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Oporto, Portugal

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Where: The rich and rugged Douro River meets the Atlantic ocean at Oporto, the headquarters of port production some 200 miles north of---and a world away from---Lisbon. Why: A skyline of weathered buildings stacked up the hilly Douro banks, handsome port-wine ...Read More »

Valley of the Oaks, California

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Where: The Valley of the Oaks lies on El Camino Real, the old King's Highway that once connected California's Spanish missions, west of King City, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Why: This isolated valley gives an idea of what ...Read More »

Media storm over Zambian plan for hotel

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A media storm apparently driven by South African 4X4 enthusiasts and an assortment of ill-informed "conservationists" has erupted over plans announced last year to build a hotel near the Mana Pools National Park in Zambia. Protea Hotels is conducting an official ...Read More »

Walking tour of London’s literary pubs

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Neither was a famous drinker, but it was in the company of Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf that the capital's first literary pub crawl set out from the Writers and Artists Bar in the basement of the Fitzroy Tavern (16 ...Read More »

World Cup price probe fails to find widespread gouging

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The Minister of Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, is satisfied that most accommodation establishments in South Africa are acting responsibly when it comes to pricing for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He has released the outcome of a survey commissioned by the ...Read More »

Paradise found: Cumbria’s Eden Valley

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We were peering through the glass-panelled front door of Whitbysteads farmhouse in the village of Askham, wondering if anyone was home, when Victoria Lowther appeared from a barn in the yard, with her daughter, two horses, two lurchers almost as ...Read More »

Another award for Pezula Spa

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Pezula Spa at Pezula Resort Hotel & Spa in Knysna has been named one of the top ten spas in the world in the Cond Nast Traveller 2010 Readers' Spa Awards. It was also named second best hotel spa in ...Read More »

Emma’s eccentric Britain: clay pigeon shooting in Northumberland

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Lance Strother is from interesting stock. His ancestors were mentioned by Chaucer and one of them, having sucked up to William the Conqueror, was gifted half of Northumberland. "Blimey," I say, "that's quite a present." Lance nods. "And as is so ...Read More »
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