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Angola: The Call-Up | Brendan Sainsbury

Quite suddenly 26 out of the 85 students at my school were being asked to trade three years of hard-earned study for a walk-on part in a brutal and pointless guerilla war that paid little regard to the Geneva Convention

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Granada: Singing with the Sandinistas | Brendan Sainsbury

Granada is a rich colonial gem of a city, full of horse-drawn taxicabs and decaying neo-classical facades, which languish a few layers of paint away from their original Spanish-era splendor

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Guanajuato: If Only | Brendan Sainsbury | Mexico, Central Mexico, Guanajuato

I dreamt of cool, cinematic evenings spent in old Spanish colonial towns with my new wife, the sounds of guitars drifting in through the open hotel windows

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Morocco: The Crumbling Kasbah of Telouet | Brendan Sainsbury | Morocco, Atlas Mountains, Telouet

Stark, spectacular beauty: the snow-capped Atlas Mountains, the village with its ochre minaret, the only sounds those of the cawing crows and the frenzied efforts of Mustafa searching in his pockets for a cigarette

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Romeria: The Spirit of Flamenco | Brendan Sainsbury | Spain, Andalucia, Alcala de Guadaira

take my place in the growing procession that snakes its way past the whitewashed houses. All around, the landscape is punctuated by rugged rocky crags and distant Moorish castles. The Romeria has begun

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The Canadian Rockies | Brendan Sainsbury | Canada, Alberta, Banff

Glacier-capped mountains, sapphire lakes and enough pine-scented forest to fill a country the size of Switzerland

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The Chicken Bus to Antigua | Brendan Sainsbury

In Guatemala a ride on a chicken bus is a veritable, if painful glimpse into the essence of life itself - a harsh and uncomfortable cultural treat, but a treat worth tasting all the same

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The Rebel Quintet | Brendan Sainsbury

I'm sitting in the secluded ambience of a rustic jungle lodge in the village of Santo Domingo, nestled quietly in the depths of Cuba's Sierra Maestra Mountains

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