Nicky Gardner
Nicky Gardner is editor of Hidden Europe, a Berlin-based literary travel magazine devoted to exploring Europe’s unsung corners. She has a special interest in issues of culture, language and identity in frontier areas. Nicky lives in Berlin.
Hidden Europe: The Faroese factor
Nicky Gardner reports from a scatter of islands on the edge of Europe
Hidden Europe: Revisiting Schengen
Revisiting Schengen: Nicky Gardner reports from the Luxembourg village which 25 years ago hosted the meeting that would lead to a border-free Europe
Hidden Europe
Across Europe by night: Nicky Gardner reflects on how hard economics is killing off the romance of the night train
Hidden Europe
Sea travel provides a greener and less stressful alternative to crowded airports and jammed motorways, writes Nicky Gardner
Hidden Europe
Nicky Gardner reports from Vitebsk, a Belarusian city learning to vaunt its rich artistic and cultural heritage
Hidden Europe
One hundred years ago this September, Ängsö in Sweden became Europe’s first national park. As Nicky Gardner writes, the concept holds very different meanings from one country to another
Hidden Europe
Red cliffs, cheap cigarettes and a quirky Anglo-German past: Nicky Gardner visits the North Sea island of Helgoland
Hidden Europe
Nicky Gardner visits Kaliningrad, a piece of Russia now surrounded by the EU, which until 1945 was the proud Prussian city of Königsberg
Hidden Europe
Long disdained and disregarded, the Thames is finally re-emerging as a vibrant thoroughfare through the heart of the UK capital, writes Nicky Gardner
Hidden Europe
From Portugal to Poland, traces of once-thriving Jewish communities remain visible to the attentive observer. Nicky Gardner reports
Hidden Europe
Berlin’s Schönefeld airport is about to be transformed into a swanky new hub – but what was the place like when it was the gateway to communist East Germany? Nicky Gardner reports
Hidden Europe
While nationalism has defined Kosovo’s recent past, Serbia’s less volatile northern province of Vojvodina is home of one of Europe’s most linguistically diverse populations. Nicky Gardner reports
Hidden Europe
Nicky Gardner visits some of the frontier-straddling communities in central Europe reunited by the lifting of border controls last December
