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Hang on, this is great fun. Why did no one tell me Croatia’s so beautiful?

High drama in the Andes

St Patrick’s on Parade

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Raising the Olympic bar on chocolate in Lausanne

There’s lots to like when you travel by bike in Umbria

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DEMOLITION begins on a statue that's stood as a symbol of Bulgaria’s 1300-year history.

FOR more than a millennia these sandcastles have stood on the beaches under the burning Peruvian sun.

GODDAMN it, this isn’t going well. I’m lying face down on my hotel bed while a ‘magic man’ cracks my bones.

EVERYONE knows the Titanic sank after it hit an iceberg but it seems these dustmen refuse to believe.

THE Brit who went backpacking in Southeast Asia and never came home. That was 10 years ago.

WHERE to next in Lima? Where to drink Pisco Sour? How about Ceviche? This is where the locals go!

THIS view is one of the many reasons why record numbers of people are taking to the seas.

A WEEKEND break in Belgium? How about Wallonia for its award-winning bubbles, chocolate, scenery and frites!

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You’ve had Champagne, tasted Prosecco, tried Cava, now who’s for a Crémant?

IT’S the fabulous festive fizz from France that’s about to burst the prosecco bubble.

Feastern Europe

TUCKED away in the north-east corner of Slovenia is a tasty food-lover’s paradise.

Living in Lima

AFTER backpacking around Peru Natalie Chalk is hooked but finds teaching English in Lima to be full of surprises.

Experience Denmark’s second city, Aarhus

DESPITE those Scandi-noir sagas and Sarah Lund jumpers, Denmark has been voted the happiest place on the planet.

January 2020

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There’s lots to like when you travel by bike in Umbria

The words bike and holiday are not two that I had ever put together. But I did it. I’ve cycled across Umbria.

Sun, sea and sit-ups…beach bootcamp in Antigua

I CAN feel the sweat down my neck, my heart is racing and my thighs are burning. I’ve reached the top of Antigua.