Paula Hardy

4 days ago | msn.com | Paula Hardy

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I had started my week in Fes, at the World Sacred Music Festival, where I was seated in a royal ceremonial space, Bab Makina, watching whirling dervishes, chanting sufi sects, the angelic-voiced French mezzo-soprano, Battista Acquaviva, and the sama of Meknes whose rapturous polyphonic songs preserve some of the most beautiful Arabic poetry of Al-Andalus. Watching with me was patron, HRH Princess Lalla Hasna, sister of King Mohammed VI.

Mar 8, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Abigail Newton |Rob Crossan |Pippa de Bruyn |Paula Hardy

The low-cost airline thinks you should book a beach holiday to Dakhla in Western Sahara - and frankly, so do ITell people you are off on holiday to Ryanair's latest destination, Dakhla, and you will likely be met with confusion. "Where?" they will ask, with a tilt of the head.

Mar 8, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Jane Knight |Rob Crossan |Pippa de Bruyn |Paula Hardy

A luxury catamaran trip delivers access to off-the-beaten path areas of the islands, as well as a generous dose of French flairThe beach bars were buzzing at Anse Source d'Argent, probably the most photographed stretch of sand in the Seychelles. Bikini-wearing tourists danced to Bob Marley's reggae at one bar, while another pumped out Phil Collins's "Another day in Paradise".

Mar 7, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Rob Crossan |Pippa de Bruyn |Paula Hardy |Chris Moss

Home to mesmerising scenery and a dynamic capital, undiscovered Angola is now easier to explore than ever beforeHow much should you trust a country that has a machete on its flag? The sight of a long boarded-up cinema and the chain-link fence encircling the local government headquarters didn't fill me with ease. But just when you think Angola isn't a nation capable of beguiling tourists, something always comes along that stops you in your tracks.