This year, I’d imagined climbing Mount Everest or running the Inca Trail, but instead I opted to join a cycling trip around the Lake District in my home country of …
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The Nenets have set up camp for us high above the Arctic Circle. They’ve raised the poles and rolled out the canvas, laid down reindeer pelts and stacked firewood inside …
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A life-saving dolphin, philandering gods, and the Lost City of Atlantis? Heres why myth lovers shouldn’t miss the Greek Islands.
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Straddling the divide between Europe and Asia, Istanbul is a humming metropolis up there with the best in the world. There are soaring mosques to see, Ottoman-era markets to explore and …
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Like most disasters, it began with what I thought was a good idea at the time. Unlike most disasters, it involved a Finnish DJ and the Sahara.
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Travellers be warned: to visit Lisbon is to fall under its spell. The Portuguese capital has a scruffy, sun-soaked charm that’s as hard to pinpoint as it is to resist. …