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Insider Guide To Hiking And Biking Around Cusco. Discover Inca ruins and hidden trails.

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Guide To Hiking And Biking Around Cusco

Rupert Parker Gets On His E-Bike And Explores Inca Ruins in his guide to hiking and biking around Cusco.

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Tec Art

Art Rotterdam Week

Art Rotterdam Week is every February and the 19th edition comes bigger and better than ever. The main event, Art Rotterdam takes over the entire ground floor of the iconic 1920’s Van Nelle Factory,

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Rupert Parker reports back from the Kurent Festival in Ptuj.. A n historic Slovenian carnival

Kurent Festival in Ptuj. A Slovenian Classic Carnival.

Huge shaggy horned giants, wielding clubs are chasing me down the cobbled street. The noise from the huge cowbells hung from chains around their waist is deafening. They follow me through squares lined by medieval houses, monasteries and churches. This is the Kurentovanje, the Slovenian equivalent of Mardi Gras, and one of the world’s top ten carnivals.

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Montpellier Antigone fountain

Montpellier. Modern metropolis with a mediaeval heart 

Anthea Gerrie reports on Montpellier, a vastly under-visited city in southern France. It’s a modern city but with a mediaeval beating heart.

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Ferrara Via delle Volte. andy mossack

Ferrara. Emilia’s hidden gem.

Ferrara, with its ancient palaces and piazzas is a pearl of the Emilia-Romagna region. A region famously productive for so much of Italy’s attraction.

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Up Helly Aa

A hundred years from now, Shetland’s fire festival, Up Helly Aa, will be the stuff of legend; a litany of morphed tales of Viking lore handed down over the generations

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Guide to walking La Palma Santa Cruz Street

Guide to walking La Palma, Canary Islands

As I taxi down the runway at La Palma airport, I have the sea on one side and the mountains on the other. This is going to be challenging hiking.

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