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Route canal tales
Route canal tales

Unlike other parts of the Western world, where the emphasis is on fast cars, bright lights and bulging stock portfolios, Venice throbs to a very different beat.

Food for thought
Food for thought

Nothing could have prepared me for the cold, slimy, eel-like fish that was plonked on my plate as I flew from Paris to Athens. If I had stared into its eye, it may have said coldly: Take it or leave i...

Painting the town yellow

A devotee gazes at the older temple of Jejuri atop a hill. Every surface in Jejuri during Dussera is coated in bhandara or turmeric - Vikas Munipalle

A coast so clear
A coast so clear

Rovinj is one of Istria's little beauties, which once entranced the Venetians. The hours simply melt away as you walk along its meandering alleyways, art studios and souvenir shops. From the tiny gaps...

Gypsy Kings
Gypsy Kings

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Food for thought

Nothing could have prepared me for the cold, slimy, eel-like fish that was plonked on my plate as I flew from Paris to A... Food for thought

Painting the town yellow

A devotee gazes at the older temple of Jejuri atop a hill. Every surface in Jejuri during Dussera is coated in bhandara ...

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Gypsy Kings

I wanted to go to Tibet on the Roof of the World -- a train that takes 50 hours from Beijing to Lhasa. But my journalist friends did not get a Tibet travel permit; the authorities don't like journalists on the loose in politically sensitive parts. So Tibet got canned and I had to bid the Lhasa beer at the Tibet Cafe goodbye, something I'd really, really been looking forward to. But there's a supre...
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