South Africa is famous for meat of every shape and description. This is definitely a meat lover’s paradise and here you have the opportunity to try a selection of game meats and other animals such as crocodile and ostrich.
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Ethiopia claims to be the original home of the Arabica coffee bean. Several legends contribute to the assertion.
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With their heavy white makeup and full nun regalia, the Sisters have become an icon of the Castro district and chances are you’ll see some if visiting this San Fransisco neighbourhood.
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The ruined gothic Whitby Abbey towers over the town. It was founded by an abbotess called St Hilda but ever since Henry VIII ran amok through the country’s monasteries and stripped them of their wealth, it has remained in ruins.
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The Colosseum was the stage for some of the Roman Empire’s goriest excesses. Gladiatorial games originated as part of Roman funerary ritual, but the government realised that staging bloody events as entertainment would keep people used to the sights of war and death, which were an everyday reality in the Roman Empire.
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