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Six of world's best wild-water swims
Mexico Can?t do cold water? Then the Sea of Cortes should tick your boxes; the average temperature in the briny here is 25C . You will be based on Espiritu Santo island in Baja California, and the swimming during the week-long trip (about 6km each day) is along beaches and through coves and bays where you may be an object of curiosity for inquisitive sea lions.
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Wild-water swimming in Turkey
Despite living two centuries apart, I feel that I share a lot with Lord Byron ? 18th-century poet, lover, dandy, bon viveur, icon.
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Times Walks: Slieve Gullion, Co Armagh
Ever smelt pine needles properly?? inquired my companion, the walker and naturalist Ron Murray, as we strolled the Forest Drive along the southern flank of Slieve Gullion. ?Crush ?em like this between your finger and thumb.?
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20 best seaside villas in Europe
1 Eco Fisherman?s Cottage, Lanzarote, Spain This solar-powered fisherman?s cottage on the seafront in the pretty fishing village of Arrieta, northeast Lanzarote, is a stone?s throw from a sandy cove. It sleeps two adults and two children, and has been lovingly converted: wood furniture, cream throws, plants and paintings, a fully fitted kitchen, two bathrooms and lounge opening out on to the promenade. The balcony has superb sea views and the shaded courtyard is perfect for alfresco dining. There are good coastal walking and cycling trails from the doorstep, and the mountain village of Haria is just a short drive away.
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If it?s good enough for Keats...
Iquestion if there be a room in England which commands a view of mountains and lakes and woods superior to that in which I am now writing.? If you read that in a holiday-home company?s blurb, you might dismiss it as a touch flowery. But when you learnt that the copywriter was a Mr Coleridge, you?d sit up and take notice. You might even want to stay there. And you can.
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