By Vikas Swarup, Thursday, September 1, 2011
This year’s earthquake and tsunami devastated the islands’ northern areas. But much of the country escaped harm, as Slumdog Millionaire author Vikas Swarup discovers on a 12-day hike along the ancient Nakasendo Highway
Tags: japan, mountains, trek, hike
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By Angelina Villa-Clarke, Wednesday, October 1, 2008
For Italy off-the-beaten track, try the mountains of Emilia-Romagna
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By Alexander McCall Smith, Barbara Trapido, Lucy Cavendish, Robert Macfarlane , Sunday, March 1, 2009
Writers Alexander McCall Smith, Lucy Cavendish and more wax lyrical about their favourite spots in our fair isle
Tags: literature, writers, cities, mountains, horses, nature, countryside, Scotland,, quintessentially-British
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