Tee off at these extreme golf spots where you dodge guards in Kabul Golf Club, conserve oxygen in La Paz and play the long ball in Australia’s outback.
Scotland’s less-famed golf courses transport travellers to lonely beaches, ancient forests and fairytale castles.
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic, with towns and cities on both sides of the Atlantic holding events to commemorate the disaster.
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The World Shakespeare Festival, which runs from April to November 2012, will be the biggest and most varied celebration of the Bard ever attempted.
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Located on an island in northwest Wales, the locally called Llanfair PG was given an official name that is 58-letters long to attract railway tourists in the 1850s.
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Travel fast to Provence on a French TGV train or take it slow over afternoon tea in a vintage stream-drawn railway carriage on these UK-based weekend trips.
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Five gourmet spots, from Italy to Ohio
Only the bravest of travellers should enter
A colourful region in the face of economic woe
The way of the shepherd
Asia
Hiking and houseboats in Sausalito
San Francisco
Matinee jazz in a Manhattan parlour
New York City
Classic sights in the City of Light
Paris
Italy’s stolen treasures come home
Rome
Living in... cities of the future
South Korea
Forms of ID: Geraldine DeRuiter
My city: Mumbai
Mumbai
The Spanish ritual of baby jumping
Spain
Beijing’s labyrinth of history
Beijing
America’s best little beach towns
Washington
Duct tape designs take form in Ohio
USA
Reader Q&A: Mini breaks from London
London
Johannesburg’s hip transformation
South Africa
See eye to eye with a butterfly
San Francisco
Spain’s super-charged sport
Spain
Walking in Inca footsteps
Peru
Jaffa, an Israeli city in flux
Israel
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