Marklands

Three places you will probably never visit. No 1: Nuneaton

They are also places which mean a lot to me and –actually – to England

Nov 18 • 

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October 2025

It’s cold, rainy, hideously expensive and everyone wants to go there

Iceland is trying to keep its tourist numbers down. Here's why they didn't succeed in my case

Oct 15 • 

Mark Jones

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September 2025

All time best summer holidays: Part 2

From the Lakes of England to the hippy beaches of Goa

Sep 18 • 

Mark Jones

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August 2025

All-time best summer holidays: Part One

If you could choose one place and time in history to spend a summer holiday, where and when would you go? In the first of a two-part series, we…

Aug 27 • 

Mark Jones

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The lessons of Himeyuri

In the week we remember Hiroshima, I want to take you to a school in Okinawa. It made me think differently about war, nationalism – and the bomb

Aug 8 • 

Mark Jones

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July 2025

Tweedies meet influencers on a Scottish Island

Two ways – one fashionable, one not – of describing an Outer Hebrides experience

Jul 25 • 

Mark Jones

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June 2025

These precious words

Why we, and the planet, are lucky to have Robert Macfarlane

Jun 25 • 

Mark Jones

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This is what peace looks like

A visit to Austria gets me all dewy-eyed about the Europe that is, that was and where we might be heading

Jun 3 • 

Mark Jones

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May 2025

When travel people take the blue pill

Why we choose an alternative, Barbie-style world over the real one

May 22 • 

Mark Jones

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Meet one of the happiest people in the world

Does it matter if the people in the countries you're visiting are content with their lot?

May 7 • 

Mark Jones

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March 2025

The Author v Ryanair

The result may not be what you’d expect as we look at the no-frills airline and its novel attitude to customer service

Mar 6 • 

Mark Jones

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February 2025

Bombs and flowers

We continue to follow the Racing Club de Blackheath’s historic tours of a changing world with visits to Cuba and Lebanon as a new century dawns

Feb 21 • 

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