Quirky News
From the weird to the wonderful, The Euro Weekly News stand out as a news source with their articles about wonderful shows of human kindness, to controversial TikTok trends and everything else you wouldn’t expect! Reporting on quirky events around the world, British expats and international travellers can easily stay up to date, or seek a bit of entertainment.
Forget cat cafes: Serbia now has a cafe where alpacas roam between the tables
Serbia has put a quirky new spin on the animal cafe trend, with customers now able to enjoy a coffee while six alpacas wander around...
Ryanair pilot brakes as second plane enters Lanzarote runway mid-landing
Passengers on a Ryanair flight from Dublin had touched down in Lanzarote and were still slowing down when an Iberia Express jet bound for Madrid...
223 endangered goats and their cheese are keeping one small Spanish village alive
Rodrigo González Garrido swapped a forestry career for 223 goats and a cheese vat, and it's working: his dairy has brought a shepherd's family to...
The strange new safety system that could change the way passenger planes survive crashes
If you are sitting on a plane thousands of metres above the ground, there are probably a few things you would rather not think about....
American fined after 9kg Mercadona meat haul found in airport luggage
Nearly nine kilograms of chorizo, cured pork and venison sausage may seem like the perfect souvenir to take back home from a Mercadona in Spain,...
Blind British man sentenced for driving a stolen car 241 kilometres on motorway
A registered blind British man drove around 241 kilometres (150 miles) along one of Britain's busiest motorways in the middle of the night, despite having...
Why Spain keeps part of its €33 billion gold reserve hidden beneath New York
Somewhere beneath Manhattan sits an undisclosed quantity of gold belonging to Spain. The Banco de España knows exactly how much is stored there, yet it...
This Spanish cheese just sold for a world-record €37,500 after secret bidding pact
For six years, one Asturian restaurant walked away with Spain's most coveted wheel of blue cheese almost unchallenged. This year, four small businesses that had...
France’s famous cheeses could taste different after drought forces farmers to change cows’ diets
There wasn't enough grass left for the cows to eat, so France has rewritten the rulebook for three of its most protected cheeses. Comté, Beaufort...
Furious holidaymakers face impossible ‘bags or passengers’ choice before take-off
Every single person on the flight wanted to get home, but not all their bags could go with them. Faced with 186 passengers, a stiff...
‘They’d throw themselves down a well if it told them to’: Google Maps traps drivers in Spain’s narrow streets
Some drivers who trust Google Maps into Santa Pau's medieval alleys can't even open the car door once they realise their mistake. The Girona village...
€80m Renaissance masterpieces stolen from Sicily museum despite working alarms and guards on duty
Four Renaissance masterpieces worth up to €80 million vanished from a Sicilian museum as a religious procession filled the streets outside, yet the thieves left...
The world’s first ‘space-age’ bone that saved a Madrid patient’s leg from amputation
Surgeons in Madrid seemed to be left with only one option: amputate. But instead, they built the patient a new bone from scratch, using a...
‘We’ve found gold’: Belgian builders strike €9m treasure hidden behind cellar wall
An 18-year-old thought he had spotted a scatter of €1 coins while laying a drainage pipe, until a gold nugget rolled out beside them. What...