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Quiet breaks - Albany
03 February 3940In 1826, two years before the establishment of the Swan River Colony, the British sent Major Lockyer and a team of hopef...
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Witch hunting - Salem
03 February 3940Ironically, SALEM is remembered less as the site where the colony of Massachusetts was first established, with the most ...
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Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo
03 February 3940Most visitors to SANTO DOMINGO understandably make a beeline for the Zona Colonial , Santo Domingo's large, substantiall...
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Wonders - The Pyramids
03 February 3940The last of the Ancient seven wonders of the world still in existence, the Pyramids hold a fascinations for many as the ...
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The Cosmopolitan city of Nanjing
03 February 3940NANJING , formerly known in the West as Nanking, is one of China's greatest cities. Its very name, "Southern Capital", s...
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Los Angeles
03 February 3940The rambling metropolis of LOS ANGELES sprawls across the thousand square miles of a great desert basin, knitted togethe...
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Indian treasures - Udaipur
03 February 3940The valley of Oodipur, the most diversified and most romantic spot on the continent of India - Col. James Tod, Annals ...
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Beautiful North - Ottawa
03 February 3940The capital of the second biggest country on the planet, OTTAWA struggles with its reputation as a bureaucratic labyrint...
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Discover Britain - Wallace Monument
03 February 3940Two miles norrt of the city of Sterling, the Wallace monument rises some 220 feet out of the Abbey Craig. Completed in ...
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Peaceful Nicaragua
03 February 3940Wedge-shaped Nicaragua may be the largest country in Central America, but it is also one of the least visited. Even afte...
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The road to Paris - Bulogne
03 February 3940BOULOGNE is quite different from Dunkerque and Calais - recommendation in itself. It has long been an important harbour ...
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Vietnam - Buon me thout
03 February 3940Sited 160km west of Ninh Hoa, BUON ME THUOT is chiefly of interest for its outlying minority Ede villages of Tour and Ba...
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Summer sun - Los Cristianos
03 February 3940Once a sparsely populated rocky shoreline, the arid coast that stretches from PLAYA DE LAS AMÉRICAS and LOS CRISTIANOS i...
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London tourism set for speedy recovery
03 February 3940In the wake of the London Bombing last thursday, which killed 50 and left 700 dead, Tourism body Visit London is reporti...
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Fly away to Malibu
03 February 3940Malibu , at the top of the bay twenty miles north of Santa Monica, is a whole other world, its beach-colony houses owned...
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Egyptian treasures - Mersa Matrouh
03 February 3940Although MERSA MATROUH has grown phenomenally and sees itself as a sophisticated resort, it remains a hick town with don...
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Visiting Tucson, Arizona
03 February 3940After serving as a colonial outpost under the Spanish and Mexicans, and then as territorial capital for both the US and ...
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Coonawara wine reigion
03 February 3940Directly north of Mount Gambier, the Riddoch Highway heads through the Coonawarra wine region , and past some World Heri...
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ABC Islands
03 February 3940At the bottom of the Caribbean chain of islands, just north of Venezuela, lie Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , collectively ...
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Swimming with Sharks
03 February 3940In a recent survey, Swimming with sharks came up in the top 5 of the things people would most love to do on a dream holi...
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Kenya travel - Homa bay
03 February 3940At first glance a scruffy and unremarkable place, the small port town of HOMA BAY , the region's main centre and also a ...
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Hawaii - Spectacular
03 February 3940The islands of HAWAII , with their volcanoes , palm-fringed beaches , verdant valleys , glorious rainbows and awesome cl...
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Japanese treasures - Kobe
03 February 3940An historic port and distinct city in its own right, KOBE , the capital of Hyogo-ken, now seems more like the fashionabl...
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Kids love to cruise
03 February 3940If you're planning on taking the kids on holiday, this summer, you could do worse than to book a cruise. According to N...
