Life & Society: Travel

An uneasy paradise

Katrina Manson finds herself intoxicated by Sierra Leone, a war-ravaged country of beauty and hope

Nothing is as it seems

The new Magritte Museum gives William Cook a fresh perspective on Brussels, the capital of surrealism

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Spirit of the woods

Simon Akam experiences the calm of an artists’ retreat in upstate New York with an impressive visitors’ book

Morning, campers

A Somerset holiday park makes a weirdly enjoyable setting for an indie music festival, finds Dan Hancox

Hardcore birding

Victoria James heads into the forests of the Scottish Highlands in search of the elusive capercaillie

A collision of cultures

Oaxaca is home to the weird and the wonderful, including surreal graffiti, spectacular protests and God smoking a joint

Box of delights

The seemingly sleepy county town of Bedford hides a treasure trove of art, discovers William Cook

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The black lake’s secret

Once a year, a ritualised walk marks the Irish potato famine

Diary: Melvyn Bragg

Poetic licence and the new vice anglaise

Africa’s Oscars

African cinema is in a fix, yet at the top Burkinabé film festival, Katrina Manson finds no lack of inspiration