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Eating fried crickets in Uganda, a cat stroking parlour in Tokyo, a Polish salt mine, a theatre in a toilet and an Austin Powers-style psychedelic happening in San Francisco... we've collected together some of your more unusual travel tips on Been there. So if you've been weirded, grossed or freaked out on your holidays, tell us about it and add to the madness...

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The Shoe Tree

Posted by manicminer 15 November 2005

A tree full of shoes. No, this hasn't been sanctioned by the powers that be - in fact, they've removed the shoes in the past. But still they keep appearing - and make for quite a surreal sight.

Armstrong Park, in Heaton. I'm not going to tell you exactly where as part of the fun of the shoe tree experience is finding it!