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Parksville, British Columbia: it’s all about the wood

  • 08/05/2022
  • Lindsay Salt
As restrictions ease, Lindsay Salt heads out to Vancouver Island's eastern coast. She finds plenty of nature and one of Canada's latest tourist attractions. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Sedona, Red Rock Country
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A lukewarm welcome to Sedona – Red Rock Country

  • 24/03/2022
  • Eric Whitehead
Eric Whitehead finds that Sedona is a beautiful bit of Arizona. Though his weldome is somewhat underwhelming.
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Costa Rica beach
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Beach, cash and fearing for your life: All in a Costa Rican day

  • 26/02/2022
  • Sarah Kante
This is the story of a Costa Rican day Sarah Kante still can't believe she's lived through. This is the story of what happens when you decide to just go off on the road by yourself.
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Cabo San Lucas whale
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Friends reunited in Baja California

  • 16/02/2022
  • Bonnie Lynn
Mexico’s Cabo San Lucas proved the ideal place for Bonnie Lynn to meet up with an old friend.
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Salvador Bahia, a Brazilian city like no other

  • 12/01/2022
  • Martin Oliver
After something of a wandering lifetime, Martin Oliver finds himself surviving Covid in Brazil's one-time coastal Capital, Salvador.
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Pittsburgh USA – far from the pits

  • 10/12/2021
  • Chris Edwards
There's nothing bad about Pittsburgh apart from the name, says Chris Edwards after a visit to one of the USA's mot underrated cities.
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Vancouver Island
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Footsteps in the sand on Vancouver Island

  • 25/10/2021
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds plenty to celebrate in Canada on a visit to Vancouver Island's Western coast.
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Pennsylvania in spring: visit Longwood Gardens

  • 22/04/2021
  • Joseph Ciccanti
If you're in America and visiting Pennsylvania, Joseph Ciccanti says visit Longwood Gardens. Plants and flowers pictured by Annie Ciccanti.
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Comida, Comida Gloriosa! in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca

  • 16/02/2021
  • Bonnie Lynn
Bonnie Lynn heads to Mexico for a taste of central America.
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Vancouver, Canada
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Hemmed in by Covid, some strolls around Vancouver

  • 08/02/2021
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds her travel options limited by the ongoing pandemic, so stays close to her Canadian home. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Hello Santiago, Chile’s cheerful Capital

  • 23/01/2021
  • Eric Whitehead
Eric Whitehead finds the Chilean Capital a warm and friendly place, and all the better for an earthquake or two.
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9 best places to kayak in North America

  • 05/12/2020
  • Alex Thomas
If you want to kayak North America, Alex Thomas has your handy guide as to where to go - and why.
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From Cape Cod to Cape Ann – and beyond

  • 02/12/2020
  • Elizabeth von Pier
Elizabeth von Pier finds Covid cramps her travel style. In her latest journey she travels barely 40 miles from her Boston home.
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Vancouver Island
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A mini-break in Parksville, British Columbia

  • 26/10/2020
  • Lindsay Salt
Canadian Lindsay Salt takes a visit 'overseas': she leaves her Vancouver home and takes a ferry to Vancouver Island. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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A slow train to the clouds: crossing Argentina’s northwest

  • 01/10/2020
  • Nick Elvin
Nick Elvin recalls a journey into the Andes on a now-defunct rail service, the weekly freight train from Salta to Antofagasta: a trip through the Puna.
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3 Reasons Jamaica Should Be Your Next Holiday

  • 24/09/2020
  • Lucy Barker
Of all the Caribbean islands, Jamaica is Lucy Barker's favourite. From natural beauty to culture she explores the land that gave us reggae.
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Fun, wonder, and home in Idaho

  • 12/09/2020
  • Bonnie Lynn
In a Covid year, Bonnie Lynn chooses a domestic trip. Riggins, Idaho proves the perfect place to bond with her grandchildren - with no quarantine involved.
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New Mexico
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Acoma, New Mexico’s ‘City in the Sky’

  • 24/06/2020
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt heads to the deep south to meet the indigenous Acoma people who still call this inhospitable landscape home. All photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
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Tequila donkeys and giants at San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

  • 29/05/2020
  • Elizabeth von Pier
San Miguel de Allende's greatest fiesta celebrates their own patron saint, San Miguel. Elizabeth von Pier takes to the streets.
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Aloha Hawaii! Around the ‘Big Island’ by bike

