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William Cook

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Euro 2024 / A guide to Germany’s cities

Here’s a question for Spectator football fans: what’s the most memorable match you’ve ever seen? I don’t mean on television. I mean in an...

09.04.2024 4

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Goal keeper

On a wet and windy afternoon at Repton School, technical director of football Luke Webb is putting his first team through their paces. At first glance...

14.03.2024 6

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The Nazi next door / Inside my grandmother’s house

Each time I return to Hamburg (about once a year, on average) I pay a sentimental visit to my grandmother’s magnificent old house, where she spent...

05.03.2024 10

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From the ashes / Nuremberg is the best and worst of Germany

On a snowy night in Nuremberg, a city that encapsulates the best and worst of Germany, a huge crowd has gathered in the ancient Marktplatz for the...

12.12.2023 6

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Rhine supreme / The growing appeal of dreary Düsseldorf

In the cavernous basement of Bilker Bunker, a second world war air raid shelter in downtown Düsseldorf, the staff of groovy events guide the Dorf are...

05.12.2023 7

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Leuven / Belgium’s most underrated city

From the vertiginous belltower of Leuven’s university library, you get a great view across the mottled rooftops of Belgium’s most underrated city....

13.11.2023 7

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You can’t cancel Picasso

In the sunlit courtyard of the Picasso Museum in Málaga, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso is telling me about his grandfather, the greatest artist of the...

11.11.2023 6

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River rambles / Walking the Suffolk Coast Path

When was the last time you woke up bright and early on a weekday morning, with no need for an alarm call, rested and impatient for the day...

13.10.2023 4

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