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Traditional Czech village pubs turning off taps as costs soar

July 1, 2022796 Views

Czechs have long gathered at village pubs to catch up with friends or celebrate special occasions in a nation famed for its beer culture, but soaring costs and belt-tightening by patrons have now left many watering holes fighting for survival. Like other pubs across the country, U Kryslu in the village of Sec, population 318, is suffering from a plunge in income as customers cut back on leisure spending - the latest blow to establishments struggling to rebound from pandemic lockdowns. "In many villages and maybe even in ours the pub will cease to exist," said Sec Mayor Helena Chytra, who is seeking a new operator for U Kryslu, where on a recent visit only one customer was sipping a beer while the bartender checked his phone. A bartender drafts a glass of beer inside the U Kantu p...

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A new museum in Denmark tells the story of refugees

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June 27, 20221008 Views

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe opened a new museum Saturday that tells the story of the generations of refugees who have shaped Danish society, starting with Germans who fled the Soviet advance during World War II. Flugt — Refugee Museum of Denmark was created on the site of a camp in Oksboel, a town in southwestern Denmark, that housed up to 100,000 refugees from Germany in the postwar years. Flugt — which means escape in Danish — also tells the story of immigrants from Iran, Lebanon, Hungary, Vietnam and elsewhere who fled their homelands and found shelter in the Scandinavian country. They tell their stories in their own words on large video screens. The Danish Queen Margrethe and museum director Claus Kjeld Jensen walk during the inauguration of the new museum Flugt, in Oksboel, De...

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Party now, pay later: Glastonbury a break from cost-of-living worries

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June 25, 2022617 Views

Festival-goers are determined to have a blast at Glastonbury and put the rising cost of fuel, food and drink to the back of their minds until they leave Worthy Farm on Monday after a weekend of escapism. A majority of the 200,000 people at the renowned British music festival secured a ticket in autumn 2019, when 'coronavirus' was a word familiar to few outside the science community and inflation was 1.5%. Two and half years later, inflation is 9.1%. Revellers dance at The Park stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez Although COVID restrictions are over, the festival scene is not immune to the pressure, with both vendors and revellers feeling the impact. "We're probably going to fork out a lot of mone...

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Schiphol flights to be restricted to cut noise, emissions

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June 25, 2022433 Views

Airlines industry not happy with the decision by Dutch Government Flights from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport will be limited to 440,000 a year, 11% less than in 2019, to cut noise pollution, the Dutch government said on Friday, drawing praise from green groups but dismay from airlines bosses. The decision follows a move by Schiphol itself, in which the Dutch state is the majority shareholder, to impose a cap on the number passengers it can carry this summer - although that was due to staffing shortages. The government also pointed to the airport's impact on "nature and climate" for the cuts, following criticism from environmental campaigners and the left-wing opposition for its greenhouse gas and nitrogen oxide emissions. The move is intended to restore "the balance between a w...

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Ancient home, prayer room open at Rome’s Baths of Caracalla

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June 24, 2022599 Views

One the most spectacular examples of ancient Roman baths, the Baths of Caracalla, has become more spectacular. Authorities in Rome on Thursday opened to the public a unique private home that stood on the site before the baths, with a frescoed ceiling and prayer room honoring Roman and Egyptian deities. The two-story home, or “domus,” dates from around 134-138 AD, during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. It was partially destroyed to make way for the construction of the Caracalla public baths, which opened in 216 AD. The site today is a big tourist draw for the multi-leveled brick remains of the Imperial Roman baths, libraries and gyms and the marble mosaics that decorated the floors. Journalists look at the frescoes coming from the sacellum, a small votive chapel, of a two-story hom...

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Swiss ‘zero star hotel’ offers sleepless nights to ponder world’s crises

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June 23, 2022187 Views

"I couldn't sleep," and "my room was too noisy," may be complaints hoteliers dread from guests, but for the Riklin brothers that is the entire point of their latest 'zero star hotel' art installation. The Swiss concept artists' hotel room is essentially a double bed on a platform, with two bedside tables and lamps. There are no walls, ceiling or doors to provide any privacy or shelter. Swiss artist Patrik Riklin, co-founder of the Null-Stern-Hotel (Zero-Star-Hotel) offering guests a choice between four open-air rooms in reaction to the world current state after the pandemic, prepares the Bayart suite in Saillon, Switzerland June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse They have set up their null stern suite - German for zero star - on a roadside next to a petrol station in the village ...

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Missing Ukrainian and Russian tourists: From Sharm el-Sheikh to Adriatic coast

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June 23, 2022477 Views

On Sharm el-Sheikh's sandy beaches many of the sun loungers lie empty. At a central promenade packed with shops, cafes and nightclubs, crowds are thinner than usual. The resort on the southern tip of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula is reeling from the impact of the war in Ukraine, which has seen Ukrainians and Russians - previously among the town's top visitors - virtually disappear, tourism sector workers say. A general view of a pool at a hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, June 4, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany Similarly, the once ubiquitous Russian signs along Montenegro's picturesque Adriatic coast have all but disappeared as the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia keep tourists from those countries away from one of their favourite destinations. Adriat...

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In Italy, a glimmer of resurrection for art damaged in 2016 quakes

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June 22, 2022438 Views

# String of tremors in 2016 killed 300, devastated cultural sites# Thousands of art works damaged when churches collapsed# Most damaged art work was in Marche and Umbria regions# Umbria has purpose-built emergency centre to receive damaged art# Many pieces may never return to original sites if not rebuilt At the opening of a new museum in the picturesque Italian town of San Severino Marche, the guests of honour did not dress up. They were firemen in gear worn when they rescued artworks damaged in earthquakes in 2016 and now restored and on display. Archbishop Francesco Massera points to a fresco at a new museum for art recovered and restored from churches damaged in a series of earthquakes in central Italy in 2016, in San Severino Marche, Italy June 11, 2016. REUTERS/Philip Pullella...

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Crowds mark summer solstice at ancient Stonehenge monument

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June 21, 2022662 Views

Thousands of druids, pagans and New Age revelers greeted the summer solstice at Stonehenge on Tuesday, the longest day of the northern hemisphere year. Wiltshire Police said about 6,000 people gathered at the ancient stone circle in southern England to watch the sun rise at 4:49 a.m. (0349GMT) on a clear, crisp morning. A woman dressed in pagan attire watches the sun rise during the Summer Solstice festivities at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP) People watch the sun rise during the Summer Solstice festivities at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP) The sun begins to rise above the stones as people gather at sunrise to take part in the Summer Solstice festivities at Stonehenge...

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Scientists probe link between ‘snow blood’ and climate change

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June 21, 2022825 Views

Standing on a snowy mountainside about 2,500 metres above sea level, Eric Marechal holds up a crimson test-tube. Inside is an algae sample known as "snow blood," a phenomenon that accelerates Alpine thaw and that scientists worry is spreading. "These algae are green. But when it's in the snow, it accumulates a little pigment like sunscreen to protect itself," said Marechal, research director at Grenoble's Scientific Research National Center, who was collecting laboratory samples on Le Brevent mountain with teammates. Alberto Amato, Ludovic Gielly and Jade Ezzedine of the Cell and Plant Physiology Laboratory of Grenoble take samples of the Sanguina nivaloides algae, also known as "snow blood" and which presence accelerates snowmelt at the Brevent in Chamonix, France, June 14, 2022. R...