As Qantas launches London-Perth, the first non-stop flights between the UK and Australia, Anna Reece of the Perth Festival picks her favourite cultural venues, restaurants, bars and beaches in the city
where to see
Brunel and beyond: a walk around historic Bristol
With the city’s much-anticipated Brunel museum opening, take a stroll around the streets, waterways and engineering wonders that define Bristol’s heritage
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Travel Poetry – 1
I have decided to try a new genre called Travel Poetry – I hope you like it.
Small squads of tourists heading to the palace in Kadriorg Park, each with a different photo to take,
It is a mini-Versailles according to the locals.
The President’s pink house is there for all to see
cyclists,
sunbathers,
walkers,
chatterers on seats,
duck watchers,
beautiful blondes dressed in black without a hair out of place even in the breeze, sitting at cafes drinking lattes and being seen.
Trams dropping off tourists who ask is this the right place?
Lawns,
trees,
pathways,
shade and,
bright, bright sunlight illuminating the other half of my bench.
People asking is he writing about us?
No.
Fountains playing that same endless game,
gardens reflecting in ponds, and
parents pushing strollers
This is Kadriorg Park.
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Seals the deal: a winter wander on the Lincolnshire coast
In winter, visitors can get close to hundreds of mating and pupping seals on the coast between Grimsby and Skegness, while sandy shores offer bracing walks and some of the UK’s finest seafood
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Kraków’s Lenin Steelworks: a rare view of a socialist realist gem
The interior of the plant in Kraków’s utopian socialist new town is preserved in all its 1950s glory, a fascinating window on Soviet-era design
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Hotdog heaven on the streets of Oslo
Oslo’s last remaining hotdog kiosk serves up boiled sausage with fiery mustard. It’s cheap, comforting and tastes explosively marvellous
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Ai Weiwei installation set to shine at Amsterdam Light Festival
The Chinese artist’s piece, Thinline, which represents a theoretical border, takes pride of place among 36 installations at the city’s land- and canal-based annual light festival
