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From Britpop fancy dress to dad-dancing at the school disco, cruise editor Marc Shoffman rolled back the years on this nostalgic sailing
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Natalie Wilson checks in to play nobility in Mdina and finds this hotel’s palatial suites and homegrown spreads speak for themselves
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Kentucky’s soul sits somewhere between a simmering pot, a smoking pit and an aging barrel of bourbon. Journey through the state’s most flavour-packed cities and traditions to find the dishes and people who make it unforgettable
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Every day, millions of passengers travel on trains where the only member of staff on board is in the driving seat
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On the latest offering from Princess Cruises, Marc Shoffman was dazzled by expansive panoramas and immersive performances
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Former high school language teacher Sharon Lane has read no less than 18 books since making an ‘investment in her life’. She tells Amelia Neath about moving aboard Villa Vie’s ‘Odyssey’ full time for a life at sea
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‘Driver-only operation’ disrupts schedule, with RMT union warning of industrial action
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Itineraries can vary from a week to more than 100 days, but which is the best?
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Exclusive: It’s the thought that counts, so think carefully before tying the recipient to a single airline
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Following a $50m revamp of the Pyramids and the opening of the GEM Museum, now is the ideal time to take to the Nile, as Bella Falk discovers on a 12-day cruise from Cairo to Aswan
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Emirates, British Airways, United and Qatar will soon (or already do) offer free internet at altitude
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The hot spot seemed the perfect place for Yuletide-loving royalists. But, as with the Eiffel Tower in Beijing and some of the most picturesque windmills in the Netherlands, there was much less to it than first met the eye ...
Name: Buckingham Palace Christmas market.
Age: Brand new this year.
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The cosy cabins, bike rides and serenity of De Alde Feanen national park make it the perfect place to switch off and unwind in winter
If there are times when the sights, smells and sounds of a new destination are best downed in a single, heady, flaming sambuca of a weekend, there are others when a more slow-drip pace is called for. Such is the case with De Alde Feanen, in Friesland. One of the most peaceful national parks in the Netherlands, this 4,000-hectare wetland slows down naturally after the summer season. Its waterways shrug off their summer flocks of kayakers, paddleboarders, boat trippers and terrace diners. Museums and galleries close. The local tourist office winds down. Even the park’s population of nesting storks fly south.
A 20-minute drive south-east of Leeuwarden, in the country’s north-east, the lakes, ponds, ditches and canals of “The Old Fens” are the remains of the peat-cutting that began there in the middle ages. Now awash with reeds, rushes and sedges, its watery habitats are richly biodiverse, home to more than 100 bird species as well as otters, pine martens, roe deer and dragonflies. Hay meadows and wetland forest add marsh thistle, reed orchids, alders and willows to the list. Ribboned with well-marked hiking and cycling trails, the proximity to nature draws spring and summer tourists but treasures can be found there in autumn and winter too; among them thousands of ducks and geese, and some of the starriest skies in the Netherlands.
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