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27 October 2012 | Places

Before my recent trip up the Karakoram Highway through northern Pakistan to Kashgar in China I spent a day on a side trip to the Murree hill station and looking around Islamabad. On my last visit to Pakistan in early 2006 I went to the ancient Buddhist site at Taxila,...

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Films of 2008

26 December 2008 | Culture

I’m running through my travel lists for 2008, we started with 10 interesting hotels, moved on to music highlights and then the views out the window  from my favourite flights. Next it was cars & drives and then museums, galleries & exhibitions followed by phot...

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Hotels of 2008

18 December 2008 | Living

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll post some lists of my travel favourites over the last year. Books, movies, flights, views, photographs, drives, transport, exhibits – and we’ll start with 10 interesting hotels from the past year. Ten hotels in ascending order of ...

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