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Arizona & Utah | Andrew Eames | United States, Arizona, Phoenix
The Four Corners states are the high and dry lands of Southwestern America, savagely beautiful arrangements of rock, cactus, heat and snow, and home to cougar, bear and scorpion
Bangkok | Andrew Eames | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok
Few cities in the world are as exciting - or as exhausting - as Bangkok. The Thai capital is fabulous and charming one moment, and steamy, brutal, and difficult the next...
Bed & Breakfasting with the French Aristocracy | Andrew Eames | France, Brittany, Hillion
It is surprisingly easy to invite oneself to stay with the French aristocracy. No society contacts, funny handshakes or certificates of pedigree required - only a certain cheek and a thick handbook called Le B&B.
Belgrade: Open for Business | Andrew Eames
Serbia is the only remaining country in Europe not to have a guidebook. From a travel point of view it has well and truly been sent to Coventry
Cameron Highlands | Andrew Eames | Malaysia, West Coast, Cameron Highlands
Back in 1885 a surveyor called William Cameron happened across a landscape with "gentle slopes and rounded hills" - but without the help of satellite positioning, it was ages before anyone found it again...
Canoeing on the Charente River | Andrew Eames | France, Poitou-Charentes, La Rochelle
It was intended to be an old-fashioned, 'Swallows and Amazons' sort of holiday, just me and my boy, a Canadian canoe, a tent, and a placid French river brimming with fish.I am delighted to say that, despite the potential for disaster, that was how it turned out. Dappled mornings, tumbling weirs, and lashings of fresh air.
Cuisine in County Cork | Andrew Eames
Fine cuisine and fine scenery run hand in hand in Ireland's far corner, particularly where West Cork's fingers of land frame inlets of calm water rich with cormorants, seals, and mussel farms
Cycling in the Tarn Valley | Andrew Eames | France, Languedoc/ South West, Ambialet
This was the Languedoc Roussillon region of south-west France, and I was trying out a holiday with cycle specialist Cycling for Softies...
East Coast Malaysia | Andrew Eames | Malaysia, other areas of Malaysia, Terengganu
One of the highlights of a much-travelled life is a journey I made many years ago on a prau layar - a traditional sailing boat - from Indonesia to Australia…
Eco-weekending in Wales | Andrew Eames | United Kingdom, Wales, Snowdonia
The Centre for Alternative Technology was looking very eco, with lots of eco-puddles on the pathways and eco drips on the tips of our noses. In fact, the eco was descending in a thick quilt from the heavens . . .
Europe's Havana | Andrew Eames | Spain, Canary Islands, Gran Canaria
At the time when Havana was in its prime as the front door to the New World, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria was the back door of Europe
This is where you are most likely to see a local fishermen, complete with clogs and braces, stomping across to his net store
Healthy living on Swedish Farms | Andrew Eames | Sweden, Stockholm, Gothenburg
There's something very familiar about Sweden. Its travel literature is like the publicity stills for Swallows and Amazons: the Movie, with wholesome pictures of apple-cheeked blondes
Ice-Racing in Sweden | Andrew Eames
For a first-time spectator like me ice-racing seems like the creation of a delusional Mad Max scriptwriter
In Pembrokeshire with Children | Andrew Eames | United Kingdom, Wales, Pembrokeshire
In fact it didn't rain once in all our time in Pembrokeshire, which was a blessed relief, because the children weren't travelling with the right parent for indoor arts and crafts
Island-Hopping in Mozambique | Andrew Eames | Mozambique, North Coast, Pemba
Here the main activity is a dugout-based fishing industry; you're never far from a plate of fresh prawns or a Hemingway-like scene of fishermen carrying giant marlin to market
Isle of Skye | Andrew Eames | United Kingdom, Hebrides, Skye
Apart from the obvious physical attributes - the Cuillin mountains, empty beaches, wildlife, views of gunmetal seas over bladderwracked rocks - the island does not wear its heart on its sleeve
Lofoten Islands | Andrew Eames | Norway, Northern Norway, Lofoten Islands
For anyone with an ounce of poetry in their soul there can be few better places to arrive than Norway's Lofoten Islands on a calm summer's eve.
