Robert ‘Rab’ Burns: Homecoming Scotland 2009

Known as the Ploughman poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and often in Scotland as simply “the Bard”, Scotland’s favourite son was born during a storm that partially collapsed his parents’ ramshackle Ayrshire farmhouse and almost killed the whole family. He was the eldest of seven children born to tenant farmers, William and Agnes Burness. Marking...

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Cavalieri Hilton in Rome – not quite your regular Hilton

Supposedly, Hilton hotels all look the same. The standard quality and features that feel reassuring to many international travellers are, for many others, reasons valid enough to avoid Hiltons. Well, today the ditcum "all Hiltons look the same" is a little less true. See for yourself next time you go to Rome. The Cavalieri Hilton,...

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