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Of myth and legend: Transnistria, Moldova

Of myth and legend: Transnistria, Moldova

Tamara Sheward couldn’t imagine what the Eastern European nation of Transnistria was like: mainly because it doesn’t even exist. She decided to travel there anyway.

As we approached the border, it dawned on me: my parents were liars. “Don’t be afraid,” they’d coo to me. “It’s not real, and if it’s not real, it can’t hurt you.” So why was I quaking in my boots as we rolled towards Transnistria?    more....

Eye for an eye (and a few teeth missing): Livingston, Guatemala

Eye for an eye (and a few teeth missing): Livingston, Guatemala

Over four centuries ago the Garifuna people was enslaved by the British and brought to the Caribbean coast. Today, James Curtis sees first hand how they live, while making a few discoveries of his own.

Our tour guide Alex is serious, looking like a Cuban revolutionary fighter in his green military hat and shades, and the story he is telling has the group gripped. 

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My Golden Ones: Turkey

My Golden Ones: Turkey

Jonathan Campion takes a bus ride through southern Turkey, and a journey through the region's intricacies.

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Road to Imber: Wiltshire, England

Road to Imber: Wiltshire, England

Dene Bebbington takes the road less travelled to one of England's more curious villages. Unless you're a tank.

Every few hundred yards a sign warns not to leave the road due to unexploded military debris. But I'm not in a country ravaged by war and living with an insidious legacy of landmines and cluster bomblets. This is rural Wiltshire in England. more....

Liberty, Equality, & Fries with Gravy: Montreal, Canada

Liberty, Equality, & Fries with Gravy: Montreal, Canada

The modern American psyche often harbors shame over past civil rights abuses.Lyn Fuchs (aka Lyn Fox) contemplates...in Montreal.

Our tour guide Alex is serious, looking like a Cuban revolutionary fighter in his green military hat and shades, and the story he is telling has the group gripped. 

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Sweet life in Sucre

Mark Kennedy travels to Sucre, Bolivia, to find a backpacker couple turning a local watering hole into a nationally known restaurant and tour company.

Travellers in Bolivia looking to get off the usual backpacker circuit are increasingly finding themselves in Sucre. Unlike the more popular destinations of La Paz, the salt flats near Uyuni and the mines of Potosi, Sucre offers all the modern amenities and culture of a large city and more, despite its relatively small size (the city has about 200,000 residents). more....