The last time white stork chicks hatched in the UK, Henry V was on the English throne. The Incas still ruled over Peru, the Moors over much of Andalucia. The Americas was uncharted, unmapped territory. But 600 years and more later, fledgling sto...
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So here we go again. I don’t know if one person emailing in to say that we’d missed out a bit of Spain over the border in France constitutes return by popular demand, but here we are back on the road, bouncing from one brilliantly bonkers backroa...
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Curiosity doesn’t just make cats meet their ends. It can also swallow up you and your rainy Wednesday afternoon into a rabbit hole that can be hard to get out of. Let me explain. A couple of weeks ago I was skimming around a Google Map of north...
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From unexpected storms to martian landscapes and snow-bound summits, Pura traveller John Main felt the full elemental force of Chile's Atacama Desert when he visited in February. Throw in the first few days of a global pandemic and they have quite...
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I should be in the mountains. Right now, as I write this, I should be in a Spanish spring meadow, looking up to great peaks and down a sweeping green valley. But instead, there’s the metal gates to a locked up college out one window, an empty trai...
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As many of you may know, I haven’t spent such a long, uninterrupted spell at home for as long as I can remember. Since I was a teenager my life has been dedicated to travel and the outdoors, not time inside four walls. I suppose I did have a bit o...
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