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January 10, 2012 Comments OffEvery year, the National Geographic Traveler magazine compiles its pick of the top 20 travel destinations for the coming year.
Visiting India, Thailand and other places in Asia needn’t just be about getting the best cheap flights and spending two weeks sunning yourself in an exotic location. Consider exploring some of the area’s heritage too, and just as the huge St Peter’s Basilica in Moscow and Notre Dame de Paris have become huge tourist attractions, [...]
Image credit: Rowell Photography Ah, romance. Whether the word makes you want to curl up into a ball and roll off the nearest cliff or buy that special someone some form of praline-filled treat, you can’t deny, it’s out there, and it’s not going away. With this in mind, we thought we’d present to you, [...]
Dubai’s Burj Khalifa tower is the tallest structure ever built, and provides a fitting centrepiece to the Emirate with the largest population of the seven regions making up the United Arab Emirates. Completed in October 2009, the Burj Khalifa stands a towering 828 metres tall, and broke many more records besides being the tallest structure. [...]
It seems like every other day that facebook, or one of its applications, asks us a stupid question, like “Want to see who looks at your profile?” or “How many of these iconic 80s films have you seen?” But this quiz caught our eye, probably because it’s about a subject close to our hearts, the [...]
Dissatisfaction; it happens to the best of us. At one stage or another everyone you and pretty much everyone you know will have felt some sense of at best, discontent and at worst, misery. Whether you’ve lost your job, broken up with your beloved or just hit an invisible wall in your life, sometimes you [...]
For Christmas this year I am buying my parents a three month supply of vitamin B complex. Why you may ask? Well I’ll tell you….. It has been proposed that taking vitamin B complex (which includes B1, B2, B3, B6 and B12) can help prevent mosquito bites. My folks are off to Kerala early next [...]
Birthdays, Christmas, a cup of tea in the morning, a Full English after a heavy night – we all have rituals that we adhere to religiously. But we’ve come across some traditions are even odder than waiting for a fat bearded man to deliver wrapped gifts down your chimney while you wait next to an indoor [...]
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November 4, 2010 0Long queues, wailing kids, hawking street pedlars and overpriced tickets – these are the realities that await the eager but naive traveller sucked into an overrated, anticlimactic tourist trap. The problem with these great attractions is that every single inhabitant of the planet now wants to see them! So why not avoid the crowds with [...]
Admittedly, there are few of us who would turn down a luxurious sojourn filled with swanky hotel suites, glamorous restaurants and extravagant shopping sprees – but here at dealchecker we like to find out what lies beneath the sometimes glossy veneer of the places we visit! Visiting the indigenous peoples of a country can be [...]
“We’re used to horses and dogs making a valuable part of the UK police force, but that’s nothing compared to Sai Buri district in southern Thailand, where a pig-tailed macaque monkey named Santisuk regularly patrols the streets. Have the authorities gone bananas?” Hands up, I did find this week’s news story on a site called [...]
Today brought news that Saudi Arabian dream interpreter, Yusuf al-Harthy, plans to open an academy specialising in degrees and even PhDs in dreaming and visions; “Many of us would consider ourselves practiced in the art of day dreaming, but are you good enough to qualify for a PhD? If so you may be interested in [...]
We all know that you’re going to pay a premium when you travel to traditional romantic destinations like Paris and Venice. So, as Valentine’s Day approaches where should we be heading for the best-value romantic getaway?
I will happily admit to a minor obsession with visiting film locations – particularly the exotic beach ones. This year location was a central character in many of the Oscar-winning films so here is a round-up of the hottest destinations for your itinerary.
Pad Thai is a popular Thai dish which tastes best when bought from a street stall and shovelled into your mouth with chopsticks.
We all have things we can’t do without on holiday, a hairdryer, an MP3 player, a rubber duck alarm clock (don’t judge me), but any coffee addict knows that landing in a city that can’t make a good cup of coffee can spell disaster. So here is a round-the-world itinerary that will let you sip [...]
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