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As with all editions of our newsletter, you can read our letter inspired by the Seamus Heaney HomePlace over on the hidden europe website - and sign up for future editions! There are more than 500 newsletters in the archive to explore…
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Letter from Europe
Discover our 'Letter from Europe', the electronic newsletter and blog of hidden europe magazine. Read past issues in the newsletter archive.
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 1d
Earlier this year we sent a #LetterfromEurope inspired by a visit to the Seamus Heaney HomePlace - an exhibition dedictated to the poet in Bellaghy in Ireland's County Derry - and how we take an appreciation of our personal home places on our lifelong journey?

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Finding homeplace: travelling with Seamus Heaney
Triggered by a visit to the Seamus Heaney HomePlace - an exhibition dedictated to the poet in Bellaghy in Ireland's County Derry - Paul Scraton ponders the meaning of place in the context of 'home'. D...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 1d
The places of hidden europe - “Half the life’s work of a Nobel prize winner, all within a few square miles of where we are standing. So he would have called this his homeplace, and that’s how we got our name.”
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 5d
As with all editions of our newsletter, you can read our letter about port cities and the ties that bind over on the hidden europe website - and sign up for future editions!

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At the harbour wall: port cities and the ties that bind
Port cities often have a very special feel. Hamburg, Genoa, Liverpool and Bergen have much in common by virtue of their connection to the sea. Berlin writer Paul Scraton explores the quaysides of the ...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 5d
In a recent #LetterfromEurope, we explored the quaysides of the Norwegian port of Bergen and reflected on the cultural, economic and social ties which enliven port cities across Europe.

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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 5d
The warehouse district in Hamburg holds in its stones the stories of a long history of connection to the outside world. Indeed, port cities often have a very special feel and places like Hamburg, Genoa, Liverpool or Bergen have much in common.

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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 7d
As with all editions of our newsletter, you can read our letter about place names and the Welsh mountains over on the hidden europe website - and sign up for future editions!

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Letter from Europe
Discover our 'Letter from Europe', the electronic newsletter and blog of hidden europe magazine. Read past issues in the newsletter archive.
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 7d
"Pen Yr Ole Wen (the ‘head of the white slope’) seems about right when covered in a dusting of snow. And Snowdon – the English name of which is a derivation from ‘snowy hill’ – is known in Welsh as Yr Wyddfa…”

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What’s in a name? From Eryri to Everest
The names of places and topographical features do not appear by accident. Examine a placename and there is often a good story about its origins and meaning. Paul Scraton takes to the Welsh hills to ex...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 7d
“One of the joys of walking in the Welsh hills (...) are the names of the hills and the stories behind them. Some, like Yr Aran, feel very literal. The ‘three fingers’ of Tryfan are clearly visible if you look at the mountain from the right angle…"

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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 12d
Last year, we sent out a #LetterfromEurope on the joy of railway stations and their appeal as places to linger, to stop for a coffee and reflect on past travels and dream of future adventures. As with every newsletter, you can read it in full on our website: www.hiddeneurope.eu/letter-from-...
Coffee in Trieste: the joy of railway stations
Paul Scraton reflects on the appeal of railway stations as places to linger. Stop for a coffee and reflect on past travels and future journeys. They are more than merely a place to change trains or bu...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 12d
In the words of Tony Judt, in his essay ‘The Glory of the Rails’: “[Stations] were about travel as pleasure, travel as adventure, travel as the archetypical modern experience. Patrons were not supposed to just buy a ticket and go; they were meant to linger and imagine and dream…”
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 12d
On a day that marks 200 years since the first steam-powered train carried passengers (some of whom were clinging to the sides) for 26 miles along the Stockton and Darlington Railway, we thought it would be nice to celebrate the appeal of railway stations…
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 15d
Each month we realise more articles from the archive via our Letter from Europe newsletter. The Poznań article featured in a recent edition all about Europe’s Old Towns, and you can find it (plus the full collection of more than 500 newsletters) here: www.hiddeneurope.eu/letter-from-...
Stories in timber and stone - Europe’s Old Towns
For many travellers the handsome squares in the heart of major cities - throughout central Europe but also more widely - capture the experience of being away from home. These squares, often distinguis...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 15d
We explored Poznań for a feature in hidden europe 24, and like many of the pieces in our magazine archive, this is one that is now available to read in full and for free on our website: www.hiddeneurope.eu/the-magazine...
Poznan blues
Europe's city squares are being radically reshaped by the arrival of mass tourism. Thus far, Poznan's beautiful central square has resisted the pressure for change. It remains essentially a place for ...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 15d
The places of hidden europe - The Raczyński library in Poznań oozes neoclassical elegance and is one of the more remarkable buildings in the Polish city, a place that has certainly seen its fair share of change over the decades...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 18d
This article from our magazine archive is one that has now been made available to read in full on our website. We release new articles each month via our Letter from Europe newsletter, which are also published online.

