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Neither Biarritz nor San Sebastián: Eleven Beaches on a Coast the Travel Lists Keep Skipping

They call it the French California and that isn't an agency line. Four and a half kilometres of boardwalk, eleven...

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Three Live Cameras on the Greek Border: Bogorodica, Medzitlija and Star Dojran

The state of all three Greek border crossings live, with waiting times, a seven-day forecast and reports from drivers.

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An Island Run by Women and Beaches With Nobody on Them: Estonia Is What the Mediterranean Can No Longer Offer

Six days by car from Tallinn to Parnu, a ferry to the islands, a canoe hollowed out of a single...

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A Town in the Middle of the Atlantic That Mattered Only Because It Was on the Way to Somewhere Else

Angra do Heroísmo was the first Portuguese town on the UNESCO list. Today it matters precisely because nobody passes through...

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The Greek border live: 274 minutes at 07:00, 13 minutes the same evening

Live cameras from the three crossings into Greece plus an hourly forecast seven days ahead - this Saturday the gap...

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The Sahara That Hits the Atlantic: a Landscape That Looks Different Every Year Because the Wind Moves It

Four hundred hectares of shifting dunes, a lagoon and a palm grove in one place. The only rule is that...

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Provence without a stranger's elbow in the photo: the village with the largest Renaissance palace in south-east France that nobody mentions

Everyone goes to Gordes and Roussillon, then wonders why every picture is full of other people. Seventy kilometres from Avignon...

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The Greek border live: what the cameras showed and what the fines cost

The three crossings into Greece are not the same at the same moment. The cameras show that live, and the...

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A bridge carrying water, not cars: the town between Bordeaux and Toulouse that millions pass without turning their heads

A boat moving through the air above a river is not an error of perspective. Agen has the misfortune of...

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763 Steps Down and Not One Back Up: the Lighthouse You Walk To and Return From by Kayak

The steps were built by prisoners in the 19th century. Today you get in by booking, with a cap of...

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All the Greece border cameras in one place - check before you set off

Three crossings, three live cameras, wait times and driver reports - all on metla.mk, so you decide for yourself where...

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A Million Animals on the Move and Kilimanjaro on the Horizon: A Safari That Changes You, Not Just Rests You

Elephants before Kilimanjaro, a million wildebeest on migration, rhinos beside an alkaline lake. Kenya offers a different kind of travel...

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