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Rated 5 out of 5

The Mackintosh Tearooms

The Mackintosh Tearooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow changed its name from the Willow Tearooms in February 2026. The National Trust for Scotland
Rated 5 out of 5

The Tempest

When my sister and I saw The Tempest last week at the Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, life was imitating art. There was quite
Rated 4 out of 5

Waiting for Godot

If Shakespeare isn’t your cup of tea, there are other options this year at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. One of them is
Rated 4 out of 5

The Hobbit

A couple of years ago my virtual book club decided to read a play and then go to see the play in Stratford, Ontario.
Rated 4 out of 5

The Old Believer village in Moldova

Whilst touring Moldova, we visited the village of Pocrovca, one of the country’s oldest surviving Old Believer or Lipovan settlements. It was founded in
Rated 3 out of 5

Sightseeing in the Gagauz capital

Moldova has two autonomous regions: Transnistria, which the UK Foreign Office advise against travelling to, and Gagauzia in the south, which we spent time
Rated 3 out of 5

A capital dominated by cruise ship passengers

We stayed in Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, for three nights and have two abiding memories: cobbled streets, and cruise ships. On our first full day,
Rated 5 out of 5

Revisting Latvia’s capital city

Although I celebrated my 50th birthday with friends in Latvia’s capital Riga, my memories of it 16 years later, are a little sketchy. However,
Rated 5 out of 5

It was hard to believe a visit to a Nuclear Power Plant would be so fascinating

Before embarking on our month-long tour of the Baltics, we would never have imagined that our visit to Lithuania’s Ignalia Nuclear Power Plant would
Rated 4 out of 5

Oscar deserved an Oscar for his performance in the Soviet bunker

It’s hard to believe that a secret Soviet bunker which could shelter 250 of Latvia’s Communist elite from a chemical or nuclear attack for
Rated 4 out of 5

Sightseeing in Estonia’s intellectual and cultural capital

We stayed for two nights in Tartu, Estonia’s second-largest city, which is regarded as the country’s intellectual and cultural capital, as it’s home to
Rated 3 out of 5

The Old Believer villages along the shores of Lake Peipus

The interestingly named ‘Onion Route’ runs along the western shore of Lake Peipus in Estonia. The name comes from a long-standing tradition of onion

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