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497Thom Harding: Vienna has an incredible variety of facilities for year-round swimming
As the cold winter winds blow across Austria with increasing animosity and the temperature starts to mock your long-forgotten shorts and t-shirts,...
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357Fondation Louis Vuitton: The inscrutable Richter at Paris’ most extravagant museum
The Louvre might be the biggest tourist draw in Paris, but it’s far from the most engaging. The comparatively new Fondation Louis...
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333Dispatches Europe: Our best-read posts for 2025 surprised even us
What we’ve learned after nine years of doing Dispatches Europe is that it’s always about the data. Since the early days of...
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378Dream Recorder: Dutch design studio creates a device to capture and visualise your dreams
(Editor’s note: This post on Dream Recorder is part of our Tech Tuesday series. Dispatches covers tech because our highly skilled internationals...
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653Paris is heaven for pickpockets: How to avoid what happened to me
I’m officially one of those tourists I always make fun of. Somehow, I survived years of living dangerously – decades of major...
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587Polya Pencheva: Belgian rail operator SNCB cuts fares with Train+ card
In October 2025, Belgian railway operator SNCB announced and implemented a new travel pricing system making travel cheaper for many travellers. This...
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307T’is the season: Where to find winter clothes for a bargain in Paris
I for one, did not need the snowy reminder of winter’s arrival which graced us with its presence last weekend in Paris....
