While the Thames is well known, at least five waterways have disappeared under the city’s pavement over time, becoming watery ghosts whose rumbling waters can still be heard.
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30 April 2013
Fought over for hundreds of years, the more than 500 islands of the Inner and Outer Hebrides off Scotland’s west coast are a traveller’s paradise cloaked in mist and rain.
04 March 2013
Explore villages packed with history and tackle challenging mountain hikes in the northern English county.
22 February 2013
The former manufacturing city of Leicester is capitalising on the recent discovery of Richard III’s skeleton.
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15 February 2013
With the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ debut single Love Me Do promising mass celebrations and concerts, there has never been a better time to visit the band’s hometown.
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05 October 2012
Nowhere in the world was more devastated by the sinking of the RMS Titanic than Southampton, England.
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09 April 2012
During this combustible holiday, costumed men carry nearly 1,000 torches through Lerwick, Scotland, in a procession that ends with the burning of a Viking-style ship.
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24 January 2012
Urban spelunking in London’s abandoned subway stations could do for the city’s underbelly what the London Eye did for its skyline.
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10 November 2011
The city has scores of intimate, specialist and plain eccentric museums, dedicated to personalities, pastimes, occupations and assorted oddities.
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06 September 2011
For a shining period in history, passenger trains offered luxuries from the finest chefs to personal tailors.
05 August 2011
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