean hospitality.<br />
Valid from 1st June to 31st July.<br />
180€ in Deluxe Sea View room Bed<br />
and Breakfast Basis<br />
205€<br />
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Book at Sheraton.com/Rhodes<br />
or call +30 22410 75000<br />
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www.select-restaurant.com<br />
Mr Sotiris Vorrias and the personnel of Tavern SELECT and Gourmet Restaurant STADIUM welcome<br />
you to the beautiful Island of Kos. We wish you a pleasant stay and an unforgettable holiday!<br />
In our Tavern “Select” you will taste the biggest selection of Greek specialties, combined with the extraordinary<br />
view of the ancient Market, in the center of Kos town. (located at the beginning of the famous Bar street)<br />
As another option for Gourmet lovers, in our restaurant “STADIUM” you will experience true gourmet, creative Mediterranean<br />
and International haut cuisine. Stadium is located in one of the most beautiful sea side roads on the way to Marina of Kos.<br />
ENJOY WITH US A DELICIOUS JOURNEY OF TASTES<br />
For reservations and individual orders please contact Mr Sotiris Vorrias,<br />
<br />
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Ryanair Two-Minute Guides<br />
GREECE<br />
NUMBER CRUNCHER<br />
The number of inhabited Greek Islands<br />
(there are over 6,000 islands in total).<br />
227<br />
Kos<br />
EAT: PLATANOS<br />
Serving seriously delicious moussaka,<br />
and souvláki straight from the grill, this<br />
informal taverna can be found right next<br />
to a huge plane tree said to have been<br />
planted by Hippocrates, the ancient Greek<br />
physician, who was born here in 460BC.<br />
PLATEIA PLATANOU, TEL: +30 22420 28991<br />
LISTEN: TAM TAM<br />
Head down to this lively beach bar and<br />
relax to the sounds of Greek bouzouki<br />
music. Thatched sun canopies and huge<br />
palm trees give the place lots of character.<br />
There’s a play area for toddlers and a<br />
super cocktail menu for the grown-ups.<br />
MASTICHARI, TEL: +30 69444 37027,<br />
WWW.TAMTAM.GR<br />
STAY: PELOPAS RESORT<br />
This new resort has 50 suites, each<br />
boasting a bright Mediterranean decor<br />
and a whole host of facilities. Guests can<br />
work out in the gymnasium, relax in the<br />
spa, or dine on local cuisine in the taverna.<br />
There’s a kids’ pool and play area, too.<br />
TIGKAKI, TEL: +30 22420 68163,<br />
WWW.PELOPASRESORT.COM<br />
VISIT: ASKLEPIEION<br />
No visit to Kos would be complete without<br />
a trip to the ancient and awesome site of<br />
Asklepieíon (pictured). A healing sanctuary<br />
dating from around the third century BC,<br />
it has well-preserved remains of temples<br />
dedicated to the gods Asklepios and<br />
Apollo, Roman baths and a chapel.<br />
ASKLEPIEION, TEL: +30 22420 29200<br />
(TOURIST OFFICE)<br />
FLY TO KOS FROM FRANKFURT (HAHN)<br />
AND MILAN (BERGAMO)<br />
Rhodes<br />
EAT: ALEXIS RESTAURANT<br />
This atmospheric eatery has been around<br />
since the 1970s. Family-run, it specialises<br />
in seafood and classic local dishes, made<br />
using organic produce from its gardens.<br />
The sargos, a sea-bream type fi sh, comes<br />
highly recommended. Booking advised.<br />
18 SOKRATOUS, OLD TOWN,<br />
TEL: +30 2241 029347<br />
DRINK: VIVEUR WINE BAR<br />
Relax to the sounds of R&B, pop, indie<br />
and Greek rock at this slick wine bar in the<br />
heart of town. Its sophisticated decor of<br />
chrome and stone provides the perfect<br />
setting for its trendy young clientèle.<br />
CORNER OF PLATANOS AND EVRIPIDOU<br />
STREETS, OLD TOWN, TEL: +30 6937 228252,<br />
WWW.VIVEUR.GR<br />
STAY: AMATHUS BEACH HOTEL<br />
For a touch of luxury, check into this<br />
fi ve-star hotel a few kilometres along the<br />
coast from Rhodes Town – the in-house<br />
wellbeing centre and sports amenities<br />
take some beating. There’s also a business<br />
suite, children’s play areas and restaurants.<br />
100 IRAKLIDON AVENUE, IXIA, TEL: +30<br />
2241 089900, WWW.AMATHUS-HOTELS.COM<br />
SEE: PALACE OF<br />
THE GRAND MASTERS<br />
Dominating the “living museum” of<br />
medieval Rhodes, which dates from the<br />
time of the Knights Hospitallers, this replica<br />
of the Knights’ palace (pictured) that once<br />
stood here today houses a museum.<br />
PALACE OF THE GRAND MASTERS, IPPOTON<br />
STREET, OLD TOWN, TEL: +30 2241 025500<br />
FLY TO RHODES FROM MILAN (BERGAMO)<br />
AND PISA (FLORENCE)<br />
Volos<br />
EAT: GIANNAKOS<br />
What this compact taverna lacks in size<br />
it more than makes up for in atmosphere<br />
and generous helpings. Start off with the<br />
taramasalata dip, followed by kleftiko lamb<br />
or keftedes meatballs, or try them all by<br />
having a mezedes of 20 or more dishes.<br />
PLATEIA EPTA, TEL: +30 24210 28730<br />
DRINK: FLO CAFE<br />
Give the ice-cold juice a try or opt for<br />
a Mythos beer at the fashionable Flo Café<br />
on the harbourside. If you fancy a snack<br />
with your drink, try the sea bream scharas,<br />
fresh from the grill, or tasty kalamari with<br />
lemon and a Greek salad.<br />
63 ARGONAFTON, TEL: +30 2421 039283<br />
STAY: VOLOS PALACE<br />
All the best bits of neo-classical<br />
architecture went into the design of this<br />
calmly stylish hotel that looks right over<br />
the Pagasitic Gulf. Rooms are sumptuous<br />
in earthy tones, its business centre is top<br />
notch and the restaurant features fresh<br />
fl owers and crisp white linens.<br />
XENOFONTOS STREET AND THRAKON,<br />
TEL: +30 2421 076501, WWW.VOLOSPALACE.GR<br />
ADMIRE: PAPASTRATOS<br />
Located on the seafront, this former<br />
tobacco warehouse (pictured) has been<br />
given a facelift to become the landmark<br />
of Volos. Surrounded by neo-classical<br />
buildings and looking out over the harbour,<br />
Papastratos is now a cultural centre and<br />
part of the university. Its terrace is where<br />
locals and students come to chill out.<br />
THE ESPLANADE, TEL: +30 2421 023500<br />
FLY TO VOLOS FROM FRANKFURT (HAHN)<br />
AND MILAN (BERGAMO)<br />
CURRENCY EURO<br />
POPULATION 11.3 MILLION<br />
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OUR LADY’S SHRINE, CO. MAYO, IRELAND<br />
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PROGRAMME OF CEREMONIES AND DEVOTIONS<br />
April 25th to October 10th, <strong>2010</strong><br />
6 Public Masses each day<br />
Confessions from: 11.00 am onwards<br />
Public Devotions: Weekdays 2.00 pm - Sundays 2.30 pm<br />
National Public Novena (14 - 22 Aug. incl.) 3.00 pm & 8.30 pm<br />
New Offi ce & Bookshop, now open at 101 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 2BQ<br />
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KNOCK MUSEUM Captures the compelling story of<br />
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witnessed this extraordinary event and the stories of the many<br />
pilgrims who have come to Knock since then.<br />
Opening Hours: May-Oct: 10am - 6pm daily • Nov-April: 12pm - 4pm<br />
Email: museum@knock-shrine.ie | Tel: +353 (0) 94 9375034<br />
Ideal base for touring the West<br />
• 70 En-Suite Bedrooms<br />
• 150 Seater Conference Centre<br />
• Four Seasons Restaurant<br />
• Groups welcome<br />
• Courtesy coach to/from Knock Airport<br />
Ballyhaunis Rd., Knock, Co. Mayo. | Tel: +353 (0) 94 9388088<br />
Email: info@knockhousehotel.ie | Web: www.knockhousehotel.ie<br />
SPECIAL<br />
OFFERS<br />
MAY & JUNE<br />
3 Bed & Breakfast<br />
+ 2 Dinner<br />
€215.00 p.p.s.<br />
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for dates and ticket information or log on to<br />
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For our full route map visit www.ryanair.com TEXT BY PETER GEOGHEGAN<br />
Ryanair Two-Minute Guides<br />
IRELAND<br />
NUMBER CRUNCHER<br />
155<br />
Cork<br />
The amount of beer, in litres, consumed by the average<br />
Irish person every year, the highest in Europe.<br />
GO: BUTTER MUSEUM<br />
Dating back to 1770, Cork’s butter<br />
