Europe

Continuing our tour of city streets converted to race tracks, let's visit the spiritual home of road racing itself, Europe! Europeans are no strangers to speed, some of the biggest races in the world occur throughout the continent. Arguably the…

The small Derbyshire town of Ashbourne is home to an ancient and extremely unusual sporting event - the Royal Shrovetide Football Match, which lasts for two days and involves hundreds of participants. This pre-Lent tradition is believed to date back…

On Monday, October 4th, this filthy-looking reservoir in Hungary burst its walls, releasing 700,000 cubic metres (24 million cubic feet) of toxic sludge onto the surrounding countryside and villages. A byproduct of refining bauxite into alumina at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar…

The nigh unpronounceable Loughareema (Loch an Rith Amach) is, at first glance, nothing more than one of the many lochs and bogs that dot the Northern Irish countryside. That is, if you happen to be lucky enough to see it…

Today Google have added even more countries to their ever-expanding Street View offering, which now takes Pegman onto all seven continents of the world! As it's Google Sightseeing's Fifth Annual Island Week, Google have kindly added a small amount of…

In the waters off the Danish capital, there are three artificial islands1 created as sea forts to protect Copenhagen harbour. Situated about 3km from shore is the largest of the three, Middelgrundsfortet, which is actually the world's largest sea fort.…