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I’m ushered into what looks like an upright glass coffin, told to fold my hands across my chest in the classic corpse position –...
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New global rankings reveal the best places to build a life abroad – and the people who have made the move explain why. The...
I’m ushered into what looks like an upright glass coffin, told to fold my hands across my chest in the classic corpse position –...
Elsewhere, by Rosita Boland Doubleday Ireland, £8.99 It’s not entirely a travelogue nor is it a memoir. Rather, it’s the point where the two intersect,...
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....