exchange was once the largest exporter<br />
of salted butter in the world. The original<br />
exchange closed in 1924, but this quirky<br />
museum (pictured) celebrates butter<br />
in Irish life from medieval times to the<br />
present day. One for the dairy.<br />
O’CONNELL SQUARE, TEL: +353 (0)21<br />
430 0600, WWW.CORKBUTTER.MUSEUM<br />
DRINK: FRANCISCAN<br />
WELL BREWERY<br />
Built on the site of a monastery, this brewpub<br />
is great – though with so much good<br />
beer it’s easy to end up a bit “langered”<br />
(that’s Cork for drunk). The Friar Weisse<br />
rivals anything you’ll fi nd in Germany.<br />
14B NORTH MALL, TEL: +353 (0)21 421<br />
0130, WWW.FRANCISCANWELLBREWERY.COM<br />
STAY: LONGUEVILLE HOUSE<br />
This country pile outside Mallow is one of<br />
Ireland’s fi nest. Rooms are furnished in<br />
old-world style with family heirlooms and<br />
period pieces, while the Presidents’ Room,<br />
William O’Callaghan’s award-winning<br />
restaurant, is worth the visit alone.<br />
MALLOW, TEL: +353 (0)22 47156,<br />
WWW.LONGUEVILLEHOUSE.IE<br />
DO: MEADOWS & BYRNE<br />
Attractive, contemporary furnishings are<br />
the order of the day in this city-centre<br />
emporium. Inside you’ll fi nd lots of Irish<br />
design and crafts including Jerpoint glass<br />
and Shanagarry and Jack O’Patsy pottery.<br />
ACADEMY STREET, TEL: +353 (0)21 427<br />
2324, WWW.MEADOWSANDBYRNE.COM<br />
FLY TO CORK FROM 12 DESTINATIONS,<br />
INCLUDING DUBLIN AND FARO (ALGARVE)<br />
Dublin<br />
EAT: PABLO PICANTE<br />
A mural of fi ctional Mexican masked<br />
wrestler Pablo Picante is painted inside<br />
this trendy taquiria. Be sure to wrestle<br />
yourself a barbacoa – shredded beef,<br />
refried beans, rice and salsa in a tortilla.<br />
131 LOWER BAGGOT STREET,<br />
WWW.PABLOPICANTE.IE<br />
DRINK: THE PORTERHOUSE<br />
Guinness isn’t the only drink in town. This<br />
friendly microbrewery in the centre of<br />
Dublin produces a wide range of excellent<br />
stouts, ales and lagers. Vegetarians should<br />
stay clear of the Oyster Stout – it really is<br />
made with fresh oysters.<br />
16-18 PARLIAMENT STREET,<br />
TEL: +353 (0)1 679 8847,<br />
WWW.PORTERHOUSEBREWCO.COM<br />
STAY: MORGAN HOTEL<br />
An oasis of calm in Temple Bar, this stylish<br />
boutique hotel (pictured) is a favourite<br />
among fashionistas and musicians.<br />
Rooms are minimalist and chic while the<br />
funky cocktail bar is the perfect place to<br />
start – or end – your night.<br />
10 FLEET STREET, TEL: +353 (0)1 643<br />
7000, WWW.THEMORGAN.COM<br />
GO: FRY MODEL RAILWAY<br />
MUSEUM<br />
This impressive museum on the grounds<br />
of Malahide Castle features handmade<br />
models of more than 300 Irish trains<br />
along with stations, bridges, trams, buses,<br />
barges, boats and even the River Liffey.<br />
MALAHIDE CASTLE, TEL: +353 (0)1 846<br />
3779, WWW.MALAHIDECASTLE.COM<br />
FLY TO DUBLIN FROM 77 DESTINATIONS,<br />
INCLUDING BRISTOL AND MALTA<br />
Kerry<br />
EAT: ASHE’S SEAFOOD BAR<br />
Comfort food is the order of the day in<br />
this smart-but-cosy town-centre seafood<br />
restaurant and wine bar. Chef Sean<br />
Roche’s fi sh pie is legendary among locals<br />
and visitors alike, while the beef and<br />
Guinness stew is the best in town.<br />
MAIN STREET, DINGLE, TEL: +353 (0)66<br />
915 0989, WWW.ASHESSEAFOODBAR.COM<br />
STAY: BENNERS HOTEL<br />
Situated in the centre of the colourful<br />
fi shing port of Dingle, Benners is<br />
something of a Kerry institution. Inside<br />
the elegant 19th-century townhouse<br />
you’ll fi nd surprisingly spacious rooms<br />
at remarkably reasonable rates.<br />
MAIN STREET, DINGLE, TEL: +353 (0)66<br />
915 1638, WWW.DINGLEBENNERS.COM<br />
VISIT: MURPHY’S ICE CREAM<br />
Founded over a decade ago by Seán and<br />
Kieran Murphy, this wonderful ice cream<br />
parlour (pictured) boasts that its produce<br />
is “made with love in Dingle”. Treat yourself,<br />
sit back and watch the world go by.<br />
STRAND STREET, DINGLE, TEL: +353<br />
(0)66 915 2644, WWW.MURPHYSICECREAM.IE<br />
GO: BLASKET ISLANDS<br />
Take the ferry from the mainland to enjoy<br />
Ireland at its wildest and most starkly<br />
beautiful. The Blasket group of islands<br />
were inhabited until 1953, when only 22<br />
residents remained, but nowadays are<br />
home only to sea birds and, occasionally,<br />
Ireland’s favourite dolphin, Fungie.<br />
TEL: +353 (0)66 915 1344,<br />
WWW.DINGLEBAYCHARTERS.COM<br />
FLY TO KERRY FROM SEVEN DESTINATIONS,<br />
INCLUDING LONDON (LUTON AND STANSTED)<br />
CURRENCY EURO<br />
POPULATION 4.5 MILLION<br />
LANGUAGE ENGLISH & IRISH GAELIC<br />
Tabhair póg<br />
dom, is<br />
Éireannach<br />
mé!<br />
KISS ME,<br />
I’M IRISH!<br />
Imigh is faigh<br />
do chóta<br />
gasta, bhréag<br />
tú mé!<br />
GET YOUR COAT,<br />
YOU’VE PULLED!<br />
Say this… not this.<br />
OPENING JUNE 12 th <strong>2010</strong><br />
JULIAN BENSON<br />
PRODUCTIONS PRESENT<br />
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from<br />
€49pp<br />
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from<br />
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includes:<br />
4 course dinner<br />
& show<br />
Overnight B&B<br />
+ dinner & show<br />
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Bookings: 01 618 5600<br />
Email: reservations@burlingtonhotel.ie<br />
www.burlingtonhotel.ie/celticrising<br />
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The Hotel Tarthesh is a luxurious and peaceful 4 star hotel situated<br />
on the island of Sardinia. Set amidst the lush Italian greenery this<br />
will make for a relaxing, serene and very comfortable break.<br />
Our restaurant will provide you with beautifully local cuisine<br />
and of course, pay a visit to our wine cellar! We would be<br />
delighted to welcome you down here to sample some fine<br />
wine and local dishes in a warm and rustic atmosphere!<br />
<br />
MAY-JUNE SPECIAL OFFER<br />
3 nights for the price of 2 from €72.00 pp<br />
<br />
Guspini - Sardegna – Italy
PHOTOS: ANDREA MASSERANTI; FONDAZIONE ARENA DI VERONA<br />
For our full route map visit www.ryanair.com TEXT BY JAMES WILLIAMS<br />
Ryanair Two-Minute Guides<br />
ITALY<br />
NUMBER CRUNCHER<br />
138<br />
Brindisi<br />
The number of steps leading to the roof of Milan’s<br />
Duomo, the second-largest cathedral in the world.<br />
EAT: MENHIR<br />
Offering a modern take on Puglian<br />
cuisine, this minimalist restaurant near<br />
the cathedral serves up the likes of grilled<br />
calamari with mozzarella and chard, and<br />
baked sea bass with truffl e mash. There’s<br />
a great choice of wines on offer, too.<br />
18 VIA MARCO PACUVIO, TEL: +39 0831<br />
562 836, WWW.RISTORANTEMENHIR.IT<br />
STAY: MASSERIA IL FRANTOIO<br />
This farmhouse B&B (pictured) boasts<br />
beautiful, rustic rooms set amid an olive<br />
orchard near the town of Ostuni. The<br />
kitchen prepares meals using home-grown<br />
produce, and guests can pick up some of<br />
their speciality olive oils, jams and liqueurs.<br />
SS 16 KM 874, OSTUNI, TEL: +39 0831<br />
330 276, WWW.TRECOLLINE.IT<br />
SEE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM<br />
Browse the Roman statues in togas, Greek<br />
vases and other valuable fi nds at this<br />
treasure trove of a museum. The highlight<br />
is the collection of Hellenistic bronzes and<br />
sculptures found north of Brindisi harbour<br />
in 1992 – a haul of nearly 3,000 pieces.<br />
8 PIAZZA DEL DUOMO,<br />
TEL: +39 0831 565 508<br />
GO: GALLIPOLI<br />
A small fi shing port on the Ionian coast<br />
80km south of Brindisi, Gallipoli is famous<br />
for its pretty seafront. Some of the region’s<br />
best beaches are a short drive away,<br />
while its own sandy stretch is perfect for<br />
a morning dip followed by lunch at one of<br />
the fi sh restaurants nearby.<br />
GALLIPOLI<br />
FLY TO BRINDISI FROM 10 DESTINATIONS,<br />
INCLUDING BILLUND AND VENICE (TREVISO)<br />
Rome<br />
EAT: DA GINO<br />
