This article was first published in WizzAir magazine, August 2012 Whether visitors to Ljubljana find themselves sat at a riverside café in summer, or enveloped in a magical winter mist, the beauty of Slovenia’s capital city is evident in all seasons. Ljubljana is said to take its name from the Slovene word ljubljena, meaning ‘beloved’, […]
A version of this article appeared in H2Open magazine in 2012. Locals have been swimming at Lighthouse Beach, a small pebble cove at Kingswear village on the river Dart, for at least 140 years. ‘Most of the sides of the river Dart are muddy – this is about the only clean area, and it’s on […]
H2Open magazine, December 2011 Wild swimmer Pete Roberts insists he’d be now be dead had he not begun cold water swimming after suff ering a ‘silent heart attack’ ten years ago. Roberts, 61, from Runcorn, Cheshire, says the benefi t to his health has been so strong that when he stopped swimming briefly in February, […]
H2Open Magazine, February 2012 At London 2012 the 10km marathon swim will come into the Olympic spotlight once again. The growth of interest in open water swimming since the 2008 Beijing Olympics means the global attention the event receives second time around will be unprecedented. The FINA World Championships in Shanghai in July – where […]
“The biggest jazz stars came to Maribor in the 1980s,” reminisces the drinker sitting beside me in KGB, a bar and cabaret venue in Maribor,Slovenia‘s second city. The legendary US bassist Reggie Workman married a woman from Maribor, she adds, “because of course you had the parties afterwards”. It isn’t hard to imagine such glamour […]
The sheer scale of genocide can make it difficult to comprehend. But one scene in Bosnian film Belvedere makes its human impact clear: a woman, Ruveyda, takes the bus to a DNA testing centre where she hopes her missing relatives will be identified among the remains exhumed from a mass grave. As analysts remove skeletons from plastic bags, […]
“This is quite new for me – I’m learning as I go along,” says Kidd, as he explains the ‘aeroponic’ method he employs to grow food in an upstairs room at Farm:Shop, a new project in Dalston, east London. A former shelter for domestic abuse victims has been renovated to create the venue, showcasing the potential of hi-tech […]
