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Twenty-four exposures for a two-week trip forces you to look before you press. Half of them were terrible and four of them are framed.
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World · Around the World
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Border towns sometimes straddle a time zone line, so neighbours legally live an hour apart.
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World · Around the World
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.The line passes through thirteen nations, including Ecuador, Kenya, Indonesia and Brazil.
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Equator · Around the World
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Pick a direction, walk for ninety minutes, then turn around. You will find more than any list of top ten sights.
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World · Around the World
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GPS uses a reference meridian about 100 metres east of the brass line at Greenwich, due to a different geodetic model.
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Greenwich, England · Around the World
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He who has no destination will never have a favourable wind.Around 44 countries have no sea access, and two of them are surrounded entirely by other landlocked states.
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World · Around the World
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Sit on the same bench for an hour. A neighbourhood reveals its schedule: school, deliveries, lunch, dogs, old men, then children again.
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World · Around the World
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In Baarle the border weaves through houses and cafes, with tiles marking which country your table is in.
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Baarle, Belgium and Netherlands · Around the World
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Every good trip has a place where you stayed one night too few. The fix is a rule: if you say maybe on the first evening, book the extra night.
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World · Around the World
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The Arbez hotel sits on the France-Switzerland border, with the line running through rooms and a staircase.
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Haute-Savoie, France · Around the World
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else.Runners in the Istanbul Marathon cross from Asia into Europe partway through the race.
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Istanbul, Turkey · Around the World
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We met on a bus and travelled together for nine days. Neither of us suggested it and neither of us mentioned when it would end.
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World · Around the World
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Mill Ends Park measures about 60 centimetres across and is officially recognised as the smallest city park.
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Portland, USA · Around the World
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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.Taumata whakatangihanga koauau and its full 85-letter form is the longest official place name in an English-speaking country.
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Hawke's Bay, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Do not plan the last day. Go back to the one place you liked most and do exactly the same thing again.
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World · Around the World
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Giethoorn's centre is reached only by canal or footbridge, with over 170 small bridges.
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Giethoorn, Netherlands · Around the World
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Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.Venetian addresses use a sestiere and a number that can run into the thousands, which is why locals navigate by landmark.
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Venice, Italy · Around the World
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The strangest part is the supermarket. Forty kinds of bread and nobody making eye contact, and you standing there wondering why it feels rude.
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World · Around the World
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Most Japanese addresses describe blocks rather than streets, working from ward down to building number.
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Japan · Around the World
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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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