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Many of the world’s festivals go way back to the olden days. How much do you know about their backstories?

Introducing the most beautiful islands you’ve hardly ever heard of.

There is one way of exploring this impossibly romantic region that doesn’t occur to most travellers: a week-long cruise down the Canal du Midi.

It’s a long uphill climb but smiles are back on innocent faces and time it seems has healed.

Warning: may include dangerous levels of natural beauty. Consume at own risk.

Ever wondered why you couldn’t stick to that job, couldn’t stay put or rid yourself of a niggling sense that you just had to be somewhere – anywhere – else?