Dine alongside politicians and journalists<br />
in this backstreet eatery, situated around<br />
the corner from Piazza del Parlamento.<br />
One of the best places for authentic<br />
Roman cuisine, dishes include osso buco,<br />
gnocchi and abbacchio alla cacciatora<br />
(lamb with garlic and anchovies).<br />
4 VICOLO ROSINI, TEL: +39 066 873 434<br />
DRINK: AL VINO AL VINO<br />
Connoisseurs of fi ne booze will love this<br />
bar specialising in distillati, offering scores<br />
of top-quality whiskies, grappas and other<br />
spirits. There are also over 500 wines to<br />
choose from, which you can sip amid the<br />
contemporary paintings and rustic interior.<br />
19 VIA DEI SERPENTI, TEL: +39 06 485 803<br />
STAY: DAPHNE INN<br />
Friendly staff, affordable rates and a great<br />
location near Via Veneto make this B&B<br />
(pictured) an ideal base for exploring the<br />
city. Rooms come equipped with wi-fi and a<br />
free mobile for your stay, plus super-comfy<br />
Dorelan mattresses and crisp linens.<br />
55 VIA DI SAN BASILIO, TEL: +39 06 8745<br />
0086, WWW.DAPHNE-ROME.COM<br />
SEE: KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE<br />
High on the list of any tourist itinerary<br />
should be a visit to the former home of<br />
poet John Keats, who died here in 1821.<br />
At the foot of the Spanish Steps, it is<br />
brimming with romantic mementoes,<br />
letters and poems that pay tribute to Keats<br />
and fellow lyricist Percy Shelley.<br />
26 PIAZZA DI SPAGNA, TEL: +39 06 678<br />
4235, WWW.KEATS-SHELLEY-HOUSE.ORG<br />
FLY TO ROME FROM 30 DESTINATIONS,<br />
INCLUDING IBIZA AND OSLO (TORP)<br />
Verona<br />
EAT: IL DESCO<br />
Exposed timber beams and fi ne art set<br />
the scene for some sumptuous cuisine<br />
at this Michelin-starred restaurant. Dine<br />
on refi ned local dishes such as braised<br />
beef cheek with goose liver, and steamed<br />
seafood with asparagus and passion fruit.<br />
7 VIA DIETRO SAN SEBASTIANO,<br />
TEL: +39 045 595 358, WWW.ILDESCO.COM<br />
STAY: HOTEL GABBIA D’ORO<br />
This 18th-century palazzo in the historic<br />
centre is a world away from modern<br />
designer pads. Rooms at the fi ve-star have<br />
a quirky, olde-worlde feel, with huge beds,<br />
oriental rugs and luxury fabrics.<br />
4A CORSO PORTA BORSARI, TEL: +39 045<br />
800 3060, WWW.HOTELGABBIADORO.IT<br />
SEE: ARENA<br />
Catching an open-air opera, concert<br />
or play at the city’s foremost Roman<br />
landmark (pictured) is a must. In ancient<br />
times, up to 30,000 people would cram<br />
in to watch shows of gladiatorial combat,<br />
while highlights this June include the more<br />
serene Turandot and Carmen.<br />
1 PIAZZA BRA, TEL: +39 045 800 3204,<br />
WWW.ARENA.IT<br />
GO: PARCO DELLE CASCATE<br />
A short drive north from Verona will take<br />
you to these picturesque waterfalls and<br />
hiking trails set amid lush woodland. Along<br />
with the fl ora and fauna, don’t miss the<br />
stunning views of the countryside and farm<br />
buildings made from locally quarried stone.<br />
MOLINA, TEL: +39 045 772 0185,<br />
WWW.PARCODELLECASCATE.IT<br />
FLY TO VERONA (BRESCIA) FROM THREE<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING CAGLIARI<br />
CURRENCY EURO<br />
POPULATION 60.2 MILLION<br />
LANGUAGE ITALIAN<br />
Che<br />
problema<br />
c’è agente?<br />
Cento<br />
euro sono<br />
suffi cienti?<br />
WHAT IS THE<br />
PROBLEM, OFFICER? IS €100 ENOUGH?<br />
Say this… not this.<br />
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John & Joan Mc Bride Welcome you to the<br />
Plum Tree Bar & Restaurant.<br />
Serving a blend of Local, Mediterranean & Continental food. In<br />
an informal & friendly setting, al fresco seating available.<br />
We are situated in Qawra within walking distance of most hotels<br />
& 5 mins walk from the bus terminus.<br />
We are open Nov - June 11am till midnight everyday except<br />
Monday & 5pm till midnight all week July - October.<br />
Triq l-imhar, Qawra, Malta. Tel:21575970<br />
www.the-plumtree-malta.com<br />
Great People, Great Food, Great Value....<br />
your r choice of two hotels in Malta<br />
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Vertical Thoughts<br />
Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts<br />
<br />
31 March - 27 June <strong>2010</strong><br />
Rothko Guston Pollock de Kooning Mondrian<br />
Reinhardt Johns Twombly Rauschenberg Newman<br />
Irish Museum of Modern Art<br />
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8<br />
t 01 612 9900 e info@imma.ie<br />
w www.imma.ie<br />
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Mark Rothko, The Green Stripe, 1955, Oil on canvas, 170.2 x 141.7 cm, The Ménil Collection,<br />
Houston. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko ARS, NY and DACS, London <strong>2010</strong>
PHOTO: VANICSEK PETER<br />
For our full route map visit www.ryanair.com TEXT BY JO CARUANA<br />
Ryanair Two-Minute Guides<br />
MALTA<br />
NUMBER CRUNCHER<br />
359<br />
The number of<br />
churches in Malta.<br />
St Julian’s<br />
EAT: BARRACUDA<br />
This seaside restaurant offers incredible<br />
views of the Mediterranean and wonderful<br />
seafood. Plus, as a past haunt of stars<br />
including Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom and<br />
Madonna, you’re in good company. Book<br />
ahead to secure a table on the veranda.<br />
194-195 MAIN STREET, TEL: +356 2133<br />
1817, WWW.WGC-GROUP.COM<br />
DRINK: HUGO’S LOUNGE<br />
Within the busy centre of Paceville,<br />
Malta’s party district, Hugo’s Lounge is a<br />
haven of sophistication and upmarket fun.<br />
The cocktail list is hard to beat, while the<br />
party atmosphere lives on into the wee<br />
hours upstairs at Shadow Lounge.<br />
ST GEORGE’S ROAD, PACEVILLE,<br />
TEL: +356 2138 2264,<br />
WWW.HUGOSLOUNGEMALTA.COM<br />
STAY: HOTEL JULIANI<br />
Just off the island’s pretty St Julian’s<br />
fi shing bay, this is Malta’s only<br />
boutique hotel (pictured). The fourstar<br />
establishment offers luxurious<br />
accommodation in tranquil surroundings,<br />
chic decor and excellent dining options.<br />
12 ST GEORGE’S ROAD, TEL: +356 2138<br />
8000, WWW.HOTELJULIANI.COM<br />
RELAX: MERIDIEN SPA<br />
This indulgent spa offers some wonderful<br />
treatments, including aromatherapy<br />
massages and La Prairie facials. There’s<br />
also a delightful indoor pool perfect for<br />
whiling away the hours in.<br />
39 MAIN STREET, BALLUTA BAY, TEL: +356<br />
2311 0000, WWW.LEMERIDIENMALTA.COM<br />
FLY TO MALTA (LUQA) FROM 19<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING BOURNEMOUTH<br />
Valletta<br />
EAT: MALATA<br />
Set in the recently refreshed Palace<br />
Square, this charming eatery offers<br />
French and Mediterranean cuisine, as<br />
well as oodles of atmosphere. Dine in the<br />
500-year-old cellar, or al fresco under the<br />
trees, relaxing to the sounds of live jazz.<br />
PALACE SQUARE, TEL: +356 2123 3967,<br />
WWW.MALATAMALTA.COM<br />
DRINK: THE PUB<br />
This dinky hole-in-the-wall got its 15<br />
minutes of fame when it became the last<br />
drinking spot of actor Oliver Reed before<br />
he died in Malta while fi lming in 1999.<br />
Order a pint and settle down to hear some<br />
anecdotes from affable owner Graham.<br />
136 ARCHBISHOP’S STREET,<br />
TEL: +356 2123 7525<br />
STAY: THE PHOENICIA<br />
This central hotel is an oasis of calm<br />
amid the chaos that beckons beyond its<br />
door. Set in acres of mature gardens with<br />
glorious views, it was even home to royalty<br />
when, in 1949, the then-Princess Elizabeth<br />
and Prince Philip came for a holiday.<br />
THE MALL, TEL: +356 2122 5241,<br />
WWW.PHOENICIAMALTA.COM<br />
SEE: THE GRANDMASTER’S<br />
PALACE<br />
One of the island’s gems, this 16th-century<br />
palace (pictured) was built by the Knights<br />
of St John. Today it houses the offi ces<br />
of the Prime Minister, as well as the<br />
Palace Armoury, with its rich collection of<br />
