Category: Story
Susan Gough Henly is charmed by mysteries of Portugal’s Eden, the Azores.
There’s a place of hallucinogenic potions, where green fairies stash liquor in the woods, absinthe distilling is a family tradition, and bootleggers once did a roaring trade – and it’s called Switzerland, as Tim Charody discovers.
In the whiteout of an Arctic winter, Ewen Bell meets a group of modern Swedish outdoorsmen inviting visitors to experience their sub-zero wonderland.
There’s more to carnival than dancing in the streets. Geoff Stellfox discovers celebration and protest coursing through the Uruguayan capital.
Pamplona is famous for San Fermín, but the rest of the time this ancient city is almost unknown to outsiders. Mark Eveleigh travels to the Kingdom of Navarre to discover Spain’s best-kept secret.
Nikola Sarbinowski finds a new kind of zen in Malaysia’s Jewel of Kedah.
Justin Jamieson survives Halloween in New Orleans and escapes to sleepy St Francisville, where the spirits come by the glass, and apparently wander the hallways after dark.
Far from Marrakesh, Danika Porter discovers another Morocco, where the ruins of ancient trade routes are all that’s left behind, the Sahara seems to stretch on forever and dunes offer a playground in the desert.
