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ExploreBoho, Beautiful and Unashamedly Bourgeois: Is UVA 2017's Coolest New Festival?
Home Explore Stories Current Article Boho, Beautiful and Unashamedly Bourgeois: Is UVA 2017's Coolest New Festival? 16 June, 2017 Words by India Dowley Imagine Imagine your mate threw a house party. Except, rather than a gritty East London flat, their house is a 15th-century monastery surrounded by vineyards in the heart of the Andalusian countryside, […]
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ExploreInside The World’s First Floating Shopping Mall
Home Explore Stories Current Article Inside The World’s First Floating Shopping Mall 15 June, 2017 Words by Fleur Rollet-Manus Globetrotting Globetrotting shoppers will tell you that there's little difference between a mall in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles or Singapore. Fine, they might be bigger, shinier or stock more local designers, but ultimately a mall's […]
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ExploreThe Leopard that Came to Tea: Exploring Sri Lanka's Hill Country
Home Explore Stories Current Article The Leopard that Came to Tea: Exploring Sri Lanka's Hill Country 13 June, 2017 Words by Emma Boyle Photos by Alice Luker This article appears in SUITCASE Volume 19: The Wild Issue. Leopards Leopards have developed a taste for the local dogs," Rohan, my naturalist guide, mentions casually as we […]
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ExploreEscape to the Spice Island: Zanzibar
Home Explore Stories Current Article Escape to the Spice Island: Zanzibar 12 June, 2017 Words by Lucy McGuire This article featured in Volume 19: The Wild Issue. I'm I'm standing at the door of a herbal medicine shop in Stone Town, where long python and civet cat skins hanging from the shop façade make for […]
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ExploreBarefoot, Boxing and Bikinis: Wildfitness, Zanzibar
Editor-in-Chief India Dowley was put through her paces at Wildfitness, a gruelling fitness retreat in Zanzibar for the Wild Issue of SUITCASE Magazine.
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ExploreScratching the Surface: North Korea
For SUITCASE Volume 19: The Wild Issue, we embarked on a ten-day train journey through North Korea, one of the most secretive countries in the world.
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ExploreSwimming with Humpback Whales on the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia
Lisa Young journeyed to the small town of Exmouth on western Australia’s northwest coast to swim and kayak along the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
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ExploreSUITCASE Road Tests: Airbnb Experiences
SUITCASE tested a new concept from Airbnb called "experiences", where the hosts not only open up their homes but their lives too.
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ExploreFeel the Beat in Cali, Colombia
For the Rhythm Issue of SUITCASE we visited Cali, Colombia's third-largest city which has become known as the world capital of salsa.
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ExploreTwo Nights in Maderas: Plugging into Nicaragua's Most Magnetic Village
Maderas Village on the Nicaraguan coast has become a mecca for remote-working creatives and artists, who come seeking sun, surf and inspiration.
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ExploreBeach, Battlefields, Bush and Berg: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
On 5 August 1962, the quiet and unassuming town of Howick – 88 miles from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province – gained profound fame.
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ExploreThe Books to Read Before Visiting Your Favourite Euro Cities
Read them before you go but resist the urge to wander around belting out quotes when you’re there – unless you’re actively looking to lose your travel companions, that is.
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ExploreTimely Musings on the Trans-Siberian Railway
When I dream of difference and the distant elsewhere, I pin-point a place, rustle up an itinerary and negotiate potential challenges. On the Trans-Siberian railway, every regularity of travel is briefly suspended. There is no arrival as such, the metaphor is literal: the journey is the destination. Once I’m on the platform and stumble through regimented passport controls, urgent gestures and fast-paced language, I enter my wood and velvet textured four-bed cabin – exactly how I imagine a time-travel machine – and begin the epic, meta journey of journeys.
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ExploreOcho Rios: Jamaica’s Garden Paradise
Wonderland was found down a rabbit hole, Narnia through a wardrobe. As for Ocho Rios, the town awaits at the end of a winding, emerald-walled tunnel named Fern Gully.