historical weapons, and the State Rooms.<br />
PALACE SQUARE TEL: +365 2122 1221<br />
FLY TO MALTA (LUQA) FROM 19<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING KRAKOW<br />
Victoria<br />
EAT: IT-TMUN VICTORIA<br />
While it <strong>may</strong> not look like much from the<br />
outside, this beguiling little restaurant<br />
instantly woos you once you get in the<br />
door. The fare is a Mediterranean mix with<br />
French touches: we love the pork belly for<br />
mains, followed by cinnamon ice-cream.<br />
Private dining also available.<br />
EUROPE STREET, TEL: +356 2156 6667<br />
DRINK: CAFE JUBILEE<br />
This place (pictured) has become a local<br />
institution, with franchises popping up in<br />
Malta and overseas. But this is where it all<br />
began. Inside is dark and cosy, with knickknacks<br />
adorning the walls, and a crowd<br />
that tends to spill out onto the piazza.<br />
6 LIBRARY STREET, TEL: +356 2155 4288,<br />
WWW.CAFEJUBILEE.COM<br />
STAY: DOWNTOWN HOTEL<br />
You’re actually not spoilt for choice when<br />
it comes to places to lay your head in<br />
Gozo’s capital, but this offering is<br />
centrally located and the rates are fair.<br />
The spacious rooms are well-equipped,<br />
with some offering pretty country views.<br />
EUROPE STREET, TEL: +356 2210 8000,<br />
WWW.DOWNTOWN.COM.MT<br />
SEE: THE CITADELLA<br />
Gozo’s walled city, with its winding streets<br />
and historic architecture, was built during<br />
the Aragonese period and refortifi ed by<br />
the Knights in 1599. Today it houses the<br />
island’s cathedral, as well as the Folklore<br />
Museum and Old Prison. The views from<br />
the top are unmissable.<br />
POPE JOHN PAUL II STREET<br />
FLY TO MALTA (LUQA) FROM 19<br />
DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING SEVILLE<br />
CURRENCY EURO<br />
POPULATION 410,000<br />
LANGUAGE MALTESE, ENGLISH<br />
Dan<br />
Tqil<br />
Dik<br />
tqila<br />
THIS IS HEAVY SHE’S PREGNANT<br />
Say this… not this.<br />
British<br />
Hotel **<br />
www.britishhotel.com<br />
The British Hotel is the longest established<br />
hotel in Valletta, located in one of the<br />
city’s quaint terraced streets.<br />
This affordable two star, family-ownedand-run-hotel,<br />
overlooks the magnificent<br />
Grand Harbour. Our restaurant, lounge bar<br />
and most of our guest bedrooms offer<br />
panoramic views of this historic<br />
and picturesque harbour.<br />
For lunch or dinner make<br />
sure you head out to our<br />
capital city Valletta for an<br />
excellent meal, a magnificent<br />
view and good old fashioned<br />
customer service.<br />
40, Battery Street<br />
Valletta, MALTA<br />
T.+356 21224730<br />
E.reservations@britishhotel.com<br />
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Holidays don’t get<br />
better than this!<br />
TO A FANTASTIC <strong>2010</strong> HOLIDAY IN SOUTHERN SPAIN...<br />
Come and enjoy a break at one of our Luxury Resorts in<br />
Southern Spain and enjoy the delights and sights of the<br />
fantastic, Costa del Sol. Stay in one of our stylish golf,<br />
hillside or Front line beach Resorts for an incredible £129<br />
for the whole family. This is accommodation for up to six<br />
people, an offer that just can’t be missed!<br />
or 0845 092 0180<br />
One week’s<br />
accomodation<br />
for only<br />
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WHY NOT TREAT YOURSELF AND THE FAMILY<br />
For information & reservations<br />
+34 952 839 190 (ext 183)<br />
www.heritageresorts.com<br />
STUDY SPANISH IN MALAGA<br />
Malaca Instituto has been teaching<br />
Spanish for almost 40 years. We are<br />
widely regarded within the industry<br />
as one of the top schools of Spanish<br />
worldwide. We off er:<br />
• A cosmopolitan mini-campus in Malaga<br />
• High quality living, leisure and study facilities<br />
• Top quality tuition<br />
• Courses to meet all needs and all ages<br />
• Fantastic opportunities for social networking<br />
• Quality guarantees<br />
Tel. (34) 952 32 42<br />
Email: online@malacainstituto.com<br />
www.malacainstituto.com
Maintained at a constant minus 5 degrees all year<br />
round, ABSOLUT ICEBAR is literally the UK’s coolest bar.<br />
Everything is made from crystal clear ice from<br />
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EAT: PURNELL’S<br />
Close to the top of Birmingham’s<br />
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55 CORNWALL STREET, TEL: +44 (0)121<br />
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STAY: HOTEL DU VIN<br />
What do you do with a disused eye<br />
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25 CHURCH STREET, TEL: +44 (0)121 200<br />
0600, WWW.HOTELDUVIN.COM<br />
SEE: ST PAULS GALLERY<br />
This is your one-stop shop for<br />
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and wait for a waiter to present you with<br />
the “beef board”, which contains a selection<br />
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DRINK: JAKES BAR<br />
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STAY: 42 THE CALLS<br />
Housed in a former mill, this hotel is<br />
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SEE: THACKRAY<br />
MEDICAL MUSEUM<br />
Those with a taste for the macabre will<br />
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last 200 years of medicine from Victorian<br />
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BECKETT STREET, TEL: +44 (0)113 244<br />
4343, WWW.THACKRAYMUSEUM.ORG<br />
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EAT: 108 MARYLEBONE LANE<br />
A delight in the heart of London, 108<br />
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108 MARYLEBONE LANE, TEL: +44 (0)20<br />
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DRINK: COQUINE<br />
Aimed at a fashionable crowd, Coquine bar<br />
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160 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, TEL: +44 (0)20<br />
7341 7678, WWW.COQUINELONDON.COM<br />
STAY: MANDEVILLE HOTEL<br />
The Mandeville, always a luxurious<br />
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7935 5599, WWW.MANDEVILLE.CO.UK<br />
SEE: BELMONT CHILDREN’S FARM<br />
With its menagerie of pigs, goats, owls<br />
and alpacas, this place allows you to give<br />
your city-slicker kid a taste of a more<br />
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If there is one thing that defines the<br />
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So stunning is the landscape of this region<br />
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It is a harsh, yet beautiful land, worked by<br />
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years; however still being a valuable habitat for<br />
local vegetation and wildlife. It is a land of mist<br />
and water, in which the brilliant light, filtered by<br />
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Natural Parks<br />
The Net of Natural Protected Spaces from<br />
Cantabria is integrated by 37 spaces. Of them, one is<br />
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Active tourism<br />
One of the main Jacobean routes, the<br />
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an ideal destination to practise adventure<br />
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TRY A CITY BREAK<br />
WITH A TWIST!<br />
Between the Oslo Fjord and the snow clad hills<br />
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easy access to outdoor activities<br />
gives visitors opportunities for a<br />
unique city break. Try skiing in<br />
the famous Holmenkollen, see the<br />
original Viking ships and go to a concert all in<br />
the same day.<br />
THE CAPITAL OF SKIING<br />
Skiing enthusiasts do not have to head to the<br />
mountains for a wintry holiday.<br />
During the Oslo winter months you can combine<br />
the buzz of a capital city with good skiing,<br />
fresh air and tranquil forests. In less than 20<br />
minutes from the busy city streets you arrive in<br />
untouched nature. More than 2,000 kilometres<br />
