Keen to escape the usual holiday hotspots? Slower, more thoughtful travel experiences await in Eastern Europe.

After languishing for decades, the Baltic countries have dusted off their fusty image as a second-rate travel destination and ...

Latvian translator Valda Salmiņa (born in 1962) earned a bachelor’s degree in philology with a specialization in German ...

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A romantic weekend away might sound like a luxury few of us can afford, but head a little off the beaten track and you’ll ...

A Holocaust survivor, who was aged 10 when the Nazis closed his Jewish school in Germany and deported him, has described the ...

Manfred Goldberg, now 94, was sent to the Riga ghetto in Latvia with his mother and younger brother. He went on to be sent to five labour camps over the course of World War Two, including more than ...

Manfred Goldberg, now 94, was sent to the Riga ghetto in Latvia with his mother and younger ... and a wreath will be laid outside St Editha's Church Tamworth Castle in Staffordshire will be ...

(AP Photo/Hendrik Osula) (Hendrik Osula) RIGA – Swedish prosecutors announced ... damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland earlier that ...

After three days and three nights on a train without food or water, Manfred, his younger brother, Herman and their mother found themselves in Riga, the capital of Latvia, beginning a nightmare that ...

Deportation of Jews in Bielefeld, Germany, on Dec. 13, 1941. Courtesy City Archive Bielefeld, CC BY-SA ...

Budget alternative: Consider visiting Tallinn, Estonia, or Riga, Latvia. These Baltic cities offer a similar Nordic feel at a fraction of the cost. Why it’s expensive: Japan’s capital can be ...