After spending a few days in the North Wales rural hinterland, BANGOR , across the bridges from Anglesey, makes a welcome change. It is not big, but as the largest town in Gwynedd and home to Bangor University, it passes in these parts for...
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Amongst Europeans, Brussels is best known as the home of the EU, which, given recent developments, is something of a poisoned chalice. But in fact, the EU neither dominates nor defines Brussels, merely forming one layer of a city that has become, in...
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More worthy of your time than anything in Tralee itself is the ruined thirteenth-century cathedral at ARDFERT , five miles to the northwest. In a landscape littered with ruined ring forts, castles and churches, Ardfert was the site of a...
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