Tórshavn – Suppose as a veteran traveler you want to impress your friends, or you would love to visit a capital that is very hip, yet quite unknown. Then we have the golden tip. Repeat after us: Torshavn! Might be useful to find it on the map first though.
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Langanes – The light just will not go away. An obstinate band of white above the mountain Hleiðólfsfjall keeps the night at a distance. Forty kilometres away, it casts a pale glimmer over Langanes, a peninsula shaped like a duck eagerly looking out over the sea. As if the creature, like me, wants to escape the light.
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Trøllanes – How far away from civilization can you live and where do you feel at home? To the young sheep farmer Jóhannus, the centuries old village of Trøllanes on the Faroe Islands has it all. Just like it had for his ancestors who arrived 500 years ago. “What more does a man need?”
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New Orleans – We were going for a walk in Algiers. I admit it: utter madness! Not only because the temperature refused to drop below 36 degrees Celsius. The fact that in the past seven months, as many as 132 people were killed, mostly by shotgun, was by no means reason to cancel the walk.
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Ostend – It was not long after an unknown elderly woman asked me if she could sit at my table, that I came to my senses. That they celebrate Christmas in summer because it is too cold in December was strange. That fishermen only want to marry women who can sing was another writing on the wall.
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Metz – Metz is a stylish city, often passed by on route to the south. And that is a missed opportunity.
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Extremadura – Habits in the village are unchanged, showing a glimpse of what Spain must have been in the fifties.
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Norway – The days that huskies played their part in polar expeditions are long gone. However, sled dogs are still driven on long journeys. We went in search of a modern musher.
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Valencia – Did you know that above your head some beautiful B&B’s are located?
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Vechtdal – Spot wild animals and make a survival trek through the woods. Where springs to mind? Well?
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