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Morairaway.com travel scandal: police probe British connection
A Spanish police investigation into a website which shut down after taking hundreds of bookings for phantom holiday villas is centring on a British-run company.

In search of Botswana's Kalahari bushmen
It’s my first night at Xaranna, a safari lodge on an island in the Okavango delta. We eat outdoors at a long table, as the shape of a hippo ploughs the moonlit water and tiny reed frogs make their xylophone music.

Ancient Athens comes to life
Last Saturday I stood under a stellar Athenian sky and absorbed a virgin view of the Parthenon. The Temple of Athena Parthenos â€" to give the Parthenon its full title â€" has become a symbol around the globe of a certain kind of civilisation.

Times Literary Walks: Daphne du Maurier's Cornwall
“We can never go back again, that much is certain,”wrote Daphne du Maurier in Rebecca, a novel that is nevertheless about returning (of the dead to the living and to the places where they still live), which has inspired legions of devoted readers to retrace Rebecca’s footsteps.

Q&A: the morairaway.com villa 'swindle'
What is the background to morairaway.com? It is a website that was set up nine months ago to sell "Holiday Villas and Apartments for Rental in Moraira, Costa Blanca, Javea, Denia (Spain)," according to its own website, which is now unavailable and 'Under Construction.'

Video: Frontier Airlines Sold
Soon, Frontier Airlines will no longer be its own company. The company has been bought out by Republic Airways. Until now, the company has flown below the radar. Karlyn Tilley reports.
Britons lose Spanish villa holidays as morairaway.com shuts down
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Bluestone: Wales's first five-star holiday park
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Bargains at America's lost baggage centre
It happens, as Alice Cooper will tell you, to the best of us.

Making Your Vacation Fido-Friendly

Making Your Vacation Fido-Friendly
Pet Expert Harrison Forbes Tells How To Prep Pooch, And You, For Bringing Your Canine Friend Along

Morocco: camels, kasbahs and kids
As the air turns fragrant with the smell of wild thyme, and we waft through little scent pockets of rosemary in the scrubland, we spy the perfect “baddie” hideout.

Britain's fastest train: you'd spill your coffee (if you could buy one)
It was not possible to carry out the coffee-spillage test as Britain’s fastest domestic train shot through the Kent countryside at 140mph.

Carnival time in St Lucia
Carnival is under way in St Lucia, adding vibrancy and a multitude of colours to this greenest of Caribbean islands. Parades are winding their way through the streets of the island’s towns and villages, and dozens of calypso, soca and steel bands are competing for the top prizes that will be awarded at the carnival’s climax over the weekend of July 18 and 19.

Video: A Look At Airline Safety
Transcripts reveal what Capt. Chesley Sullenberger said during the emergency landing in the Hudson River in January. Unfortunately not all pilots are as skilled. Nancy Cordes reports.
The best of the Great Ocean Road
The Great Ocean Road is unquestionably one of the great drives of the world. Stretching from the sleepy town of Torquay to the South Australian border, the road weaves along the southern coast of Victoria revealing breathtaking vistas and stunning landscapes.

Ryanair website shutdown
Ryanair plans to close its website for upgrade work, but passengers must still check in online or face a £40 charge.

Kayoga: the new holiday fitness craze
Damn, it’s hard to be alone these days. All I want is an hour’s glorious solitude to stretch and meditate and, suddenly, I’m surr­ounded by pelicans, sand­pipers and cormorants. As I tune out the birds and prepare to inhale, I’m interrupted by cavorting, showboating, cute-as-hell dolphins.

Turkey: saved by the Snake Queen in Mardin
Post offices are rarely gorgeous. But in the southern Turkish city of Mardin I found one that was. Housed in a 19th-century mansion, with yellow walls coloured, it is said, with saffron, Mardin post office, which doubles as a police station, overlooks the Mesopotamian Plain.

The complete guide to... St Kitts
St Kitts was one of those Caribbean islands that never really found its niche in the list of must-go-there tropical islands.

The best of jazz in Normandy
In an antique marquee with wood-panelling and mirrored walls in the town square of Coutances (pop. 9,000), British jazz musician Andy Sheppard is cooking up a storm. Next to him a Michelin-starred chef is â€" literally â€" cooking too.

Bloggers unite to beat London's tube strike
With two days notice of the London Underground stike, there has been time for the micro-blogging community and official transport bodies to react.

Avoiding Sneaky Airline Fees
Travel expert Peter Greenberg told of the newest ones being assessed, and explained how to keep your total tab down, on The Early Show.
Is this the best travel video of 2009?
Christoph Rehage came up with the idea of walking from China to Germany while studying cinematography in Beijing.

Through Kent by traina top day out
Fancy an old-fashioned, hale and hearty outing in the prettiest patch of the Kentish Weald, with chugging old trains, enchanted forests, village cricket and cream teas? Thought you might. We begin in Tunbridge Wells and we’ll be heading out to the village of Groombridge. Here’s the timetable â€" wind your pocket watch and don’t be late.

From Chile to Argentina on horseback
As I lay shivering â€" despite my thermals â€" in the sleeping bag, with my water bottle frozen solid outside the tent, cream slapped on the sorest parts of my body and listening to the wind as it whipped through the campsite blowing away the makeshift lavatories, I asked myself, not for the first time, why I had ever agreed to ride a horse from the Pacific coast of Chile to the Atlantic coast of Argentina in the first place.

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The Twitter Report: UK tourist boards
Mark Hodson is editor of 101 Holidays. Read his Twitter feed here.

Taking Sushi lessons in Japan
Like Britain, Japan is an island nation with a deep-rooted fishing tradition. But although we love our seaside cod (or, these days, pollock) and chips, the Japanese obsession with sea-life is in a different league.

How To Score Travel $avings Online

How To Score Travel $avings Online
Jaunted.com's editor at large shares high-tech ways to cut costs on airfare, restaurants and hotels.
Brighton's 10 best festivals
The curtain has come down on another superb Brighton Festival which takes place throughout May each year.