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Read More »Rail route of the month: the slow train to Skagen, Denmark, where the North Sea meets the Baltic
By the time you reach Aarhus on the train from the south, there is a sense of having penetrated deep into Jylland, the long Danish peninsula whose name is often rendered as “Jutland” on English and German maps. At Fredericia, a one-time garrison town on the east coast, the overhead …
Read More »Rail route of the month: on the slow line through forests and meadows in the Swiss Jura
The man on the slow train through the Swiss Jura is keen to connect. When I mention that I have just travelled from Scotland, he leans forward and confides: “I can understand how they feel up there. We had to fight for our independence from Bern.” The Jura region’s vote …
Read More »Rail route of the month: the slow train from France to Spain
Avignon is a natural way station for travellers from Britain and northern Europe bound for the Iberian peninsula. It’s a place for choices. Fast or slow? Travellers in a rush to reach Spain head for the Gare TGV, which opened in 2001. It is a good way south of the …
Read More »On the Coast to Coast from Cumbria to North Yorkshire: Wainwright route gains national trail status
The news that the much-loved Coast to Coast path is finally to become an official national trail – which brings extra funding of £5.6m from Natural England – should not be surprising. For some time it has been one of England’s most popular and iconic walks. The only surprising thing …
Read More »Rail route of the month: gliding past Finland’s pristine forests and lakes
The monumental facade of Helsinki’s main railway station has an elegant symmetry. Four giant, granite men, each one holding a lantern, are there to greet me. It is before seven on a quiet Saturday morning and I am here on an eastbound mission, heading for the only passenger railway in …
Read More »Rail route of the month: from Bohemia towards the Baltic coast
The station at Hrádek nad Nisou has seen better days. There’s a hint of former Habsburg style, but the ticket office is closed and the buffet is barred and shuttered. Breakfast must wait. Happily, I already have a ticket. A bargain ticket indeed, a rover valid for an entire month …
Read More »Building peace: Plotting a route towards democracy in The Gambia
For Isatou Ceesay and Tombong Njie, the term “witch hunt” is not metaphorical. Under the regime of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, they were both literally condemned as witches. “He held people in custody, tortured them, and that was the end of them,” says Ms. Ceesay. “We were so embarrassed to …
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