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Following India's Textile Trail | Martin O'Brien | India, Rajasthan, Jaisalmer
India has beautiful fabrics by the acre - shawls and jackets, skirts and scarves, wall-hangings and bedspreads. You'll want to haggle and barter for every exquisitely-worked thread in every merchant shop
Gibraltar in History | Barnaby Rogerson
As a child on the Rock I heard many tales both mythological and historical; about the subterranean tunnel that connected the two Pillars of Hercules and of a fresh water well that yet raised and lowered itself with the tides
Have You Met the Colonel? | Barnaby Rogerson | Libya, Tripoli, Tripoli
Libya creates a knee jerk response in conversation. "Have you met Colonel Qaddafi?" is followed by "is it safe?" After six years taking lecture tours round its unforgettable classical ruins, all I can say is
Historic Korea | Julie Miller | South Korea, Seoul, Seoul
One half expects ninjas to fly backwards through the maples, crouching tigers and hidden dragons emerging from the shadows of the three imposing gateways marking the route
Into the heart of Byzantium: A journey to Mt. Athos | Christopher Deliso | Greece, Mainland Greece, Mount Athos
Athos, or the “Holy Mountain,” is the spiritual centre of Orthodox Christianity, where the traditions of a long-vanished world have continued for over 1,000 years
Saxony | James Henderson | Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Dresden
At first glance, Saxony was a rather a daunting prospect. A fearsomely complicated history - a string of margraves, landgraves, dukes and elector-princes who ruled ever-shifting principalities
Tales from the Dead | Belinda Jackson | Australia, Queensland, Fraser Island
Shipwrecked socialites, elite crack commandos and utopian dwellers all have a place on Fraser Island
Tangopolis | Chris Moss | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires
El tango was the soundtrack, sex organ and soul of the big, bad-tempered port city I’d chosen for home.