of prepared cross-country ski-trails bring<br />
you deep into the peaceful forests, known as<br />
“Marka” to Norwegians. If feeling a little tired<br />
or cold, more than 60 cosy cabins welcomes<br />
you in for a drink of hot chocolate in front of<br />
an open fi re. In Holmenkollen you will also fi nd<br />
a modern alpine ski centre with plenty of challenges,<br />
the Oslo Winter Park Tryvann. Oslo is<br />
probably the only capital in the world where<br />
you will see people on the metro carrying skis<br />
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snow you can head downtown to what is probably<br />
the largest après-ski in the world.<br />
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RYANAIR INFLIGHT PROMOTION<br />
RYGGE OSLO – ET NATURLIG STED Å<br />
STARTE FOR FJORDEVENTYRET<br />
Selv om Oslofjorden er imponerende, kan den<br />
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Det aller enkleste og raskeste er å ta<br />
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umiddelbar nærhet til fjordeventyret.<br />
BENYTT SJANSEN TIL Å SE NORDLYSET<br />
Med fl y fra Rygge tar det to timer til Tromsø,<br />
hovedstaden i det arktiske Norge. I perioder<br />
under vinteren går solen aldri opp og det magiske<br />
nordlyset tar over. Er du heldig vil du få se<br />
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WHAT TO DO IN<br />
WINTER OSLO?<br />
Try cross-country skiing in the<br />
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of kilometres with tranquil ski<br />
slopes await you, some even with<br />
fl oodlights.<br />
Go downhill skiiing at Tryvann<br />
Winter Park. You can hire equipment<br />
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See the world’s two best-preserved<br />
wooden Viking ships built in the 9th<br />
century at the Viking Ship Museum.<br />
Visit the amazing Vigeland<br />
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sculptures in bronze, granite and<br />
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Eat and drink at the many great<br />
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CUSTOMER SERVICE STATISTICS<br />
FEBRUARY <strong>2010</strong> (31,000 FLIGHTS)<br />
On-time fl ights 83%<br />
Complaints per 1,000 pax 0.86<br />
Baggage complaints per 1,000 pax 0.23<br />
Complaints answered<br />
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All passengers now check-in online using Ryanair’s<br />
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AIRLINE RANKING %<br />
Ryanair 1 93<br />
Lufthansa 2 85<br />
Air France 3 83<br />
British Airways 3 83<br />
Aer Lingus 4 82<br />
Iberia 5 70<br />
easyJet 6 RTP<br />
MAJOR AIRLINES FOR<br />
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AIRLINE RANKING BAGGAGE LOST<br />
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Ryanair 1 0.36<br />
Lufthansa 2 11<br />
British Airways 3 16<br />
TAP 4 17<br />
Air France 5 19<br />
easyJet RTP<br />
Aer Lingus RTP<br />
*Source: Ryanair, Aer Lingus, easyJet and Association of European Airlines<br />
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HOW DO WE COMPARE?<br />
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As a result of this investment and<br />
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MYSMOOTHIE<br />
250ml<br />
€2.50<br />
LIPTON ICE TEA<br />
250ml<br />
€2.50<br />
NEW!<br />
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ENERGY SHOT<br />
€3.00<br />
REFRESHING<br />
WATER<br />
500ml<br />
€3.00<br />
RED BULL<br />
250ml<br />
€3.50<br />
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ALCOHOL<br />
SAILE & SABGA<br />
GOURMET ESPRESSO<br />
Black, frothy and creamy<br />
€3.00<br />
SAILE & SABGA<br />
GOURMET HOT<br />
CHOCOLATE, ESPRESSO,<br />
CAPPUCCINO, TEA &<br />
COFFEE<br />
€3.00<br />
BEER<br />
(selection available)<br />
€4.50<br />
KOPPARBERG<br />
PEAR CIDER<br />
€5.00<br />
BUY<br />
ONE GET<br />
ANY OTHER<br />
FREE!<br />
BULLSEYE BAGGIES<br />
Brandy, gin, rum, vodka or whisky.<br />
25ml<br />
€5.50<br />
SAILE & SABGA<br />
PREMIUM WINES<br />
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or white Chardonnay.<br />
18.7cl<br />
€5.95<br />
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€1.50<br />
CHUPA<br />
CHUPS BAG<br />
€2.00<br />
JELLY BEANS<br />
€3.00<br />
HARIBO<br />
STARMIX/<br />
GOLDBEARS<br />
160g bag<br />
€3.00<br />
NATURAL PARTY<br />
JELLIES<br />
175g bag<br />
€3.00<br />
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€1.00<br />
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€1.50<br />
TWIX® 2 FINGER<br />
€1.00<br />
SNICKERS DOUBLE/<br />
MARS® DOUBLE<br />
€1.50<br />
CADBURY DAIRY MILK<br />
€1.00<br />
TIMEOUT<br />
€1.00<br />
BOUNTY<br />
€1.00<br />
BALISTO ®<br />
MUESLI BAR<br />
€1.50<br />
MARYLAND<br />
COOKIES<br />
€1.50<br />
MARS®<br />
MUFFIN<br />
€2.00<br />
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SHORTBREAD<br />
BISCUITS<br />
€1.50
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€1.50!<br />
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SNACKS<br />
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AND CHEESE<br />
€1.00<br />
TGIF POTATO<br />
SKINS<br />
Bacon and Cheddar<br />
€1.50<br />
PEPERAMI<br />
€1.50<br />
BOXERCHIPS<br />
€1.80<br />
SALTED PEANUTS<br />
€2.00<br />
BLUEBERRY<br />
MUFFIN<br />
€2.00<br />
MINI CHEDDARS<br />
€2.00<br />
PRINGLES<br />
€2.20<br />
SNACK AND DIP<br />
TORTILLA<br />
€3.00<br />
FORTUNE COOKIES<br />
€3.00<br />
SNACK PACK<br />
Cheese, crackers, crisps<br />
and a mini mars!<br />
€5.00<br />
FRESH FOOD<br />
FROM ONLY €2.50<br />
CEREAL AND MILK<br />
€1.50<br />
PASTRIES<br />
€2.50<br />
SANDWICHES<br />
Different varieties<br />
available, just ask the<br />
crew.<br />
€3.00 / €4.50<br />
BATCHELORS<br />
CUP A SOUP<br />
Selection available<br />
€3.60<br />
CHEESEBURGER<br />
WITH RELISH<br />
Selected fl ights only<br />
€5.00<br />
HOT BREAKFAST<br />
€5.00<br />
ALL-DAY<br />
BREAKFAST BAP<br />
€5.00<br />
CHILLI CON CARNE<br />
€5.00<br />
HOT PIZZA<br />
€5.00<br />
PANINI<br />
Two varieties<br />
available<br />
€5.00<br />
NEW!<br />
STEAK BAGUETTE<br />
€7.00<br />
NEW!<br />
FRESH HOT<br />
DISH OF THE DAY<br />
Please ask the crew.<br />
€7.00<br />
FRESHLY<br />
MADE<br />
SANDWICHES<br />
FROM ONLY<br />
€3<br />
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LUXURY GIFTS<br />
Watches and jewellery<br />
1 AVIATOR LADIES WATCH<br />
This gorgeous ladies Aviator watch has a silver crystal<br />
set dial with calendar, interchangeable black and<br />
white silicon straps, is water resistant to 10 ATM and<br />
comes with a two year international warranty.<br />
€86.00<br />
4 PIERRE CARDIN BANGLE *3<br />
Three exquisite crystal set bangles in yellow gold,<br />
rose gold and rhodium plating. These hypoallergenic<br />
bangles come in a compact gift box with a one year<br />
international warranty.<br />
€21.00<br />
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2 AVIATOR GENTS WORLD TIME PILOT WATCH<br />
Chronograph quart movement, luminous hands, calendar<br />
display and rotating inner world time bezel. Integrated<br />
black leather strap and stainless steel case. Water resistant<br />
to 10ATM. Two year international warranty.<br />
€91.00<br />
5 PIERRE CARDIN BRACELET AND<br />
NECKLACE SET<br />
This hypoallergenic necklace and bracelet set features<br />
rhodium plated balls and comes with a free pair of<br />
stud earrings and a one year international warranty.<br />
€31.00<br />
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3 BREO ROAM WATCH<br />
Breo Sport’s multi-functional Roam watch is a<br />
statement of design and quality. Comfortable on the<br />
wrist it’s achieving celebrity status in both the sport<br />
and fashion world.<br />
€10.00<br />
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Enjoy.<br />
Nyköping – a coastal town with a sea breeze<br />
just 7 minutes from Stockholm Skavsta airport,<br />
one hour south of Stockholm, Sweden.
