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Never fear]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1775225</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1775237.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1774745</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:01:55 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[French tourists are world's worst: survey]]></title><description><![CDATA[French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as bad at foreign languages, tight-fisted and arrogant, according to a survey of 4,500 hotel owners across the world]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1774745</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1774760.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1774615</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:01:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Linger amid the magic of the Magdalen Islands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Suddenly, the little Dash 8 I’m aboard is being thrown around like a thong in a drier. Must be the tail end of hurricane Ike. My fellow passengers nervously strangle their armrests. Silence reigns. Only the flight attendant remains calm. I search her eyes for signs of well-disguised terror. There are none]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1774615</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1774621.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1771288</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Live it up in London for less]]></title><description><![CDATA[London may have offered writer Samuel Johnson “all that life can afford,” but 300 years later, it is the most expensive city in the world to visit]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1771288</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1771294.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1768034</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:01:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Escape to Acadia and a fiddler's green frozen in time]]></title><description><![CDATA[With fiddle music in the background and Acadian performers dancing up a storm, history is enlivened with a rhythmic step. 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Fear not, because experts say finding a cure is easier than you think]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1748150</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1748156.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1748259</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:01:48 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[An orca odyssey off Vancouver Island]]></title><description><![CDATA['Orcas!' I said. Lexie and Caleb, our Sea Kayak Adventures guides, were asking me and seven others about our overall objective for a six-day kayaking trip. My co-paddlers and I were attending a night-before, planning-and-get-to-know-each-other session at the Haida-Way Inn in Port McNeill on the northeastern tip of Vancouver Island]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1748259</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1748260.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1737101</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:17:58 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Enter the Grandragons: Fighting off old age with an oar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada’s baby boomers are lacing up their hiking boots, strapping on their bike helmets and paddling their way to a healthier lifestyle in Canada’s great outdoors]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1737101</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1737116.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1729055</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:01:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Wandering Italy's garden paradise]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was so nice to get out of the work loop and go travelling to Italy for a few weeks. When I die and God asks, 'How was your life?' I will reply, 'Wonderful.' And if He asks, 'Could I have done anything better?' I’ll say, 'Well, next time could I be born Italian?']]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1729055</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1729057.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1725357</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:01:30 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Going off-road on a Rocky Mountain bike tour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Five men from California, Colorado, Connecticut and New York, plus Peter Weiland, our tour guide and support van driver and Dieter, his father/tour assistant, and I were travelling from Banff to Jasper, from where, the following morning, we would begin our five-day, 300-kilometre Icefields Parkway cycling adventure]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1725357</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1725360.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1725131</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:01:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Randy Bachman's rockin' vacation tales of summers past]]></title><description><![CDATA[Randy Bachman is a legend on the international music scene with more than 120 gold and platinum awards, and record sales of over 40 million. Collaborating with another (Canadian) music legend, Burton Cummings, Bachman created smash hits, These Eyes, Laughing, No Time, No Sugar Tonight, Clap for the Wolfman and the classic rock radio staple American Woman]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1725131</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1725138.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1721038</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:01:40 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Turning lenses on St. Lucia]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you’re going be a flasher, you may as well do it on a sexy beach in St. Lucia. That’s the thinking behind a week-long photography workshop that takes place on the island from July 5 to 12]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1721038</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1721044.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1714229</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:01:48 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[The Insider's Guide: A power couple's guide to Calgary and Edmonton]]></title><description><![CDATA[She’s in Calgary. He’s in Edmonton. Here’s where they go when they’re together]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1714229</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1714243.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1706023</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:01:35 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[For the real Thailand, head into the mountains]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s dawn and the mountain mists are shifting, mixing with my cold-cloud breaths as I huddle near the fire and clutch a cup of steaming tea in a bamboo-pole cup. Below me, down a steep hill, weak sunlight glints off the tin roofs of the bamboo-pole houses. A gibbon calls. Roosters crow]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1706023</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1706042.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1702239</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:01:27 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Livin' large in La-La Land — on a budget]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amid the bright lights and star-struck tourists, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement and glamour of rock ’n’ roll’s most famous street — the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Bars, nightclubs, shops and restaurants line the road, practically throbbing with out-of-towners eager to spend their money. That is, if there is money to be spent]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1702239</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1702316.