Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
In Ethiopia the new year starts on September 11th and not on January 1st. This is because Ethiopia uses the calendar of the Coptic Orthodox Church, […]
“L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle”. Who doesn’t know this verse from the Divine Commedy by Dante Alighieri. The famous poet from Florence left […]
UNESCO published its first list of protected places in 1978. At that time, the organization designated only cultural and natural sites. To date, there are 1,154 […]
Archaeologists in Pompeii have discovered, during an excavation east of the ancient city, a tomb containing a well-preserved skeleton. On the tomb, there is a plate […]
There’s nothing like imagining what your favourite place, or maybe your hometown, looked like may many years ago. Places can change quickly, and Brussels is certainly […]
The Covid-19 pandemic meant that the UNESCO (United Nation’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) committee was unable to meet. This year, however, a combined review of […]
Machu Picchu is older than previously thought, scientists say, after releasing the results of new findings. A study led by Yale University professor Richard Burger has […]
Following their latest session, UNESCO has added several new sites to its famous World Heritage List. In Germany, the ShUM (Hebrew initials of the three cities) […]
On Tuesday during the latest UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in Fuzhou, China, the organisation added Iran’s Hawraman/Uramanat cultural landscape to its list of world heritage […]
UNESCO has decided to remove Liverpool from its World Heritage List, which was described as an “extremely disappointing” decision for a British government determined to boost […]
Although made more complicated by Covid-19, traveling has seldom been easier than in 2021. Contrary to our forefathers, we don’t have to discover the world on […]
Today, Kazakhstan’s capital Nur-Sultan celebrates its 23rd anniversary. The young rapidly growing city sprung into existence around the small town of Akmola back in 1998. The […]