- 'Sustainable' joint campus opens
- Clinic 'can boost IVF success rate'
- Cyclists in cancer charity ride
- Contamination found at nuclear site
- £24,000 fine for Legionnaires' case
- Olympic security test at Hampden
- Gun murder conviction appeal fails
- Scots 'devo-max' option highlighted
- Frew accused breaks down in dock
- House move costs up 69% over decade
- Two hurt in police car accident
- 'Scots should decide on referendum'
- Trump wants windfarm public inquiry
- Former Labour MP Eadie dies aged 91
- Pair hunted after armed bank raid
- Toddler death inquiry announced
- Salmond addresses sterling question
- Second man charged over car death
- Murder accused in blackmail claim
- Woman in court over assault claims
Travel
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
Travel: Rauris, Austria
MASTERING the art of snowboarding may be challenging, but this Austrian idyll is the perfect place to learn
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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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.
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.
City guide: San Francisco
SAN Francisco surely deserves its reputation as one of the US’s coolest, most cultured, sophisticated and laid-back destinations.
Travel: South America
South America has sun, scenery and culture, but book now ... the Mayans said the world ends in 2012
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Travel: Craigsanquhar House, Cupar
They think big at Craigsanquhar House in Cupar, the perfect base for golfers and wildlife watchers
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?”
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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Friday 27 January 2012
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