1 JUST GIRL WATCH<br />
A gorgeous girly watch featuring a<br />
selection of 11 coloured bezels and straps<br />
to match any outfi t. The bezels and straps<br />
are made for easy switching and the<br />
watch comes with international warranty.<br />
€21.00<br />
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KID’S SHOP<br />
Keep the kids entertained<br />
3 BARBIE MINIATURE<br />
FRAGRANCE SET<br />
Feel as special as a princess!<br />
€15.00<br />
2 JUST BOY WATCH<br />
This quartz watch comes with a white dial<br />
football motif and luminous hands on a<br />
blue canvas strap with velcro fastening.<br />
Comes with two black sweatbands, a key<br />
ring and international warranty.<br />
€21.00<br />
4 HELLO KITTY FRAGRANCE<br />
A trendy new perfume the Hello Kitty<br />
way! 60ml<br />
€21.00<br />
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5 M&M’S TRAVEL LOCK<br />
M&M’s Character locks that are all Travel<br />
Sentry System approved.<br />
€5.00<br />
1<br />
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6 LUGGAGE TAGS<br />
3PC SET<br />
3D rubberised luggage tags.<br />
€6.00<br />
NEW!
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1 RADIO-CONTROLLED<br />
PLANE<br />
Test your skills as a pilot.<br />
€22.00<br />
6 RYANAIR LANYARD<br />
Keep hold of your valuable<br />
items.<br />
€5.00<br />
1<br />
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2<br />
2 AIRPORT PLAY SET<br />
Everything you need to create<br />
your very own Ryanair airport.<br />
€10.00<br />
7 TRAVEL ADAPTOR<br />
Universal travel adaptor plug, for<br />
use in most countries worldwide.<br />
€10.00<br />
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3 FUN PLANE KEYRING<br />
Fun plane keyring with engine<br />
sound and fl ashing lights.<br />
€5.00<br />
8 VALRHONA CHOCOLATE<br />
Used by top chefs, try the natural<br />
taste of six Valrhona recipes here!<br />
€3.00<br />
GIFT SHOP<br />
Travel gifts and gadgets<br />
9<br />
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4 FUN PLANE<br />
Fun plane with fl ashing lights<br />
and noises.<br />
€11.00<br />
9 SMOKELESS<br />
CIGARETTES<br />
Tastes like the real thing!<br />
€6.00<br />
GIFT SHOP | SKY SHOP<br />
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5 1:200 SCALE AIRCRAFT<br />
Take home your very own<br />
Boeing 737 aircraft.<br />
€12.00<br />
10 GLOW PEN<br />
Brighten up your day with<br />
our Ryanair light pen<br />
€9.00<br />
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MALTA & GOZO: so many special experiences...<br />
A short trip to a<br />
long history<br />
Enter Neolithic temples older<br />
than the Pyramids. Walk inside<br />
the fortifi ed ancient city of<br />
Mdina and explore the magnifi<br />
cent capital city Valletta, a<br />
World Heritage Site built by<br />
the Knights of Malta in the 16th<br />
century. Be impressed with<br />
the Co-Cathedral of St. John’s,<br />
and gaze at the only signed<br />
Caravaggio in the world. Live<br />
7,000-years of history.<br />
Gozo: The Magic of<br />
Calypso’s Isle<br />
The smaller sister island of<br />
Malta that’s just 20 minutes<br />
away by ferry. From splendid<br />
spas to fantastic dive spots, the<br />
island off ers perfect snorkeling,<br />
bike trails, dramatic landscape,<br />
beaches and colourful events<br />
to its visitors. A wide range of<br />
accommodation is available, as<br />
well as a growing selection of<br />
luxury converted farmhouses.<br />
Sail into adventure.<br />
Experience the unforgettable<br />
Coastal walks along cliff s or<br />
sandy beaches, on horseback,<br />
or on a mountain bike.<br />
Malta off ers almost any sport<br />
under the sun. Tackle the islands’<br />
famed cliff s for rock<br />
climbing and the best scuba<br />
diving off er in the Mediterranean.<br />
Or perhaps a sailing trip<br />
around the islands to fi nd your<br />
own small bay of tranquility.<br />
The Mediterranean’s best kept secret<br />
www.visitmalta.com<br />
No better place to learn<br />
English<br />
A twist of fate over 160 years<br />
ago gave Malta its status as an<br />
English-speaking nation.<br />
So whether you’re brushing up<br />
your English conversation or<br />
keen to follow a programme<br />
tailored to your profession,<br />
Malta has a choice of over 40<br />
English language centres to<br />
cater for you; each with its own<br />
approach and atmosphere.
