It's not every day you see a nun hitch-hiking. But as we drive round a bend on a mountain road in Croatia there she is, thumb raised, expression hopeful.

Strong winds and waves delayed rescuers trying to save dozens of passengers after a ferry sank Sunday off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing four, officials said.

I am now in Hvar, Croatia. It's a little resort island about an hour's ferry ride away from Split.

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Vancouver British Columbia is a fabulous city which offers the best of all worlds to its visitors and citizens alike.

Known as the "city of the mango," Belem is a tropical wonderland. The city has about fifty five islands surrounding it; most of them are still wild and uninhabited.