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Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 4:32am | By STEVE MacNAULL Kelowna Daily Courier

THIS IS NOT a hallucination. There really are pigs oinking, snorting and swimming around our tour boat in the crystal clear blue waters surrounding Big Major Cay in the leeward islands of Exuma in the Bahamas.
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Hit it out of the park in Florida

Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 4:32am | By MITCH STACY The Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. — Major league baseball teams started coming to Florida for spring training almost a century ago, travelling by rail from the often still-frozen North to get in shape and play some exhibition games in the sun. For baseball fans...
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At Lucky’s Place, some visitors bare all

Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 4:32am | By J. PAT CARTER The Associated Press

OCHOPEE, Fla. — The tourists in their rental cars creep down the Everglades byway known as Loop Road. Some are searching for alligators, exotic birds or maybe a ghost orchid. But others, tipped off by a guidebook or Internet post, are looking...
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Even first-timers can find their bearings in Rio

Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 4:32am | By JENNY BARCHFIELD The Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — “Brazil is not for beginners,” the late, great Brazilian composer Tom Jobim once quipped. Nowhere does the remark hold more true than for the country’s pulsing, chaotic oceanfront metropolis, Rio de...
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Istanbul, Aegean coast offer the splendour of the ages

Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 4:34am | Story and Photos By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO The Associated Press INSTANBUL, Turkey

THE SEA OF MARMARA shimmered to my right, a pod of dolphins played improbably in the ferry-and tankers-choked Bosporus strait, and minarets pierced my jet-lag fog on my first Istanbul evening. Walking down the main road in Istanbul’s old...
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TRAVEL IN BRIEF

Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 4:34am

Saudi Arabia getting snow village in Riyadh RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Dubai’s famed indoor ski slope is about to get some Gulf competition. Saudi developers say they plan a “snow village” inside a new mall in Riyadh. A statement on company...
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Grand Canyon park bans sale of plastic bottles

Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 4:34am

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Disposable plastic water bottles soon won’t be sold at the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service announced Feb. 6 that it has approved a plan to eliminate the sale of the bottles within 30 days. They make...
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Scavenger hunters take hobby to the briny deeps

Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 4:34am | By SUZETTE LABOY The Associated Press

AVON PARK, Fla. — The latest scavenger hunt takes you underwater. Geocaching started as a hobby more than a decade ago on land, but it’s slowly becoming popular with scuba enthusiasts around the world looking for new underwater adventures.
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Canmore has everything Banff has, except crowds

Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 4:34am | By BILL GRAVELAND The Canadian Psress

CANMORE, Alta. — It’s not just another pretty place. The town of Canmore, nestled on the eastern edge of Banff National Park, offers all of the spectacular views but none of the restrictions or droves of tourists of its bigger brother...
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Beautiful Barcelona

Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 4:34am | By JEFFREY SIMPSON

After trying to find a recommended restaurant for half an hour or so, I got lost in the historic centre of this beautiful city.
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Dude ranch offers more than horses and booze

Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 4:34am | By KAREN SCHWARTZ The Associated Press

Cowboys. Horses. Guns. Booze. And tennis?
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Pop-up park is antidote to winter

Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 4:34am | By VERENA DOBNIK The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Birds are chirping, the grass is green and tea is being served amid blossoming bushes.
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Trump Toronto has touch of Canadiana

Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 4:34am | By LAUREN La ROSE The Canadian Press

TORONTO — The Trump name may brand the building, but the first luxury hotel and residence in Canada sharing the moniker of the famed U.S. property mogul features its share of homegrown touches.
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Haystack resort reopens

Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 4:34am

WILMINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A long-closed Vermont ski area is operating again and in the process of becoming a members-only resort.
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Mavis Staples will be star of blues fest

Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 4:34am

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago music legend Mavis Staples will headline the Chicago Blues Fest this summer.
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