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We hate that provincial press cliché about ‘the city’s best kept secret’ so we're blowing this one wide open. Welcome to The Summit Restaurant...
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As President Santos prepares to shake up the drug policy in Colombia, a look at what it is like living in the count...
Poor sod...
Us Brits know exactly what Spain has got to offer right? It's just sun, sea, sand and cheap sangria..right? Wrong.
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A Cardiff tradition and a true taste experience, my uncle buys 12 every time he visits from South Africa and takes them home to freeze them...
A rock star's pissed up proposal in a rowing boat in Indonesia ends in a gruesome disaster of epic proportions...
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Someone's having a laugh here...
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Check out the Governator on his jollies...
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This picture has come about because of very bad things, but that doesn't stop us looking...
'How high's the water Mama?' 'Three miles high and risin...'
There is some mental stuff in museums the world over, might also help out with a bit of xmas Trivial Pursuit or, if...
As ever, the genius is in the simplicity. People take pictures of blokes they fancy and bang them up on Tube Crush ...
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The most influential British artist of the 20th century has a major new exhibition of Yorkshire landscapes starting...
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As hope of finding survivors fades and a recorded transcript emerges, captain Francesco Schettino has a lot to answer for.
It can't have escaped your attention, but there's some bad blood starting to stir between the serious ramblers of this country and the heathen ranks of the causal strollers...
The five inches or whatever it is adds nothing to your comfort, pisses off the person behind you and is generally a...
An excellent book chronicling four chaotic weeks on India's famous Grand Trunk Road, described by Rudyard Kipling a...
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Getting absolutely battered in Ibiza is usually a whole lot of fun. Except there was this one time when it all went...
The irresponsible actions of one arsehole in the States could jeopordise the fut...
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I was stuck in limbo engaging in petty crime and casual violence, with no repres...
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I love everything about summer. Festivals, picnics, shades, beer gardens, freckl...
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Forget musical robots, these blokes were daft punks by nature.
Jenni Davies tried out every Sex and the City character from Carrie, to Samantha...
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It was heralded as the film to save the British film industry but nearly sunk it...
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Plenty of bad things happen in prison, few compare to the horrors of moving...