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Call me a snob, but there's nothing I want to do less when I'm on vacation than look like a tourist with a camera dangling round my neck. I'm a digital guy who never wants to deal with a drugstore clerk smirking at my prints in the back room again. If I encounter something picturesque--say, a grizzly chasing campers in front of a charming waterfall--my dream is to casually pull from my shirt pocket a digital camera cool enough to elicit gasps of awe from the campers and, if possible, from the bear...
...first park's 10th anniversary with the launch of a second one, the ?610 million Disney Studios. The expansion of the resort complex at Marne-la- Vallée, 30 km east of Paris, is a sign that the company has found not only stability as Europe's top tourist attraction but also renewed confidence in its long-term outlook...
...Best Deal: A $13, two-day Budapest Card buys free use of public transport and 60 museums, restaurants and sightseeing tour discounts. Available at tourist and travel agencies, hotels and the airport...
...twentieth birthday our child must go through the ritual of renouncing British citizenship in the eyes of Japanese law?while retaining both European Union and Japanese citizenship in the eyes of British law. On a civic level, even Hiroshima, my home for eight years and, according to its tourist literature "the international city of peace," denies Korean conscripts killed in the A-bomb blast a monument in Peace Memorial Park because its foreign presence would sully the sanctum's purity. "Internationalization," as oft-quoted a mantra here as anywhere, means little on street level beyond flag-bunting, expressway signs...
...21st edition, it is still the best guide to the city, providing useful, fun and downright quirky recommendations of things to see, do, buy and eat in Bangkok?or Krung Thep as it is known to Thais. Its detailed commentaries, scribbled at practically every intersection and tourist sight, make a regular guidebook unnecessary. When it comes to visiting the labyrinthine Chatuchak weekend market, her exhaustive rundown of shops and stalls is essential for finding what you want, as well as finding...