BEDFORD , some thirty miles east of Buckingham, has struggled to retain a modicum of character in the face of redevelopment, but the end result is pleasant enough, the town's neat and tidy centre hugging the north bank of the River Ouse. Bedford also...
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ILOILO CITY is a useful transit point to northern Panay and other Visayan islands, but otherwise of little interest. There's something hauntingly homogenous about the ramshackle nature of Philippine port cities. Apart from some graceful old houses...
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A few kilometres southeast of Cob·n, easily reached by regular local buses from the terminal, SAN JUAN CHAMELCO is the most important Q'eqchi' settlement in the area. Most of your fellow bus passengers are likely to be women dressed in...
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