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St Ives, Cornwall: the artists’ colony and its light

St Ives is a former fishing port in west Cornwall that became, through a coincidence of geography and railway building, the most important centre of

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Jurassic Coast: fossil hunting in Devon and Dorset

The Jurassic Coast is the only site in England inscribed on the World Heritage list for purely geological value. It runs for 154 kilometres, begins

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Cornwall peninsula: beaches, fishing villages, legends

The Cornwall peninsula is the far south west corner of England, a place that runs out into the ocean on three sides and behaves rather

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Cardiff: a city break in the Welsh capital

A capital of only seventy years, with a castle that has Roman foundations under Norman walls and gloriously excessive Victorian interiors, a seventy three thousand

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Portmeirion: the Italianate village in Wales

In 1925 an architect bought a wooded peninsula in north Wales and spent fifty years building a village on it that looks as though it

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The Pembrokeshire Coast Path: a full guide

Three hundred kilometres of waymarked path that follows the cliff edge almost without a break, with a cumulative ascent equal to climbing Everest. The Pembrokeshire

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Milestii Mici and Cricova: underground cellars

A quarter of an hour from Chisinau, in two opposite directions, you drive into a hillside. Milestii Mici and Cricova are not cellars in the

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Orheiul Vechi: the monastery cut into rock

Orheiul Vechi is not a single sight but a whole landscape: a limestone promontory carved out by a meander of the Raut, with a monastery

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Chisinau: a two day city guide

Chisinau is one of the cheapest capitals in Europe and one of the least visited. It has no old town, because the old town was

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