This wonderfully rich and well researched story telling has been a pleasure to listen to recently.
There are a lot of unfamiliar names for people and places but if you let yourself go with the flow …
Stories from the arts, culture and music scene across Europe
Stories about books and magazines from and about Europe
Nostalgia and history stories from around Europe
Leisure and travel stories from around Europe
Science, nature and technology stories from across Europe
15th July 2004 – American Internet search engine company Google has won the rights to the Norwegian domain “google.no” from a local company, SMSFUN AS, which was using it to sell sunglasses.
An earlier court …
With the patronage of the German Minister of State for Culture, Christina Weiss, the Foundation of Prussian Palaces and Gardens is showing it’s biggest exhibition this year at Schloss Glienicke from the 18th of July …
10th July 2004 – In another European win for Linux against Microsoft Corp., a French ministry is replacing 1,500 Windows NT computers with Linux systems, the supplier of the open-source operating system said Friday.
The …
From August, some popular music CDs will become less expensive. A new sales strategy from Bertelsmann will be to sell CD’s in different versions for different prices to help offset the increasing piracy and …
In Milan the five day preview show for summer 2005, from Giorgio Armani closed with an casual arty collection with a relaxed feel.
Damon Gough, also known as Badly Drawn Boy, is England’s lovable wolly hat singer and a prolific song writer. His previous albums have sold very well and now his latest collection is available
We’re firm fans of old photos here at EL Towers. Looking at people and places long gone allows us some degree of historical reference to the events and news which we read and hear about …
We’ve been long time fans of Robert Service’s work here at EL and the latest in a trilogy of biographies is about to hit the shelf. Trotsky has been a few years in he making following on from the excellent Lenin and Stalin books, each having a 4 year gap between them.
On Friday 29th October, the heads of state from the 25 members of the European Union met in Rome to sign the Constitutional Treaty. Despite its misinterpretations in the more sceptical press in Europe, the treaty for bad or worse has been signed.
I know, another set of photos from the former Soviet Union!
However when they’re this good it’s hard to put them away and these came across the desk here with some delightful smiles.
1985 was, in many …
There’s not much to love about the mystique of train travel across unknown lands, soaking in the atmosphere, enjoying conversation with new people and sharing a meal while watching the countryside zip by.
On 10 April 2010 on the way to commemoration ceremony of the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre the President of the Republic of Poland Mr Lech Kaczynski, the First Lady Mrs Maria Kaczynska, members …
There’s nothing quite like a good soup. In the summer it’s a great quick food, in the winter the comfort quality cannot be written down.
Cases of the H5 type of the avian flu have been discovered in Romanian and Ukrainian fowl. Romania has banned hunting in parts of the country and Ukrainian troops have moved from house to house in villages rounding up chickens, ducks and geese for a mass cull.