Dispatches from the front lines of travel.

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• Dancing in Spanish: Flamenco in Seville Flamenco in its natural setting: Backstreet bars after midnight.
  Elisabeth Eaves Dec. 6, 2004
  
• Trying Really Hard To Like India Step 5: Actually liking stuff.
  Seth Stevenson Sept. 27, 2004
  
• Manchester, So Much To Answer For The Wigan Pier Experience celebrates the miserable way we were.
  June Thomas Aug. 30, 2004
  
• Sportsman's Paradise The French Grand Prix: My first—and last—Formula One race.
  Robert Weintraub July 5, 2004
  
• First Into Libya Fleeing the hot breath of the desert for Ghat and Tripoli.
  Richard Bangs June 7, 2004
  
• Brown Revisited Are magnet schools the modern equivalents of 40 acres and a mule?
  Matthew Polly May 3, 2004
  
• A Wine-Soaked Tour of Bordeaux A glutton in Paris.
  Mike Steinberger April 12, 2004
  
• Winter Travels in Samiland The stunning perfection of Sami handicraft and the wacky charm of joiking.
  Barbara Sjoholm Feb. 23, 2004
  
• Skiing the New Hampshire Primary In the snow with a Kerry surrogate.
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 19, 2004