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Climbing in Thailand | Sue Carpenter | Thailand, Southern Thailand: The Andaman Coast, Krabi
Three beaches, a few acres of coconut groves dotted with bungalows, and a soaring mass of craggy cliffs...
Colombia | Sue Carpenter | Colombia, Bogota, Bogota
Leaving gentle Ecuador behind and entering this unpredictable land sent a chill of anticipation through me. Cocaine. Coffee. Cartels. That’s about all I knew about a country that has been deemed virtually off limits to travellers
Cycling in Tuscany | Sue Carpenter
The closing - and opening - weeks of a long summer are the best time to cycle through Tuscany. Spring and autumn days are mellower, the light softer, the palette more varied
Czech Republic | Sue Carpenter | Czech Republic, Prague, Prague
Greenways is a non-profit organisation that protects the environment and preserves historic sites. Using 100-year-old hiking trails and specially created bike routes, a Greenway route was established along 250 miles
Easter In Guatemala | Sue Carpenter
Latin America is the place to be for Semana Santa, Holy Week. The celebrations in La Antigua Guatemala are the second largest in the world after Seville in Spain
Homestays and hideaways in Kerala | Sue Carpenter | India, Kerala, Thekkady
Kerala | Sue Carpenter | India, Kerala, Kerala
People are markedly more smiling and friendly than in northern India, and as an entrée to this sometimes overwhelming country you can do no better
Mauritius | Sue Carpenter | Mauritius, Southwestern Mauritius, Le Morne
The prime motivation for heading to Mauritius remains to crash out in the sun and not have to think beyond your next waterski session or barbecued lobster
Mexico | Sue Carpenter | Mexico, Central Mexico, Guanajuato
Virtually the whole of inland Mexico - an area larger than France, Italy and Spain put together - is a best-kept secret. Mexico suffers from bad PR. We have been fed a diet of spaghetti westerns with vast empty landscapes
Paris for Kids (in the Footsteps of Madeline and Eloise) | Sue Carpenter | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
While modern fiction-fanciers are flocking to Paris to follow the Da Vinci Code trail, my six-year-old daughter Simi and I came in pursuit of two altogether different storybook characters - Madeline and Eloise
Paris with Children | Sue Carpenter | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Being with her made me see things through fresh eyes: our trip to the Louvre, for example, was less a mission to pack in the famous paintings and sculptures than a holistic experience
Plantation Days in Kerala | Sue Carpenter
I am lying in a hammock after a slap-up Sunday lunch, watching the sunlight filter through the coconut palms…
Rajasthan | Sue Carpenter | India, Rajasthan, Ranthambhore Nature Reserve
In all of India, there is no more exotic and alluring state than Rajasthan, land of the Maharajas - rugged men still strut in shocking pink or lime green turbans, women still dazzle in silver bangles
Road-Tripping in India | Sue Carpenter
Night had fallen and Simi was sleeping in my lap by the time we crossed from Madhya Pradesh into Gujarat. It was like crossing from Mexico to the USA
Shopping in Rajasthan | Sue Carpenter | India, Rajasthan, Jaipur
It’s not until you arrive in Rajasthan that you realise you have been asleep, existing rather than living. India awakens the senses with a jolt
Tango in Buenos Aires | Sue Carpenter | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires
The key thing that differentiates Buenos Aires from Paris (the two often seem indistinguishable) is tango
The Food Markets of Hong Kong | Sue Carpenter | China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
A walk through the food markets of Hong Kong is not the rose-tinted, spice-scented experience of, say, a stroll through Fez. This is brutal, raw, rank reality
Travels to India with Simi | Sue Carpenter | India, Madhya Pradesh, Maheshwar
To me the joy of Ahilya is that you don’t need to leave its environs to experience India’s wonders and contrasts – princes and paupers, serenity and frenzy, modernity and tradition, all infused with a living spirituality
Zanzibar | Sue Carpenter | Tanzania, Zanzibar & Islands, Zanzibar
An island with a dark past and a sunny future. On the West coast is a shabby, bustling port, on the East, a shimmering, tropical paradise, and in the centre