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Football (Soccer) Paris
20 Reviews I got tickets with my wife to see Paris St.-Germain play Bordeaux, the top two teams on the table that season. This is something I would never have missed nor will I repeat it. It is on the west side...
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Football (Soccer) London
69 Reviews Chelsea FC is an English professional football club in London. The club was founded in 1905 and plays in the Premier League. Until now, Chelsea in the Premier League champion 4x, 6x, they won the FA...
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AJAX - Arena Amsterdam
20 Reviews It was my friend Tony's 60th birthday and we (the two of us and our wives) were going to Amsterdam for a long weekend. Arsenal were playing in a pre-season tournament at the Ajax stadium along with...
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Olympic Stadium Rome
11 Reviews This huge stadium is both home to AS Roma and SS Lazio, and is all seater with a capacity of 82,000. I've been here twice now, once for AS Roma v Man Utd and the for the Champions League Final 2009,...
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F.C.Barcelona Barcelona
57 Reviews hi we were in Barcelona a few weeks ago and wanted to get football tickets, the official web site of FC Barcelona didnt work or had no seats together 5 people ... so after checking a few sites we...
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Olympiastadion/Olympic Stadium Berlin
11 Reviews Berlin has around 2,000 sports clubs with a total of around 550,000 active members in the sport. In 2010 there are 145 of such associations at the highest or second highest level in Germany. The...
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Hiking/ Walking/Jogging Dublin
6 Reviews Glendalough means the valley of the two lakes and it‘s located in county Wicklow. It‘s an old monastic settlement in a spectacular location. Kevin buses stop for three hours there: wander around and...
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Real Madrid Madrid
39 Reviews Personal information Date of birth 1 April 1927 Place of birth Budapest, Hungary Date of death 17 November 2006 (aged 79) Place of death Budapest, Hungary Puskás started his career in Hungary playing...
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Parken Copenhagen
21 Reviews if you are in copenhagen and want to wantch the national football team or fc.copenhagen then you should go to the national arena called "parken". it's the home of fc.copenhagen and the national team...
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Bayern München Munich
20 Reviews Munich has many wonderful, clean and large public swimming places. No matter if outdoors or indoors. Some are very new, on others you swim in ancient buildings with beautiful architecture, mosaic...
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Stadiums and sports venues Lisbon
22 Reviews The Estadio da Luz is home to the Portuguese football club Sport Lisboa e Benfica. The stadium was inaugurated in October 2003 and it hosted several matches of the EURO 2004 including the final. With...
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Outdoor Activities Stockholm
17 Reviews Sweden Bike is a bike rental shop in the centre of Stockholm. We rented a pair of bikes there, as well as a baby carrier for our infant son, to go on a biking trip to Drottningholm. Erik, the...
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Olympics 2004 Athens
29 Reviews The huge Olympic Stadium is the heart of the Olympic Centre OAKA. It offers a place to over 70.000 people, and is used to keep the flame of the Olympic fire and was the place of the opening and...
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Football Krakow
10 Reviews You can`t buy tickets to football matches or even enter the Cracovia football stadium without identification cards. These cards are free. You can get the identification cards at Cracovia headquarters....
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Walking Biking Hiking Brugge
5 Reviews The first tour called "Tour 1" Damme&Brugge is usually from Bruge via delightful poplarlined canal onward to Damme; formerly an outer harbour to Bruges and now a beautiful medieval market town. From...
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Football Warsaw
4 Reviews If you are in Warsaw you may be interested in attending one of the football games that is played eq. by one of Warsaw's teams that play in Polish premier league - Legia Warsaw (www.legia.pl) or...
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Le Coq Arena Tallinn
3 Reviews I was told that the A. Le Coq Arena is the home of the Estonian national football team (soccer in the States), but I did not visit there on my trip. They also have concerts there, including Aerosmith...
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Football Manchester
19 Reviews My one love, Manchester City Football Club! Get yourself down the the Etihad Stadium to watch a game of football. Check the website for ticket information and dates. - Your ticket! - Your glasses! -...