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Letter from Europe
Discover our 'Letter from Europe', the electronic newsletter and blog of hidden europe magazine. Read past issues in the newsletter archive.
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 18d
In hidden europe 15 we explored two communities in islands. Nusfjord is an old fishing station that has reinvented itself through tourism. Meanwhile, the tiny hamlets that cling to the edges of Reinefjord teeter on the brink of extinction…

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Where towering cliffs in ocean stand: Lofoten
Capture the atmosphere of one of Europe's most magical landscapes with our account of two communities in the Lofoten islands in northern Norway. Nusfjord is an old fishing station that has reinvented ...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 18d
The places of hidden europe - Hamnøy harbour at the mouth of Reinefjord on the Lofoten island of Moskenesøya, right in the heart of what we think is one of Europe’s most magical landscapes...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 22d
Like all the letters in our newsletter archive, you can read this one in full on our website (where you can also sign up for future editions): www.hiddeneurope.eu/letter-from-...
Letter from Europe
Discover our 'Letter from Europe', the electronic newsletter and blog of hidden europe magazine. Read past issues in the newsletter archive.
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 22d
Borjomi is a town with a complex history which includes Romanov, Soviet and Georgian strands, and we decided to take a visit to find out more for our Letter from Europe a couple of years back…

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A Georgian Vichy
The Iranian consul's residence and the Romanov's Likani Palace are just two of many extraordinary buildings which attest to the one-time importance of Borjomi, a Georgian spa town best known for its m...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 22d
The places of hidden europe - The former house of the Iranian consul (called Firouza) in Borjomi, Georgia, one of the many extraordinary buildings which attest to the one-time importance of the spa town known for its mineral water.

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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 25d
We are currently releasing articles from the 70 editions of hidden europe via our monthly Letter from Europe. You can find the entire archive of letters on our website: www.hiddeneurope.eu/letter-from-...
Letter from Europe
Discover our 'Letter from Europe', the electronic newsletter and blog of hidden europe magazine. Read past issues in the newsletter archive.
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 25d
For hidden europe 55 we spent some time in Lavaux, an area of immense charm, a perfect region to linger and enjoy the local wines which take so much of their character from the soil. This is one of the articles from our magazine archive now available online:

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Lakeside Tradition: Exploring the Lavaux Vineyards
The Lavaux area in Switzerland is one of Europe's oldest winegrowing regions, a distinction which has earned for Lavaux a place on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The Lavaux vineyards drape the north sh...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 25d
The places of hidden europe - The view from Epesses over to France with the Alps dominating the southern shores of Lake Geneva. Every available patch of land is under vines in the heart of Lavaux...
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hidden europe @hiddeneurope.eu · 28d
We are currently releasing articles from the 70 editions of hidden europe via our monthly Letter from Europe. You can find the latest edition, on Cities of the Imagination (including a link to the Lisbon piece) here: www.hiddeneurope.eu/letter-from-...
Cities of the imagination
Paul Scraton explores Lisbon with the writing of Fernando Pessoa in mind, and reflects on how the books we read powerfully inflect our understanding of a city.
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