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WANT to get more out of your holiday?

Argus travel writer and Digital Editor, Martin Wade looks at how to have a break away from the norm by wandering off the beaten track or doing something a bit different.

WADE'S WORLD: The European stag weekend

Beautiful Berlin

3:24pm Thursday 16th May 2013

EACH era has its characteristic modes of holiday. The Regency had the Grand Tour, the Victorians had the seaside, the baby boomers the Costas.

WADE'S WORLD: What story does your passport tell?

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1:50pm Tuesday 12th March 2013

IN an idle moment, possibly at this time of year when pining for warmer climbs, do you ever thumb through your passport?

WADE'S WORLD: Would you eat horse when abroad?

Steak your claim

4:49pm Thursday 14th February 2013

HORSES have been in the news this week. Or at least eating them has.

WADE'S WORLD: Fancy a holiday in a lighthouse?

Clytha Castle, near Abergavenny

4:54pm Wednesday 30th January 2013

Do you fancy holidaying somewhere different in 2013? How about a lighthouse on an island? Or maybe a castle or a Victorian folly?

WADE'S WORLD: Why can't we take the ferry to Devon?

SEVERN CROSSINGS: The operating company’s contract ends in 2018

12:25pm Friday 14th December 2012

HIGH up from our site on a north Devon farm, we could see the lights of Porthcawl blinking in the not too far distance.

WADE'S WORLD: Remembering the fallen abroad

PEACEFUL: Gradara war cemetery in Italy. Picture courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

4:29pm Tuesday 13th November 2012

Thousands of people in Gwent faced war memorials and remembered those lost in Britain’s wars at the weekend.

WADE'S WORLD: Stowaway for an exotic cruise

WADE'S WORLD: Stowaway for an exotic cruise

12:08pm Tuesday 9th October 2012

THE news that an area of Maesglas is set to share a £2m lottery prize launched the usual speculation here about what you would do if the lotto god smiled on you.

WADE'S WORLD: Baltic beach holiday gives history lesson

HISTORIC: The riverfront in Gdansk

11:44am Wednesday 12th September 2012

BEACH holidays are more or less the same wherever you take them. As long as the weather is kind, you can swim, sunbathe and stroll.

WADE'S WORLD: Make sport your reason to travel

SPECTACULAR: The Istanbul marathon crosses from Europe to Asia

5:03pm Tuesday 14th August 2012

FOR the past two weeks I’ve been very glad not to be on holiday. Like many I’ve been obsessed with the Olympics and much of the delight has come from being in this country as collectively it goes bananas.

WADE'S WORLD: When is it OK to travel to dodgy countries?

4:59pm Tuesday 10th July 2012

HAVE you ever felt uneasy about travelling somewhere?






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