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Beaver Creek. Colorado USA

Travel: Beaver Creek, Colorado

With vast, nearly deserted runs, excellent ski schools and an adrenaline rush for those who want it, Beaver Creek in Colorado has more family-friendly attractions than you can shake a stick at writes Richard Bath

Rauris - Austria. Pictured is the ski slopes on the Hochalm mountain. 22nd - 29th January 2011. Picture by JANE BARLOW

Travel: Rauris, Austria

MASTERING the art of snowboarding may be challenging, but this Austrian idyll is the perfect place to learn

Brussels, Belgium. (Photo By Mark Renders/Getty Images)

Travel: Brussels

ART lovers and collectors will be bidding to indulge their passions at Brussels’ annual antique fair

Scottish hotels struggling as travellers cut their costs

SOME Scottish hoteliers are struggling to stay in business because of the economic downturn, according to new figures.

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Coco Ocean Resort, Gambia

Travel: Gambia

THINGS started slowing on the ‘M1’. Up ahead I spotted the hold-up - a local bus with four goats strapped to the roof.

La Rochelle's aquarium contains 1.5 million litres of water and 10,000 native sea creatures. Below, the city's Vieux Port

Travel: La Rochelle, France

IT IS late September and La Rochelle’s Vieux Port, one of the most photographed harbours on the Atlantic coast, is basking in the last of the summer sun. Its quayside restaurant and café terraces are packed.

San Francisco has a wide variety of activities and pursuits, and the best way to sightsee is by bike

City guide: San Francisco

SAN Francisco surely deserves its reputation as one of the US’s coolest, most cultured, sophisticated and laid-back destinations.

San Francisco has a wide variety of activities and pursuits, and the best way to sightsee is by bike

Travel: South America

South America has sun, scenery and culture, but book now ... the Mayans said the world ends in 2012

The Wallace Monument as viewed from above. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Travel: Kippen

The William Wallace story looms over a weekend break in Kippen

Travel: Florence

AS YOU exit Florence’s central train station, the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella rises up in front of you. It’s one of the city’s most imposing monuments, visited by thousands of people each year for the artworks inside.

Travel: Marrakech

AS THE Arab Spring’s winds of change blew across across north Africa, toppling regimes in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, Morocco seemed immune when we escaped a snow-bound Edinburgh for a blast of winter sun last February.

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Cumberland Street Mews

Travel: Cumberland Mews, Edinburgh

A TRIP to the capital is always fun, but once you start to add up hotel costs it can all get a little pricey. Especially if you want to stay in the city centre and hit the shops.

City guide: Cape Town

CAPE town’s varied past is alive and kicking on the streets and in the people, the buildings and food on sale.

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China's economic growth has slowed to its slowest rate in two years in the closing months of 2011. Picture: Getty

Travel: Beijing

Sunday night at the Workers’ Stadium – or, if you want to be pedantic, in the empty car park outside. Passers-by on the main road to the Sanlintun bar district a couple of miles north-east of Beijing’s Forbidden City can hear the music even above the cacophony of the evening traffic.

La Reserva Geneve

Travel: Geneva

There’s nothing I enjoy more than being spoiled, so when an opportunity arose to experience La Reserve’s Better-Ageing Spa Programme, I elbowed my way to the front of the queue.

The Beatles Story Exhibition. Photo credit: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

City guide: Liverpool

Wednesday, 4pm Check into the Hotel Indigo (10 Chapel Street, www.hotelindigoliverpool.co.uk), a new “boutique” establishment which celebrates the city’s cotton heritage.

Monument Valley in Arizona

Travel: Arizona and Nevada

‘First time in Vegas ma’am?” the taxi driver deduced from my dazed expression.

Despite having seen this neon wonderland in countless movies and television shows, I still wasn’t quite prepared for ‘the strip’ in the flesh, especially after a 12-hour flight from the UK.

Travel: The Saar-Hunsruck trail, Germany

WINE may rejoice the heart of man, to quote Goethe, but there are times when only a cold beer will cut it.

The bistro area and below, one of the rooms

Hotel review: Hotel du vin & bistro, Edinburgh

WHEN winter exhales its icy breath over Edinburgh, there are few things more appealing than an old-fashioned leather armchair, a roaring fire and a selection of whiskies and wines so extensive it would take several seasons to work your way through them. The Edinburgh branch of Hotel du Vin is made for this time of year.

Craigsanquhar House Hotel in Cupar, Fife

Travel: Craigsanquhar House, Cupar

They think big at Craigsanquhar House in Cupar, the perfect base for golfers and wildlife watchers

Coastal scenery along the Cabot Trail at Cap LeMoine

Travel: Nova Scotia, Canada

The first question Cape Bretons ask when you arrive in this remote but rather gorgeous bit of Canada is: “What’s your father’s name?”

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Looking ahead to 2012: Lifestyle

WITH budget travellers the world over already enjoying the benefits of couch surfing and glamping, it seemed inevitable that the two phenomenons would eventually combine. 2012 is set to become the year of garden renting, following the launch of the first website advertising privately owned gardens as micro-camp sites: . {http://www.campinmygarden.com.campinmygarden.com.campinmygarden.com}

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