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A Tripolitanian Shopping Basket | Fiona Dunlop | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Tripoli, Tripoli
While you are unlikely to find a Libyan restaurant beyond their borders, Libyan food is far more than just ‘tent cookery’, as a string of foreign invaders has made for a gastro-eclectically cuisine
Barcelona | Fiona Dunlop | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona
Famously proud, culturally dynamic and economically self-sufficient, Barcelona is a city which pulls out all the stops. It behaves like a capital, even thinks it’s a capital, much to the chagrin of Madrid
Between a Rock and a Wild Place | Fiona Dunlop
At the medina entrance, a handful of Tuaregs sell silver jewellery, daggers and leatherwork to the few tourists who stop here en route to the real star of the region - the Akakus
Bologna: Grassa Rossa Dotta | Fiona Dunlop | Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Bologna
In many ways Bologna has suffered from this reputation for being the Italian foodie heaven, as it has obscured everything else this city has to offer
Cappadocia | Fiona Dunlop | Turkey, Cappadocia, Goreme
More revealing still are the superlative Byzantine frescoes hidden inside, blanketing the arches, vaults, domes and walls of 1000-year old chapels and monasteries hacked out of the rock
Close Encounters with Cod | Fiona Dunlop | Australia, Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island
The bubbles gurgle upwards as our small group descends into the Hole to meet our first specimen. Immense and silent, it weaves between us. I extend a tentative hand and stroke the firm, slimey, slightly scaley back
Dubai Highs | Fiona Dunlop | United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Dubai City
“That flag-pole is so tall that they had to make an extra-large flag for it. But then it was so heavy that it never flapped in the wind,” the guide tells me. “So then they installed a wind machine!”
In Search of the Mexican Utopia | Fiona Dunlop | Mexico, other areas of Mexico, Patzcuaro
Nearly 500 years ago a Spanish bishop attempted to create a Utopian capital in Mexico. Fiona Dunlop returns to find out if anything remains of his ambitious attempt
Mali with or without Timbuktu | Fiona Dunlop | Mali, Niger River, Timbuktou
If you’re after a mind-boggling ethnic mosaic, being punts down the mighty Niger and seeing mud architecture that could have been designed by Gaudi before he discovered colour - then this is your kind of place
Medina Cross-Cultivation | Fiona Dunlop | Morocco, Marrakech, Marrakech
The seductive exotica of Marrakech still exist but other, more complex ingredients are transforming the identity of this city
Muscat | Fiona Dunlop | Oman, Oman, Muscat
Oman is a country on the cusp, teetering between following the Emirates route of glitzy ersatz and sticking to its infinitely more subtle approach that balances deep traditions with a passion for mobile phones
Narmada Boom? | Fiona Dunlop | India, Madhya Pradesh, Maheshwar
Richard is far from typical example of India's erstwhile aristocracy. For a start, he is half American through his mother. Secondly, one of his ancestors is worshipped as a goddess
Oman's Musandam Peninsula | Fiona Dunlop | Oman, Oman, Khasab
Blink and you could miss Khasab, the main town on the Musandam peninsula, a remote enclave of the Sultanate of Oman where sheer moutains tower over narrow inlets and blissful, deserted coves
Roman Demons | Fiona Dunlop | Italy, Lazio, Rome
Our straw-hatted tour guide, Dion, is a bright-eyed, diminutive New Zealander who we later learn is a psychiatric nurse on leave. Very appropriate
The Hacienda Trail | Fiona Dunlop | Mexico, The Yucatan, Yucatan
Life advances in slow-motion, horses seem to outnumber cars and the sun burns faithfully - occasionally interrupted by dramatic tropical showers
The Kashmir Conundrum | Fiona Dunlop
Given the choice of a holiday in Madrid or in Srinagar (Kashmir), which would you go for?
Yangon | Fiona Dunlop | Burma (Myanmar), Rangoon, Rangoon
Leprous colonial façades beside high-rises, lush vegetation, rickshaws, pot-holed pavements, windowless 1940s Chevrolet trucks masquerading as buses with passengers dangling off the back, cornucopian food markets