A city break can be a great way to spend a long weekend in Europe. The more popular major cities are often crowded with tourist traffic, and are so well known as to be clichéd. However, Europe sports some less-well-known but equally attractive and beautiful cities and cheap flights to them make a city break to Europe a very affordable option. Scotland’s city of Glasgow has magnificent classical and contempo ...

This is Aury's  first contribution to Thinking Nomads. We thought it would be a great idea if she wrote about the country she fell in love with, a country she says would be the only place she would consider living in, if she ever left Italy! I've been to Scotland twice two years in a row, curious to both get to know and explore the country famous for its lochs (lakes in Gaelic) as well as its heather covere ...

  Glasgow is famous for many things, but perhaps its most renowned inhabitant was Mackintosh, the designer who changed the way we look at the world. His attention to detail lead to a change in the design of the buildings we live in and influenced jewellery designs around the globe. Glasgow ads are full of the things he designed and his creations are still visible in the city to this day. Heavily influe ...

Wales is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the British Isles and compared to England it’s relatively sparsely populated and uncrowded. Outside of the major centres of the South it’s a nation of small towns and villages, interwoven with high moors, mountains, and farmland. One of the things Wales is most famous for is the rain, and to a degree the reputation as a damp, rainy country is justifie ...