Find out where Denmark’s best bakery is, read all about hi-tec safari in South Africa, and learn where the biggest outdoor art festival in the world is on, right now… It’s all in our travel press cuttings. You’ll notice we’ve tweaked the formula by ordering articles by category: Outdoors/adventure, City, Foodie and Escape, plus two rotating ones – this week it’s Eco and Art/design. We are still bringing you the best of the English-speaking travel press. You can let us know what you think by emailing us at info@globalista.co.uk, or better still, leave a comment below.

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• Art/design
• Eco
• Foodie
• City
• Outdoors/adventure
• Escape

Art/design

• In Concrete Dreams: France’s Housing Utopias Sally McGrane takes a new architecture tour around Lyon, including two Le Corbusier buildings, remarking that “the tours offer an everyday glimpse into a less-travelled side of France’s cities and suburbs.”
• In Zen and the art of rural regeneration Danielle Demetriou enjoys a drink with Anthony Gormley as she wanders around his new artwork for the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, the world’s largest outdoor art festival in Japan: “I spent time drinking sake with some locals and the former residents of the house last night,” he said…”One 83-year-old woman who was born in this house lay down on the floor and stared at it for a long time before declaring that she liked it.”

Eco

• Kate Grubb, manager of Ecocabin reveals some of her insider knowledge in My Shropshire: a local’s guide.
• Green travel: 10 trips to break clean from daily life has great ideas for those who want an inspirational ‘clean break’ -  holidays that are the opposite of the ‘fly and flop’ style where you fly in and veg out for the duration of your stay.

Foodie

• There’s more to Danish dining than rashers and pastries claims Trine Hahnemann. She gives a handy overview to the best in current contemporary Danish cooking and urges you to try Lagkagehuset, at Christianshavns Torv. “I can recommend everything here…Try the kartoffelcake”
• Harry Eyres is enthused by the history of Armagnac and its brandy, visiting distilleries both old and modern in search of something that hits the spot.
• Ever wondered what mopanie worms taste like? Find out from Anissa Helou as she experiences The global flavours of South Africa.
• Rowley Leigh, head chef at Le Cafe Anglais reminisces on La Rosetta, an old restaurant loaded with memories, in Peace reigns in Perugia – “The gang…to my horror, they ordered 12 different pasta dishes…Somehow, extraordinarily, the kitchen produced all the dishes at the same time and to a uniformly high standard.”
• Maura J Casey goes Drinkless in Ireland: Pubs but No Pints and asks the question “for the tourist who doesn’t drink, is Ireland a country to be avoided?”
• A tapas pilgrimage in Spain is the account of Norman Miller’s intrepid tour around the bars of Logrono (capital of La Rioja) in search of the perfect tapas – “I’m secretly relieved that veal snout (morro de ternera), traditionally stewed with tripe, onion, garlic and chorizo, and skinned pig’s face (careta de cerdo) are both niche, home-cooked specialities I never got to try.”

City

• Patrick Healy visits Beirut, the Provincetown of the Middle East and presents an in-depth look into the gay scene in this increasingly tolerant city: “Beirut represents a different Middle East for some gay and lesbian Arabs: the only place in the region where they can openly enjoy a social life denied them at home.”
• Save or Splurge: Budapest – Evan Rail lays out your options whether you’re on a modest budget at $250 a day, or in the mood for spending big at $1000 a day.
• In Rising by a Tower in Istanbul Yigal Schleifer takes an insider-y look into Galata, an up-and-coming district in the city, noting the new places of interest that are springing up.
• For Ian Belcher Marseillan is The French port that’s like St Tropez before Bardot – “it’s the town’s protected 17th-century harbour that really captures the early Riviera vibe. Low-level houses laced with wrought-iron balconies and splattered with flowers swaddle a channel that jiggles with small boats and yachts, with a left bank of thriving restaurants and cafes.”
• Annabelle Thorpe questions where the true China is, in Suzhou, real China outside Shanghai – “Shanghai may be China’s future, but it is the sleepy, shabby streets of Suzhou that I remember most vividly — a rare glimpse of the country’s fascinating, and fast disappearing, past. “

Outdoors/Adventure

• Matthew Fishbane feels Above the Clouds in a Secret Colombia as he visits El Cocuy National Park: “Unlike congested climbing destinations like Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua, Cocuy, both remote and, until recently, risky to visit, has been South America’s undiscovered gem of mountaineering. “
• In All aboard the time machine Marcel Theroux travels in style, by train from Moscow to Russia’s White Sea, explaining “there’s no better way to appreciate the natural beauty and heartbreaking immensity of this extraordinary country.”
• David Baxter decides to Follow the Ebro – a highway through Spanish history (and the largest river in Spain), on bike whilst exploring the history of the local towns along the way.
• Mark Rowe eschews the crowds and picks The top 10 peaceful summer walks around the UK. Examples include Strawberry Line in Devon and Cordwell Valley in the Peak District
• This is the future of safaris says Chris Haslam, after spending time at the hi-tec Londolozi game reserve in Kenya where they’ve just taken delivery of a specialised photographic safari vehicle.
• Jeremy Lazell makes the best of a wet British summer and gives us 12 of the best British wildlife breaks: “Ospreys are fledging in Scotland, seals are pupping in Norfolk, gannet chicks are squawking off the stunning coast of Kerry. “

Escape

• In Sardinia: Entranced by the 10.23 to Tempio Marc Zakian rattles through the hills of Sardinia on the trenino (little train): ‘[it's] as good as its name; a pocket-size, twin-carriage affair that hardly seems big enough to make it out of the station, never mind taking on the gruelling gradients ahead of us”
• Clover Stroud plays at being Scarlett O’Hara in Carolina, USA: Alligators and Southern hospitality, staying at Palmetto Bluff, a 20,000-acre nature reserve on the May River.

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