BOURGES , the surprisingly agreeable chief town of the rather bland region of Berry, south of the Sologne, is some way from the Loire valley proper but historically linked to it. The miserable Dauphin Charles VII, mockingly dubbed King of...
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Just three hours to the west of Hohhot by train or bus lies Inner Mongolia's biggest city, BAOTOU . Its primary significance is as the chief iron- and steel-producing centre in China: if you're arriving at night from the direction of Yinchuan,...
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A short ride east of Bridgetown, HASTINGS first developed in the eighteenth century as a by-product of Britain's military development of the nearby Garrison area; soldiers from St Ann's Fort were quartered here. More than a century later, its...
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