Lisbon’s Museu da Carris - the Carris Museum, dedicated to public transport - is all too often overlooked by visitors to the Portuguese capital due its location in Alcantara, roughly half way between the city centre and the Belem district.
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Englishman James Frost is convinced he has found the perfect job; cultivating grapes to make quality wines on the Quinta de Sant’ana estate, which he runs with his wife Ann, 35km from Lisbon in Portugal.
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Sunderland International Airshow was an annual event held on the penultimate weekend of July. Running from Friday to Sunday, the air show featured flypasts by historic aircraft, aerobatic displays and parachute demonstrations.
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Going shopping in Japan is a great experience. You don’t need to be a foodie to enjoy the exquisite presentation of the food court at The Cube in Kyoto’s station, nor do you have to be a techie to appreciate the wares offered in the city’s big electronic stores.
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The city, which was an European Capital of Culture in 2014, is characterised by cobbled streets and still has pockets where you can see traditional wood-built buildings with peeling facades on its periphery. There’s also many Art Nouveau-influenced buildings in Riga — the style is known as National Romanticism in this part of the world. Several were designed by the celebrated architect Michael Eisenstein.
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Haliotis is a PADI-affiliated dive shop and diving school located at the north beach of the Portuguese fishing port of Peniche, 89km from Lisbon. The staff at Halitios are passionate, experienced divers and competent instructors; it’s here that I learned to dive.
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It doesn’t matter where you are going, it’s who you have beside you that counts. – Anon
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“This is the closest thing we’ve got to a ritual Beatles site,” comments our guide outside of Liverpool's Strawberry Field.
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Saskatchewan may not be the most heavily visited of Canada’s provinces but if you’re looking to enjoy the great outdoors, the nation’s heritage and good steaks then this mid-western destination has lots to offer.
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Over the past few years increased value has been placed on environmentally sound projects with a strong community base. If Oman’s Aflaj irrigation system was built from scratch today it might well be regarded as a shining example of how a civil engineering project can be implemented according to contemporary and sustainable environmental principles.
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