The love boat
The author accidentally finds himself on a ship shuttling Eastern European sex workers to the brothels of Istanbul.
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Europe
North Wales in 48-and-a-bit hours
In just over two days the author stumbles over more castles than he can count, a very small house, a very long place name, some of the best scenery in Britain, and an astonishing 5000 years of history.
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On an Italian mountain high
In Italy’s Dolomite Mountains hiking doesn’t mean you have to go without the good things in life.
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No ordinary hole
The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution is more than slag heaps and old coal mines.
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Last bus to Shqipëria
Two weeks amid the post-communist shambles and spectacular scenery of Albania.
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Following in Sir Ed’s footsteps
When inclement weather stopped the great Sir Edmund Hillary training for Everest on the peaks of Snowdonia National Park, he’d practice on a stack of chairs in a Welsh pub instead.
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