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Go See the Style, Culture & Energy of Barcelona, Spain

There’s nowhere like Barcelona – no city in Spain can touch it for sheer style, looks or energy. For all its outrageous architecture, designer shopping, hip bars and vibrant cultural scene, Barcelona is more than just this year’s fad. It’s a confident, progressive city, tirelessly self-renewing while preserving all that’s best about its past. As neighbourhoods are rebuilt with panache, and locals and visitors alike pursue the latest sensation, there’s also an enduring embrace of the things that make life worth living – the daily market visit, strolling down the Ramblas, a lazy harbour-side lunch, frenetic festival nights, Sunday by…

Bonny Scotland

As befits the home of tartan and whiskey simple definitions don’t really suit Scotland. Cliched images of the place abound – postcards of wee Highland terriers, tartan tins of shortbread, ranks of diamond-patterned golf jerseys … and they drive many Scots to apoplexy. And yet Scotland has a habit of delivering on its classic images: in some parts ruined castles really do perch on just about every hilltop, in summer the glens inevitably turn purple with heather and if you end up in a village on gala day you just might bump into a formation of bagpipers marching down the…