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Three places you will probably never visit. No 2: Hinckley
An obscure town in the English Midlands gets me thinking about the way we preserve the past – or don't
 • Mark Jones
Three places you will probably never visit. No 1: Nuneaton
They are also places which mean a lot to me and –actually – to England
 • Mark Jones
It’s cold, rainy, hideously expensive and everyone wants to go there
Iceland is trying to keep its tourist numbers down. Here's why they didn't succeed in my case
 • Mark Jones
All time best summer holidays: Part 2
From the Lakes of England to the hippy beaches of Goa
 • Mark Jones
All-time best summer holidays: Part One
If you could choose one place and time in history to spend a summer holiday, where and when would you go? In the first of a two-part series, we…
 • Mark Jones
The lessons of Himeyuri
In the week we remember Hiroshima, I want to take you to a school in Okinawa. It made me think differently about war, nationalism – and the bomb
 • Mark Jones
Tweedies meet influencers on a Scottish Island
Two ways – one fashionable, one not – of describing an Outer Hebrides experience
 • Mark Jones
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