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See Quito like a local
Early morning atop the Cruz de Loma lookout. At almost 4,000 metres it’s close to the summit of Quito’s still-grumbling Pichincha volcano, and I’m sitting on a swing.
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Australia’s unexpected hip, chic city of Brisbane
Brisbane is more than matching its southern neighbours, with indications it is leading the hospitality and tourism industry Down Under into a new age of hip, edgy and upbeat.
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The Fez Cooking School. Discover how to cook fantastic Moroccan food.
It is a slightly nervy experience, having your own meal served to you by a waiter. But we need not have worried. Fatima and Zakia had taught us well.
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Hard Rock Hotel, London. Discover your Rock ‘n’Roll credentials.
It turns out the maiden aunt of Marble Arch has serious rock’n’roll credentials – Jimi Hendrix made it his London pied a terre and the great Buddy Holly stayed here before the day the music died.
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Rijeka and the Gulf of Kvarner, Croatia
The cobalt waters are deep enough to accommodate large ships and Rijeka is the country’s main port.
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Tewkesbury Park Hotel. Discover this plain clothes jewel
A smart, modern hotel and restaurant, recently renovated at a cost of £10m, not to mention a sweeping 18-hole golf course in 165 acres of undulating parkland, are eclipsed only by the town’s exquisite riverbank, wealth of Tudor architecture and Tewkesbury Abbey, one of the nation’s finest Norman churches.
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