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1682838</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:01:43 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Go Swiss for a little bliss and history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Einsiedeln Abbey, a big, beautiful palace, opens its arms — two semicircular arcades — to embody the phrase Mother Church. As did many other abbeys, it began as the hermitage of a monk, Meinrad, who settled in this part of central Switzerland in 835. In 861, two robbers killed him for his supposed treasures. Meinrad’s tame ravens followed the robbers to Zurich, drew attention with their screeching, and the robbers were caught. The birds are commemorated in the abbey’s shield and the town’s flag: two black ravens on a red field]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1682838</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1682841.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1678813</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:01:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[South Korea's Incheon tops list of world's best airports]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea's Incheon International Airport was voted the best in the world for 2009 in an annual survey dominated by Asian airports]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1678813</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1678812.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1667350</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:01:39 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Dublin and Belfast: The trail of two cities]]></title><description><![CDATA[The two biggest cities on the island of Ireland, located just 165 kilometres apart, couldn’t be more different]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1667350</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1667874.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1667889</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:01:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Corpulence at 35,000 feet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The issue of overweight passengers using more than one seat is far from resolved]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1667889</link></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1667885</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:30:28 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[NP Traveller Podcast: Are We There Yet?]]></title><description><![CDATA[NP Traveller Podcast: Are We There Yet?]]></description><link>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/06/06/np-traveller-podcast-are-we-there-yet.aspx</link></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1659722</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:02:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Hiking Mount St. Hilaire]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m sure I’m not the only person in Quebec who has looked up at Mount St. Hilaire while driving along Highway 20 and given it an admiring second glance.
The mountain has a such muscular quality to it. Those bald rock outcrops that burst through the dense green foliage on the north face look like rippling biceps]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1659722</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1659729.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1655028</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:01:51 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Camping gear 101: From tent poles to marshmallows]]></title><description><![CDATA[The basics are a tent, sleeping gear and cooking equipment. You’ve also got to think of food and water, lighting and ways of carrying or storing all of the above. That’s a lot to buy, but you can rent most of the gear, says Mark Stanley of Trailhead in Ottawa]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1655028</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1655034.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1636510</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 23:01:45 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Two-wheel touring: the best of New York's 320km bike network]]></title><description><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzgerald loved Manhattan. In The Great Gatsby, he described its “first wild promise of all the mystery and all the beauty in the world,” when viewed from the Queensboro Bridge. Chances are Fitzgerald wasn’t crossing the Queensboro on a bike when he wrote those words. With 30,000 other cyclists. In the pouring rain]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1636510</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1636511.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1635765</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 18:01:51 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Riding the rails with the kids across Canada — history lessons included]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our summer travel plans of a cross-Canada train trip with our two young children did not evoke the kind of response we had anticipated when we shared the news with family and friends. The reaction was mostly one of suppressed shock]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1635765</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1635773.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1632506</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 21:01:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Dropping anchor in Halifax]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was early Saturday morning late last fall. I was on one of my twice-annual trips to Halifax to visit my eldest son, a second year political-science student at Dalhousie University. To be sure, I love the lad, and miss him, but truth be, there are other reasons for visits. I have a deep weakness for the city of Halifax, its rich history, its colourful architecture, and increasingly, its welcoming restaurants and other fertile grazing spots]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1632506</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1632551.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1613626</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 22:02:08 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[A cyclist's paradise in southwestern Quebec]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was relaxing in this town west of Montreal, sipping a coffee in the dining room of a new hotel barge catering to cyclists, when the thought occurred to me. I’ve probably seen more cyclists than cows on the outskirts of metropolitan Montreal over the past two years, while researching stories for my travel series]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1613626</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1613631.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1600952</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 20:01:49 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Next hot tourist spot: Afghanistan?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Only the hardiest, or foolhardiest, of tourists make it to Afghanistan these days. News of suicide attacks, kidnappings and the resurgent Taliban have eclipsed the desire among any but the most intrepid travelers to see the stunning vistas and archaeological treasures that once drew visitors here each year. Tourist have been an exotic sight in Afghanistan for years, but residents of a peaceful valley nestled in the heart of the country are hoping to revive a trade they see as their best hope of an escape from grinding poverty]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1600952</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1600967.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1577917</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 21:02:11 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Camden: Neither prim nor proper]]></title><description><![CDATA[Camden Town is a London that’s a world away from Harrods]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1577917</link></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1577921</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 22:02:53 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[‘We have Obama fries!’]