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After the Coffee Rush | Paul Miles
But the potential for perfect postcards and tourism is everywhere: beaches, rainforests and rivers and the pastel shades of crumbling colonial elegance...
Ayurvedic Bliss? | Paul Miles | Malta, Gozo, Gozo
If I'd meant to be coated in hot oil or enveloped in seaweed, I would have been born a prawn...
Back Paddle | Paul Miles | Fiji, Viti Levu, Suva
We paddle through a serene gorge of sponge-cake-like limestone, where birds’ nest ferns hang from the cliff-tops
Bear-Spotting in the Arctic | Paul Miles
We nudged 80 degrees north. The ship moved through the pack ice, elbowing floes out of the way as if they were unwanted thoughts
Bequia | Paul Miles | St Vincent and Grenadines, Bequia, Bequia
Bequia is just seven square miles with less than six thousand residents. It's a favourite among yachties, who enjoy its safe anchorage and laid-back beach bars serving fresh fruit juices, home-made gingerbread, rum punch...
Blossoming Friendship | Paul Miles
In the evenings, in jasmine season in Djerba, the men wear tightly tied bunches of the fragrant buds behind their ears...
Canaria Class | Paul Miles | Spain, Canary Islands, Gran Canaria
In the theme-park-style spa of the second-largest hotel in Europe, the entrance to the relaxation area, billed the ‘womb room’, is shaped like a giant, pink vagina
Corsica | Paul Miles | France, Corsica, Calacucchia
Multi-chromatic mountains of pink, green and white granite; sea cliffs of violent orange; teetering villages of pan-tiled chunky houses
Journey to the Monster's Lair | Paul Miles | Tanzania, Coast, Dar Es Salaam
Villagers climb the volcano and clamber down a precipitous path to the lake's edge to make a sacrifice to the creature of the deep
For me, a holiday in Vegas was only ever slightly more appealing than, say, a week of fasting and coffee enemas in Molvania...
At night, the phosphorescence looks as if all the constellations in the inky sky have fallen into the deep...
The dangerous sharks are Malaysian companies threatening to destroy the timeless rainforested environment with logging and oil palm plantations. But for the moment, this is one of the most beautiful, unspoilt, sparsely inhabited areas in the South Pacific
Spain's Ripest Exotic Fruit | Paul Miles | Spain, Andalucia, Granada
In the Autumn, when the pigs are fattened up, there’s usually a slaughtering festival
Tattoos and Transgenders | Paul Miles
I stayed in a simple wood and palm house on stilts over the sea, a few decades removed from the relative hedonism of Apia and a world away from life in Britain
Time Lite African Odyssey | Paul Miles
Men in dug-out canoes or dhows with patchwork sails would come alongside to allow passengers to clamber aboard with their belongings...
There are deserted beaches where you can paddle ashore on one of the ship's skiffs and spend the afternoon snorkelling over coral gardens to the accompaniment of long high-pitched notes of faraway whale-song
Men venture off into the milky blue sea to spear fish from outrigger canoes...