Tag: Cities
Vilnius In Monochrome: Walking In Lithuania’s Capital
During a walking tour of Lithuania’s capital, our guide produced a statistic: 60% of the time in the country it’s either snowing, raining or overcast.
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Five Things To Do In La Paz, Bolivia
A large, friendly zebra carefully took the hand of a small child before looking both ways along a hectic main road. Then, calmly and upright, the pair began to cross to the backdrop of angry horns and revving engines. Once safe, the animal left the child and turned to repeat the process with someone else.
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Why I Didn’t Visit Lake Titicaca’s Reed Islands
Puno is an unremarkable town in southern Peru. It has some dreary tower blocks, a mall of sorts and, from personal experience, a shabby restaurant on a side street somewhere that cooks amazing fried rice.
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I Got A Silly Tattoo In Cusco, Peru
“Give me your simplest fish”. I chirped nervously as I rolled onto the leather couch. In a narrow Cusco street I’d decided to get my first, and incidentally, my only tattoo.
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Dubrovnik’s Ancient Walls In Photos
Around the coastal city of Dubrovnik, solid ochre stone drops directly onto natural cliffs that plunge into the turquoise sea below. The ramparts of its protective walls once used for defence and embattlement, today stage thriving activity of a different kind.
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Ljubljana Is For Love: 24 hours In Slovenia’s Capital
I became inexplicably teary as I listened to the accordion’s brassy tones. I was perched underneath a bronze statue of Preseren; Slovenia’s most beloved poet. From across the main square, his ‘Juliet’ gazed back at us. As a mauve dusk settled over Ljubljana I realised that I was rapidly falling in love…and I don’t even like the accordion.
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My Visit To A Panama Hat Factory In Cuenca
Two weeks into my South American adventure, I bought a dress ideal for a cocktail party.
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48 Hours In Riga, Latvia’s Capital
I chose Riga because it was cheap. One of my favourite travel daydreams begins by typing London to Everywhere into SkyScanner and sorting by price.
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The Curious Traveller 