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Amanda Kendle

Top Attractions on Vancouver Island

September 4, 2009
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There are a huge number of things to do on Vancouver Island in British Colombia, and while lots of them are great for summer vacations, it’s a great place to visit all year round. Some of the key attractions include:

Visiting the Royal British Colombia Museum in Victoria – three galleries portray the history of British [...]

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Visit South Australia’s Kangaroo Island

August 28, 2009
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With a name like Kangaroo Island, you’d expect this place to be home to a decent number of those cute Australian hopping animals, and it is – in fact it has its own variety, aptly named the Kangaroo Island kangaroo!

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Book Review: The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World

August 18, 2009
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Susan Veness, author of The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World, has something in common with the author of another recent review, Mousejunkies. She also first visited Walt Disney World as a child, and also wasn’t properly captured by the magic until she returned as an adult.

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Book Review: Fun on Foot in New York

August 11, 2009
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Fun on Foot in New York, by Warwick and Nola Ford, has a long but informative subtitle: “The runners’ and walkers’ guide to New York City and its surrounds in New York State and New Jersey”. This basically sums up exactly what this book is about.
The introductory section of Fun on Foot gives useful background [...]

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Book Review: Night + Day Athens

August 4, 2009
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Pulse Guides recently started a Night + Day series of guide books and one of their first was Joyce-Ann Gatsoulis’s Night + Day Athens. The goal behind the Night + Day books, which are part of the Cool Cities Series, is to provide travelers with not only the typical daytime sights to see, but also [...]

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Traveling with children – Thought of Oaxaca, Mexico?

July 31, 2009

Traveling with children adds a whole extra dimension to the travel planning process. You have to think about the distances involved – no normal child enjoys spending too long in a plane or car – as well as the activities there that might entertain them, plus whether they will eat the food available, and so [...]

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Book Review: In Search of King Solomon’s Mines

July 28, 2009
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Travels through Africa tend to make for fascinating travel narratives because the depths of Africa are usually places that fewer of us get to – and for that reason alone Tahir Shah’s In Search of King Solomon’s Mines: A Quest in Ethiopia is already a great armchair travel story. The premise, too, is a great [...]

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Five Main Destinations in South Korea

July 24, 2009
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South Korea is a country full of contrasts – ancient history and culture and modern technology and high rise cities – and together with its relatively small size, it makes a great country to visit. The five most visited areas of South Korea are:

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Book Review: Mousejunkies!

July 21, 2009
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There are plenty of Disney World guides out there – and some people would argue that a theme park visitor doesn’t really need to read a whole guide book before a visit – but at least Bill Burke’s Mousejunkies! Tips, Tales and Tricks for a Disney World Fix makes the tips and tricks entertaining – [...]

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New Armrest to Solve Passenger Conflict on Planes

July 21, 2009
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I’m sure I’m not alone in this – you are trying to get comfortable in your seat on the plane, and the passenger next to you is hogging the armrest. You can’t even rest the edge of your arm there and get a whole lot less space than you deserve. Even worse, perhaps you’ve got [...]

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Italian Tourism: Sistine Chapel Opens Late, Mafia Shows You Around Naples

July 17, 2009
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When tourism starts to lag, it is time to get innovative, and it sounds like that is what Italy is doing right now. Suffering in a downturn in tourism – along with most of the world – thanks to the global financial crisis, the news this week features a couple of great ideas that might [...]

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Travel Japan with a Japan Rail Pass

July 17, 2009
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Japan isn’t a huge country, but it’s long and skinny, so there are often quite large distances between the cities you might want to visit. By far the best way to get around Japan quickly is to use the Japan Rail network, which includes the famous shinkansen or bullet trains, as well as other fast [...]

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Book Review: A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean

July 14, 2009
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A book with the Travelers’ Tales imprint is often a reliably good read, but just come across one that’s better than good – it’s one of the funniest books I’ve read in ages. Gary Buslik’s A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean, with its long but important subtitle, “A grump in paradise discovers that any place [...]

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Start Planning For Oktoberfest

July 13, 2009
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Every year, October races around so fast that many people I know who’ve been planning to make it to Munich, Germany for Oktoberfest discover they’ve left their planning to late again – so start making your bookings soon! Especially for beer lovers, there’s nothing like a trip to the beer tent on the Theresienwiese in [...]

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Ryanair Wants You To Stand and Fly

July 10, 2009

When you want to know what the future trends are likely to be for low cost carriers keen to make airline travel as profitable as possible (but still reasonably affordable for us travelers) then a good place to look is the British budget airline Ryanair. They are certainly becoming famous for devising ways to make [...]

