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Sydney's small bar scene takes off
For years, a night out in Sydney meant downing schooners at a huge, street-corner pub before hitting one of the gaudy mega-clubs in Kings Cross. Now, however, drinkers are turning their backs on...
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3 ways mobile will change the way we travel by 2015
Travelers want instantaneous information at their fingertips when they fly, and technology is quickly catching up to their expectations.Air travel technology specialist SITA has came out with a report...
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Where does the world’s best drinking water come from?
Though all eyes were on the Academy Awards show in Hollywood, another exciting ceremony was taking place in the United States last weekend -– the 23rd annual Berkeley Springs International Water...
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Sydney hotels: 7 stays for 7 types of travelers
When it comes to Sydney style and hospitality, there are heaps of hotels to choose from.Heritage, designer, swanky or boutique, they're all a quick leap from the city's best shopping, eating and party...
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Man overboard? Aussie tycoon insists 'Titanic II' a good idea
“You don’t back a horse called Striding Snail, you don’t name your boat Titanic II.”Sound advice from the 1996 Beautiful South tune, “Little Blue.”One man, however, seems hell bent on ignoring such...
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What a wonderful world -- 12 fabulous gardens
An amazing garden is more than just flowers.Case in point: history and botany mix with landscape design and architecture in these 12 fabulous gardens around the world.Butchart Gardens: British...
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Bear Grylls stars in latest Air New Zealand safety video
The Bear Essentials of Safety #airnzbearHot on the heels of the smart “Hobbit” in-flight safety message, Air New Zealand has done it again with its latest video that cleverly combines safety with...
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Cheap and cheerful skiing, Czech-style
Typical Bublava. Empty runs, great powder. The nagging dread of every parent who books an expensive “activity holiday” is that their child -- particularly if he or she is of the difficult, fussy...
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Insider Guide: Best of Cancún
Yes, Cancún's been fighting a Girls Gone Wild image for years, and it's true the Corona flows freely at bargain-rate all-inclusive hotels.But there's more to Mexico's Caribbean capital than wet...
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Pondicherry: India's brightest new travel star
India isn't known for being cool, calm and collected. So wandering along the seaside promenade at Pondicherry, I'm enjoying the unexpectedly quiet dignity of the place. The sea is lapping gently on my...
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Awamori: A guide to Okinawa's tropical drink of choice
Most drinkers are familiar in name at least with saké, the fermented “rice wine” so intimately associated with Japanese cuisine.The more adventurous may know its working-class cousin shochu, a...
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Sydney: Home to the world's biggest coffee snobs?
Syndeysiders are a sunny lot on the whole, friendly and helpful.Unless you a screw up their cappuccino.Sydney doesn't have a coffee culture -- it has a coffee cult.If dueling were still acceptable in...
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World’s tallest hotel opens in Dubai
The JW Marriott Marquis Dubai set a new record for world's tallest hotel at 355 meters (1,164 feet).At Dubai's newest hotel, an elevator ride is a journey in itself.The JW Marriott Marquis Dubai...
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Why the ‘white tax’ is perfectly acceptable
If there’s one thing guaranteed to get a white, middle-class expat coughing up phlegmy globs of vitriol in his adopted home, it’s the issue of dual pricing -- the infamous system that forces...
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Haute still hot: Asia’s 10 best restaurants named
A roar of applause erupted as Japanese chef Yoshihiro Narisawa was crowned the S. Pellegrino Best Restaurant in Asia at the inaugural Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants awards ceremony, held on Monday in...
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Island hopping in Sydney Harbour
The best way to absorb Sydney’s criminally fascinating history and culture without missing out on its great weather? Hop a ferry to one of its harbor islands. Cockatoo Island, Goat Island and Fort...
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Delta teases us with 'shower' that beats jet lag
Delta's photon shower promises to wash away your jet lag by dousing you in blue light. Offering hope for jet lag sufferers around the world, Delta airline put its funky new photon light shower on...
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Gallery: Amazing desert photographs taken by paraglider
Of all the bizarre hobbies out there, National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz's is probably the most obscure. And glorious. Steinmetz, 56, has spent the last 15 years paragliding over the...
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Worst American restaurants in Europe
Americans have been ruining foreign cuisine for years.One need look no further than the local Mexican stand to find a soggy taco or the corner delivery joint to find a disk of bread that only mildly...
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Berlin Wall could be history
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”Publicly delivered from West Berlin to then Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in June 1987, that brazen call came to symbolize the high point of Ronald...
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