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Leiden, city walk in the Netherlands

A home game, because Leiden is Paul Smit's home town. In this city walk fun shops, restaurants and cafes are reported on as well as cultural hot spots. The feature is enlivened with small historical vignettes. Leiden, where Rembrandt is born and has lived for 23 years, is easily the most beautiful city in the Netherlands, and after Amsterdam has the largest historical centre. This has attracted many antique shops, allowing the city to develop into a veritable magnet for lovers of all that is timeworn. Thanks to the presence of the country's largest university, Leiden is also effervescent with social events.

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Publication of the Month: An Alien in China > in KNACK WEEKEND (Belgium)

The Belgian magazine Knack Weekend was fascinated by the colour red, which nowhere you will see more often than in China, certainly around New Year. Red became the visual Leitmotiv of this feature about some lesser known regions of southern China. The alien from the title is photographer/journalist Mick Palarczyk; sometimes he felt like a visitor from outer space when he encountered people that had never seen a westerner before.

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Picture of the Month: Rasta man

How long did it take to grow all that hair?" Antillian Roland Joe, better known as Ras Bushman, smiles. "Already as a youth I wanted to be a Rastafarian. Since then no hairdresser was allowed to touch my scalp, of course." You can enjoy his hairdo in Philipsburg, on the island of St. Maarten, where he runs the vegetarian restaurant Freedom Fighters Ital Shack. All the food is home grown and tastes really good. Ras is a musician as well, but he has retired from the band Freedom Fighters he founded. His son has taken over. Often you hear their reggae sound coming out of the shack. (Photos Mick Palarczyk).

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These pictures are part of the feature Netherlands Antilles: Saba, St. Eustatius and St. Martin.