AUCKLAND 's urban sprawl completely smothers the North Island's wasp waist, a narrow isthmus where the island is all but severed by river estuaries probing inland from the city's two harbours. To the west, the shallow and silted Manukau...
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BEVERLEY , nine miles north of Hull, ranks as one of northern England's premier towns, its Minster the superior of many an English cathedral, its tangle of old streets, cobbled lanes and elegant Georgian and Victorian terraces the very picture of a...
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Some 65km west from Okayama along the industrialized San-yo coast is the old castle town of Fukuyama , now the key industrial city of Hiroshima-ken's Bingo district. The main reason to visit Fukuyama, apart from a few quirky museums, is as a...
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