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Another Brick in the Wall | Graham Reid | Germany, Berlin, Berlin
The realities of Cold War politics don’t mean much if you are chowing down on sauerkraut and a currywurst in a Checkpoint Charlie eatery
Feeling the Space | Graham Reid | United States, California, Mount Shasta
People come here to be healed, to pursue “wellness”, or to have sessions with Beth Beurkens, a shaman whose brochure identifies “the symptoms of soul loss”
Going to the Source | Graham Reid
If the prettiest part of Paradise - with a cellar of more than 15,000 wines - were transported to our world then it would look exactly like this
In Cajun Country | Graham Reid | United States, Louisiana, Lake Martin
Mayor Delhomme - hand-tooled boots on the desk, beetle-browed and with a wicked grin - tells me he grew up thinking of outsiders as ``Americans''
Les Sources de Caudalie | Graham Reid | France, Bordeaux Region, Bordeaux
If the prettiest part of Paradise - with a cellar of more than 15,000 wines - were transported to our world then it would look exactly like this
Outback Pub Crawl | Graham Reid | Australia, South Australia, Adelaide
There are offers you can’t refuse. And a pub crawl through the Australian Outback - most of it by small plane flying low over this magnificent, scorched landscape - is one of them
Sacramento Ghosts | Graham Reid | United States, California, Sacramento
The legendary Pony Express riders - young men who answered an ad which read, “Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred”
Toytown in Late Summer | Graham Reid | Italy, Amalfi Coast, Alberobello
Southern Italy isn’t like the postcard world of the north. Up there is the playground of those seeking an Art Experience: Renaissance paintings, Roman amphitheatres and swaggering aqueducts
Travelling Riverside Blues | Graham Reid
This is the crossroad where bluesman Robert Johnson allegedly made his pact with the Devil on a lonely midnight some time around 1930
Where the Girls Are | Graham Reid | Thailand, The North, Chiang Rai
Pale fingers of mist weave through the tree tops of the jungle. At just past dawn it is almost silent, only the faint call of birds and the distant putter of a long-tail boat on the Mekong River beyond the hill
You Have Been Warned | Graham Reid | Italy, Campania, Naples
And while cities in Italy have their character up-front in the form of Roman ruins and Renaissance grandeur, Naples can seem like little more than a mess of motorcycles, crumbling buildings, traffic jams and chaos