Travels
Places to go and see plus some of the issues that tourism creates around the world
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Travel
Winter warmers
- 11 December 2008
In Finland the sauna is both art and national institution. Victoria James takes part in a 6,000-year-old tradition
Travel
Palestine's secret oasis
- 04 December 2008
Surrounded by conflict, the West Bank city of Ramallah is undergoing a quiet renaissance
Travel
Rough crossings
- 27 November 2008
York Membery looks back to an era when scores of poor Britons sailed the Atlantic in search of a better life
Travel
A deadly craft
- 20 November 2008
- 1 comment
Paddy Docherty visits a town on Pakistan's Afghan border where the law of the gun reigns supreme
Travel
Mountains of the wind
- 13 November 2008
In remote Patagonia, Simon Worrall discovers an elderly woman who has defied all conventions
Books
Side by side they fell
- 06 November 2008
- 2 comments
Amid the war graves of Belgium, Tom Farrell finds a family story tangled up with the birth of modern Ireland
Travel
The edge of an empire
- 30 October 2008
- 2 comments
Officially, China gets on well with its Muslims. Alice Albinia uncovers an altogether different story
Travel
Beneath the ice
- 23 October 2008
Adrian Glover braves the freezing ocean around Antarctica and finds it rich with underwater life
Travel
To Soho in a charabanc
- 09 October 2008
Tom Blass sees London through the eyes of his teenage daughter and a century-old guidebook
Travel
Conditions of carriage
- 02 October 2008
Trains are the "mode of the moment". But where's the romance in today's railway journey?


