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Exploring Gandhi’s life in New Delhi This year marks the 70th anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination, and next year is the 150th of his birth – making it a good time to explore the sites in the Indian capital associated with the independence leader, says Tamara Hinson in The Independent. At Gandhi Smriti you can see the “simple bedroom” where he lived during his final months, and the spot in the garden where a right-wing Hindu nationalist shot him dead. The Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum has exhibits including information screens operated with levers shaped like Gandhi’s walking sticks; at the Charkha Museum you can see a collection of spinning wheels like those he used to protest against India’s dependence on British cloth; and enshrined in the sacred silence of the National Gandhi Museum are one of the bullets that killed him and the bloodstained dhoti in which he died. Urban Adventures’ three- to four-hour Gandhi tour costs £47pp (00 91 9717 107864, www.urbanadventures.com). A gourmet road trip in Italy It is a region often overlooked by visitors, yet Emilia-romagna produces many of Italy’s best-known delicacies. To try them, drive the Via Emilia, a Roman road connecting several of its loveliest cities, says Colin O’brien in The Guardian. In Piacenza, there are “perfumed” malvasia and gutturnio wines to enjoy, along with fabulous cured meats. Parma’s specialities – the ham and the cheese – need no introduction. Then comes Modena, famed for its balsamic vinegar (and also for Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana, twice voted the world’s best restaurant). Little-visited Bologna is justly described as Italy’s gastronomic capital. And in Rimini, where the road ends on the Adriatic coast, no end of “gaudy” beach bars and freshly caught fish await. Visit www.emiliaromagnaturismo.it/en.
A holistic Greek farm stay There can be few family holidays as relaxing for parents and as enjoyable for children as a retreat at the Re-green Eco-culture Centre in Greece, says Ben Westwood in The Times. Adults take yoga and t’ai chi classes and enjoy “blissful” massages at this farm set in the “dramatic forested hills” of the northern Peloponnese, while kids play outdoors, diving into the natural swimming “pond”, petting the donkey, and helping the volunteers who keep the place running with everything from wall building to crocheting. Founded in 2012, the centre aims to be self-sustaining with the aid of worm farms, solar heating and an everexpanding range of crops. Food is “mouthwatering”, and there’s beautiful walking and wild swimming all around. A week’s retreat
costs from s580 per adult and s290 per child (00 30 6948 407233, www.re-green.gr).