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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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Hiking In Gran Canaria

Majestic Hiking in Gran Canaria

Far more than just sun and sand, Gran Canaria boasts mountains, colonial villages and archaeological remains, Rupert Parker dons his boots to hiking in Gran Canaria.

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Touring Menorca by Bike

It seems a Monday night is not the best night to look for a restaurant in Menorca’s capital Mahon (or Mao as locals call it), as most of them are closed. Perhaps not the perfect way for me to prepare for a week of touring Menorca by bike then, as I was looking forward to stocking up on a few carbs before the start of my bike tour.

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Andy Mossack discovers the extraordinary beauty of Arizona's Sedona.

Arizona is not just a Grand Canyon State. Captivating wonders beyond the Canyon.

Andy Mossack visits Arizona and discovers there is so much more to see than the obvious. Arizona is not just a Grand Canyon State.

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San Jose Santana Row at night

Do you know the way to San Jose?

San Jose, the capital of Silicon Valley is the airline’s newest California destination, making the best international jumping-off point to date for the many attractions of central California.

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Strasbourg

Guide to Strasbourg. Unmissable hidden gems to discover.

Little more than two hours from Paris by TGV, Strasbourg is an inspiring city with an age-old centre, a go-ahead culture, chic boutiques, High Street stores, and a wealth of fine dining and high-end restaurants serving imaginative offerings of regional and international dishes.

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Shetland. Islands with Latitude

In 1999, when I first visited Shetland, I was presented with a certificate confirming that I had been farther north than 60°; it was a marketing ploy, but I was pleased to receive it – and still have it. Latitude, clearly, was anything but a geographical platitude to these people of the far north of Britain, closer, as they are, to the Arctic Circle than they are to London, and on a level with Hudson Bay in Canada, St Petersburg in Russia, Stockholm in Sweden and Helsinki in Finland.

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