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Winner: Best Print Article, Holland Press Awards 2019 Friesland isn't like the rest of the Netherlands. The North Sea has shaped this province's landscape and history, and the area still retains a strong identity - fiercely independent, friendly, free-thinking and welcoming. As far back as 1300, the Frisians created a free state, away from centralised authority with their own language, laws, and traditions.
Polylogue - International Bookstore & Cafe. Photograph by Jael Marschner Some have dubbed Leipzig the 'new Berlin' - on account of the artists, families and cool young things who've been priced out of the capital and relocated in their droves to the Saxon city. To buy into the 'Hypezig' talk, however, is to misunderstand the place.
Clean, efficient, child-friendly, plus the home of Lego and super cool Scandi design, it's no secret Denmark is prime family holiday terrain. As someone who has both a six-year-old and a deep love of 20th-century art and design, it seemed like it might be the perfect destination.
Wild times: Durrell Wildlife Park, Jersey The bear cub throws itself at the cage, scrambles as high as he can go before racing back down and suddenly falling asleep in the corner. I swear I can see his mother breathing a sigh of relief.
"But I don't like the beach." My seven-year-old daughter is adamant that this is a terrible idea. Maybe she's right. By arranging to spend a weekend in a beach hut, I'm trying to return to some vintage age, a charming time of buckets and spades by the British seaside, ice creams, Punch and Judy, golden memories.
As check-in information goes for a central London stay, it's a little unusual. 'If the escaped animal alarm goes off, stay in your lodge, and wait for the keepers to tell you what to do,' it reads. I can hear a lion roaring not too far away, so I'm paying close attention.
There's a glamorous film star waiting rather sulkily with her driver just outside the lifts at Heathrow's Terminal 3. She looks like she's come straight from the 1950s. That's how I know I'm in the right place. Today, on our flight to New York via Reykjavik, we'll be celebrating 80 years of Icelandair.
Just how friendly Montrealers are becomes apparent when you spend all day being sick in bins. They're all very concerned, they want to help: in London I'm pretty sure they'd just assume I was drunk. I'm not, but I am considering it - it might help with the nerves.
"So, what have you been doing today?" asks the Crown Prince of Serbia. I can't think what to say. It's the first time conversation has dried up over the past few days; if there's one thing I've learned about Serbians, it's that they love to talk - about the war, about their country, about how they are perceived in the wider world, about films, about apples...
Jo Fletcher-Cross fulfils her dream of piloting a passenger jet — without ever leaving the ground
A tasting tour in an authentic Hong Kong neighbourhood offers Jo Fletcher-Cross some surprises
Jo Fletcher-Cross finds the best ways to keep young visitors to the City of Dreaming Spires entertained
Jo Fletcher-Cross extends a family trip to Denmark’s home of the brick
With a huge university, the world’s largest annual book fair and plenty of world-class art, opera, ballet and theatre, Frankfurt is a diverse city with lots to offer visitors
Dundee Rep Theatre is famous for its productions (many in collaboration with leading UK theatre producers), and also houses Scotland's national contemporary dance company Scottish Dance Theatre. It's one of only 22 cities in the world to be named a UNESCO City of Design, and is soon to be home to Scotland's first dedicated design museum, the V&A Museum of Design Dundee.
A leadership challenge, dirty tricks, sleaze and scandal - all in a day's work if you are a party whip. The party is in crisis and the Prime Minister is nowhere to be seen as Richard Wilson keeps a tottering Tory government in shape in Steve Thompson's new play, Whipping It Up, which has transferred to the New Ambassadors from the Bush.