  • 14/05/2020
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds the uphill challenges outweighed by the downhill whizzing as she tours the volcanoes, churches and coffee plantations of America's Pacific outpost. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Joshua Tree National Park
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Desert geography at Joshua Tree National Park

  • 30/04/2020
  • Lindsay Salt
A hike around the desert between the Mojave and Colorado deserts proves something of a highlight from Lindsay Salt's visit to Palm Springs. Photographs, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Alcatraz
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History in Alcatraz: San Francisco’s penal highlight

  • 21/04/2020
  • Claire Delano
California's sunniest city has, as it's premier tourist draw, perhaps it's darkest attraction. Claire Delano visits its island prison.
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How to build a school in Mexico – for free

  • 19/04/2020
  • Tyrel Nelson
Volunteering can be a hard business. Tyrel Nelson reflects on his few months spent building a school in the Mexican city of Xiloxochico.
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La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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A taste of ‘real’ Mexico in Baja California Sur

  • 24/03/2020
  • Lindsay Salt
Baja California Sur is that thousand-mile tail of Mexico dangling down in the Pacific, creating the Sea of Cortez and whose capital is La Paz. Lindsay Salt explores, with photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Saskatchewan, Canada
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More than just badlands in Saskatchewan

  • 01/03/2020
  • Eric Whitehead
Eric Whitehead explores Grasslands National Park near Canada's American border and finds plenty of beauty and wildlife galore.
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Saskatchewan, Canada
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Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan

  • 29/02/2020
  • Eric Whitehead
Eric Whitehead finds the Canadian province of Saskatchewan isn't all prairie and wheat fields. It has badlands and wildlife - though for an astronomical safari - not many stars.
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Travelling bilingual: an extra layer of Costa Rica

  • 19/02/2020
  • Warren Bratter
Warren Bratter finds fluent Spanish transforms his Airbnb adventure in Costa Rica, allowing him to join in fully with village life.
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An immersion course in Spanish in Puebla, Mexico

  • 28/12/2019
  • Bonnie Lynn
Puebla. sounds like a village but it's Mexico's fourth-largest city. And an excellent place for Bonnie Lynn to take an immersion course in language learning, finally mastering her Espagnol.
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All aboard for a vegetarian cruise

  • 16/11/2019
  • Jill Rachel Jacobs
No longer should your diet put you off cruising. Jill Rachel Jacobs boards a cruise for a culinary experience in Vegan living.
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A Frontier Town in America’s Cascade Mountains

  • 15/11/2019
  • Lindsay Salt
There are no roads to Stehekin, a remote outpost near Canada in the USA's Washington State. Your options are horseback, seaplane or, for Lindsay Salt, boat. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Joy of Jasper – the Canadian Rockies’ gentle giant

  • 12/10/2019
  • Bhupender Gupta
Bhupenda Gupta finds beautiful scenery and a light touch of tourism as he tours Jasper, one of Canada's scenic wonders.
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Rio de Janeiro
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4 Brazilian cities you should travel to

  • 16/09/2019
  • João Santos
South America's largest and most populous countries takes plenty of exploring. João Santos reviews four of the best cities to visit in Brazil.
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Colorado landscape
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Discovering the natural beauty of Western Colorado

  • 02/09/2019
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt explores Colorado's natural beauty, bought to life with photos by David Grimble.
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Toucan, Costa Rica
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Costa Rica, Central America’s ‘Switzerland’

  • 01/09/2019
  • Lucy Barker
Lucy Barker experiences La pura Vida
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Arizona landscape
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Arizona beckons on the ‘Go John’ trail

  • 28/06/2019
  • Eric Whitehead
Eric Whitehead has visited every State in America, but Arizona is one of his favourites. So he returns to take a hike.
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Durango, Colorado
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Riding Durango’s narrow-gauge railway in deepest Colorado

  • 14/06/2019
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds there's still snow piled up when she visits Colorado's historic narrow-gauge railway linking Durango with Silverton. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Haida Gwaii
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Haida Gwaii – and a sacred First Nation experience

  • 08/06/2019
  • Eric Whitehead
From British Colombia Eric Whitehead heads west, to the isolated First Nations outpost of Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the mainland where the past is allowed to hold sway.
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Was I the first Malay on Easter Island?

  • 31/05/2019
  • Teja
When Teja travels to Easter Islands the locals do a double-take. Southeast Asian and a Muslim? Now that's something new.
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