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Basque in Glory | Chris Moss

To get some idea of how good all this rustic fare tastes, suffice to say that over the border in France people talk about San Sebastián in hushed tones

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Drink in the Pure Gold of Hungary | Chris Moss | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Tokaj-Hegyalja

How do you say cheers? I asked. "Easy," came the reply, "it's 'I wish it to your kind health'." And in Hungarian? "Ah, that's kedves egeszsegedre kivanom."

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Flit Lit | Chris Moss

Our bookshops are piled with paperbacks in which Brits swap mortgages in the drizzle for farmsteads in the sun. As a former expat, I am particularly interested in the lies and deceit these escapists can spin

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Gap Year Guerrilla | Chris Moss | Argentina, Argentine Lakes, San Carlos de Bariloche

I hitched through Patagonia on a truck carrying Mendozan wine and used bikes, taxis, horses, and, yes, even a motorbike in the Argentine Lake District

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Gold Blend: Columbia | Chris Moss | Colombia, Bogota, Bogota

I ate chicken cooked in coffee, my companion tucked into steak in coffee sauce and then we ordered a cappuccino cake and a cup of coffee. Overkill? Well, we weren’t complaining...

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La Vida Roja | Chris Moss | Argentina, Mendoza and winelands, Mendoza

It is a sin for carriers of hard currency to indulge in anything other than fine wines and tender meats and tasty salads.

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Oops, There Goes Another Bit of Britain | Chris Moss | United Kingdom, Midlands, Derbyshire

Like many other circles, there is a rich pagan-cum-druidic folklore that extends way beyond the tentative specualtions of history books.

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Shepherd's Delight | Chris Moss | Greece, Mainland Greece, Zagoria

The balance of rest and recreation, challenge and chilling out while in Zagoria is perfect. Unlike more insipid Mediterranean destinations, nature never lets up here

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Taking a Punta | Chris Moss

Punta proudly wears its artifice with attitude, luxuriating in an erotically charged plasticity.

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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.

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The Other Inca Trail | Chris Moss

The purpose of my pains: to visit the ruins of Choquequirao, a site that rivals Machu Picchu for size and significance, and beats it hands down for remoteness

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Trans Siberian Excess – A Survival Guide | Chris Moss | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

Some provodnitsas are polite, but some are as cold as Siberian permafrost. If you don't speak Russian, you can't talk to them anyway

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