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Five Things to do in Lisbon | Philip Marsden | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon

Lisbon is a city to wander in. With its compact centre, its fresh Atlantic air, (and) its tumbling cobbled streets, it offers a host of incidental pleasures…

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Notes From Istanbul | Philip Marsden | Turkey, Marmara, Istanbul

Go further afield to the lesser monuments and you are guaranteed to be the only foreigner there. There is no better way to reveal the layers of a city which has sustained more imperial power, seen more bloodshed

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South-east Turkey | Philip Marsden | Turkey, Eastern Anatolia, Malatya

We are three buses, a convoy of brand-new comfort-wagons from the Zafer factory in Malatya. With our police escort we are bowling across the hot and beautiful plains of South-eastern Turkey.

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Spring in Cornwall | Philip Marsden | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Cornwall

There is, to my mind at least, nothing so tantalising, so thrilling, so replete with pagan pleasures as the six-month rite which is Cornwall's passage to summer.

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The Best of Cornwall | Philip Marsden | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Cornwall

The duchy's pleasures have always been earned rather than dished out.

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The Scilly Isles | Philip Marsden | United Kingdom, Scilly Isles, Tresco

Nothing prepares you for the boulder-block, jungly beauty of the Abbey gardens. Elsewhere the islands are hostages to wind and sea, but here stand clipped ilex hedges tall as churches, and high Phoenix palms

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Under the Volcano | Philip Marsden | Italy, Campania, Naples

Naples has always charmed and exasperated northerners with its paradoxes - the unbothered sloth, the explosive energy, the poverty and vitality, the effusive charm and the overt criminality

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Walking in Andalusia | Philip Marsden | Spain, Andalucia (White Villages), Ronda

To the south-west of the town of Ronda are a number of flat-bottomed valleys which run unseen between pale limestone ridges. Few people live in these high valleys

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