This is Swansea: Travel

Nature trail with comforts of home

Friday, January 02, 2009

IT'S 9pm, it's pitch black and freezing outside. It may sound like pure madness, but I'm running like a small kid, while clutching the hands of two of them, down to the pool area called the Plaza. It can only mean one thing: yes, we're in Center Parcs. And, cold, or not, I...

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Joining the Nile High Club

Friday, January 02, 2009

THE EgyptAir cabin crew, dressed in salmon pink uniforms, are finishing their trolley service. Outside, below a cloudless sky, the desert...

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Tradition is kept alive by hunters

Thursday, January 01, 2009

FOX-hunters turned out in force in Pontlliw on New Year's Day to keep the tradition going. The Banwen Hunt saw between 20 and 30 riders with...

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Film territory offers plenty

Friday, December 26, 2008

COUNTING the tourists has never been an exhausting business in the vast Northern Territory area of Australia — but that could be about to...

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H'away the lads to city of lights

Friday, December 19, 2008

IT was take-off from Cardiff International Airport — it is always nice not to have to travel too far just to get in the air — and a...

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Rally cars pit stop at city garage

Monday, December 01, 2008

RALLY fans can have a look behind the scenes on Wednesday when the scrutineering of entrants for the 2008 Wales Rally GB takes place on...

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In the footsteps of the ancients

Friday, November 28, 2008

OUR meal, at a charming hotel in the foothills of Mount Etna, had barely begun when an almighty bang and a rumble outside sent us scuttling out...

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Mas Carnival facing crisis over funding

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

THE party could be over for Swansea MAS Carnival. Organisers of the popular August bank holiday event say they fear for its future because...

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Soaking up luxury in Bath

Friday, November 21, 2008

THE city of Bath was last on my radar as the venue of a rather momentous event. For no particular reason, I had chosen it as the setting for my...

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Take a break in Holland's hidden gem!

Friday, November 21, 2008

SHE'S small, she's cute and she's one of the Dutch city of Utrecht's most famous exports. Miffy, or Nijntje, as she is known in her native...

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