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Despite being hit hard by drought and the economy, Post, Texas, is still thriving in its own modest way. Bob Gosford travels there for brekkie.

Lonely Planet continues its global nomadism, with BBC selling up the travel giant to a reclusive US billionaire’s company. What next for the traveller’s bible?

This week the world’s spotlight was on Washington D.C., to watch the second inauguration of President Obama. Freelance journalist — and former local — Robert Baird dishes on the best secret spots in the Capital.

K Johnson rode through treacherous mountains in Georgia, with constant mini-avalanches and rain pouring down, in search of the town of Vardzia.

Traveller K Johnson takes a winding mountain road to the east of Piranshahr in Pakistan and attempts to cross the border into Iraq, but all does not go to plan…

It’s such a cliché to say a city is “sprawling”, but sometimes, it’s the only word. And when it comes to Wuhan, China, home of 10 million people and a whole lot of smog, sprawling seems appropriate, says Alexandra Patrikios.

William Jackson was determined to try a bag of Taiwan’s famous stinky tofu — but it smelt like he’d just slurped down a load from a baby’s nappy.

The bridge between the city of Rezina and the city of Ribnita is eerily silent. It is no man’s land, existing between the Republic of Moldova and the breakaway republic of Transnistria, writes traveller K Johnson.

Jeff Kennett and Peter Newman think creating a rail subway in Melbourne would be visionary, but it wouldn’t address the key factors that drive public transport demand, writes Alan Davies.

Lake Mungo and the Walls of China. An exotic, ineffable landscape of prehistory: here was Mungo Man, here was Mungo Lady. The endless plains of Mallee scrub. The glistening banks of the Darling. It called; we drove.

The Tjanpi Desert Weavers have a whimsical and very often funny approach to their art. More than a bit of that rubbed off on their northern counterparts, writes Bob Gosford.

Bouncing through the blackness on a dodgy road in the Czech Republic, fighting off fatigue and a cold, traveller K Johnson suddenly wondered: how did I get here?

“OK tour starts now” yelled a man with a thick Russian accent in a camouflage jumpsuit. Gas masks, AK-47s and nuclear blast proof doors defined K Johnson’s tour of an underground military complex in Moscow.

Stung by squadrons of horseflies and scorched by the Siberian sun, K Johnson hitchhiked to Perm-36 — the last camp of its kind from the Societ GULAG system.

Entering Nanjiecun, K Johnson encountered three things: space, order and quiet. Any of these three were hard to find in China but combined they evoked the feeling of an immense museum.

In Chongqing at the Dongtingxian Huogo, a restaurant located in a former bomb shelter, a hot broth bubbles, throwing up chillies and Sichuan peppers like damned souls in an eternal dance, writes K Johnson.

The second of three parts of a traditional Spanish bullfight has three banderilleros attempt to stab sharp sticks into the bull’s shoulders. From France, Bob Gosford photographed what happens when things don’t go to plan.