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Where tourists seldom tread, part 17: three port towns freighted with history | England holidays

IpswichThe place names are tiny poems: Silent Street, where...

The 'Old Secretariat' in Panaji, India

Panaji, the capital of Goa, features a fantastic...

‘If you love adventure but not tourists’: readers’ favourite wild places in Europe | Europe holidays

Italy’s lessser known peaksThe Julian Alps are mostly in Slovenia, but I have gone on many trips to the little known Italian portion of this mountain range to visit...

Exploring the Cultural Significance of ‘Deipnosophistae’ by Athenaeus of Naucratis

Andrew Coletti: Imagine that you have just been invited to a dinner party in third century Rome. Dylan...

The perfect break for mother and son? Stone-carving and wood-turning in Sussex | Sussex holidays

How best to bond with a teenage boy? When my son, Hugo, finished his A-levels, I knew I wanted to “take a journey” with him, to have some sort...

AO Mailbag: Is It Normal to Share a Checked Bag With Your Boyfriend?

Dylan Thuras: I’m Dylan Thuras. Johanna Mayer: I’m Johanna Mayer. Amanda McGowan: And I’m Amanda McGowan. Dylan: And this is...

Celebrating an everlasting twilight: midsummer, Lithuanian style | Lithuania holidays

Towards dusk a bonfire was lit and, one after another, the friends we were eating and drinking with hurdled the leaping flames, a pagan ritual thought to provide benefits including improved physical and...

Who’s Responsible for the 2024 Langley Air Force Base Drone Swarm?

Dylan Thuras: In December 2023, at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, it’s just after sunset, and...

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The Alresford Portland Spy Ring Toliet Dead Drop

So, there is a kind of unspoken code of public conduct, of...

Daily links from Cory Doctorow

In 2014, I read a political science paper that nearly convinced me to quit my lifelong career as an activist: "Testing Theories of American...

Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It

QWEN CHAT DISCORDIntroduction#The evolution of multimodal large models is continually pushing the boundaries of what we believe technology can achieve. From the initial QwenVL to...