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Book Review: The Shark God, in the South Pacific

July 8, 2009
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Melanesia is a part of the world that not many people get the opportunity to travel to, tucked away in the south-western corner of the Pacific Ocean near Australia – it’s a region including Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. From his childhood, author Charles Montgomery had exotic visions of Melanesia gained [...]

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Highlights from 2009 Rough Guides Catalog

June 30, 2009
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If you buy one of these travel guide books from Rough Guides, you can be at least reasonably sure that the information inside is not too far out of date, because they’ve all been published in the first half of 2009:

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Travel Inspired By Michael Jackson

June 26, 2009

The big news breaking across the world this week is, of course, that Michael Jackson has died unexpectedly at the age of 50. There aren’t too many corners of the world where Jackson wasn’t well-known; or you might be one of the one million people who bought tickets to the fifty sold-out concerts in London [...]

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Sightseeing in Moscow

June 26, 2009
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Moscow might be one of the most famous cities in the world, but it’s one that’s only just becoming a mainstream tourist destination. It has built a reputation for being expensive to visit, with especially high accommodation costs, but there are so many interesting and famous sights to see that it’s worth saving up for. [...]

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Arabian Airpass Takes You Around the Middle East

June 25, 2009
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Ever-expanding airline Emirates has made its main hub of Dubai an increasingly popular stopover point for long-haul journeys between many continents. Now that Dubai is starting to become a recognized destination of its own, it seems that Emirates is ready to cash in on its routes to other countries in the Middle East region and [...]

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Getting On Top of Sydney Harbour Bridge

June 24, 2009
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One of the most iconic symbols of Australia, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is not only a functional traffic and pedestrian bridge crossing one of the world’s most beautiful harbors – it’s also becoming a classic tourist experience for visitors who want to get a different view of Sydney by getting right to the top of [...]

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Book Review: Ray Mears Goes Walkabout

June 23, 2009
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British bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears is probably one of the most appropriate people to write a book about wandering through the Australian outback, and his book Ray Mears Goes Walkabout was published recently to accompany a BBC TV series of the same name.

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New Ways For Planes to Fly

June 19, 2009

While there’s something about flying on a tried and tested plane that makes me feel a lot more comfortable about traveling, it’s also reassuring to know that there are plenty of new ideas to improve the way we travel – both to make it faster, more comfortable and safer for us, and to make it [...]

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Highlights of a Tokyo Trip

June 19, 2009
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Any place you visit in Japan offers you a mix of traditional Japanese culture and modern hi-tech Japan, and the capital city of Tokyo offers perhaps the most interesting mix of all – plus even if you can’t speak Japanese, you’re bound to find locals who will bend over backwards to help you out and [...]

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Visiting the Palace of Versailles

June 18, 2009
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Visiting Paris doesn’t just mean checking out the Eiffel Tower or marvelling at paintings and sculptures in the Louvre. Probably equally well-known, and just a dozen miles or so out of downtown Paris, you’ll find the Palace of Versailles, and it’s definitely worth a visit.

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Book Review: Sing, and Don’t Cry: A Mexican Journal

June 16, 2009
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Sing, and Don’t Cry: A Mexican Journal by Australian writer Cate Kennedy is the kind of travel narrative that will interest you deeply, but either make you want to run off to an exotic location as a volunteer, or stay firmly forever at home.

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iPhone Travel Lets You Visit Gallery From Home

June 12, 2009

Just a few weeks ago we featured some of the best art galleries of London with the National Gallery coming in at the top of the list. It’s a gallery that dates back to 1824 and includes paintings from many of the most famous artists you could list: van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt and Monet among [...]

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Visit Mont Saint Michel in France

June 11, 2009
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Mont Saint Michel is the kind of place that many of us have seen photographs of without realizing where or what it is – but it’s also a place well worth visiting. Found on the northern coast of France, less than a mile offshore, this island and its castle-like abbey have that fairytale quality of [...]

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Book Review: One Planet from Lonely Planet

June 9, 2009
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The old adage that says a picture is worth a thousand words seems to hold true especially well for travel. Browsing through Lonely Planet’s One Planet: Inspirational Travel Photographs, a collection of some of the best photos from the Lonely Planet Images Library, will give you plenty of inspiration for your future travels; alternatively, you [...]

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Everyone’s Complaining About Air Travel

June 5, 2009
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For most people, time spent on an airplane is time that’s just necessary to get from A to B, either so they can start a vacation, meet some business colleagues or simply go home – in other words, most people don’t enjoy it too much. Several surveys released this week seem to point to the [...]

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