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  • Lisa Grainger is in Moscow: On the trail of Tolstoy for The Telegraph: “It is February, and although the skies are blue, it is 3F (-16C). Sparkling, fresh snow covers every surface. To the left of the long, birch-lined driveway stretches an icy lake. Beyond are snow-covered log-cabin stables. A couple of sleighs (sadly sans bells and bearskins) are half-buried in white near the stables, seats thick with ice. And beyond rises the house in which the writer was born and lived until a couple of weeks before his death: a handsome 19th-century, cream-painted double-storey dwelling, ringed by orchards of icicle-hung apple trees.”
  • “Some people go to Stockholm to wonder at the royal palaces and the Vasa, the 17th-century warship that is one of Europe’s archaeological treasures. Not us. We have been touring the crummy part of town for hours, knee-deep in snow, looking for a woman who goes by the description of a ‘tattooed bisexual computer hacker with intimate piercings,’” wrote Helen Rumbelow in The Times, as she uncovers the Secrets of Stieg’s Stockholm.. “[T]he Larsson phenomenon is unlikely to have passed you by, with every commuter train and airport stuffed with his bestselling trilogy, beginning with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. A film of the same name opens in London next week, and the Swedish capital is readying itself for a wave of Larsson pilgrims.”
  • In The Independent, Nick Clarke offers up a guide to Miami in The Hedonist: Miami: “Some like it hot, which is why steroid-pumped and silicon-filled bods in barely-there swimwear head to Miami when the winter closes in elsewhere.”
  • “It’s spring, so the days are warming up and the skies are clearing. And peak season for visitors to this fascinating ancient city is still a month or two away,” Siobhan Mulholland wrote in 48 Hours In: Marrakech for The Independent, detailing from unmissable cultural highlights to the best public gardens and how best to dine with the locals.

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