BY: JESSICA BEUKER Summer vacation is right around the corner, which means that feet start to get itchy as students are released from the shackles of academia and everyone else starts to think about taking time off from their jobs…
Over 30 years, photographer captured the freaks and non-conformists that rule the underbelly of Berlin (photos)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Miron Zownir has spent most of his life looking at others. His stunning collection of black and white photography tells the stories that would otherwise go untold, of those living on the outside, in different cities around…
UK festivals will let you test your drugs before tripping out this summer
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Last July, the summer music festival, Secret Garden Party, became the first ever UK festival to offer its attendees a somewhat controversial service – drug testing. Festival goers were given the opportunity to take their drugs to a…
The Netherlands now has the world’s first completely wind powered trains
BY: RHIANN MOORE As of January 1, 2017, 600,000 daily commuters in the Netherlands have been traveling in complete carbon neutrality. This is because the Dutch NS trains now run on 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy as a result…
The futuristic beauty of the Balkans’ WWII monuments (photos)
The Balkan peninsula is the melting pot of cultures and nations. It’s on the verge of Europe. The Balkans have been the spot for the most profound political games in the continent’s history. The most viewable legacy of the political…
New supersonic plane will fly you from the US to Europe in 3 hours
BY: JESSICA BEUKER I have yet to meet someone who actually loves flying. Waiting at the airport, squishing down those tiny aisles to find your seat, which usually ends up being in between the woman with the screaming baby and…
For 7 years this vagabond collected 1,000 stories from strangers who helped him on his journey
BY: JESSICA BEUKER All photos by Gabor Gabor hasn’t had a place to call home in over seven years. Instead he has spent those years backpacking the world and meeting new people. Gabor decided to document his journey through the…
Travel company launches gap year program that takes learning around the globe
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Not all learning happens in a classroom, sometimes a plane ticket can trump a text book. Geckos Adventures, a travel company that plans adventures for 18-29 year-old travellers, is taking the popular gap year, a year-break students…
This nature phenomenon is an otherworldly forest of stone with a unique history
BY: AISHA ILYAD Mother nature is strange; it is always ready to amaze us. For thousands of years nature has carved stone pieces in order to turn them into impressive sculptures, which look like people, animals, monsters and mythical creatures. “The…
The world’s most friendly (and powerful) passports
BY: TONY BUCHNON If you had the choice of any passport you liked, which would you choose? As it turns out, your passport says more than you might realise about your level of access to the world. European countries tend…
Football hooliganism: a contrasting tale of Brits, Russians and Irishmen
BY: VICTORIA HEATH Smashed beer bottles, torn flags, blood spatters, broken chairs, empty tear gas canisters, and scraps of metal littered the streets of the usually tranquil seaside city of Marseille, France after a huge brawl between rival groups and police in…
Teaching English could be your ticket around the world
BY: Zoe Melnyk So you’ve graduated with a wonderful degree in a major that you’re passionate about that has absolutely no “real world” qualifications for a job, let alone a career. You couldn’t help it, having a major in Latin…
WOW Air just unveiled $99 flights from Canada to Iceland, and $149 flights to Europe
BY: ROB HOFFMAN WOW Air just unveiled shockingly cheap airfare prices that will allow Canadians to visit Iceland and Europe for less money than it costs to fly between Toronto and Montreal. The first cheap flights will launch out of…
Photographer hitchhikes across Europe to take powerful portraits of self-ruling people
After being swept away in the flow of constant emails, only to be caught in the dead river of early morning traffic, many of us stew and question the overwhelming pace of our lives. Do I really want my life…
Europe’s largest living wall contains 97,000 plants
BY: JESSICA BEUKER A 446-space parking garage is now home to Europe’s largest living wall. The wall contains 97,000 plants drawn from 20 different species chosen specifically to provide environmental benefits. According to Gizmag, the plants are tailored to do…
This Irish artist has built a house literally worth 1.4 billion Euros notes
BY: BRITTANY ROSEN Just when you thought money motive was superseding creativity, European Artist Frank Buckley builds a house made of $1.4 billion in shredded Euro notes. The artist himself is now occupying this eco-friendly house. Buckley, an all-around artist…
Human zoos are one of Europe’s most shameful secrets, and only ended in the ’50s.
BY: BRITTANY ROSEN Not too long ago, people from Belgium, France and many other countries came to visit humans, locked up in cages, exhibited in front of a large audience and thrown in with animals at their local zoo. Many…