Chinatowns around the world
By Lorna Heatley
8 February 2019
It’s not rare for an immigrant community to band together in foreign countries and make a home-away-from-home.
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8 February 2019
It’s not rare for an immigrant community to band together in foreign countries and make a home-away-from-home.
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24 January 2019
We’ve all heard the stories, be they from childhood or from an obsession with Disney. Boy meets girl. One of them is actually royalty. After some magical shenanigans, perhaps a misunderstanding or two, boy and girl live happily ever after.
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17 January 2019
We live in a time of carbon dating, of ancient languages being rediscovered regularly, of genealogy, and miracles of science that can nearly figure out the exact age of the earth itself.
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13 December 2018
Ah, tea drinking. That Great British tradition. So passionate are we about tea that the American’s knew that we’d get very annoyed with them if they were to throw it in Boston Harbour way back when.
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15 November 2018
Though we don’t really think about streets on a daily basis unless we’re trying to get to somewhere, it’s amazing just how many streets in the world can be a holiday destination in themselves.
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6 November 2018
Italy. It’s one of the best countries to go to in the whole world for food.
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9 October 2018
A country filled with history, beauty, culture, and rich traditions, there is almost too much to do in Ireland. So to break it down, we’ve got some helpful advice for those wanting to explore it from top to bottom – and please be assured, there’s certainly something for everyone!
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19 September 2018
It is four in the morning, on a blustery dawn at Leeds Bradford airport (where there is no such thing as non-blustery days) and I, a small 10 year old girl, am about to go on my first airplane.
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30 August 2018
Picture the scene, if you will. You are in a cosy log building, all around you the comforting sounds of Christmas carols ring out and the tree is decorated to the nines in a stunning display of festive beauty.
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20 August 2018
Where can you mix the perfect pleasures of soothing rail travel with delicious chocolate? The answer is an obvious one, Switzerland of course!
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2 August 2018
Where would we be without our friends? When we’re down they pick us up, when we’re in a fight, they have our back (or try and talk some sense into us) and when we want someone to hang about with, they’re always happy to lend us their presence.
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4 July 2018
What is it about July that makes countries want to claim their Independence? Yes, we're definitely blaming the month here.
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