Morocco with Children | Andrew Eames | Morocco, Anti Atlas, Agadir
The waves were rather bigger than the children's experience (courtesy of Brentford Leisure Centre) but not too big, and the sand was good enough to eat - at least, Rhena thought so
Mystery Park, Switzerland | Andrew Eames
The Swiss don't strike me as natural alien-fanciers. Industrious, phlegmatic and precise, yes; but believers in the paranormal, UFOs and forces beyond our ken? Not really...
Nice - Old Money | Andrew Eames | France, Riviera Cote d'Azur, Nice
On a hillside in leafy Caucade, within spitting distance of Nice airport, is the last home of poets, princes, and countesses, all of them Russian...
Nothing, Arizona | Andrew Eames | United States, Arizona, Nothing
You do get an awful lot of nothing in Arizona, but scattered across the harsh landscape are also idiosyncratic pockets of something
Oasis Holidays in Tunisia | Andrew Eames
The most famous desert in the world, the Sahara, sprawls across several north African countries, but it is at its most civilised in southern Tunisia.
Ontario Resorts | Andrew Eames | Canada, Ontario, Algonquin Provincial Park
Thomas, who is eight, was up in the bows of the canoe. I thought his unusual silence meant that he was enjoying the the rhythm of our paddling; how wrong I could be...
Slovenia: Back on the Map | Andrew Eames | Slovenia, Bled, Bled
Slovenia has the sparkling Adriatic coastline, the verdant Alpine pastures and of course the mountain-cupped lakes, straight out of the Sound of Music
Somerset Levels | Andrew Eames | United Kingdom, South West England, Somerset
The Somerset Levels have a mid-winter makeover that fills the skies with flickering life, and draws great bedsheets of water over the land...
Sylt | Andrew Eames | Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Sylt
On the map, the island appears like a badly dented glider trying to fly towards England but with its string still tied to the mainland. Its fine sandy beach runs the length of its 40km wingspan
Taking Toddlers to the Tropics | Andrew Eames
Autumn is the cusp of the long-haul season, when those seeking true winter sun will be thinking in terms of the likes of Asia, Africa, Australasia and Central or South America. But would you take toddlers there?...
The 8.55 to Baghdad | Andrew Eames
In 1928, Agatha Christie set out on a a highly unlikely journey: an eight-day trip from London to Baghdad by two aristocratic luxury trains
The Canal du Midi | Andrew Eames | France, Languedoc/ South West, Beziers
The Canal du Midi runs for 240 km across the instep of France. It is much enjoyed by deep-sea yachtsman seeking a peaceful, pipe-puffers' short-cut between Atlantic and Mediterranean
The Golden Blowpipe | Andrew Eames
It began to rain as we rattled across the paddy fields towards Had Yai. All down the train, passengers leapt to their windows. I struggled to shut ours with a sweet-smiling girl who had "Eat F*** Kill" on her T-shirt...
The North Devon Coastal Path | Andrew Eames | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Devon
The cliffs look like shoulders of land who've rolled up their sleeves and plunged their arms deep into the water to rifle through the pockets of dead mariners lying below
The Paris Flea Markets | Andrew Eames | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Paris is different things to different people and when, on my umpteenth visit the other day, a friend was banging on about Paris being the city for markets... frankly, I harrumphed...
The Stinking Bishop of Gloucestershire | Andrew Eames | United Kingdom, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
I finally cornered the Bishop in Newent. He looked innocent enough, but by that time I'd become sufficiently wary of his reputation to ask for him to be thoroughly wrapped
The West Coast of India by Train | Andrew Eames
Railways take you through peoples' back yards, and Bombay's back yard is a parade of slum-dwellings and naked fly-bothered children, streaked with dried tears
Tourism & Change Come to Southern Tunisia | Andrew Eames | Tunisia, South Coast, Tozeur
To the locals, it must seem as if the future has finally arrived as these capsules of air-conditioning hum through the Erg seeking that desert-in-a-nutshell experience
Travelling with Kids in Mexico | Andrew Eames | Mexico, The Yucatan, Yucatan
In the seven ages of man, we've done the mewling, puking and backpacking, been through yuppiedom and done the TWINKY bits, and now we have excess baggage of the noisy variety...
Vienna with Daughters | Andrew Eames | Austria, Vienna, Vienna
Selling the idea of a weekend in Vienna to our daughters was not easy at first. This was, we announced, the city of sumptuous chocolate cake, of dancing horses and of boys in sailor suits who sang like angels