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Merry Christmas!

Christmas in the beautiful Tatras Mountains in the south of Poland feels to be the closest thing to spending time with Santa at the end of a travel by the Polar Express. The temperature is 10 t0 15 degrees below zero, and the Christmas trees on the roundabouts look like those on picture postcards. One [...]

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Chocolate Cakes, Coffee and Vienna – How Irresistible?

As I walk across Donaukanal (Danube Canal) and towards the beautiful St. Stephen’s Cathedral, I start wondering if there are any ugly buildings in this city. I am unable to find any, and giving a miss to a Starbucks doing brisk business, I reach Hotel Sacher.  I am lucky to get a table by the window [...]

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The Central Coffeehouses

When an article in The Guardian couple of years back said that the homogeneity of modern coffeehouses is stifling their traditional role as places of sedition, it was the writer’s take on the conflict between convenience and culture (or maybe the culture of convenience). This is a change with a global footprint – Starbucks in [...]

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