BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesScotland A Swiss village obsessed with ScotlandBBC Travel - By Caroline BishopWith bagpipe music in the air and kilt-wearing locals competing in caber tossing, the village of Abtwil, Switzerland, turns Scottish for one weekend every two years. The unmistakeable sound of bagpipes
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesPrayer A mosque in the land of midnight sunBBC Travel - By Fortunato SalazarNo major religion’s daily ritual observances are tied more closely to the movement of the Sun than Islam’s, so what do they do when the Sun never rises or sets? As midnight approached on 27 July, scores
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesTravel The Italian island of perpetual fireBBC Travel - By Anna BressaninOn Stromboli Island, 300 residents live directly under one of the world’s most active volcanoes. This award-winning film shows why they choose to stay. Cast off the northern coast of Sicily, the blustery
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesJapan Japan’s most remote onsenBBC Travel - By Lily Crossley-BaxterJapan is home to more than 3,000 natural hot springs – but one is so legendary that bathers embark on a four-day round-trip journey to soak in it. Perched beside the Kurobe River deep in the Japanese the
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesRussia Who really owns borsch?BBC Travel - By Andrew EvansTo the average person, Russians broadcasting about borsch may seem obvious and innocuous, but not so for Ukrainians, who consider the soup to be their national dish. Soup should never be your go-to weapon
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesAztec Empire Mexico City’s secret underground worldBBC Travel - By Susannah RiggHidden mere metres under the modern capital, a series of temples, palaces and mysterious artefacts from an ancient kingdom are being unearthed. As we descended 7m below Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral,
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesEast China Sea The last sea salt farmers of the East China SeaBBC Travel - By Runze YuThis ancient cash crop has been farmed for 1,300 years. Now, Hua’ao Island is the only place that still harvests it. More than 18,000 largely uninhabited islands lie adrift in the remote waters of the
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesIsle of Man The British island that’s not in the UKBBC Travel - By Olivier GuiberteauDespite being ringed on all sides by the UK – Northern Ireland to west, Scotland to the north, England to the east and Wales to the south – the Isle of Man is not actually part of it. “Hello, fairies,”
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesBrazil Brazil: The last frontier of gastronomy?BBC Travel - By Janet FormanAs Brazil’s food community unites to help save ancient ingredients, it has inspired new ways to use them, sending a wave of madly inventive cuisine across the country. Chefs and researchers are stunned:
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesJapan What Japan can teach us about cleanlinessBBC Travel - By Steve John Powell & Angeles Marin CabelloOne of the first things visitors to Japan notice is how clean everywhere is – yet there are hardly any litter bins and street sweepers. What's the secret behind this contradiction? The students sit with
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesBallet A hidden side to royal VersaillesBBC Travel - By Adrienne BernhardNobility travelled from all over the world to Versailles to learn a mixture of dressage, ballet and fencing – highly refined arts that paved the way for classical dance. The opulent furnishings, gilded
BBC Travelflipped into All Stories India’s elephant-friendly tea gardenBBC Travel - By Kalpana PradhanAn Indian tea farm is the first in the world to embrace elephant conservation practices. Meet the farmer saving elephants one cup of tea at a time. While most people think of poaching as the most significant
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesJapan Japan’s mysterious ‘lake of the gods’BBC Travel - By Hiromi TanoueOften shrouded in mist, Lake Mashu is the clearest lake in Japan – and seeing its surface is said to seal your fate. Born from a volcanic eruption around 2,000 years ago, Japan’s mysterious Mashu-ko, Lake
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesValencia Is this Spain’s most authentic paella?BBC Travel - By Esme FoxToday, Spain’s signature dish is served at restaurants from London to Los Angeles. But for more than 120 years, one eatery has set the standard for what paella should be. Walking along the vast sweep Valencia’s
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesWestern Australia A 60,000-year-old cure for depressionBBC Travel - By Bonita GrimaTraditional healers have been entrusted with the well-being of indigenous Australian communities for as long as their culture has been alive – yet surprisingly little is known of them. There I was, on
