Skellig Michael is closed for the full year as well

Mauritius oil spill

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/mauritius-declares-environmental-emergency-after-mass-oil-spill-from-grounded-tanker-12044845

Russian swimmers complete eco-relay across Lake Baikal

https://today.rtl.lu/news/science-and-environment/a/1560487.html

Jiankou: China's remote and dangerous Great Wall

An article about a less touristy part of the Great Wall

Can Venice turn the tide on mass tourism?

Venice and tourism: they can't live with it, they can't live without it.

UNESCO-listed Old Sanaa houses collapse

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/yemen-unesco-listed-sanaa-houses-collapse-heavy-rains-200810081839188.html

The Neusiedler lake is drying up. Maybe this will be permanent. What are the solutions?

(Dutch) Het meer van Neusiedl in Oostenrijk droogt (opnieuw) op, mogelijk definitief, zijn er oplossingen?

(Dutch) Liechtenstein ruziet met Tsjechië over 75 jaar oud decreet (en over gebied 10 keer zo groot als het ministaatje)

Liechtenstein is arguing with Czechia about an area 10 times the size of the principality.

After the Second World War, Edvard Beneš, the president of Czechoslovakia, decided that the Sudeten Germans had to leave the territory because of collaboration with Nazi Germany. The decision also concerned Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein. He was considered to be German and lost several estates in nowadays Czechia. These estates amount to a territory about 10 times the size of the principality. Among these estates are the WHS of Lednice and Valtice.

During communism, the claims of the Liechtenstein family were not heard, but after the fall of communism in 1989, an organisation was created to reclaim the lost properties.

The case will now be presented to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Here is an interesting twist to the current travel situation:


I suppose that given Brazil's high prevalence of cases, this at least gives them a large pool of potential visitors.

90% of its visitors were Brazilian anyway. Though even Brazil seems to be far from so many Covid cases that 50% or more have been infected - there'd be still more 'healthy' tourists (also given the economical class of the visitors, this is not a cheap destination).

True, a fact that I am painfully aware of... ;-)

Article on Luxembourg City on the website of the bbc: Europe's most misunderstood capital?