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Blood and Sand | Kamin Mohammadi | Spain, Andalucia, Ronda

After the slump in popularity witnessed in the 1980s, bullfights are on the rise. The reasons are legion. The young people of Spain are becoming impressed with bullfighting again

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City of Mermaids | Rory MacLean | United States, Florida, St. Petersburg

In America if you want to meet a mermaid you can. Just up the coast from St. Petersburg on U.S. 19. For $14.95...

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Football in Venice | Lee Marshall | Italy, Veneto, Venice

As most regulars have credit-card style season tickets, those queueing at the booths are mostly passing trade - including a surprising number of tourists, who trek out to the stadium on impulse

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Horse-Racing in Dubai | Tim Elliott | United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Dubai City

The jockeys, most of whom were from the UK or Australia, looked even smaller than normal, like luminous little Gobstoppers tacked on to the animals’ backs

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How to Ride an Elephant | Julie Miller | Thailand, The North, Chiang Saen

There really is no graceful way to mount an elephant. And to make matters worse, there are cameras poised ready to capture me in all my lumbering inelegance

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Maradona's Manchester | Andrew Bain | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

Children too young to have heroes ran around the museum in team colours, dad’s football dream their inheritance

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Out with the Old, In with the Nudes | Mark Eveleigh | Spain, Navarra, Pamplona

“Pamplona is changed of course,” wrote Hemingway, during one of his last visits to the fiestas of San Fermin, “but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink it got very much the same as it always was”

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Scumball Rally | AA Gill | Monaco, Monaco, Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo is the sort of slum that rich people build when they lack for nothing except taste and a sense of the collective good

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The Palio: a practical guide | Lee Marshall | Italy, Tuscany, Siena

Palio Jockeys slash at each other with whips, box in their rivals, dash for the best angle and, not infrequently, end up sprawled beneath the oncoming hooves or find themselves dropping in on the spectators

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The World's Fastest Ballgame | Mark Eveleigh | Spain, Catalunya, Pamplona

With his beret clamped under his arm and a cigar and a glass of patxaran liquor lodged in his thick fingers, Asensio seems to be the archetypical Jai Alai spectator

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