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesScotland These ancient Scottish cave drawings may soon vanishBBC Travel - By Amanda Ruggeri & Adam ProctorThe Wemyss Caves house mysterious carvings from as early as 300AD. In the face of natural and human threats, archaeologists are racing to decode them before they vanish. Hidden beneath the medieval ruins
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesFidel Castro Fidel Castro’s secret love affair with NYCBBC Travel - By Tony PerrottetThe unlikely story of how one of the world’s most committed Communists fell in love with the global epicentre of capitalism. On a recent sun-drenched afternoon, I was wandering the leafy blocks of West
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesHistory The lost villages of the Derwent ValleyBBC Travel - By Helen MoatIn 2018, a hot, dry summer descended on the English Midlands, and as the waters of the Ladybower Reservoir fell, the lost village of Derwent emerged. It was all gone. The lanes of gritstone cottages, church
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesGermany Germany’s tiny geographic oddityBBC Travel - By Larry BleibergSurrounded by Switzerland, but owned by Germany, the tiny enclave of Büsingen am Hochrhein has managed a binational existence for centuries. On 1 August, Switzerland’s National Day, summer holidaymakers
BBC Travelflipped into All Stories A race to rescue frozen artefactsBBC Travel - By Matt StirnAs the world warms up, archaeologists are discovering that some of the most fascinating glimpses of prehistoric life are melting from ice. Ice crystals landed on my face, falling from the ceiling of the
BBC Travelflipped into All Stories The world’s most exquisite chocolate?BBC Travel - By Lavinia WanjauThe Pure Nacional tree once at the heart of South America’s chocolate industry was believed to have been lost forever – until it was recently rediscovered by accident. Travelling to the Marañón Canyon
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesArchaeology The discovery of the ancient Greek city of TeneaBBC Travel - By Jessica BatemanOne of Greece’s top archaeologists, Eleni Korka, recently made the biggest discovery of her 40-year career: the mythical city of Tenea, which was built by Trojan prisoners of war. It was a baking hot day
BBC Travelflipped into All StoriesVictorian Era The Africans who wear Victorian petticoatsBBC Travel - By Kate SchoenbachWorn for more than a century, these Victorian-style dresses have deep roots in the trauma and triumph of Namibia’s Herero people. Layers of petticoats, puffy sleeves and a headpiece made to look like horns:
BBC Travelflipped into All Stories The woman watching climate changeBBC Travel - By Mercedes HuttonA Lithuanian scientist records the shrinking Toyuksu glacier above Almaty, Kazakhstan, and, from her unrivalled perspective, bears witness to the onslaught of climate change. Life at 3,500m is one of where
BBC Travelflipped into All Stories Mexico’s ancient ‘caviar’BBC Travel - By Jessica VincentLoosely translating to “seeds of joy”, ahuautle, or water fly eggs, were considered by the Aztecs to be the food of the gods. It was approaching 17:00, but Mexico City’s fierce summer heat wasn’t letting
BBC Travelflipped into All Stories The last of Transylvania’s SaxonsBBC Travel - By Stephen McGrathThe Saxons first arrived in Romania’s Transylvania region in the 12th Century, but over the past few decades the community has all but vanished from the region. On a scorching summer day in the Transylvanian
BBC Travelflipped into All Stories A shipwreck worth billions off the coast of CartagenaBBC Travel - By Victoria StuntFor centuries, the San José galleon lay lost on the ocean floor, but now it’s at the centre of a custody dispute, with several parties all staking claim to its riches. It was on 8 June 1708 that Spanish
BBC Travelflipped into All Stories The tiny fish that founded St PetersburgBBC Travel - By Irina SedunovaThey may swim into town only once a year, but the koryushka fish is more than just a strangely scented St Petersburg delicacy – it may be the reason the city survived World War Two. In St Petersburg, is
BBC Travelflipped into All Stories An exhilarating train journey across the SaharaBBC Travel - By Alastair GillSince 1963, Mauritania’s 2km-long Train du Desert has carried iron ore and brave passengers 704km across the Sahara Desert. Wrapping my Touareg scarf around my face to shield my eyes from the sand and
BBC Travelflipped into All Stories Why Polish people hate rulesBBC Travel - By Olga MeckingWarsaw has had a long and tumultuous history, which meant that its inhabitants had to come up with ingenious ways to survive. When the Nazis started closing in on my Jewish grandfather during World War
