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Mon, 6 Jul 2009 08:45:42 GMT 20 thetravelraghttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/DTJB2XceyBE/travelstory.asp Mark Kennedy travels to Sucre, Bolivia, to find a backpacker couple turning a local watering hole into a nationally known restaurant and tour company. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10215 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/rZeiLWGNu8c/travelstory.asp Get off your sofa and get yourself down to the place where adventure and a laidback lifestyle are right on your doorstep.Tourism Australia is offering a dream job placement and a free ticket Down Under. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10214 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/cFcpXlmbsQw/travelstory.asp Dinner under the stars takes on a very different meaning for Gayle Bentham on a lion safari in Zimbabwe. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10213 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/hh6pO0MKj-k/travelstory.asp It's almost a rite of travel writing passage: Mark Woods falls in love with a Tuscan villa. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10212 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/DElJiES94x8/travelstory.asp On a journey to the doctor, Vicky Deane takes in the textures of everyday Pakistan. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10211 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/_t-7TIdWiMI/travelstory.asp Blame the Maya for globalization says Lyn Fuchs (aka Lyn Fox) who discovers an eternal truth in the Guatemalan highlands. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10210 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/e5aLxQXWDKA/travelstory.asp The modern American psyche often harbors shame over past civil rights abuses.Lyn Fuchs (aka Lyn Fox) contemplates...in Montreal. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10209 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/d91qVK96-F4/travelstory.asp Jane Cassie reckons BC’s Sunshine Coast has a bright side, no matter what the weather is. Photos by Brent Cassie. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10208 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/JQAFEbSUB9w/travelstory.asp Jillian Stevens ponders monkey etiquette while on a zoo safari near Jakarta. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10207 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/h1lLH8jj85c/travelstory.asp Nikki Savvides saddles up with the locals in the South of France http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10206 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/StRR9RvMGzk/travelstory.asp Nadia Arumugam gets a taste of the Big Apple with spoonfuls of rice. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10205 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/gjX3igsURMA/travelstory.asp In the long-awaited sequel Mark Woods finally reveals if his spontaneous travels ended in marriage. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10204 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/04OaNIvhMWE/travelstory.asp Dave Wise seeks out the intellectual birth of photography on the shores of Como. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10203 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/57BY1Bg1110/travelstory.asp Where to go to attempt to understand religion from A-Z? May as well start in Arkansas, writes Lyn Fox. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10202 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/q4jPo_LXbeU/travelstory.asp Emily Nixon gets underneath the skin of the Cook Islands. Photos by Jeff Dicken. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10201 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/VCr5wobJvT4/travelstory.asp As an Englishman in Asia Duncan Grimes never traveled far without having a conversation about English football. He, on the other hand, was more interested in how the local Chinese have taken to the Great Game. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10200 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/upFw-IQgk8o/travelstory.asp Whether climbing the steps of the Sagrada Familia or sipping a coffee near La Seu in the Barri G̣tic, Barcelona has many places of worship, writes Matt Genner, but the most important is Camp Nou, home of FC Barcelona. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10199 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/cql0WiEBw7A/travelstory.asp Olivia Hambrett lives la Dolce Vita for a week in sunny Siena. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10198 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/iBeRDKMof2Y/travelstory.asp To glimpse the softer side of Morocco, best stay in one of the country’s many Riads – traditional houses or palaces noted for their interior gardens. Only in their often opulent confines, writes Dave Wise will no one wave a cobra in your face and charge you for the pleasure. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10197 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetravelrag/~3/dW4tnszVYcM/travelstory.asp Watching rugby at Paris’ Stade Jean Bouin is like no other sporting experience reckons Matthew Genner, who sets about getting to grips with Parisian sporting culture. http://www.thetravelrag.com/docs/travelstory.asp?article_id=10196