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St Petersburg UNESCO World Heritage Site – Part Two: Forts and Fortresses

Wednesday, 5th June 2013 by

Continuing our exploration of one of the world’s largest UNESCO World Heritage Sites, we’ll visit some of the structures built to defend the Russian city of St Petersburg over the past few centuries, beginning with the area of the Baltic Sea around Kotlin Island, about 30km (20 miles) west of the city.

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Google Sightseeing writer set to climb Africa’s tallest volcano

Thursday, 30th August 2012 by

Two years ago our very own Noel Ballantyne wrote an article for Volcano Week 5 about Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania that at 5,893 metres is the highest mountain in Africa. At the time,…

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Portmeirion & The Prisoner

Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 by

Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for a sinister late-1960s TV show called The Prisoner, which starred Patrick McGoohan as “Number Six”.

Rozenburg Wind Wall

Tuesday, 7th May 2013 by

The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong sea winds created problems for shipping on an important canal, so a unique solution was created – a 1.75km long wind wall consisting of around 125 individual concrete slabs.

Lesotho: Kingdom in the Sky

Monday, 29th April 2013 by

Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country (South Africa), and the highest country on Earth (the lowest elevation in Lesotho is 1,400 m (4,593 ft) above sea level!). Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.

Body being dumped into a Dutch canal, caught on Google Maps

Monday, 15th April 2013 by

We’re not sure what’s going on here, but it sure does look like someone (or perhaps a pair of someones) has dragged a bloody corpse along this pier in order to dump it into this Dutch canal.

The Wide World of Ice Hockey

Thursday, 11th April 2013 by

It’s April, and that means ice hockey fans around the world are gearing up for the highlight of the year, the National Hockey League (NHL)’s playoffs for the Stanley Cup, which teams have been competing for since 1892. From its beginnings as a game played on icy Canadian ponds, ice hockey is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise played by millions around the world.

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