The tourism department of Dubai has announced the immediate cancellation of all live entertainment as Covid cases surge in the emirate. One day after suspending non-essentials surgery for a month as hospitals struggle to deal with an alarming rise in Covid infections, the emirate – which had previously been seen as a preferred getaway for…
The new year has just begon, and that is why we are wondering: What will it be like to study in Barcelona in 2021? The global pandemic began in March 2020, and is has brought a halt to many school and universitie activities all over the world. Spain has, like many others, turned to online…
Barcelona is a great city to study in. There are a number of universities in Barcelona, but also other schools and institutes that offer excellent programs for local and foreign students, some of which are even taught in English. If you are trying to figure out what is the best public university in Barcelona,…
Want to see something really cute? Of course you do — it's a cold Friday afternoon in the middle of a pandemic with stay-at-home lockdown orders in effect. If ever there were time when Toronto needed a new funny raccoon video, now would be that time. Fortunately, local photographer Kyle Taylor just captured on camera what…
The beach may not be the first place you'd think to go during a dreary and brisk Toronto January, but thanks to some new public art, the city's waterfront is about to get a whole lot more alluring. As part of the return of the annual Winter Stations exhibition, a number of large-scale interactive art…
The last Just Desserts restaurant closed more than five years ago, but anyone feeling nostalgic for those pink neon signs with the cursive writing can now buy two of them. Richard Fernandes, who owned the last Just Desserts at Yonge and Wellesley, is selling the two signs on eBay. Known as a nightspot where people…
The Irish Travel Agents Association (ITAA) is calling on the Government to take steps to support the Irish travel industry by ensuring that travel agents are protected in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. As pressure mounts for a ban on non-essential travel between EU member states, the ITAA want to see the travel sector…
Irish Ferries has announced some early booking deals for its Haven Holidays programme, including savings of up to 25 per cent on a summer family holiday. After a challenging year and a long hard winter, that dream family getaway may still seem distant. But we all need something to look forward to, and with the…
Pandemic-weary Tom Britton of award-winning Marble City Travel in Kilkenny has taken the bold step of announcing that they won’t take any bookings until October, arguing that he can’t put his staff through further disruptions. Read the story here. The post “We are not taking bookings till October” says Tom Britton of Marble City Travel…
When people hear “Sagrada Família”, they immediately think of the modernist monument, but there is actually a neighbourhood in Barcelona that goes by the same name. La Sagrada Família is one of the six barrios that form the district of Eixample. Formerly known as “Poblet”, it used to be a rural area with country…