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hidden europe 70

Here is an extended table of contents for hidden europe 70 with brief summaries and excerpts of every article published in this issue of the magazine. Read the full version of all articles in the print edition of hidden europe 70, published in July 2023.

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The town hall in Aarhus with the famous clock tower (photo © hidden europe).

Watching this final issue of hidden europe magazine go to press is a bittersweet moment for us. We are immensely proud of what has been achieved over two decades, but it is now time for us to move on. We pen this editorial in a café by the ...
Colophon in Pierre d'Ailly's 'Concordantia astronomiae cum theologia concordantia astronomy cum historica narratione' printed in 1490 in Augsburg (image by Framorille, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0)

Colophon was a hilltop city of the Ancient Greeks, located on what is now Turkish territory. But there’s another kind of colophon, a sort of publisher’s endnote. Because we want to end on a high note, hidden europe 70 concludes with a ...
Still occasionally seen on rural branch lines, these simple Czech railcars recall travel from another era (photo © hidden europe).

We never planned to write about trains. But it just sort of happened and then we developed a curious niche writing about railway journeys. Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries reflect on a serendipitous ...

There were the journeys planned, the journeys made, and also the journeys never made. And our list of likely topics for hidden europe just grew and grew. Whatever will happen to the untold ...
Biblendum, also referred to as the Michelin Man or the Tyre Man is the oldest logo associated with European travel (image by Karinhamich / dreamstime.com).

With the unreliability of the very first cars, motoring was a stop-go process. Bibendum, the remarkable tyre man from Michelin, was always on hand to give advice in the event of breakdown or an enforced overnight ...
La Morge, seen here looking upstream, marks the border between Switzerland (left) and
France (right) at Saint-Gingolph (photo © hidden europe).

Why would I eat lunch on the Swiss side when a well-cooked plate of perch from Lake Geneva costs so much less in France? We visit Saint-Gingolph, a lakeshore village divided by an international ...