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Island shots from the Western Pacific

Pacific quest: The dive of a lifetime

When a BBC team was despatched to find new marine species in Micronesia, the trip gave Kate Humble the chance to dive in some of the world's most spectacular underwater environments
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'Winter in Spain' plans to revive tourism

For holiday makers Spain has long been the land of sun, sea and sangria. Now that trusty formula is wearing thin, and faced with an unprecedented drop in foreign visitors, Spanish tourism authorities are taking drastic action. The land of the Costa del Sol is being rebranded as a destination for those chillier months, under the counter-intuitive, if slightly uninspired, slogan "Winter in Spain".
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Inside Travel

Zoom collapse has left us high and dry

Friday, 29 August 2008

Thousands of Northern Ireland customers of low-budget airline Zoom are trying to recover their money after its collapse.
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Passengers grounded as Zoom halts flights

Friday, 29 August 2008

Northern Ireland travellers booked on flights with Zoom Airlines were last night dealt a blow as the company announced it has gone into administration.
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Aer Lingus plans sweeping cuts

Friday, 29 August 2008

Aer Lingus is preparing to introduce sweeping cost cutting measures after it reported soaring losses yesterday.
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Simon Calder: The man who skis all day

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Fear, for the inept skier, is frightfully easy to define: the moment of no return when physics collides with psychology. You are heading towards a tree or a precipice with too much speed and too little control.
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Dig deep: Cornwall mines its past for the future

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

South Crofty, an ancient and profitable mine for centuries, notched up an unwanted distinction in 1998: it became the last tin mine in Cornwall to close. Its demise wasn't because the underground lodes had been exhausted, but because the price of tin was massively undercut by overseas competitors.
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Hungary for Change

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Is this the ugliest building in the world? I stand, slack jawed, before the new Hungarian National Theatre. It squats on the banks of the Danube near the Pest end of the Lagymanyosi Bridge, a bloated toad of civic ambition gone horribly wrong.
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48 Hours in: Riga, Latvia

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Late summer is a lovely time to discover Latvia's capital, with space to appreciate the impressive architecture, as well as the city's cosmopolitan atmosphere. By Neil Taylor
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Ohio: The highs (and lows) of the world's fastest roller coaster

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

For the past 10 years, Cedar Point in Ohio has been voted best amusement park in the world. Ben Ross nervously samples the ups – and very fast downs – of America's 'Roller Coast'
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Airlines to install mobile phone service

Thursday, 21 August 2008

As mobile phones spread rapidly around the globe, there are few places left where it is possible to enjoy a peaceful moment away from them.
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Simon Calder: Our fears of flying are irrational: it's more dangerous to cycle

Thursday, 21 August 2008

Nothing that took place at Madrid yesterday will make us any less safe, and I write that as a traveller about to board a flight. Many things are wrong with flying but safety is not one of them.
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Weston's end of the pier show

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Spare a thought for Weston-super-Mare. Not only has the North Somerset resort had to contend with losing the greater part of its seafront centrepiece, the Grand Pier, to fire (for the second time in its 100-year history), but it has also had to suffer the indignity of its two other main attractions, the Tropicana open-air swimming pool complex and Birnbeck Pier, being unable to step into the breach, having been closed for several years.
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Emilia Romagna: they keep a welcome in these hillsides

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

She was born in Britain, but her roots are Italian. That's why top chef Angela Hartnett likes to regularly visit her grandmother's village in northern Italy. It's also home to some great food. Interview by Andy Lynes
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48 Hours in: La Rochelle, France

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Soaring stone towers and a historic port define this French Atlantic city. And now that there are fewer holidaymakers, you can also enjoy the Ile de Ré, says Mary Novakovich
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A touch of the Riviera in Croatia

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

The Croatian island of Hvar is being touted as a rival to the French Riviera. But the yachties haven't taken over completely. Author James Hopkin reveals its charms
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Hotel Of The Week: Ohtel, Wellington, New Zealand

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Although New Zealand is dead cool for the kind of traveller who enjoys dangling at the end of a bungee cord, nobody ever accused its cities of being hip. Ohtel, which opened this year in Wellington, the capital, aims to do something about that: it proclaims it is New Zealand's only designer boutique hotel.
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Vietnam: A moving story

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

War left it scarred, but now Vietnam is booming. Rory Ross encounters challenging gastronomy, military relics and chic hotels in a country where getting around means hopping on a scooter and hoping for the best
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Memphis: It took a town of losers to produce the King

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

By the time we got to the Zippin' Pippin it was midnight. My guide, Mike McCarthy, had led a ghost tour of Beale Street – a thoroughfare routinely described as the birthplace of the blues – which ended at the statue of the young Elvis Presley. Then, the real tour began.
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