A high-rise cemetery complete with aviary,vintage car museum and now a sports hero

A high-rise cemetery complete with aviary,vintage car museum and now a sports hero

Soccer legend Pele will be buried high up with a view to his beloved home ground at Vila Belmiro. It’s a cemetery like no other. I know it well.

  • byLia Timson

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Please,sit down. It's time for good coffee and great history

Please,sit down. It's time for good coffee and great history

The two main things you need to know about Caffe Florian are that it is old and not cheap. But who cares? This is no time to scrimp.

  • byBevan Shields
Boris's Age of Stone

Boris's Age of Stone

Of all the fanciful Brexit border ideas,Boris Johnson has proposed a bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland.

  • byTom McKendrick
Woods,water,and a special attention to detail

Woods,water,and a special attention to detail

If whisky is about bottling the place,one would like to bottle the harmony of this environment.

  • byChris Zappone
A visit to a precarious paradise for Siberian white cranes

A visit to a precarious paradise for Siberian white cranes

Paradise for these Siberian white cranes is on Lake Poyang,the largest freshwater lake in all of China,in the eastern province of Jiangxi.

  • bySanghee Liu
Forget Parma night at the local pub,try the real thing instead

Forget Parma night at the local pub,try the real thing instead

A palazzo pitstop in Parma provided plenty of provisions with prosciutto and parmesan too pleasant to pass-up.

  • byLia Timson
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One time and place in Kyoto:The Way of Tea

One time and place in Kyoto:The Way of Tea

Part-ritual,part-hospitality,part-aesthetic exercise and part-meditation:the traditional Japanese tea ceremony is a multi-dimensional affair.

  • byChris Zappone
The weekend from hell:an ill-fated trip to KL

The weekend from hell:an ill-fated trip to KL

A peaceful weekend away,mixing work with a bit of sight-seeing,turned into the weekend from hell.

  • byJames Massola
Soft power,hard liquor:inside the chain of North Korean restaurants

Soft power,hard liquor:inside the chain of North Korean restaurants

Finding Bangkok’s little slice of North Korea used to require cold war-style espionage skills. Not any more.

  • byMichael Ruffles
The first Christmas card and Dickens'enduring gift

The first Christmas card and Dickens'enduring gift

It wasn't a coincidence that the same year Charles Dickens invented Christmas,civil servant Henry Cole invented the first Christmas card.

  • byNick Miller
The six bins of Italy:What a wonderful waste of our time

The six bins of Italy:What a wonderful waste of our time

Some tourists complain they need a PhD to work out the Italian waste disposal and recycling rules. Romans wouldn't whinge.

  • byLia Timson