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A stopover in Frankfurt can be a rewarding experience as Karen Halabi discovers. |
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Sisowath Quay, in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, is emerging as one of the world's great boulevards |
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Abu Dhabi is rapidly emerging as the most powerful of the United Arab Emirates. |
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South Australia’s capital sheds its “City of Churches” image |
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Glenn A Baker uncovers Goths, Punks, Space Cadets, Little Misses Muffett and Bo Peep among the Harajuku hangers. |
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There’s an unusually large amount of gold in Japan's east coast city of Kanazawa |
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Some fresh ideas for spending time out in Sydney |
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Russia's surprising city of Khabarovsk, on the Amur RIver |
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Karen Halabi escapes the madding crowd for the peace and contemplation of a Korean tea house. |
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Bandung’s biggest drawcard is ugly, smells bad and often can’t even be seen at all. |
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Bangkok's new network of sky-trains, underground trains, river ferries and dedicated bus lanes makes getting around this sprawling city a breeze. |
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Bangkok’s Chatujak Weekend Market - perhaps the largest open air bazaar in all of Asia - is a maze of amazing bargains. |
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Now it has finally opened, the Thermae Bath Spa Complex aims to re-establish Bath’s rightful place as Britain’s pre-eminent spa destination.
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The surprising city of Belém, gateway to the lower Amazon |
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Singapore has a fascinating cultural history. Part of this history can be appreciated on a guided walk through Kampong Gelam – also known as the “Arab Street” precinct. |
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With seesawing oil prices, Brisbane's new pedestrian- and cycle-friendly transport network has arrived at just the right time. |
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They’re native-born Spaniards but their first language is Catalan, not Spanish. For what it’s worth, the bullrings have fallen into disrepair. |
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Here are five (or more) fresh-air things to do in and around Brisbane |
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Melbourne’s Coastal Art Trail around Port Phillip Bay celebrates the generations of Australian artists who have painted our favourite coastal landscapes. |
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Munich's Oktoberfest beer festival is justly world-renowned. But the rest of Bavaria has an equally enticing beerscape. |
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This is the way to enjoy Galician barnacles: take hold, twist and withdraw the edible portion, not much bigger than your thumbnail. |
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Darwin - Frontline Australia, as the license plate slogans put it? Australia's most unusual city, Darwin has always been first landfall for visitors from the north: Macassan trepang-hunters; the Imperial Japanese Air Force and the boat people. Today the only hostile invaders are the box jellyfish and the saltwater crocodile. |
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Fiona Harper questions the wisdom of the old proverb 'it is better to travel than to arrive' after a coastal passage that ends in Melbourne's Docklands district. |
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Where better to start exploring London’s past than the banks of the Thames, for centuries the main artery of the greatest mercantile city the world had ever known? |
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As Fidel Castro fades from the Cuban stage, now is the best time to visit |
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Foodies and fashionistas delight at the Spitalfields market in London's East End |
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Edinburgh’s New Town remains arguably the world’s finest example of Georgian town planning and architecture, but two centuries on, the austere terraced townhouses and the luxuriant private parks wear a comfortable patina. |
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An unlikely cultural capital, Glasgow's uncomprisingly Victorian streetscape provides the setting for an assemblage of fine galleries and museums. |
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Kolkata, the better known Calcutta, is the not only the home of golf in India, the mega city has the oldest golf club in all of Asia. |
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Here lie kings... inside the grassy hemispherical mound the temperature drops as the passage burrows into the heart of the tumulus. |
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Pull on your leathers to explore the Mornington Peninsula, ‘Melbourne’s backyard’, suggests Philip Game |
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Bac Ho, Uncle Ho, presides over the square facing the gingerbread French town hall and the red flag flies above the dictator’s palace which the Viet Cong tanks gate-crashed in April 1975. |
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Hanoi, where the late leader lies in state, is the true Ho Chi Minh City |
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Coming to terms with the South Korean capital |
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The Spanish city of Valencia, renowned as the home of paella, is also known as "the rice bowl of Europe" |
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I’m soaring over the Lion City! Tucked away in air conditioned comfort some 165 metres above a dynamic city my 360° view from the Singapore Flyer, Asia’s largest observation wheel, encompasses the ever changing cityscape and well beyond to parts of neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia. |
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Crowning a soaring column in the green heart of Jakarta is a ‘flame’ that never flickers. It can’t because it’s made of gold! |
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South East Asia’s favourite fruit provides an apt metaphor for a city which no longer deserves to be dismissed as squalid, dirty and charmless. However, a rich feast of sticky, custard-like flesh awaits those eager enough to withstand the noxious smell of this football-sized fruit and wrest open the formidable spiked carcass. |
