Insider Guide to Hiroshima. A Uniquely Tragic Past but Also A Lively City At The Heart Of A Region Packed With Fascination.
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Trip Reviews
Cathay Pacific First Class Review. Discover the most wonderful way to fly.
“Would you like us to make up your bed now Mr. Mossack?” This was a request quite impossible to ignore after all, it was getting late and a few hours in a freshly made bed seemed a perfect way to arrive bright and ready in Hong Kong. Such is life in Cathay Pacific First Class Cabin when, in just the few minutes it took for me to slip into my cotton sleep suit, my lavish living suite had been transformed into a slumberland complete with mattress, duvet and pillows.
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Sonora Resort in British Columbia. Stunning wilderness luxury retreat.
Rupert Parker travels to Canada to stay at the Sonora Resort in British Columbia
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Burning Man Festival. Stunning Nevada Desert Experience.
Anna Smith visits the Burning Man Festival, Nevada’s annual iconic gathering.
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Val Gardena. Experience Glorious Summer in The Dolomites.
Anna is teaching me the highly skilled art of Tyrolean cooking at the chalet Luech de Curijel in Selva and she’s not looking best pleased. It seems my Apfelstrudel and spinach crafuncins, two of the simplest of local dishes here in Val Gardena, are not up to standard. Now when your teacher possesses hands with the power to knead dough as if it were mash potato, generating hostility is not a healthy option.
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Walking in Memphis. Following the famous song as a guide to Memphis.
Late morning and I’m walking in Memphis. Hot and steamy, with Marc Cohn’s lyrics bouncing around my head. I spot Jacqueline Smith still camped out on the corner of Mulberry and Butler Street opposite the Lorraine Motel, a place she has occupied for over 27 years
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Guide to Nashville. Music City is still in tune
I’m in Nashville’s Music Row on 16th Street, just a stone’s throw from RCA’s famous Studio B and I’m with Billy Montana and it’s raining buckets. Somewhat ironic really as Billy wrote the number 1 country hit Bring on the Rain, and frankly Nashville couldn’t bring on any more if it tried.
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