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EXTREME SPORTS Salzburg
3 Reviews There are several companies offering different kinds of extreme sport in Salzburg. We went rafting with a company called "Crocodile Sports". We were picked up by a van at our hostel before driving...
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Sports Events Saint Petersburg
9 Reviews Paintball has become a popular sport, especially for corporate training and team building. St. Petersburg Federation of Sports Paintball 195 Ligovsky Prospect 7-812-320-88-88 North West Paintball...
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pools Sofia
5 Reviews For those who love jumpings in the pool depths, there are some pools and bathing-beaches in Sofia, where you can find those "high towers"...Its safe to do it as there are life-guards who keep an eye...
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Beaches Santorini Island
4 Reviews Perissa Beach is a beautiful black beach where one can leisurely pass the time away. It is recommended for all who just like to take life easy. Perissa Beach is easy to get to and the water there is...
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Football (Soccer) Hamburg
11 Reviews The AOL Arena (formely know as VolksparkStadion) is Hamburg HSV football team stadium. It's really a very nice stadium, for about 55,000 people. Inside the stadium there is the HSV Museum and one of...
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Football (soccer) stadium Bezigrad Ljubljana
3 Reviews NK Olimpija Ljubljana are one of the most successful teams in Slovenian football. They remained the best Slovenian side during the Yugoslavian league and are now a top side in the Slovenian league....
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Winter sports Zagreb
8 Reviews Up there, on our mountain Medvednica, you can enjoy skiing or snowboarding, in Winter, of course. In other times of the year where there is no snow, you can enjoy hiking or simply, breath the fresh...
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Watching horseriding in West-Flanders.Waregem-a small town near Ieper has not that much to offer except some gothic churches and musea like :- The St-Amandus and St Blasius church- The museum Steengoed- The Castle of Ter Elst (1905)- The Flanders Field American Cementary But !!!! This town is famous for the biggest "Steeple Chase" of Flanders.
A tradition in Scotland - hunting !!One of my best short trips in 2002.There were many Scotsman (obviously), two Englishman, some Norwegian and finally three Belgians...Getting together with some friends - go to marvelous Scotland being embedded as a photographer.No discussion on this site on the theme pro or con hunting.I just enjoyed a new experience - got some new friends in Europe and respected the rules of team building and nature hunting laws.
Skiing in Belgium, more especially in the Ardennes is rather impossibleBut France- our neighbourhood country has to offer a lot of skiing pleasureFor example : "Tignes" enjoys all the skiing attributes of Val d'Isere, as they combine to make up the L'Espace Killy. The 300km of marked pistes cover all abilities and provide greatly varied mountain terrain.The skiing in Tignes is simply fast, and with several free lifts for beginners helping the excellent local ski and snowboard schools.I have to admit, i never went there because skiing is not my favourite journey.But my daughter, Fred, Sam and some good friends did. And i'd like to share their experience with VT members, loving skiing resorts.
Top quality golfing experience Crazy golf is an important sport - surely we should be pushing for olympic recognition of this skillful sport. We should pick up gold medals as the sport as the one attribute vital for British success -- you need absolutely no athletic prowess whatsoever.It's a liitle fact that many of the golfing greats perfect their putting here off season when they can get a discount.Gary Player has been known to curse at the spinning windmill and Lee Trevino made his Masters victories possible by repeatedly putting past the giant penguin on hole 10.If only Tiger woods would see sense and hone his skills between the gnomes on the back 9 then total domination of the world golfing circuit would be assured.
This is a something of a prequel of a tip.My wonderful wife bought me a white water rafting trip as part of my Christmas present last year. I intend to use it at this Nottingham venue.The artificial course was built to help train our next generation of Olympic hopefuls in Canoeing, but events like this help it to earn it's keep.I'll add to the tip once i've rafted the fierec Nottingham rapids !
