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Gezellig
Gezellig: cosy, convivial, the feeling of a Dutch cafe on a rainy afternoon.Loading…
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Gezellig: cosy, convivial, the feeling of a Dutch cafe on a rainy afternoon.The Pan-American Highway runs from Alaska to Argentina except for about 100 kilometres of roadless jungle in the Darien.
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Darien Gap · The Americas
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The farmer showed us how much a hand-picked kilo earns him and then what a cup costs in London. He wasn't angry about it, which somehow made it worse.
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Salento, Colombia · The Americas
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The Andes run about 7,000 kilometres along South America's spine through seven countries.
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Andes · The Americas
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Craic: good conversation, good company and good fun, usually in that order.All 360-plus hummingbird species are native exclusively to the Americas, with the greatest diversity in Ecuador and Colombia.
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Americas · The Americas
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A hundred kilometres of road closed to cars. Families, racers, a man with a parrot on his handlebars, and free bike repair stands every few kilometres.
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Bogota, Colombia · The Americas
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Before horses arrived, llamas were the sole large pack animal in the Andes, which shaped how the Inca built roads.
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Andes · The Americas
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Four days, seven river crossings and 1,200 mossy steps at the end. The guide's family had lived there for generations and he gave the tour partly in his own language.
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Sierra Nevada, Colombia · The Americas
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Quebec maintains a global strategic maple syrup reserve to stabilise prices between good and bad harvests.
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Quebec, Canada · The Americas
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Slainte: to your health, the only Gaelic word you truly need in a pub.Together the five Great Lakes contain about 21 percent of the world's surface fresh water.
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Great Lakes · The Americas
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Three hours upriver, then the engine off, then paddling into a channel too narrow for the motor. The moment the noise stopped, the forest turned out to be extremely loud.
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Amazon, Peru · The Americas
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In 1969 engineers diverted the American Falls to study rock erosion, leaving the cliff temporarily dry.
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Niagara Falls · The Americas
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Ciao serves as both hello and goodbye, from a Venetian phrase meaning I am your servant.Antarctica receives so little precipitation that it qualifies as the largest desert on Earth.
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Antarctica · The Poles
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We caught four and ate three. They are mostly bones and the guide clearly finds the whole tourist ritual funny, but he cooked them properly.
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Amazon, Brazil · The Americas
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Research stations use the time zone of their supply country, so neighbours can be hours apart.
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Antarctica · The Poles
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Bon voyage: a good crossing. The phrase is older than the aeroplane by centuries.Around 70 percent of the world's fresh water is locked in the Antarctic ice sheet, up to four kilometres thick.
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Antarctica · The Poles
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Two rivers ran side by side for six kilometres without mixing. You can put a hand in each and feel the temperature difference.
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Manaus, Brazil · The Americas
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Australia measures about 4,000 kilometres east to west, wider than the Moon's 3,475-kilometre diameter.
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Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The famous parade costs a lot of money. Two streets away, a neighbourhood bloco with a hundred drummers went past for free and nobody was filming it.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · The Americas
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Visiting a different Australian beach every day would take about 27 years to see them all.
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Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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