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Letter from

Every week Guardian Weekly publishes a 'Letter from' from one of its readers from around the world. We welcome submissions, which should focus on giving our readers a clear sense of a place and its people. Please send submissions to weekly.letters
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21 October 2014

  • Etna and Catania

    Letter from Italy: a green oasis

    A plant-loving shopkeeper in Sicily’s Mascalucia keeps alive half a century of tradition

30 September 2014

  • chandigarh lake

    Letter from India: Le Corbusier’s modern city, reinvented

    Chandigarh’s spacious boulevards are being superseded by shopping malls, but the lake retains a nostalgic charm

23 September 2014

  • KOOKABURRA

    Letter from Australia: Point to point

    Relative isolation is no barrier to community in the small towns of rural Queensland

2 September 2014

  • Hector Vinent Charon

    Letter from Cuba: fight club

    Havana’s old-school boxing gyms offer a glimpse into Cuba’s soul as well as a path to recognition for their young pugilists

26 August 2014

  • downtown manhattan skyline

    Letter from the US: new New York

    A trip to one of the city’s new gastronomic attractions stimulates an appetite for the history of the Brooklyn riverfront

19 August 2014

  • An inukshuk at Whistler Olympic Park

    Letter from Canada: true north

    You either love or hate the pace of life in a remote Arctic community. Some love it so much that they move there twice

12 August 2014

  • Matalascanas beach Spain

    Letter from Spain: changing coast

    Once the place from which Columbus sailed for the new world, the Andalusian shore has lost its mystery

5 August 2014

  • Family on motorbike in Hanoi

    Letter from Vietnam: relatively speaking

    Strict Vietnamese language conventions can be hard to negotiate at large family gatherings, where age really matters

15 July 2014

  • Businessmen shake hands in front of jet

    Letter from Italy: artful amico

    Our writer doubts his memory when he fails to recognise an old acquaintance. But there's a twist

8 July 2014

  • Ostriches look camera

    Letter from Kenya: fast food

    A visit to an ostrich farm near Nairobi offers a close-up view of a bird second only to the cheetah for speed

10 June 2014

  • benin cotton field

    Letter from Benin: short-sighted

    All too often, spectacles are shunned by the needy but embraced by the vain

29 April 2014

  • almudena cemetery spain

    Letter from Spain: warm farewell

    A funeral held so soon after a death can seem impersonal, but in practice the rapid arrangements bring people back together

22 April 2014

  • Bellapais Abbey Cyprus

    Letter from Cyprus: across the divide

    Two elderly residents reminisce about the villages they had to leave when the island split into Turkish and Greek enclaves

1 April 2014

  • Hands Threshing Corn

    Letter from Botswana: amazing maize

    Mrs Kgosietsile arrives bearing bounty – the tasty white maize so hard to grow in this usually arid but now soaked region

11 March 2014

  • Jerusalem Western Wall

    Letter from Jerusalem: city swirl

    The rhythms, sights, sounds and smells of Jerusalem's Old City are centuries old

18 February 2014

  • Lago Nahuel Huap, Patagonia, Argentina

    Letter from Argentina: peso passion

    Despite the burgeoning Argentinian financial crisis, the wealthy can afford to be unconcerned – and aloof

11 February 2014

  • Horse carriage taxi, Santa Clara, Cuba.. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.

    Letter from Cuba: Che guayaba

    Alongside its historical importance to the revolution, Santa Clara possesses a laid-back charm

28 January 2014

  • samara city russia

    Letter from Russia: Back to basics in Samara

    The city does not offer the luxurious trimmings of modern life so residents have learned to survive on a reserve of stoicism

7 January 2014

  • tea coffee palestine

    Letter from Palestinian territories: charming oracle

    Shopkeeper Majdi offers gifts, guidance and advice to all comers – as long as they drink his coffee

10 December 2013

  • Stork in nest on minaret in Salé, Morocco

    Letter from Morocco: Saintly secrets

    If you don't like to shop, then shrines are the selling point in Rabat's quieter twin, Salé

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