For "The Absinthe Forger," Rail followed in the footsteps of Le Forgeur, traveling throughout Europe, talking to experts in ...

Discover why drinking a Mauresque cocktail is one of the greatest joys of visiting Marseille. Then learn how to make the ...

The Val de Tavers is characterised by the watch industry and extends from Lake Neuenburg across the Jura all the way to the French border. Asphalt mines and the rock circus of the Creux du Van are ...

Selected biographies of historic figures featured on bbc.co.uk/history.

This tiny, ornate pub is where George Orwell sank a celebratory absinthe when Animal Farm was ... felt about this when she popped in for a pint, history does not record. She was probably more ...

November 28, 2024 • By the time his book went to press in London, on November 18, 1633, Thomas Morton had been exiled from the Puritan colonies in Massachusetts. His crimes: drinking, carousing ...

We’re compiling another UPR community booklist and we want to know what you’re reading. Listen to suggestions from ...

Yverdon-les-Bains has been making use of its thermal waters since Roman times. Its healing waters, which go back more than 15 centuries, are rich in minerals thanks to the type of soil in the area.

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...