Everything below comes down to the same thing: the place you are visiting is somewhere other people are trying to get to work. Here are seventeen things worth knowing.
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The leaf is doing three jobs at once: container, cooking vessel and seasoning. Which leaf is used depends entirely on what grows nearby, and the flavour it contributes is part…
Subtractive architecture has one unforgiving property: there is no correcting a mistake. Everything below was carved from the top down, in solid rock, by people who could not revise. Here…
Living on water solves specific problems - flooding, defence, access to fishing, land scarcity - and creates others, which is why these settlements share a great deal of engineering despite…
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The caravan holiday was cheap, cramped, weather-dependent and enormously memorable, which is a fair summary of most good childhoods. Here are twelve things anyone who had them will recognise.…
What makes a canal worth travelling is that it goes somewhere slowly and levelly, through country that roads avoid. Here are fifteen worth a few days.
1. The Canal du…