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A LABORER CAME ACROSS the beheaded mermaid one cold Saturday morning in Copenhagen. That was April 25, 1964. Heinz Carlsen had been passing through the garden park on the port, where the concrete boardwalk at Langelinie Pier turns to cobblestone then...

(Image: Paolo Margari; the modernist architecture of Europe & Israel’s housing estates) The term ‘housing estate’ all too often conjures images of monolithic concrete high-rises, urban decay and misery. While it’s true that some estates fall into...

20 travellers share the best small towns in the Americas you’ve probably never heard of but should add to your travel bucket list. First, we explored the towns of Europe and Africa, then we discovered towns in Asia and Australia, and today we’re showing...

Introduction Ho Chi Minh City, formerly named Prey Nokor, Saigon , is the largest city in Vietnam. Under the name Saigon, it was the capital of the French colony of Cochin-china and later of the independent republic of South Vietnam from 1955&ndash...

It is January end when my husband and I drive from Munnar to Kodaikanal (162 km) via Madurai.  If it is all about tea plantations in Munnar, the road to Madurai passes coffee, pepper and vast cardamom plantations.  As we go further, we come...