Snug in England's midsection, just under a 90-minute train ride away from London, sits the unassuming city of Derby (pronounced DAHR'-bee).
An iron and steel colossus that sank on a summer's night 35 years ago off Cyprus is now considered one of the world's best shipwreck dives.
Jeanne Achille used to find business travel "really depressing" because she never got to sightsee in the places she was visiting.
From when I was a boy I grew up keenly interested in any human-made object that moved, particularly aircraft.
I don't remember much about my climb up Mount Katahdin 25 years ago.
Race drivers call it "The Green Hell" and it has taken dozens of drivers' lives, but Germany's Nuerburgring car-racing track offers unparalleled excitement for car racing fans.
There are some places in the world that one wants to return again and again. After my first visit to Boracay, a small island in the Philippines, in March of last year, I knew that I would return soon. I was there again in April this year.
The word "boracay" means "white cotton" in the local language, and it is said that the island was given the name because the white powdery sands on its beaches were like cotton.
Boracay has two main beaches - a four-km-long White Beach on the western coast of the island and the surfers' Bulabog Beach on the east. International travel magazine Travel and Leisure in 2012 named it the best island in the world.
Nestled in the center of the Yangtze River Delta, where three provinces Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui border with one another, is a bamboo forest called Nanshan Bamboo Sea, which is a national reserve. It occupies an area of 2,500 hectares.
The British Chinese scholar Joseph Terence defines Chinese civilization as "a bamboo civilization." During the Cold War, the West referred to China's "bamboo curtain", and the Soviet Union's "iron curtain".
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