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Best of the black stuff There’s a pub on George’s Quay called Callanan’s. It’s one of my favourite places to take someone who’s from out...
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Each year, thousands of Taiwanese ring the island as a rite of passage. Now, a growing number of tourists are cycling it, and experiencing...
Best of the black stuff There’s a pub on George’s Quay called Callanan’s. It’s one of my favourite places to take someone who’s from out...
Across Europe festivities and parades full of spirits and demons, dances and drinks bring cheer – and sometimes mayhem – to the winter months...
In Naples the build-up to Christmas is chaotic. Pilgrims descend on the city, pushing their way through narrow streets to Via San Gregorio Armeno,...
Hire a bicycle Treviso is a cycling city. We all get around the historic centre on two wheels: it’s a good way to avoid...
The train glides west. Uncompromising-looking grey clouds are shedding icy raindrops on to Bath’s spires and crescents and Bristol’s colourful terraces. But I’m hoping...
Pleurisy, fracture at elbow, scalded buttocks, horse bite – who knew that a list of ailments on a hospital’s patient register could be so...
Isle of culture It must be hard for today’s visitors to imagine the Île de Nantes, in the middle of the Loire, as the...
Yeee-ees!!” cries my coach, Oliver, as we near the water’s edge. Wave after wave surges towards us, peeling sideways before crumbling at our feet....
I’m bored! We love to stand on the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle and wait for the one o’clock canon to fire. It always makes us jump,...
Toast the Alps Though it’s modest by modern standards (13 storeys and 70 metres tall), Nebotičnik was the first “skyscraper” in Yugoslavia, and the ninth-tallest building...