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SCOTLAND BEYOND THE BAGPIPES BY HELEN OCHYR A //
TOUGH WOMEN ADVENTURE STORIES BY JENNY TOUGH
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Hidden Places
by Sarah Baxter
Lately, many of us have taken to experiencing the world
via the printed (or recorded) word. But which title took
you on a literary foray to lands unknown or expanded
your mind and inspired your next trip? We offered up
some recent releases that had kept our travel spirits
high in recent months and from these, you ranked Sarah
Baxter’s Hidden Places top of your reading list. Her
collection of mini travelogues and essays is rich enough
in colour and detail to drop you right at the destination,
be it Ethiopia’s rock churches or a mysterious underwater
monument deep in the waters off Japan’s Ryukyu Islands.
Of our shortlist of authors, you selected three women
for the top spots: an impressive trio of writers crafting
erudite escapism.
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JAMES MARTIN’S ISLANDS TO HIGHLANDS (IT V) //
GORDON RAMSAY: UNCHARTED (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)TASTIEST FOOD & TRAVEL SHOW
Rick Stein’s
Cornwall (BBC Two)
Food shows featuring celebrity chefs, street food
stars and globe-trotting gourmands have never been
more prolific. Our National Geographic Traveller Food
team dished up a shortlist of favourites, and you
chose chef and restaurateur Rick Stein as the person
you’d most like to take a virtual food tour with.
Tapping into the nation’s newly increased appetite
for domestic travel, Stein reveals the Cornwall that
he knows and loves, celebrating the food, history,
music, art and culture of England’s southernmost
county. We love this impressive 15-part series, too,
for its determination to dig out the region’s lesser-
known treasures and to champion its bumper crop
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