Stories – Page 8 – The Curious Traveller

Always Looking Up: Two Days In Venice, Italy

Published on July 9, 2017May 10, 2020 by Rachel Lishman1 Comment

Venice’s celebrity stems from its wonders of engineering, its diversity and its rich ancient trade, but often we only think of its canals.

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Did Denmark’s Kronborg Castle Inspire Hamlet?

Published on March 26, 2017May 9, 2020 by Rachel Lishman2 Comments

Only half an hour from Copenhagen, the Danish waterside town of Helsingør. has a completely different feel.

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The Revival Of A Roman Palace in Split, Croatia

Published on March 13, 2017May 10, 2020 by Rachel Lishman5 Comments

Through the narrow windows of the cathedral’s bell tower, the landscape was split in two. Dazzling blue sky sliced across layers of terracotta rooftops and behind them, lay the Adriatic Sea.

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A Walk Through Five Historical Treasures In Ohrid, Macedonia

Published on February 5, 2017May 10, 2020 by Rachel Lishman8 Comments

The postcard A-lister, St John’s church stands over the small cove at Kaneo. It’s the final focal point on a peninsula that suddenly gives way to the blue waters of Lake Ohrid beyond, and has been for over eight hundred years.

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From Religion To Roadside Rakia: Macedonia’s Lake Ohrid

Published on January 21, 2017May 10, 2020 by Rachel Lishman4 Comments

With a characteristic scratch of his sun hat, Dimitri took a seat at the front of the boat and we chugged away from the fishing town of Peshtani. Lake Ohrid stretched out ahead: A beautiful hazy mess of still water and white sky that made the mountains of neighbouring Albania almost invisible on the horizon.

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An Introduction To Ohrid, Macedonia

Published on November 20, 2016May 10, 2020 by Rachel Lishman9 Comments

As I looked down from Samuel’s Fortress, I marvelled that its 11^th century guards would have taken in a similar view. Misty mountainous slopes, seasonally snow-capped, plunge towards slithers of shoreline that border the city of Ohrid’s ancient lake.

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A New Discovery At Ancient Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Published on August 21, 2016May 10, 2020 by Rachel Lishman6 Comments

Well before sunrise Angkor Wat is bustling. Loaded tuk-tuks pull up in front of the iconic facade of Cambodia’s largest temple and immediately cameras start clicking. This is always how another day begins at the famous complex.

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London’s Shortest Season: Green Spaces In The East

Published on August 19, 2016May 10, 2020 by Rachel Lishman5 Comments

Better late than never. It seems that proper summer, as opposed to ‘that warm week we always get in May’ has finally hit England’s capital. Temperatures have inched over 25 for the first time this year, and the infamous Central Line has inevitably become a sauna.

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Fuelled By Bubbles: Running La Champenoise, France

Published on June 2, 2016May 10, 2020 by Rachel Lishman10 Comments

I hadn’t expected it to start with a hill. As a lime green man-kini and its host buttocks pulled away up the gravel path, the tiny town of Reuil dropped away behind me, and I puffed my way through the first kilometres of France’s strangest sporting event.

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Is One Week In Argentina Enough?

Published on May 29, 2016May 10, 2020 by Rachel Lishman13 Comments

Pleasantly pickled in red wine, I listened to the Gaucho’s guitar and took in my bucolic surroundings.

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Venice’s celebrity stems from its wonders of engineering, its diversity and its rich ancient trade, but often we only think of its canals.

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Only half an hour from Copenhagen, the Danish waterside town of Helsingør. has a completely different feel.

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Through the narrow windows of the cathedral’s bell tower, the landscape was split in two. Dazzling blue sky sliced across layers of terracotta rooftops and behind them, lay the Adriatic Sea.

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The postcard A-lister, St John’s church stands over the small cove at Kaneo. It’s the final focal point on a peninsula that suddenly gives way to the blue waters of Lake Ohrid beyond, and has been for over eight hundred years.

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As I looked down from Samuel’s Fortress, I marvelled that its 11th century guards would have taken in a similar view. Misty mountainous slopes, seasonally snow-capped, plunge towards slithers of shoreline that border the city of Ohrid’s ancient lake.

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Well before sunrise Angkor Wat is bustling. Loaded tuk-tuks pull up in front of the iconic facade of Cambodia’s largest temple and immediately cameras start clicking. This is always how another day begins at the famous complex.

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Better late than never. It seems that proper summer, as opposed to ‘that warm week we always get in May’ has finally hit England’s capital. Temperatures have inched over 25 for the first time this year, and the infamous Central Line has inevitably become a sauna.

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I hadn’t expected it to start with a hill. As a lime green man-kini and its host buttocks pulled away up the gravel path, the tiny town of Reuil dropped away behind me, and I puffed my way through the first kilometres of France’s strangest sporting event.

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Pleasantly pickled in red wine, I listened to the Gaucho’s guitar and took in my bucolic surroundings.

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As I looked down from Samuel’s Fortress, I marvelled that its 11^th century guards would have taken in a similar view. Misty mountainous slopes, seasonally snow-capped, plunge towards slithers of shoreline that border the city of Ohrid’s ancient lake.