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Driving around POLAND
Michael Webb embarks on a 10 day road trip around Poland. Resilience is the greatest asset of the Poles, who retained their pride and sense of nationhood during two centuries of foreign occupation....
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Exploring the BALTIC STATES
Michael Webb takes a 12 day tour of the Baltic States. Having explored most of Europe, I left the three Baltic States–Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania–till last, hoping they would offer as authentic a...
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Wandering with Wordsworth in England’s Lake District
Kristina Foster explores the Lake District discovering spectacular hiking trails and poetic history. The Lake District is the UK’s most popular national park | Photo: David Iliff Nestled in the...
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Sybaritic SRI LANKA
Michael Webb enjoys the more luxurious side of the cities of Sri Lanka. My first visit to Sri Lanka, many years ago, was a frugal adventure, bumping around in crowded buses from one ancient site to...
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TOKYO Translated
The world’s most populous metropolis that sprawls across 23 city wards, islands and other towns and villages, boasting 9.26 million citizens can seem daunting but only from the outside. Gently peel off...
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JAIPUR or Bust!
Review your bucket list. Does it include Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan? This is one list entry considered mandatory by Jane Adams, a recent delegate at the world’s largest writers’ festival held every...
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Rediscovering MOSCOW
The Moscow I visited in 1976 was a gray, drab city of bare shelves, mediocre restaurants and surly officials. The shift from communism to capitalism brought crime, corruption and soaring prices. For...
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Exploring the Green Heart of ITALY
Tuscany is an irresistible lure to everyone who loves art, architecture and landscape, but the famous cities—Florence, Siena, Pisa and Lucca—are becoming uncomfortably crowded. There, the best...
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Art and Nature in Northern ENGLAND
If you want to enjoy England as it was a century ago, skip the overcrowded, domesticated south-east and head north to Derbyshire and Yorkshire. Those counties cradled the Industrial Revolution,...
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