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's one name you'll see all across Africa: Obama]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1577921</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1577926.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1573945</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 22:02:16 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Go for the free beer, stay for the story of three fired guys]]></title><description><![CDATA[Free beer. Now there’s a tempting proposition on a hot day — or even a cold one. At Steam Whistle Brewery in Toronto, you get two eight-ounce glasses of their premium Pilsner just for walking in off the street — and you don’t even have to take the brewery tour]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1573945</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1573957.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1570128</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:01:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Follow the footsteps of North American history to Vermont]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hard on the heels of Quebec City’s 400th anniversary celebrations last year, the states of New York and Vermont are continuing the party with a series of yearlong festivities commemorating the explorations of Samuel de Champlain of Lake Champlain and Henry Hudson of the Hudson River and New York Harbour]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1570128</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1570132.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1554777</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 20:33:22 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[NP Traveller Podcast: A tour to Moscow's 'underground planet']]></title><description><![CDATA[This week on the podcast, we talk to anti-tourism travel writer Daniel Kalder about life under Moscow]]></description><link>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/05/01/np-traveller-podcast-anti-tourism-underground-planets-and-women-s-health.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1554777.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1566453</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:01:51 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Hang your cowboy hat at a Texas B&B]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pity the poor hummingbirds fighting for a spot at the bird feeder. Watching, I couldn’t help feeling a little guilty as I sipped my morning coffee and tucked into the home-baked pumpkin cake still warm from the oven. I suddenly appreciated that spring-bound vacationers to Texas like myself are spared such inconveniences on our flights down here.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1566453</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1566455.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1554406</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:01:47 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Best foot forward in Crete's Samaria Gorge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hiking the Samaria Gorge is grueling, majestic, impressive and unforgettable]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1554406</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1554613.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1546554</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:01:48 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Amsterdam's brothels make way for artist studios in red light district makeover]]></title><description><![CDATA[Red lights still glow in the small rooms along one of Amsterdam's inner city alleys, but the beds are gone and artists are working on creative installations where prostitutes used to entertain clients]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1546554</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1546567.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1542437</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:01:54 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Disneyland: The kids will probably like it, too]]></title><description><![CDATA[When my adventurous eight-year-old resorted to a sympathetic pep talk to convince me to ride Disneyland’s Space Mountain with him, the role-reversal was too embarrassing to refuse. On that magical, starlit, pleasantly disorienting plunge, with my son holding my hand, I had my Disneyland moment: the thrill of a great ride shared with an ecstatic child.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1542437</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1542438.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1522548</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:01:57 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Human powered holidays]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adventurers have punished their minds and bodies on human-powered odysseys for centuries. Every week, it seems another modern-day Thor Heyerdahl or Jacques Cousteau embarks on a feat that most of us can’t even fathom, and often for the fame that comes with success]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1522548</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1522567.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1507258</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:02:20 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Finally, he rests in peace]]></title><description><![CDATA[A visit to the tomb of Job, the Bible’s most sorely tested prophet]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1507258</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1507259.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1507975</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:02:03 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Cycling along the Iron Curtain Trail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, a project to convert the former "death strip" into a cycling path is picking up speed]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1507975</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1507974.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1496160</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:02:03 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Small-town Texas: Meat, music and mayhem]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Laredo to El Paso, the geography of Texas has always provided a powerful lexicon for country and western lyrics. However, when Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson rocketed the song Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) to the top of the charts, the hit made this Texas ghost town more than just another signpost on the state’s musical highway.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1496160</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1496168.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1482628</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:02:03 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Peace and sunshine are only a Mexican island away]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine slinging your carry-on bag over a shoulder, walking out of the airport into the Caribbean heat and seamlessly connecting with your pre-arranged private van for a hassle-free drive to the ferry terminal. You slip onto the express boat and find a seat on the upper deck so that you can feel the saltwater spray and stare at the tropical sky.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1482628</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1482631.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1482517</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:01:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Five stellar reasons to sail to Alaska]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin will tell you that from the port hole of a cruise ship in Alaskan waters you can see Russia. A bit of an exaggeration but, let me tell you, the views of mountains, sea and bergs are spectacular, making an Alaska cruise one of the top coastal voyages in the world.