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Forget the short days and cold mornings... a new year offers the chance to plan a whole 12 months' worth of travel and adventure. And we're raring to go. From n…

Long overshadowed by refined, tourist-clogged Edinburgh, Scotland's second city has been quietly proving that it's far from second best. Glasgow's cultural plau…

With so many things to see and do, vast metropolises to negotiate and some complex cultural customs to get to grips with, Japan is often viewed as a difficult d…