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A safari down under
At 5am it begins. First, a lone magpie goose starts to sound. Then, throughout the bush, birds echo the call of first light. At 6am, when the sky has turned a brilliant blue, we step into the airboat -- a vessel with an aircraft-type propeller on the back -- and speed off across the floodplains.
The great winter getaway
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Hidden London
They say that the only time Londoners talk to each other is when it's raining. "It's a day for ducks," shouts a man on Greyhound Road, and the people at the bus stop shake out their umbrellas and scowl at one another. On the tube, everybody seems preoccupied.
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That Disney fairytale is not so far, far away
I recently went to Disneyland Paris with my three children. It was quite the experience. We were there for two nights and three days. They had been there before with their mother, as day trippers from Paris. It was my first time.
Sunday? Then it must be Venezia
As our coach trundled along the autostrada on our day trip to Venice, I didn't feel much like a tourist; more like a stormtrooper in shorts and sandals.
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