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Stunning countryside, historic villages, farmers' markets... allow yourself to be seduced, says Matthew Teller.

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May is the month to catch the Spanish capital at its most enticing, with a feast of cuisine and culture to enjoy.

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This stylish getaway 60 miles from Reykjavik offers modern comforts and stunning scenery, day or night, says Jackie Hunter

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It's primary school stuff: mammals give birth to babies; birds lay eggs. Except that this particular mammal – also known as the spiny anteater – lays a big, rubbery whopper. Clearly it had its head in an ant hill when the rules were read out. Or perhaps, like many Australian creatures, it was simply being perverse.

Buenos Aires: The Paris of Latin America

Like their Left Bank counterparts, the caf�s of Buenos Aires once hosted literary greats, from Lorca to Borges. Mick Webb visits this year's World Book Capital

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I knew I was lost when I found myself surrounded by dozens of newly-made coffins. They were piled against the walls: adult size, child size, baby size, all smelling of freshly sawn timber. Addis Ababa's merkato is a huge sprawling city-within-a-city; a market so vast that no one seems to be sure where it exactly begins or ends – and I had been wandering around it for hours.

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