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1482517</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1482521.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1470195</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:02:08 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Beach dreamin' on northern shores]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the weather (slowly) gets warmer and vacation season fast approaches, going on a family get away to a resort down south may not be an option during these dark economic days. But spending a hot afternoon lounging on the beach, surfing on thunderous waves, or swimming in freshwater lakes is not out of the question, as Canada is home to many of the most beautiful and unique beaches in the world.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1470195</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1470196.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1462026</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:02:29 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Lost in translation: Say it like you mean it the way they mean it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The weird sentences travel phrasebooks think you might need]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1462026</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1462031.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1448596</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:01:55 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Visiting Spain: Vicky, Cristina — and you!]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Woody Allen's movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the director created an onscreen love triangle between beautiful actors bathed in the golden light of Barcelona, Spain's Catalan capital. But just as seductive was his love letter to the city itself.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1448596</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1448603.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1431349</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:02:23 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Getting lost in Venice's web of history]]></title><description><![CDATA[What Italian town has 10 times more leaning towers than Pisa? Hint: The buildings grow shorter every year. Second hint: It is the only tourist town that encourages wearing rubber boots]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1431349</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1431354.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1423591</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:46:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Saving money by heading to the spa]]></title><description><![CDATA[The spa industry may seem to be endangered in this time of financial turmoil. But hold on to your terry slippers and robe]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1423591</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1423598.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1399273</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:01:54 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[A rite of sweet spring passage]]></title><description><![CDATA[The sky was deeply blue, the snow purest white and the crisp chill of the air, scented with woodsmoke, whetted appetites we had been honing all morning. Late winter in the Quebec woods, and the fancies of young and old turn sharply to thoughts of sugar shacks and maple-soaked platters of plenty.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1399273</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1399275.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1387091</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:02:01 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[The Crowdless Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Canadian couple who have organized luxury travel tours for billionaires and movie stars say that despite the global financial meltdown, they’re expecting to double their business in 2009. Their France-based company, Hamilton Fitzjames, creates custom-designed trips that specialize in taking the wealthy museum donors to North America’s finest art institutions to Europe, the Americas and Asia]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1387091</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1387090.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1387084</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:02:27 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Call it a traffic chutney]]></title><description><![CDATA[The highway out of Delhi looks like it has a rash. What is this stuff? It’s smashed-up watermelons from a truck littering the road. 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as a foreigner. Even my travelling through cities alone was
regarded, by most of the expats I spoke to, as somewhat insane. To
cross the mountains of central Afghanistan by van and truck was a
voyage that not even my Afghan friends in Kabul would consider. Yet
as scared as I was, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to see the
remote interior firsthand.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1095101</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1095378.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1311934</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:02:14 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Will work for travel: The charm of the farm]]></title><description><![CDATA[These vacations offer free room and board in exchange for your agricultural labour]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1311934</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1311939.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1312272</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:02:09 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Break bread, not your budget]]></title><description><![CDATA[The best way to eat like a local is to eat with a local. These groups help you do that]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1312272</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1311946.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1303014</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:02:11 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Odysseys: Retrace the world's greatest treks]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the help of some adventuresome adventure tour companies, anyone can retrace some of the world's most famous journeys]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1303014</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1303011.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1287872</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:59:18 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[NP Traveller Podcast: See L.A. like Tom Waits]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the latest travel podcast, Brad Frenette speaks to the operators of LA's best bus tours]]></description><link>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/02/13/np-traveller-podcast-tom-waits-bus-tour-and-canada-s-new-culinary-hotspot.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1287872.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1288163</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:01:19 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Urban Cuba: Comrades, this is the new luxury]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why Cuba wants tourists off the beaches and into the cities]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1288163</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1288165.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1261841</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:02:07 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Climbing Costa Rica's rivers: Waterfalls, but you don’t]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why sit on Costa Rica’s beaches when you can climb its rivers?]