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Top 10 Late Night Spots - Glasgow

Travel :: Feature 01 Dec 2008

George Thomson: The Arches Glasgow’s biggest and best known club. This music, art and theatre venue is more versatile than the room in the Virtual Insanity video, and there isn’t a twat with a silly hat on. Set in massive subterranean caverns, and with hu...

British Sea Power at The Caves, The Skinny Mirrorball event, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008

Top 10 Late Night Spots - Edinburgh

Travel :: Feature 17 Nov 2008

Demian Hobby and Catie Guitart: Henry’s Cellar Bar 8 Morrison St One of the city’s few low-hire-cost venues, Henry’s attracts ‘rough around the edges’ shit you wouldn’t see in more conventional haunts. The stage is a small square wedged into the ...

Young novice outside Tengpoche Monastery with Mount Everest in the background, Nepal

Patrick Richardson: From Beyond

Travel :: Feature 29 Oct 2008

Demian Hobby: I’m sitting at Café Florentine, a classy Italian delicatessen in Stockbridge, on my fourth coffee of the day, feeling slightly uncomfortable on a hardback wooden chair at one of those circular tables that shake and clatter every time you m...

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The Zurich Lowdown

Travel :: Feature 27 Oct 2008

Alex Burden: Leave your preconceptions at the door; Zurich's reputation for finance and food may precede it but it has much more to offer. Berlin may be celebrated for its clubbing reputation, Love Parade, and generally being a hub of creative activity, but Zurich ...

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So far, solo, so what?

Travel :: Feature :: Features 19 Oct 2008

Nine: After a delayed flight I landed in Munich, a city where I didn’t know a soul. It was late at night. I followed the directions I’d been e-mailed: train, bus, another bus. Except the second bus didn’t work out – I saw it leaving j...

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A Helping Hand in New Dehli

Travel :: Feature 09 Oct 2008

Arun Sood: The toothless tuk-tuk driver grinned and proclaimed in his strong Indian accent : “In the grand scheme of existence, we are all one and the same; each of us with five fingers and five toes...only I have six fingers.” Sure enough, the frai...

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The Couchsurfing Chronicles

Travel :: Feature 09 Oct 2008

Steve Clarkson: “The best way to find yourself,” said Gandhi, “is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Arranging to stay with someone you've met on the internet, who is willing to host you and others in their town or city, anywher...

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Capitals Apart But Moving Closer

Clubs :: Travel :: Feature 05 Oct 2008

Alex Burden: With the highest number of clubs per capita in Europe, Zurich is also rated as having the best standards of living in the world, and continually drives money and resources into cultivating itself further. There is a culture of reclaimed spaces: disused...

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Student Life: Budget Travel

Student Life :: Travel :: Feature 17 Sep 2008

Nine: Budget travel has become a staple for me. It’s nearly a decade since I graduated and I have at least some amount of disposable income nowadays, but that cheapskate ethic is still there. (It applies to time as well as money – I’m liabl...

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Berlin Diptych: Part One

Travel :: Feature 12 Sep 2008

Demian Hobby: Demian Hobby Summer 2008 Berlin A city destroyed, rebuilt, quartered, destroyed and rebuilt again in under a century is bound to have innumerable number of sites that you won’t find in the ‘off the beaten track’ section of your Lon...

Brass Monkey - that dude lying there could be you

Student Life: Where you need to be, any time of day

Student Life :: Food and Drink :: Travel :: Feature 11 Sep 2008

12pm – 3pm Just getting into the day, you’ve probably successfully managed to sleep through your morning lectures, and starting to think about going outside. LAZY DAYS BY THE RIVER: The Water of Leith Ok, yes, we realize we’re re...

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5 Reasons to haul ass to Hydro Connect

Music :: Travel :: Preview 14 Aug 2008

Ally Brown: 1. The Location - It's in the grounds of a castle on the banks of Loch Fyne. If you can't appreciate that you must be a blind man who lives in a castle. You're not though, are you? 2. The People - There's no easy way of putting this: everyone at Hydro...

Escape the madness - Arthur's Seat

Fringe Freeze: A Guide to Festival escapism

Heads Up :: Travel :: Feature 04 Aug 2008

Shelley Blake: The joys of Edinburgh in August! Theatre, music, comedy and creativity oozing from every possible orifice. The festive season is creeping underneath the skin of us all, with the sun finally shining and smiles appearing on even the most cynical of fac...

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The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema Of Dreams

Film :: Heads Up :: Travel :: Feature :: Preview 23 Jul 2008

Jaco Justice: Move over Cannes, Edinburgh and Co - prepare to have the glam replaced by jam. In August the North East town of Nairn hosts a new film festival, inspired by childhood big-screen epiphanies, over eight and a half magical days celebrating the romanticism...

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Steppe on it! - Mongolia Rally 2008

Heads Up :: Travel :: Feature 17 Jun 2008

Melissa Crane: As Mongol, the 'untold story of Genghis Khan', hits the cinemas, three fearless warriors from Edinburgh and Midlothian will be preparing for their own Mongolian epic: 2008's Mongolia Rally, a pan-continental drive from London to Mongolia. Asif Rashid, ...

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Have Fork, Will Travel

Food and Drink :: Travel :: Feature 21 May 2008

Josh Coppersmith-Heaven, Ruth Marsh: EatScotland, the culinary arm of VisitScotland, is currently trumpeting its range of ‘Taste Trails’, designed to give your trip to Scotland a distinctly local flavour. These are suggestive rather than prescriptive - you have to make your ow...

Saltfish, Khubz Bread and Shark, Oh My...

Food and Drink :: Travel :: Venue Review 06 Mar 2008

Ruth Marsh, Hamza K: Two intrepid Skinny writers grab their travel forks and see how far they can take their tastebuds on tour without even hitting the M8.EdinburghSwedenBoda, 229 Leith Walk, 0131 553 5900Boda is the chic bar and eatery frequented by cool kids in the know....

Go Away! - Bangkok

Heads Up :: Travel :: Feature 08 Oct 2007

Deborah Martin: In many ways Thailand is the paradise you imaged when you doodled a palm tree on your office memo pad. But there's more to the 'land of smiles' than mango shakes and sun scorched beaches. This complex country has as many layers as a ladyboy's lipstick,...

Go Away! Hit the Road

Heads Up :: Travel :: Feature 08 Sep 2007

Nine: It's a very enriching, useful, cheap, interesting way to get around and meet people from social, professional, and cultural backgrounds you might never meet in your daily life. And many people have told me that they profited from picking someone up as ...

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Go Away! - to San Francisco

Heads Up :: Travel :: Feature 09 Aug 2007

Dave Kerr: Half cut and leaning out of a cable car as it rattles up Nob Hill, San Francisco, a fly in the mouth or a telling off from the ticket inspector are the realest threats The Skinny can see.Safety is the issue here, because as surely as the heavy fog obsc...

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