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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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June 2025

These precious words

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

Jun 25 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

Mark Jones

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January 2025

The world at our feet (sort of)

We thought it was all over – but it wasn't. How South London's most intrepid and senior parks football team rediscovered its wanderlust

Jan 16 • 

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December 2024

Postcard from the edge

The green valleys and hills of the Khasi are part of – yet somehow apart from – India. And they have a shared history with another marginal, poetic…

Dec 12, 2024 • 

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November 2024

Green hills, smoggy temples and English footballers

A report from Shillong (which is in India, but only just)

Nov 20, 2024 • 

Mark Jones

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