8am – Dworzec Centralny
You’ll most likely find yourself at the central station. This behemoth with its ‘unique’ smell was opened in 1975. Grab yourself a 24-hour public transport ticket because everything in Warsaw is pretty spread out.
9am – Palace of Culture and Science
Get your bearings with a trip to the thirtieth floor of Poland’s [...]

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To put it bluntly, doing a masters degree is expensive. With tuition fees generally falling somewhere between £3000 and £6000, the sheer cost is often a deterrent to potential postgraduates. However it may surprise you to know that studying abroad could actually be a more cost effective means of completing an MA, as in several [...]

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Whether you’re planning your gap year after Uni., organising an interrail trip around Europe in the summer, or looking into a language course abroad before you start your outstandingly well paid graduate job in September (lucky you!), there is one question which will always spring to mind during the process: to go it alone, or [...]

High in the top ten of the historic wonders of the world sits Angkor Wat, the vast city-temple complex in Siem Reap, Cambodia, a symbol of ancient Cambodian power and holiday destination for tens of thousands of tourists. Less familiar to the tourists will be the name of Kaing Guek Eav, prison commander of S-21, [...]