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Perfect Days in … Lisbon

New to the excellent Marco Polo Spiral Guides is the city of Lisbon, long-time a favourite city of ours.

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Drift. Volume 4: Stockholm

If anybody had told us that we would sit fascinated for an afternoon reading about Stockholm’s coffee culture we wouldn’t have believed them. But that is exactly what we did.

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Hotel Reviews

Hotel Villa Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

In the small square close by the magnificent church of Sâo Francisco in the historic Pelourinho district of Salvador stands the Hotel Villa Bahia. We had called in briefly on our first visit to Salvador some seven months earlier and had decided that should we ever return this was where we wanted to stay. Four-star […]

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Squirrel Pie

A food writer first and foremost, as well as a traveller with a keenly observant eye and one with the gift to write exquisitely and wittily; one who can evoke a memory for her readers of food and places long forgotten, Elisabeth Luard’s articles and books are an absolute joy.

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Squirrel Pie

A food writer first and foremost, as well as a traveller with a keenly observant eye and one with the gift to write exquisitely and wittily; one who can evoke a memory for her readers of food and places long forgotten, Elisabeth Luard’s articles and books are an absolute joy.

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First Choose your Congo

David Fletcher has done it again – a travel book that is also thought provoking and funny.