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1 ARMANI CODE MAN<br />
This eau de toilette combines a citron<br />
cocktail with soft notes of olive tree<br />
blossom. 50ml<br />
€37.00<br />
5 ARMANI MINIATURES<br />
Sophisticated, mysterious and sensual. A<br />
unique collector’s set of the entire Giorgio<br />
Armani men’s fragrance range.<br />
€29.00<br />
9 JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER LE MALE<br />
A fougère-oriental harmony. A fresh,<br />
sexy fragrance, combining power and<br />
sensuality. 75ml<br />
€37.00<br />
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5<br />
2 ARMANI DIAMONDS HE<br />
Cedar wood with an unexpected<br />
accord of cocoa. A perfect fragrance<br />
for a promising socialite. 50ml<br />
€36.00<br />
6 BIM WHITE EDITION<br />
With notes of blood orange, black pepper<br />
and vetiver, this musky yet surprisingly fresh<br />
scent is free-spirited and casual. 40ml<br />
€29.00<br />
10 YSL LA NUIT DE L’HOMME<br />
A fragrance with the freshness of<br />
cardamom, the sophistication of cedar<br />
and the sensuality of coumarin. 60ml<br />
€40.00<br />
3 ARMANI AQUA DI GIO MEN<br />
An invitation to escape. This aquaticfl<br />
oral scent offers a sensation of<br />
freshness and vitality. 50ml<br />
€40.00<br />
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MEN’S<br />
FRAGRANCES<br />
Fragrances for the man about town<br />
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7 PAUL SMITH MEN<br />
Combines the fresh citrus notes of<br />
bergamot with rosemary and the spices<br />
of nutmeg and cardamom. 50ml<br />
€23.00<br />
7<br />
4 BECKHAM SIGNATURE<br />
STORY FOR HIM<br />
Embodies David’s look and spirit in a<br />
woody aromatic fragrance. 50ml<br />
€27.00<br />
8 LACOSTE CHALLENGE<br />
Opening with citrus notes, lavender and<br />
ginger, with a solid woody base giving it a<br />
modern yet distinguished personality. 50ml<br />
€24.00<br />
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1 DOLCE & GABBANA<br />
THE ONE FOR MEN<br />
Developed on the harmony of tobacco<br />
with boisé notes. 50ml<br />
€37.00<br />
5 ISSEY MIYAKE<br />
POUR HOMME<br />
A fresh, spicy and woody fragrance. A<br />
pure and modern universe. 75ml<br />
€36.00<br />
9 PACO RABANNE 1 MILLION<br />
Fresh and sparkling with a note of<br />
grapefruit, mint and blood orange, found on<br />
a heart of rose oil and cinnamon. 50ml<br />
€33.00<br />
5<br />
2 CAROLINA HERRERA 212<br />
FOR MEN<br />
212 For Men reveals a masculine fragrance,<br />
different, surprising and attractive. 50ml<br />
€33.00<br />
6 GIVENCHY GENTLEMAN<br />
A distinguished and vigorous fragrance<br />
for a man who is sure of his seductive<br />
appeal. 50ml<br />
€33.00<br />
10 DIESEL ONLY THE BRAVE<br />
Be brave, be yourself, live your life like a<br />
man, to leave your trace with the new<br />
masculine scent from Diesel. 50ml<br />
€36.00<br />
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3 ETERNITY SUMMER MAN<br />
Capture the beauty of a beach at fi rst light<br />
in this zesty blend of kumquat, bergamot,<br />
spicy cardamom and cedar leaf. 100ml<br />
€27.00<br />
7 KYLIE INVERSE FOR MEN<br />
A fresh, amber oriental, this fragrance<br />
offers surprising masculine notes that<br />
are strong yet sensitive. 50ml<br />
€26.00<br />
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MEN’S FRAGRANCES<br />
Fragrances for the man about town<br />
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4 DAVIDOFF HOT WATER<br />
A fresh oriental fragrance and the perfect<br />
seduction weapon for men. For an<br />
addictive, erotic and warm scent. 60ml<br />
€29.00<br />
8 VERSACE POUR HOMME<br />
The Versace Pour Homme man<br />
communicates his passionate character<br />
through a masculine fragrance. 50ml<br />
€36.00<br />
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WOMEN’S SKINCARE<br />
Travel beauty products<br />
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1 L’OCCITANE NOURISHING CREAM<br />
All the benefi ts of shea butter to nourish and<br />
repair dry and damaged hands and feet.<br />
75ml each<br />
€21.00<br />
2 ELIZABETH ARDEN 8-HOUR<br />
ESSENTIALS TRIO PACK<br />
Classic Skin protectant moisturiser 30ml, teamed<br />
with a 75ml hand cream and free lip balm.<br />
€24.00<br />
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3 LANCÔME TRAVEL ESSENTIALS<br />
A complete routine including Hydra Zen Neurocalm<br />
comprises, 30ml moisturising cream, 50ml comforting<br />
cleansing milk and a 50ml comforting toner for dry skin.<br />
€24.00
CLARINS<br />
PRODUCTS<br />
Travel beauty products<br />
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1 CLARINS MULTI-ACTIVE DAY CREAM<br />
The expert skin care to correct early wrinkles,<br />
thanks to the action of Ambiaty extract, with a<br />
soft and melting texture and no oily effect. 50ml<br />
€35.00<br />
NEW<br />
Multi-Active Day<br />
Early wrinkles?<br />
Now, YOU can say no thank you!<br />
A CLARINS FIRST: Clarins Laboratories have created<br />
a day cream that helps your skin fight the stresses<br />
of a busy lifestyle with two new powerful plant ingredients:<br />
stimulating Ambiaty leaf extract, a remarkably potent<br />
plant from Madagascar and protective antioxidant<br />
Hesperidin, an orange peel extract, encapsulated in Clarins<br />
Multi-Lamellins all-day time release system. You will<br />
love the fresh, delicious texture. Smoother, protected,<br />
moisturized and brighter, your skin will look<br />
younger, longer.<br />
MULTI-ACTIVE DAY Early wrinkle correction cream,<br />
the new age-fighting solution from Clarins Laboratories,<br />
the European leader in luxury skin care, with<br />
over 50 years of Skin Spa experience... caring for you.<br />
Find all our expertise on www.clarins.com<br />
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2 CLARINS SELF TANNING MOUSSE<br />
This irresistible creamy white mousse with moisturiser<br />
and SPF15 protection develops an incredibly natural and<br />
perfect tan without leaving any traces or dry skin. 125ml<br />
€20.00<br />
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3 CLARINS FLASH BALM<br />
This beauty balm immediately eliminates signs of<br />
fatigue leaving features smoother, more rested and<br />
youthful looking. 50ml<br />
€24.00<br />
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1 GIVENCHY PRISMISSIME MAT & GLOW<br />
Nine different colours in a single palette for a radiant,<br />
luminous complexion!<br />
€25.00<br />
4 GIVENCHY LASH PEARLS<br />
This liquid dots on to the end of your lashes and dries<br />
to form tiny little sparkly jewels on your lash tips!<br />
€20.00<br />
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2 GIVENCHY PHENOMEN’EYES MASCARA<br />
Try the new revolutionary mascara, with its totally<br />
new and patented brush!<br />
€19.00<br />
5 LANCÔME ABSOLU VOYAGE PALETTE<br />
Enjoy the Best of Lancôme make-up in an all-in-one<br />
palette with a choice of nude and harmonious shades.<br />
€41.00<br />
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WOMEN’S<br />
BEAUTY<br />
Dazzle with our selection<br />
of cosmetics<br />
NEW!<br />
3 GIVENCHY MAKEUP PALETTE<br />
This compact contains everything that a jetsetter<br />
needs to keep herself looking fresh.<br />
€36.00<br />
6 LANCÔME MINERAL BRONZER<br />
Enhances your skin with a sun-kissed colour and keeps the<br />
skin hydrated, comfortable and smooth for more than 8 hrs.<br />
€28.00<br />
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An island of contrasts...<br />
With year-round sunshine, volcanic<br />
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sun-kissed beaches, Tenerife offers a<br />
range of activities all year round.<br />
No matter where you go in the world,<br />
you’ll always want to come back to<br />
Tenerife.<br />
Enjoy it all!
BOURJOIS MAKEUP<br />
Dazzle with our selection of cosmetics<br />
1 BOURJOIS SO LAQUE NAILS TRENDY<br />
Dress your nails in vinyl for maximum shine for up to seven<br />
days with So Laque Ultra Shine, three pure, lacquered<br />
shades in fuchsia, bright red and blue-violet with no sparkles<br />
or shimmer for super smooth and radiant colour.<br />
€16.00<br />
4 BOURJOIS SMOKY EYES BROWN 3 PACK<br />
For the ultimate smoky look try our iconic eye-shadow<br />
containing three colours and a step-by-step makeup class<br />
Fine, soft and blendable for a luminous result there’s also<br />
an integrated mirror and precise applicator.<br />
€19.00<br />
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2 BOURJOIS 3D SPARKLY LIP GLOSS 3 PACK<br />
Get 3D shine and ultra sparkly super glossy lips in<br />
three delicious pink shades with our mineral complex<br />
and antioxidant formula for the perfect pout that’s good<br />
for your lips too! Light medium and dark pink shades.<br />
€21.00<br />
5 BOURJOIS JET SETTER ESSENTIALS<br />
Look like a star with these jetsetter treats! Use our Brush<br />
Concealer to cover those bags after your journey, our<br />
Illuminating Touch to give your cheekbones a healthy glow,<br />
and our Gloss Menthol for a cool breath sensation.<br />
€21.00<br />
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3 BOURJOIS 1001 LASHES MASCARA<br />
Intensify your eyes with this must-have mascara. The<br />
double helix brush reaches every lash while the doubleended<br />
duo kohl’s white tip illuminates the inner lower<br />
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€16.00<br />
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€31.00<br />
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Orange essence, a gardenia accord and white musk<br />
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€48.00<br />