London Circle line Drinking Game If you count drinking as a sport then this was a winner back when I was a student, and a "wild and crazy guy".The game consists of splitting into teams of at least 2 each (and a minimum of 2 teams)You then select how many pints, half pints or shorts (spirits) you wish to down for the duration of the game. An appropriate number of stops on the Circle line are then written down and each teams draws out its' stops by lucky draw.From a central starting point (and finishing point) the winner is the team that uses the tube (circle line only) to get to all of their stations, find the nearest pub and down their drink.I should point out that now I am older and wiser this is a throughly irresponsible thing to do - but then again you only live once!A variation on this idea is the Monopoly pub crawl. Visit all the squares on the monopoly board in real life, find the...
Hold the pink flamingos , in Durham UK Croquet is a sport you don't see very often, but there is a fine tradition of it being played in Durham.The Current world champion passed through at the same time as me, and although far out of my class I remember giving him a run for his money once or twice.At our college we developed a slight twist on the sport by turning it into a drinking game - which made pegging out almost impossible.If you are lucky you may see some students playing it on Palace Green (the area between Cathedral and Castle). P.S the picture is of some recent students, although I did spend several happy hour doing the same !>
i"ll catch you yet Paula ! The London Marathon is one of the great days out in London.I ran it a few years back (I'm not telling you the time I did it in, but an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping would have been quicker), and I can say it is probably the best organised and supported marathons in the world.Entry is by ballot, but you can secure an entry by proving you area fast (see the website), taking a charity place and raising a guaranteed amount, or paying a travel complany (e.g Sportstours Ltd)The route itself is superb, passing famous sites like the Cutty Sark (the famous Tea clipper), passing over Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, Whitehall, and finishing on the Mall with your back to Buckingham Palace.Spectators also get a great deal, as there are 80 pubs on the route, many of which are specially decorated for the day and have live bands.P.S Such a shame to see her defeated...
Look out over the Hallowed turf of the Lord(s) - cricket at the MCC, London.I remember hearing a recording of "Hankcock's half-hour" where Sid tries to con Hancock into buying an 'Urban farm' as Hancock is amazed at finding such a wide open space in the middle of London.'Lords' is the spiritual home of Cricket, and although there is a stadium tour and museum, you really need to experience a game.It is very difficult to get a ticket to a Test match (international) and it will cost of Fourty pounds upwards. You can however see a county (First-class) game for around ten pounds.Children (under 16) always get in very cheap, as it is a way of promoting the game.Check -out the website at www.middlesexccc.comIf you are a newcomer to the game then you might also like to check-out by VT tip on "Cricket explained to Foreigners" in my England section. Lords itself feature a number of Interesting...
Cricket - the quintesential English game Unless you come from an ex-commonwealth country (or possibly Holland) this will be completely unfathomable to you.Don't worry the real attraction is finding a nice village green on a summer sunday afternoon and getting quietly pissed as the action carries on with the gentle twack of leather against willow.... (stop thi sentimental rose-eyed rubbish now)...fair enough.This following anonymous piece should leave you little the wiser :CRICKET AS EXPLAINED TO A FOREIGN VISITORYou have two sides on out in the field and one in.Each man that´s in the side that´s in goes out and when he´s out he comes inAnd the next man goes in until he´s out.When they are all out the side that´s comes in and the side that´s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.Sometimes you get men still in and not outWhen both sides have been in and out including the...
Four Seasons George V Paris Paris
5 Reviews and 556 Opinions The Four Seasons George V is truly one of the world's great hotels. I really, really love to stay...
The Montague On The Gardens London
5 Reviews and 1067 Opinions The concierge was fabulous, the hotel very grand, and despite the rooms being small they were...
Albergo Del Senato Rome
5 Reviews and 1085 Opinions The Pantheon is my favorite building in Rome and might be my favorite building in the world. The...
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Q: Hey, This summer I have about a month out and id like to travel around the EU, I come from the UK so Visa's and the like are...
A: If you're a student and live in the UK the option you want to look at is a thing called "interrail". Just google it. Be mindfull however of the following caveats: - In...
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