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The glorious Japanese region just two hours from Tokyo – but lacking tourists
Rising over 8,000ft above Lake Chuzenji’s northern shore, Mount Nantai casts a perfect Mount Fuji-like shadow across the tranquil waters. At sunset the southern face of the volcano turns a glorious, vivid pink. It took me a day to hike to the top and back, and in all that time I didn’t encounter another soul.
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Norfolk or Suffolk – which is better for a holiday?
Both Norfolk and Suffolk are fine options for a traditional seaside holiday, being among the driest and sunniest counties in Britain, with no shortage of old-fashioned resorts, sandy beaches, comely villages and wildlife-watching opportunities.
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Inside the former communist utopia about to become an EU Capital of Culture
Sitting in the penthouse bar of the Congress Hotel in Chemnitz, looking down at the bleak modern cityscape below, you get a good idea of what Western Europe might have looked like if Russia had won the Cold War.
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Thirty years on, new EU rules could kill the Channel Tunnel dream
On a foggy spring afternoon in Calais, President Mitterrand of France and Queen Elizabeth II fastened their seatbelts in the royal Rolls-Royce. Just over half an hour later, they arrived in Folkestone.
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The third child ‘tax’ when it comes to holidays
“How much?!”, I ask incredulously when the nice man at the hotel reception quotes me an additional £285 after I tell him that, actually, we have three children, rather than the standard two. And that’s just for one night.
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Why this Isles of Scilly hotel is heaven on earth for families
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” Is there a more annoying phrase? It’s always said by people with an irritating abundance of personal freedom. You rarely hear it, for example, from those whose lives revolve exclusively around journeys to and from children’s schools, clubs and swimming lessons. In rush hour.
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The best places to go fossil hunting in Britain
News that an 11-year old girl, Ruby Reynolds, found an important fossil proves that anyone can make historic discoveries if they are willing to get out there and look. The fossilised bone, found on a Somerset beach in 2020, was recently identified by Dean Lomax, a palaeontologist from Manchester University, as coming from a species of giant marine reptile new to science. Ruby, now 15, helped name the prehistoric creature Ichthyotitan severnensis, or, “giant fish lizard of the Severn”. The specie
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