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1. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Graeme Green

   Transylvania beyond the spooky castles: a family adventure in Romania’s mountains (opens the original)

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   Forget the vampire tales – the Eastern Carpathians deliver dramatic peaks, roaming bears and deep solitude As the sun disappears behind the high tree line, our campfire spits and crackles. Four plump trout are sizzling on a flame-heated slab of rock, a cooking technique used by people in the Gurghiu mountains, part of Transylvania’s Eastern Carpathians, for centuries. Apart from gentle birdsong, it’s the only sound up here, 1,550 metres above sea level and far from any town or village. “

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2. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Graeme Green

   ‘They’re part of folklore’: storks return to Derbyshire after 600-year absence (opens the original)

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   Conservationists are thrilled at the arrival of three juvenile birds at Willington Wetlands, hoping more will follow A long orange beak poked curiously out from its wooden crate, followed by a sleek head and slender body. Then the first white stork of the morning flapped its wings and took to the air. Moments later a second emerged tentatively to stalk through the long grass, followed closely by a final sibling who stretched its wings and explored the length of the enclosure. The trio of juvenil

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