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Accidental tourist

Accidental tourist

Rob Blackhurst books a family break at a Portuguese resort - and finds himself babysitting in Praia da Luz

In travel

Goodbye to the Reich

  • By William Cook
  • 24 April

William Cook retraces his grandmother's steps in Hamburg as she fled the bombs and eloped to Britain

St Paul's misogyny

  • By Richard Herring
  • 22 April

Holidaying in Sicily, Herring ponders St Paul's attitude to women and asks why, if love is doomed, we all keep chasing it ... a triumph of hope over experience?

A vote for the city

  • By Paul Rodgers
  • 17 April

On the streets of Seoul, Paul Rodgers finds glitzy electioneers struggling to enthuse a sluggish public

The needle in the sea

  • By Simon Worrall
  • 10 April

Simon Worrall sets sail for a southern island to meet a man fighting the looters of China's underwater treasure

Reclaiming the streets

  • By Joanna Moorhead
  • 03 April

Joanna Moorhead is surprised to discover that polluted Mexico City has become a green pioneer

Climb any mountain

  • By Simon Akam
  • 27 March

Touring the Swiss Alps, Simon Akam discovers that a pair of skis is an essential item for an uphill journey

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From Stalin to saints

From Stalin to saints

Tom Blass finds jaunty funeral parlours and newly restored monasteries and mosques in rural Albania

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  • By Rhoda Koenig
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  • By Geert Mak
  • 21 February 2008

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  • By Edward Skidelsky
  • 14 February 2008

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