Crashing on the couch at 50

Crashing on random couches and offering futons to roving strangers are acts usually reserved for cash-strapped and wayward college-aged travellers...

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• Hospitality exchanges: Find a bed, make a friend
• Ride-sharing: the new hitchhiking
• Rent an island, and other moneysaving travel tips

The metropolis of Mumbai is best toured after dark

It's dusk when I arrive at Ballard Estates, and the grand colonial-era buildings cast faint shadows on cobblestone lanes illuminated by streetlamps. The...

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• From Mumbai to Cape Town by boat
• When in these cities, eat like the locals
• Bar-hopping in Mumbai
• Frommer's Guide to India

Antebellum beauty of Georgia transports visitors to past

When you think about it, there has to be something pretty impressive about a place that few people outside of Georgia have heard about but was once referred...

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• Headed to Augusta for the Masters? Here’s what you should know
• River from ‘70s book and film offers trails, waterfalls and rafting through three states
• Follow the trail of Stephen Foster, America’s first great composer
• Frommer's Guide to the USA

Soaring loonie benefits travellers

The Canadian dollar leaped Wednesday to its highest level in three years and Canadian travellers are taking advantage of the favourable exchange rate.

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• Travel companies warn of pinch from oil prices
• Canadian air passengers a step closer to U.S. law after bill passes
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Travel companies warn of pinch from oil prices

Travel companies warned on Wednesday that rising oil prices could hurt demand and squeeze margins in an industry already battling fierce competition, ...

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Tourists reach new beach frontier in Myanmar

Waves lap the vast sweep of pristine, palm-lined sands as a sprinkling of Westerners soak up the sun, their breezy peace punctuated only by the creaks...

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• Photo Gallery: On the beach in Myanmar

Germany reinvents itself as tourist magnet

More than 20 years after the Berlin Wall fell, Germany is pulling in tourists as never before, setting itself up as a serious rival to more established...

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