Written by Rail-biking uses specially designed vehicles that are pedaled along disused railway lines. It’s easy and fun and uses existing tracks for recreation. One writer gave it a try in the Catskills. Source link
Some of Northumberland’s attractive coastal towns, wild countryside and interior villages are about to become more accessible thanks to a new railway line from Newcastle to Ashington set to open in December. Coupled with the Tyne and Wear Metro receiving its first new fleet of trains in more than 40 years, visitors without a car […]
This article is adapted from the October 19, 2024, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. As we enter what feels like the 800th year of this American election season, I can’t help but find myself thinking back to the guys who started it all. We’ve spent a lot of […]
The mountains of British Columbia tend to be extremely steep because they’ve been oversteepened by deep and extensive glacial downcutting. The result is that slopes are extremely unstable; gravity will have its way eventually. That’s what happened in Sunshine Valley around 7 a.m. on January 9, 1965. It was originally thought that a small earthquake […]
This unassuming pub is a building that one might walk past without a second glance at the treasures that lie within. But as soon as you walk in, you’ll notice a quirkiness as you gaze at the bar, littered with motorcycle paraphernalia. On closer inspection, one will note a few motorbikes propped up on the […]
The Paseo del Sistema Solar (Solar System Walk) is a three-dimensional model of the solar system that was inaugurated on September 10, 2010. This project was conceived by scientist Julián Gómez-Cambronero Pacheco. It offers an opportunity to understand the vastness of our universe on a pleasant walk through the park. In 2007, Gómez-Cambronero, a professor at […]
While the likes of Paris, Lisbon, Madrid and Rome are understandably high up on the European city break wishlist, smaller, less obvious cities can be just as rewarding for a trip away. Those with fewer crowds and cheaper prices that still offer plenty of cultural and culinary treats and are easy to explore on foot. […]
This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft were executed by hanging, another was […]
Pop-up art, cheap theater tickets, Chinese food and a well-situated, if noisy, hotel: How to see Manhattan (and a bit of Brooklyn) on a budget. Source link
Street lights strobed through the window, sending shadows sweeping across our faces as our train followed the River Seine through Choisy-le-Roi. Ten minutes earlier, we had pulled out of Paris’s Gare d’Austerlitz. Departing at 9.40pm, the Intercité de Nuit was due on the Spanish border just after 10am, where we would connect to a Barcelona train. It’s […]