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Kaohsiung, venue for the 2009 World Games, cleans up its act |
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A booming city which was once a tin miners’ camp; Kuala Lumpur mingles Malay, Chinese, Indian and other cultural strains in a 21st century metropolis sometimes futuristic. |
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FONDLY referred to as 'Windy Wellington", the winds of change have swept through New Zealand's capital, making it arguably the country's most sophisticated and funkiest city. |
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Japan's Hida region is Japan's heartland |
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A sweep through the rich textures and enticing history of the Portuguese capital, the first true world city, from a base of sumptuous luxury atop one of its seven hills above the Tagus River. |
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Slumbering beside the Mekong amidst the mountains of northern Laos, Luang Prabang must be the only Asian city in which one hardly need look before crossing the street. |
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No customer is too picky for this boutique butcher in an unlikely corner of London's East End |
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A relative backwater today, Malacca formed the crucible for much of the recorded history of this multiracial nation |
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Look to the sophisticated state capital of Victoria for some of the best shopping Down Under. |
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There's much to explore in the Russian capital, deservedly one of the world's great cities, declares Philip Game. |
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Glenn A Baker discovers a new kind of cool in Iceland. |
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Well worn cobblestone lanes lead from one architectural treasure to the next in the Old Town of Riga. |
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It’s eleven at night, but who wants to sleep, anyway? |
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Victoria’s Ballarat is best known as a gold rush town, but one of Australia’s largest inland cities is also undergoing a gourmet metamorphosis, as Sheriden Rhodes discovers. |
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Set smack on the imaginary Tropic of Capricorn everything else is real in Rockhampton. |
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Though Haji Latif Abdulla has never had his business devastated by fire much of his life’s work has gone up in smoke! As I slowly sauntered down Rabindra Sarani exploring an alluring sector of Calcutta where the city’s rich Muslim heritage is readily visible he beckoned me into his shop to explain such a seemingly contradictory statement. |
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When you think of samba, chances are you don't immediately think of Finland - which is why Helsinki's annual Samba Festival comes as such a pleasant surprise |
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In Santa Fe even the parking stations are built with adobe in the Spanish colonial style. |
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Glenn A Baker extends the boundaries of retail with a visit to the amazing markets of Seoul |
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The English port city reinvents itself. |
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This article details travel through the South of Italy, the discoveries, staying in agriturismo farm stays and includes information on accommodation provided, local food and cuisine, things to do and see. |
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The country’s past is steeped in colonial history and a colourful spice and tea trade, but a spirited revival is giving it a chic new vibe. |
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Conceived from the first to be one of Europe's great cities, St Petersburg grew from the vision of just one man, a monarch who engaged the finest architects of the day. |
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A quick guide to Tha Pae Road, Chiang Mai, Thailand |
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Visitors to Stockholm can’t say they know Sweden’s stylish capital until they’ve experienced a quartet of one-off lures. |
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This article gives details of the history and location of Bristol and includes information on accommodation provided, local food and cuisine, things to do and see. |
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Time to pick my way back down to street level. But as I turned, I found the spiral staircase enveloped in darkness... |
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The ancient port of Tangier is described by its partisans as the White Dove on the Shoulder of Africa: white cuboid buildings tumble down the slopes around a horseshoe-shaped bay. |
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This article highlights all the other Ss that can be applied to Singapore: strict, sleek, savvy, sixty…. and many more. |
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Alexandria the Great sailed the Mediterranean stopping at many sun-specked islands in the fabled sea. Just one was named after the intrepid adventurer. |
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This article details the custom of these men who bring their caged birds to a cafe so they can learn from each other how to sing beautifully in order to win singing contests. |
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The old imperial city of Hué, in Central Vietnam, seems to have sprung direct from a colour designer’s palette. |
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Tallinn’s terrific Old Town tantalises travellers with a mix of medieval charm and modern comforts. |
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Glancing over my shoulder at our driver, momentarily I wonder if I've stepped onto the wrong long-tail boat. Her face fully covered by a menacing full-faced balaclava, she navigates our vessel away from the dock. Fiona Harper takes a journey upstream to the floating markets of Bangkok, Thailand. |
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While Vilnius is a modern city in every sense of the word it’s the baroque beauty of the medieval Old Town that beguiles every visitor. |
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Shiny new cars from Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and a reunified Germany rumble across the cobblestones: glimpses of eastern Europe reborn.
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In Kyneton’s Piper Street the vision, the drive and the creativity of a handful of people has created a dining and shopping strip as alluring as any in metropolitan Melbourne. |
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