Travel
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Is the Maltese Terrier nearing extinction on Malta?
Malta is interesting, cultured and devout — but her quieter sister Gozo is the real treasure.…
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Valetta: European capital of culture or a plastic pig’s arse?
Valletta is the European Capital of Culture for 2018 — so why is its Maritime Museum…
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The perfumed underpass
A stopover in Abu Dhabi — a perfumed underpass, a woman in silver shoes, the Sheikh…
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Pilgrimage for the feast of St Francis of Assisi
A parish address for the feast of St Francis of Assisi — on the real Francis,…
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Pilgrimage to the shrine of Padre Pio
Padre Pio — the greatest mystic of the 20th century, who bore the stigmata for fifty…
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Francis of Assisi and the Holy Land
What we owe to St Francis of Assisi in the Holy Land — how his extraordinary…
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Doughnuts with an ultra-orthodox Jew
A walking tour of ultra-orthodox Jerusalem with Kitty — bad wigs, long temple curls, charity boxes…
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Taking a tour on pilgrimage is akin to wearing a swimsuit to church
A tour of the holy sites of Galilee — Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee — that…
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The doughnut divinity is definitely Jewish
OMG! Jerusalem is life changing — and it has taken me to the point of seriously…
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Getting into a convent is much easier than getting out
Locked in a convent on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem — no wifi, no telephone, and…
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