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10 of the best live music streams and virtual concerts...

Musicians jamming from their living rooms have become the norm as artists seek creative ways to adapt to the times and people at home find ways to entertain themselves. Classical, metal, disco – this exhaustive list of live music streams and virtual concerts covers it all. The best part? There's no need to dress up and go out when you can turn your home into the opera or an EDM club. 1. Metallica Mondays Heavy...
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10 must-see travel documentaries that will fill you with wonder...

Some of us travel for food, others to scale mountains, but there is always a human side to travel. It's not about ticking off sites and activities, but of the people we encounter and what we can learn from them. That's the message from these 10 must-see travel documentaries that take us from the plunging depths of the Antarctic Ocean to the thickets of the Amazon Rainforest. 1. Encounters at the End of the World...
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The 10 best places to travel alone in 2020

Foodie trip, city break or outdoor adventure, the solo trip is never a tired trope. Once a niche way to travel, more and more people are choosing to go solo, and the options are endless. Wander colourful old towns in Europe, scale glaciers in Iceland, take it easy in an eco-retreat in northern Thailand, these are the best places to travel alone in 2020. 1. Japan Constantly voted as one of the safest countries in...
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Literary Adventures: around the world in 10 must-read books

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page,” said Saint Augustine. And, while he didn't say, “The world is an iPad” there's no reason why you shouldn't read these variously astounding, thrilling and downright belly-laugh inducing travel classics in whichever medium best fits in your pack these days. Note that these are not the kinds of guides to summarise the best restaurants on Bangkok's Khaosan Road, decent three-star stays...
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Ones to watch: up-and-coming destinations in 2020

A new year means a new travel bucket list and in 2020, historic old towns and surf beaches are calling. Explore underground tunnels in the Netherlands, swim with jellyfish in the Philippines and eat oysters in Ireland – these are just several to cross of that list. 1. Galway, Ireland This characterful city by the River Corrib is one of two cities to be named the European Capital of Culture for 2020, the other being...
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10 Brutalist masterpieces of the architecture world and where to...

The brutalist movement which swept the architecture world in the 1960s drew ardent supporters and was also reviled by many. Normally built for social housing or big institutional projects, brutalist design emphasised a simple aesthetic of heavy, boxy exteriors made with exposed concrete. These mammoth, jarring structures and the architects behind them have inspired fictional villains in pop culture and even cult worship. Here are 10 brutalist masterpieces and where to find them. The Barbican,...
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Remote British wonders: 8 seriously socially distanced UK treasures to...

Itching to travel after months of quarantine but still worried about facing crowds of people? At these, some of the most remote but beautiful spots in Britain, physical distancing goes with the territory St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland Britain's not Bangladesh, the most crowded land on Earth, nor even the Netherlands – the most jam packed in Europe – but nor are we the most blissfully unpopulous country on the planet, Greenland. Ordnance Survey data...
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