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A World Away from Mickey Mouse | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris

Discover a different kind of Sleeping Beauty five miles from Disneyland, Paris: a medieval town guarded by moats, towers and drawbridges where life is lived at a gentler, provincial pace

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Alentejo, Portugal | Christopher Somerville | Portugal, Alentejo, Alentejo

Antonio and his wife are exponents of agro-turismo, putting guests up at their tiny ridge-top farm. The Menezes offer boating, riding and hiking, but mainly a tremendous and natural hospitality

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Backwater America | Nick Maes | United States, New York State, Saugerties

I wave goodbye to Manhattan, listening to the evocative clanking of a bell and the doleful siren song of the train bouncing across water the colour of Prada tan trousers

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Cruising in Xitang | Nick Maes

Canals dissect twisting narrow lanes and pathways, rendering the community traffic-free and boat friendly. Worn stone steps lead down to the waters and hopelessly pretty bridges span them

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Dumfries and Galloway | Simon Busch | United Kingdom, Southern Scotland, Dumfriesshire

A gay friend of mine from Australia once told me small towns made him feel so uneasy he always drove through them with his eyes shut

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Otago Peninsula: Poets, Ghosts and Penguins | John Borthwick | New Zealand, South Island, Otago

There's more to the 33 kilometre long Otago Peninsula than shades of Gothic gloom. Its fertile green slopes have long been a haven for people and creatures

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Penang | John Borthwick | Malaysia, West Coast, Penang

Captain Francis Light once fired a cannon full of silver coins into the Penang scrub in order to motivate his reluctant workers to clear the land. It worked

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Slovenia: Back on the Map | Andrew Eames | Slovenia, Bled, Bled

Slovenia has the sparkling Adriatic coastline, the verdant Alpine pastures and of course the mountain-cupped lakes, straight out of the Sound of Music

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The Wilmslow Boys | AA Gill

Cheshire is mock everything: mock gentility, mock Tudor Gregorian, mock family, mock style, mock casual and mock happiness. Cheshire thumbs its nose job at mockery

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