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If what you seek in Morocco is sunshine with all the usual international trimmings - designer interiors, capacious swimming pools, a choice of spa treatments and/or golf courses - all [...]

As the 40th anniversary of the 1968 student uprising in Paris draws nigh, most French people are in two minds as to how those events should be marked. For some, [...]

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It is hard to imagine a Spain without bullfights, where there is no running with the bulls in Pamplona, or indeed any other manifestation of tauromachia - from the specialist [...]

I don't know exactly how many times I said that I'd kick the habit: gone through the whole process of selling the bike and stowing my helmet in the loft, [...]

I've been diving on and off for more than 30 years. Plunged beneath all but the very chilliest of oceans, I've goggled at coral from Mexico to Malaku (formerly the [...]

It may be an unlikely candidate for the world's coollest scheduled air service, but flight KB 303 has an awful lot going for it. Operated by Bhutan's national carrier, Druk [...]

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I'm lying beside a perfectaquamarine pool, soaking up the rays and listening to lazy Caribbean wavelets lapping against theshoreline, when a tall glass containing my preferred pick-me-up magicallymaterialises beside my [...]

Jigme Singye Wangchuck is King of Bhutan, and he prefers to live in a log cabin rather than in his palace. He has been king since he was 17-years-old, and was previously educated in England. He argues that he was not prepared for the task but was aided by the faith of his people. He is concerned about infant mortality figures, life expectancy, and availability of health care, and improvements in these areas have been made without using large foreign loans. He aims to preserve Bhutan's traditions and the environment and has opposed logging. He wishes to decentralise power, while preserving tradition.