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Carinthia’s Magical Christmas Markets in Austria’s stunning Lake District.

05/12/2024 by .
Carinthia’s Magical Christmas Markets

Andy Mossack goes hunting Christmas Markets in Carinthia but soon discovers wellness, lakes and alpine Advent fun.

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Fannie Lou Hamer Park

On the Trail of Civil Rights in Tennessee and Mississippi

A journey down Highway 61 from Memphis to Jackson takes Rupert Parker along the Mississippi Freedom Trail chronicling the Civil Rights Movement.

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Nunobashi Kanjoe Festival Women Crossing Bridge

The Nunobashi Kanjoe Festival in Tateyama. Northwest Tokyo’s sacred ritual.

In the town of Tateyama, around 400km North West of Tokyo, blindfolded women walk to paradise during the sacred ritual of Nunobashi Kanjoe.

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Graceland

Elvis Triangle from Tennessee to Mississippi

For Elvis fans, Tennessee and Mississippi are definitely the must visit states – you can follow his life from the lowly two room shack where he was born to the mansion where he lived until he died.

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Anthea Gerrie travels to France to visit Les Glorieuses Festival, a celebration of poulet de Bresse, some of the finest chicken in the world.

Les Glorieuses Festival. Bourg en Bresse

“Les Glorieuses” de Bresse. It’s the taste of the finest chicken in the world whose memories of Bourg en Bresse will stay with you – Glorieuse, indeed.

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Rupert Parker explores the historic Great Walser Trail at Walserweg in Austria's Vorarlberg

The Great Walser Trail at Walserweg. Hike Austria’s historic mountain trail.

Ancestors of the Walser, as these people are called, had left the Valais region in Switzerland centuries earlier and headed east over the high passes.

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St. Lucia opens to Tourists from June as the government of St Lucia announces a phased opening of its tourism sector from June 4th 2020. MG 0497xapache 1

The Best of St. Lucia

St. Lucia is an island of such extraordinary dramatic beauty; perhaps one of the most naturally impressive throughout the entire Caribbean.

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