Sooner or later, you’re going to visit Cape Town. South Africa’s oldest city is also, arguably, its most stunning, with a climate that beckons visitors year-round.
When the city’s grand Table Bay Hotel opened 18 years ago, Nelson Mandela made it official, lending it a cachet that carries on to
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Sooner or later, you’re going to visit Cape Town. South Africa’s oldest city is also, arguably, its most stunning, with a climate that beckons vi...
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Pedalling down Leon’s cobblestone streets at a considerable clip, my pedicab driver, Benjamin, starts singing romantic Spanish ballads to me. A...
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‘Edinburgh has the vibe of a big city but is tiny in terms of its scale,” says Dougal Sharp, founder of Innis & Gunn, a craft beer headquarter...
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Dispatches is a new series of first-person stories from the road. Readers can share their experiences, from the sublime to the strange. Travelli...
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After meeting in Bonn, Germany, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, has named more than dozen new s...
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Brady Starr is 2,490 metres above sea level, ready to scorch down a mountain ridge on his bike. Andy Brown is 10 metres above him, on the summi...
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The Weekend: Relive a bygone era in Boca Grande. On the tip of Gasparilla Island on Florida’s southwest coast sits Boca Grande, a tiny town w...
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Pedalling down Leon’s cobblestone streets at a considerable clip, my pedicab driver, Benjamin, starts singing romantic Spanish ballads to me. Apparently he’s got lungs as healthy as his calves, because I can barely sit straight on the seat as I slip around in my own sweat in the wilting Nicar
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Travelling around the world was always one of my dreams but, like most people, I was convinced I could not afford it.
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UNESCO adds dazzling new travel sites to its World Heritage list
After meeting in Bonn, Germany, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, has named more than dozen new sites to its World Heritage list in recent days.
Sites – which can be of cultural or natural significance – must be deemed by the committee (comprised
Mount 7: Bike, ski and fly all in one day on Golden, B.C.’s one-stop-adventure rock
Brady Starr is 2,490 metres above sea level, ready to scorch down a mountain ridge on his bike. Andy Brown is 10 metres above him, on the summit, gearing up to ski a strip of snow not far from Starr’s path. Peter MacLaren is paragliding above them both. A hang glider noodles around nearby.
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