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Meet the 11 buildings some CNN writer found the most bizarre. Strangely, I suspect that gentleman did not dig very deep and only browsed a couple of mainstream webpages to come up with this uninteresting top 11. See for yourself...

I was looking for some ideas concerning my coming holidays and bumped into that website that I had never heard of: http://www.best-of-european-union.eu/ Sounds funny to associate the EU to travelling, but it turns out the shortlists for "most beautiful places in ABC" have some decent ideas to...

Might be slightly off topic but still worth sharing. The following link gives access to tongue twisters told by female models. Hope you will enjoy as much as I did... http://girls.motilo.com/lips-of-babel/

Forget about Schumann, Monet, De Gasperi, Adenauer and Spaak, the original founding fathers of post WW2 Europe. Chances are that if you are between 15 and 40, you've been living under the influence of O'Leary (Ryanair), Kamprad (IKEA) and the Albrecht brothers (ALDI), the trinity of European...

Below is TripAdvisor.com's Top 10 Most Annoying Travellers, from a 2008 survey of 8,931 travelers: #01 - Americans @ 18% #02 - French @ 12% #03 - Germans @ 10% #04 - British @ 6% #05 - Chinese @ 6% #06 - Russians @ 5% #07 - Japanese @ 5% #08 - Italians @ 5% #09 - Indians @ 2% #10 - Emiratees...

Faux contact is a parody of a short TV program aired on Belgian network RTBF, about road safety, and presented by Gendarmerie officer Commandant de Nève. He used to speak in a very formal and elaborated French that sounded like he were reading a text. Belgian comedian Manu Thoreau created Faux...

Father Ted is a 3 seasons Irish comedy show that is a UFO in the british television history, and has achieved a cult status in Ireland. 3 Priests live isolated on Craggy Island, off the west coast of Ireland, because they are an embarassment to the church. They share a massive house with their...

Fawlty towers is a 2 seasons show aired in 1975 which enjoyed an immense popularity. Reruns are still aired today and still prove John Cleese's talent. The show revolves around hotel owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his wife, and their maid Polly and waiter Manuel. Basil is the rudest and most...

Torrente is a comedy from Spanish director-actor Santiago Segura, who made a hit with the depiction of a despicable ex-cop adventures. The plot is pretty basic, but the film works around the characters, the actors, and the typically spanish street slang. The main character is a middle-aged...

Rejs (The Cruise) is a 1970 movie from Polish director Marek Piwowski that gained cult status in Poland for its metaphoric treatment of Polish society. Two freeloaders get on a cruise ship on the Vistula river, pretending to be "officials". They are granted a position as entertaining officials...

Humour is a universal trait of mankind, but cultural differences can be unsettling when it comes to what makes people laugh. Some subjects are sensitive in some cultures, others would laugh at subtle hints, and we all agree a good creampie attack is most enjoyable. I will try to reference a...

The Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia dedicates a photoreportage to various UNESCO sites situated in the Czech Republic, a nice way to discover that there is more to this country than Prague... Enjoy...

... is the title of a very interesting article I have stumbled upon tonight. I think it is worth sharing here and see what members think about it... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/comment/talking-politics/europe-secrecy-plan-124428156.html

I chose the topic title in order to be provocative. Some of you might have been too young to remember what it was like to see the images of the conflict getting more and more accurate (photojournalism and permanent cover really boomed during the 1st Gulf war, and the proximity of Sarajevo made...

I am quite fond of old maps and have a sustantial amount of them decorating my flat. Sadly, genuine maps and prints are really expensive and hard to find if you're looking for specific places that are off the beaten path. The University of Texas has an online collection that is quite...

The Guardian is currently having a poll about the general feeling of appartenance to the Union. The poll can be taken here; http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/jan/27/how-european-are-you-quiz I have been dubbed Euro-logical, something between Euro-paean and Euro-sceptic. No...

Here is an article from last year listing the best 50 restaurants in the world. A quick look assures us that if European colonialism and imperialism are from a century or two ago, when it comes to food, Europe still rules the world. And that France is still a superpower...

Hans, a middle-aged German tourist on his first visit to Orlando, Florida, finds the red light district and enters a large brothel. The madam asks him to be seated and sends over a young lady to entertain him. They sit and talk, frolic a l...ittle, giggle a bit, drink a bit, and she sits on his...

Here's an interesting link to a few images showing the parts of France that look like exotic destinations. Even though some are bit stretched, I agree that the variety of French landscapes makes it the most attractive destination in Europe...

After a few weeks of hesitations, I bought Norman Davies book "Europe: a History"(http://brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1490/). That was two years ago, and it sits on my shelf looking at me since, but I am still reluctant to start it because of its sheer size (1392...