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Manchester v Merseyside: a tale of two footballing cities

Manchester City's visit to Anfield on Saturday lunchtime, in tandem with Everton's trip down the East Lancs Road to Old Trafford for the evening encounter with Manchester United, brings into sharp focus the north-west divide....

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Morocco bound

On the 10th anniversary of Paul Bowles's death, Paul Theroux remembers the writer and traveller who set him on his way T he Sheltering Sky was Paul Bowles's first novel and, although he honed his art almost to his dying day –...

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Tropical budget bliss

Think a paradise break in the Indian Ocean will cost a small fortune? Not on Zanzibar where a clutch of new boutique hotels offers cool style and seriously good value Fragile thing holiday serenity. Zanzibar has the full deck...

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High life, low price

Yuzawa, Japan, one hour and 20 minutes from Tokyo by bullet train Yuzawa is renowned in Japan as the place where more snow falls than anywhere else on earth and as the setting for Snow Country, the appropriately named first...

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Rural but not isolated

For those who want a flavour of the Scottish countryside, the small town of Pitlochry offers a mix of modernity, tradition and access. An hour's drive from Edinburgh airport, its biggest advantage is good transport

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Respect and challenge

Kamini Ezralow arrived in London in the dead of winter at the age of five Kamini Ezralow, 38, is managing director of Intarya, a London-based interior design company whose current projects include a palace in Riyadh, Saudi...

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Travellers Guide to Antarctica

To discover a part of the planet reduced to its raw elements. The passengers currently aboard the Russian icebreaker, Kapitan Khlebnikov, chartered by Exodus (0845 330 6013; exodus.co.uk) for a specialist photographic journey...

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Basques of the net: Bilbao's iconic football team

The picture that shows you what makes Bilbao tick cannot be found in the Guggenheim. For all its undeniable magnificence, the Frank Gehry-designed gallery that rises sleekly beside the Nervió*River does not contain the famous...

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Obergurgl: A blast from a past master

As we speed up the mountain on one of Obergurgl's newly built, state-of-the-art chairlifts, conversation turns to the subject of marmot fat. There are lots of marmots up here, close to the border with Italy. In fact, we have...

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Chalet holidays: A snow place like home

The identity of the inventor of the ski-chalet holiday is a matter of some dispute. According to one school of thought, it was a British-based Austrian woman named Erna Low, who in 1932 placed an advertisement in the Morning...

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