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Sexy, playful, provocative... Lola is<br />
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€29.00<br />
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A sparkling fl oral bouquet, a fragrance<br />
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happy and free! Daisy by Marc Jacobs<br />
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€35.00<br />
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Capturing the spirit and energy of a<br />
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4 BLUE GLOW BY JENNIFER LOPEZ<br />
A lush scent of mouth-watering fruits<br />
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1 JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER<br />
CLASSIQUE<br />
A fl oral-oriental harmony. A deliciously<br />
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€47.00<br />
4 BOSS ORANGE<br />
An uplifting burst of sweet apples,<br />
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sandalwood and olive wood. 50ml<br />
€33.00<br />
7 BEYONCE HEAT<br />
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€26.00<br />
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MA DAME<br />
Orange zest, fresh rose sparkling with a<br />
fl ash of grenadine. 50ml<br />
€47.00<br />
5 VIVA LA JUICY<br />
Wild berries and mandarin. Honeysuckle,<br />
gardenia and jasmine. Amber, caramel,<br />
vanilla, sandalwood and praline. 50ml<br />
€43.00<br />
8 STELLA NUDE<br />
The intimate encounter of a tender<br />
rose, grey amber and precious vanilla.<br />
50ml<br />
€40.00<br />
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3 GIVENCHY VERY IRRESISTIBLE<br />
Be audacious with this feminine bouquet<br />
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€38.00<br />
6 LACOSTE LOVE OF PINK<br />
LACOSTE Love of Pink combines zesty<br />
ingredients, softened by a fl oral heart and a<br />
sensual woody, musky dry down. 50ml<br />
€33.00<br />
9 BECKHAM SIGNATURE<br />
STORY FOR HER<br />
Sweet, sparkling top notes of peach,<br />
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€27.00<br />
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Like Kate, Vintage has an enduring<br />
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€28.00<br />
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1 DOLCE & GABBANA – THE ONE<br />
Opens with an exciting, modern<br />
interpretation of fresh fruits, followed<br />
by the scent of white fl owers. 50ml<br />
€46.00<br />
3 EMPORIO ARMANI DIAMONDS<br />
Fruity (lychee and raspberry), fl oral (rose,<br />
freesia and lily), woody (vetiver, cedar<br />
wood and patchouli) and amber. 50ml<br />
€38.00<br />
7 COUTURE BY KYLIE<br />
The essence of Kylie’s elegance is<br />
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Armani Code is like an embroidery on<br />
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€40.00<br />
4 PAUL SMITH EXTREME LADIES<br />
A sensual, sophisticated and modern<br />
blend of oriental and fl oral scents that<br />
leaves a lasting impression. 50ml<br />
€24.50<br />
8 BRITNEY SPEARS CIRCUS<br />
Nothing is what it seems with Circus, a<br />
scent of seductive sensuality, luscious fruits,<br />
tempting fl orals and creamy musks. 50ml<br />
€21.00<br />
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Fuel For Life Unlimited opens with<br />
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€34.00<br />
9 CAROLINA HERRERA 212 SEXY<br />
Voluptuous and profound, the perfect<br />
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€29.00<br />
5<br />
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FRAGRANCE<br />
ATOMISER<br />
Handy travel atomiser<br />
€10.00<br />
10<br />
6 VERSACE VERSENSE<br />
Fresh and intoxicating, Versense is inspired<br />
by nature’s elements and dedicated to<br />
confi dent, vital and sensual women. 50ml<br />
€41.00<br />
10 HALLE BY HALLE BERRY<br />
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CAFFÈ<br />
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PRODOTTI FRESCHI<br />
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€2.50<br />
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€3.00<br />
MINI<br />
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€2.00<br />
PANINO<br />
Di diverse varietà<br />
€3.00 / €4.50<br />
NOCCIOLINE<br />
€2.00<br />
PEPERAMI<br />
€1.50<br />
PRINGLES<br />
€2.20<br />
PROVA LE NUOVE OFFERTE<br />
MENU<br />
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Bevanda calda,<br />
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€7.30<br />
BIBITE<br />
(di diverse varietà)<br />
150ml<br />
€1.80<br />
SUCCHI<br />
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(di diverse varietà)<br />
150ml<br />
€1.80<br />
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Bevanda calda,<br />
muffi n al cioccolato<br />
o mirtillo<br />
€5.00<br />
LIPTON<br />
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250ml<br />
€2.50<br />
ACQUA<br />
500ml<br />
€3.00<br />
MENU<br />
APERATIVO<br />
Birra, noccioline<br />
€6.50<br />
MENU<br />
ANTISTRESS<br />
Bevanda calda,<br />
Sigarette Senza<br />
Fumo<br />
€9.00<br />
CIABATTA PROSCIUTTO<br />
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€5.00<br />
MENU<br />
PRANZO<br />
Panino o Hot Dog,<br />
patatine , bibita<br />
€9.00<br />
BOUNTY<br />
€1.00<br />
SNICKERS<br />
€1.50<br />
MARS ®<br />
DOUBLE<br />
€1.50<br />
MENU DELLA<br />
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Bevanda calda,<br />
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grata vinci<br />
€8.00<br />
AVVISO PER ALLERGIA:<br />
Alcuni prodotti venduti a bordo potrebbero<br />
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PIZZA<br />
€5.00<br />
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€3.00<br />
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€2.00<br />
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€3.50<br />
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€3.00<br />
ALCOOL<br />
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(di diverse varietà)<br />
€4.50<br />
SAILE & SABGA PREMIUM VINO<br />
Merlot Rosso e Chardonnay Bianco. 18.7cl<br />
€5.95<br />
PER I BAMBINI<br />
PIATTO DEL GIORNO<br />
€7.00<br />
FRULLATO<br />
250ml<br />
€2.50<br />
HARIBO<br />
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160g bag<br />
€3.00<br />
PROSECCO<br />
€6.00<br />
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€2.00<br />
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€3.60<br />
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Different varieties available,<br />
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€5.00<br />
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€1.50<br />
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€1.00<br />
BOUNTY<br />
€1.00<br />
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€1.50<br />
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€1.50<br />
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€1.50<br />
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€5.00<br />
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BREAKFAST BAP<br />
€5.00<br />
CHOCOLATES & SWEETS SAVOURY SNACKS<br />
CADBURY DAIRY<br />
MILK<br />
€1.00<br />
TIMEOUT<br />
€1.00<br />
MARYLAND<br />
COOKIES<br />
€1.50<br />
WALKERS<br />
SHORTBREAD<br />
BISCUITS<br />
€1.50<br />
MARS ®<br />
MUFFIN<br />
€2.00<br />
HOT BREAKFAST<br />
As good as homemade.<br />
€5.00<br />
CHILLI CON CARNE<br />
€5.00<br />
CHUPA<br />
CHUPS BAG<br />
€2.00<br />
JELLY BEANS<br />
€3.00<br />
HARIBO<br />
STARMIX/<br />
GOLDBEARS<br />
160g bag<br />
€3.00<br />
MALTESERS ®<br />
/ M&M’S ®<br />
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€3.50<br />
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€7.00<br />
PEPERAMI<br />
€1.50<br />
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Bacon and Cheddar<br />
€1.50<br />
BOXERCHIPS<br />
€1.80<br />
SALTED PEANUTS<br />
€2.00<br />
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€2.00<br />
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CHEESEBURGER<br />
Available on selected fl ights.<br />
€5.00<br />
SERVED HOT!<br />
NEW! NEW!<br />
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THE DAY<br />
Please ask crew for selection<br />
€7.00<br />
MINI<br />
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€2.00<br />
PRINGLES<br />
€2.20<br />
SNACK AND<br />
DIP TORTILLA<br />
€3.00<br />
FORTUNE<br />
COOKIES<br />
€3.00<br />
SNACK PACK<br />
Cheese, crackers,<br />
crisps and a mini mars!<br />
€5.00<br />
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Soft drinks, juices, hot drinks & alcohol<br />
ALCOHOL<br />
BULLSEYE BAGGIES<br />
Brandy, gin, rum, vodka or whisky.<br />
25ml<br />
€5.50<br />
SOFT DRINKS<br />
& JUICES<br />
(selection available)<br />
150ml<br />
€1.80<br />
FRUIT<br />
SHOOT<br />
€2.00<br />
MYSMOOTHIE<br />
250ml<br />
€2.50<br />
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A choice of either red Merlot<br />
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€5.95<br />
SPARKLING<br />
WINE<br />
€6.00<br />
SOFT DRINKS & JUICES HOT DRINKS<br />
LIPTON<br />
ICE TEA<br />
250ml<br />
€2.50<br />
BRITVIC J20<br />
275ml<br />
€2.50<br />
REFRESHING<br />
WATER<br />
500ml<br />
€3.00<br />
RED BULL<br />
250ml<br />
€3.50<br />
SAILE & SABGA<br />
GOURMET ESPRESSO<br />
Black, frothy and creamy<br />
€3.00<br />
SAILE & SABGA<br />
GOURMET HOT<br />
CHOCOLATE,<br />
ESPRESSO,<br />
CAPPUCCINO,<br />
TEA & COFFEE<br />
€3.00<br />
ALLERGY ADVICE:<br />
Please note that food items sold onboard<br />
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PEAR CIDER<br />
€5.00<br />
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