Reader’s Digest UK – July 2019

ILLUSTRATION: EVA BEE TRAVEL & ADVENTURE 77 ...

Space Station. "But what if I could hop in a space plane and be there in 45 minutes?" Recent developments suggest such journeys ...

JULY 2019 • 79 READER’S DIGEST start with. "Right now, the Earth is in that perfect spot—not too hot and not too cold," explains ...

has an atmosphere—it has wind and erosion." Unlike the Moon— although Bresnik explains that it makes a pretty good stand-in when ...

JULY 2019 • 81 READER’S DIGEST not living there permanently, but in rotation," he predicts. "Then around 40 years until there's ...

Galactic's first space flights—a snip at £200,000 a pop. One confirmed passenger is Matthew D Upchurch, CEO of Virtuoso. Upchurc ...

the first 84 passengers to experience a flight," explains the entrepreneur. So what motivated him to sign up? "I was never a spa ...

Fuelled by oil wealth, Azerbaijan’s capital is remaking itself into a bold and vibrant city tempered by traditional ways Caspian ...

TRAVEL & ADVENTURE The newly reconstructed promenade by the bay, with the Flame Towers in the background ...

PHOTOGRAPHS BY RENA EFFENDI S HE LOOKS LIKE the Soviet Union come to life. Like the women who would shuffle through Red Square i ...

Clockwise from top left: Entrance to the old city; ornate residences built a century ago by Baku oil merchants; Heydar Aliyev Cu ...

92 CASPIAN MYSTIQUE the Soviet Union. Now the Aliyev family, which has presided over Azerbaijan since 1993, has applied a new le ...

MOST CITIES value sturdy, handsome buildings over dilapidated structures, but I’m wondering if Baku’s mania for restoration has ...

CASPIAN MYSTIQUE today’s oil money rather than a century ago. I can’t get too exercised about this. The history of a place trans ...

READER’S DIGEST © ADAM JONES/FLICKR parked outside the Sirvansah Muzey Restoran, a “museum restaurant” where banqueters dine in ...

T he soothing rumble of the train has an intoxicating effect as I strain my eyes to peer through the darkened window. A faint ta ...

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FOR THE SHAKEN NOT STIRRED: SOUTHERN ITALY Filming locations for the 25th outing of James Bond include Matera, a town whose stee ...

From price is based on 9 Nov 2019 from Manchester Other departure airports, dates and hotels available (prices will vary) FROM £ ...

I f I offered to give you some money for every time you shopped online, you’d naturally be suspicious. Money for nothing must su ...