Travel
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0Norway’s Future Library
“I have finished writing my contribution to Future Library,” wrote Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón on April 27, 2017. “It is a moment of relief and exhilaration, of exhaustion and joy. From this moment on I have entered the next level of the game, where I must keep a secret to the end of my days.” Sjón had followed authors Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell into an extraordinary durational ...
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0Getting high in New York City
On Seventh Avenue in New York City, 45,000 people walk by the Moxy hotel every day. “Try walking upstream to Penn Station at peak hour and you’ll have a problem,” says the hotel’s managing director, Gary J. Thomas. The big fish at Moxy HQ, a brand launched by Marriott in 2014, have done the sums. The new midtown hotel plans to reel the foot traffic in and ...
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0The island advantage
Earth tumbles from the small, slim carrot that chef and farmer Rodney Dunn has just pulled from the ground. He rinses it and hands it over. It’s sweet and crisp; the best carrot I’ve had. “Why did it taste so good?” I ask. “It’s eating it straight after it was picked,” Dunn says. “When carrots get stored, the green tops utilise the sugar in the ...
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0Blacken Festival , 2017
Drive 1,500 kilometers south of Alice Springs and you’ll reach Adelaide. Sixteen hours north is Darwin. These are the closest big towns. Alice (as it is known) is red dirt country – traditional home to the Arrernte people and four hours from Australia’s most famous rock, Uluru. A return flight to Alice from Sydney or Melbourne costs about $700. It’s no casual weekend away but ...
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0Nights out in Glasgow
Pavement and pub fuse in a way that supports the Scotia’s claim to be Glasgow’s oldest. It is close to the River Clyde. The ceiling is low and the wood is ruddy – it’s like drinking in an overturned boat. The pub’s regulars are huddled around a guitar, singing. No sooner does one slip out for a fag, another returns, breathing mist as the door swings ...
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0Dark Mofo, 2016
A mirror hangs from a tree reflecting the clean Tasmanian sky. I’m in the exercise yard of New Norfolk Hospital For The Insane, taking a break from what’s inside. The asylum – originally built for sick convicts – sprawls over both sides of the River Derwent in this small town 40 minutes from Hobart. Many locals worked here; others were family of inmates. The asylum ...
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0Taiwan’s light nights
Exotic greenery sprouts from people’s plates. They dip dumplings in sauce, slurp milky-looking soup and line-up for ladlefuls of rice congee. A waiter approaches to offer me coffee and an omelette, which I gratefully accept. I’ll try any food once – but not for breakfast. I’m at a hotel known simply as “the Lalu”. Once, only senior government officials and emperors were allowed here; in the ...
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0Taiwan: in photos
Photographs from my time in Taiwan. Including Taipei, Taoyuan, Sun Moon Lake, Nantou County, Shifen, Yilan County All images: Kate Hennessy ...
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06 Fun Things To Do In Fremantle
Twenty-five minutes from Perth by train, the Western Australian town of Fremantle – known as Walyallup to the local Noongar people – is small enough to bike around but has enough bars, restaurants, art, markets and beaches to entertain you for days. ...
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0What We Learnt When We Visited An Urban Beehive
By the end of my visit, Doug Purdie’s face is transformed. He’s been stung and has puffed up but given the Urban Beehives co-founder has been bicep-deep in a bee colony I suppose that’s not surprising. ...
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