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YORKSHIRE DALES Sandwiched between the Lake District National Park and the North York Moors National Park, it’s either a stone-waller’s heaven, or hell. The park has 8.5 times more …
CARRER MUSEUM The Ionian islands, west of the Peloponnese, were an important musical centre during much of the 19th century. In the 18th they had been under Venetian rule, …
CHOPIN MUSEUM As one of the most Romantic and most appealing of composers, Fryderyk Chopin is widely commemorated – most of all, of course, in his native Poland, but …
FOOTPATHS These do exactly what they say on the tin. They are paths for feet. Only people (and any natural accompaniment) may use them. BRIDLEWAYS A bridleway is a …
BULL MUSEUM The violinist Ole Bull (1810-80) was a lovable and gifted if quirky character, largely forgotten today despite international fame in his lifetime as a virtuoso and a …
BUSONI MUSEUM To most travellers, Empoli is simply the first place on the way from Florence to Pisa or Livorno. This town, of some 45,000 people, was the birthplace …
THE KINDER TRESPASS Shrewd bluffers will have gathered by now that there is periodic friction between hikers and landowners. Hikers are not normally a militant bunch, but the open-access …
CILEA MUSEUM Palmi is a middle-sized town on the Calabrian coast, on the toe of the boot of Italy; it is about 450 km south of Naples, about 50 …
ClURLIONIS MUSEUM Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis is held in the same kind of regard by Lithuanians as Sibelius is by Finns, and he is similarly commemorated in his country. Ciurlionis …
The main attraction at Mingun is Mingun Paya, the huge cracked brick base of an unfinished pagoda that would have been five hundred feet tall and the world’s biggest …