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1261841</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1261854.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1261807</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:02:02 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[British Columbia burbchomp]]></title><description><![CDATA[A trip to Richmond, BC reveals the city's true riches are in its amazing Asian eateries]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1261807</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1261836.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1236425</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:00:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Kauai: The anti-Hawaii]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you like an island a bit over 30 miles by 22, unfolding in a rainforest, a canyon, rugged cliffs and spectacular beaches, and where you can sleep and wake to the roll of surf, then give Kauai a thought]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1236425</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1236435.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1236390</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:01:50 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[How to take great photos: Tips from the Travel Photographer of the Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Travel Photographer of the Year offers his tips for camera-toting tourists]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1236390</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1236392.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1245055</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:01:46 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Cold? May we suggest another hemisphere?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's always summer somewhere, so if you're tired of the layers and the snow, check out our list of ten south-of-the-equator hot spots]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1245055</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1245066.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1236409</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:01:53 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[How to take your teenage son to the capitals of Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frown and pout in Paris and London? Not on this trip!]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1236409</link></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1186464</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:01:13 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Travel globally, socialize locally]]></title><description><![CDATA[PDAs and social networks keep far-?ung friends more connected]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1186464</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1186483.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1212013</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:00:42 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[South America's sexiest beaches]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you are seeking boiling-hot beach culture, barely-there bikinis and staggering scenery, you have come to the right place]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1212013</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1212023.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1186454</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:01:09 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Some hotels get all the scenery]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's something to be said for a room with a view]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1186454</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1186453.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1156363</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:03:22 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Winter safaris: Very cool animal encounters]]></title><description><![CDATA[While a vacation that requires you to pack snow boots instead of sandals may seem a little backwards, it’s easy to forget about near-freezing temperatures when you’re photographing penguins and searching for snow leopards]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1156363</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1156366.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1130989</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:02:41 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Retreat? No, advance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why get away from it all when you can make it all better? Get the most out of your New Year’s resolve by perfecting both your downward dog and your artichokes barigoule]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1130989</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1130999.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1109366</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:18 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Chilly nights in Tibet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bedding down at a Lhasa monastery means outdoor privies and yak butter tea]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1109366</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1109413.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1112829</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:00:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Where to travel in 2009]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looking ahead to a year that is going to be “challenging” for travel, as it is for every sector of the economy, we’re going to be particularly picky about where we go and what we do]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1112829</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1112832.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1056807</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:01:00 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[New York City's 10 best hotels]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forbes Traveler picks the 10 best hotels in New York City, including Hotel Plaza Athenee, The Lowell and The Mercer.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1056807</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1056812.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1032830</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:00:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Barack Obama: The tour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Washington will be the place to be next month when more than 1.5 million people are expected to jam the city for an historic event – the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1032830</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1032824.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1056825</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:01:16 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Yet more outrageous hotel guest requests]]></title><description><![CDATA[My pet tiger, please.  Propose to my girlfriend.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1056825</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1056830.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">680412</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:00:36 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Floating into the mystic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Haida culture is alive and well at new heritage centre]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=680412</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/680413.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">723815</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:47:52 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Travel scams and how to avoid them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being caught up in a travel scam is enough to ruin a trip. 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