Posts Tagged ‘ vancouver ’

Our weekly look at the new and fun in the world of travel, including a trip to the Bolivian Oruro Carnival, and a website offering a guide to authentic travel in the Caribbean Tweet us @guardiantravel or email us about...
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Geography Canada is the country of wide open spaces blank. It extends about 5000 km from a coast to coast. The border with the United States more or less follows the route of the 49th parallel to the Great Lakes and ...
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The English part is, at first glance, the most Americanized culinary point of view that Quebec, francophone and lover of good food. In small towns and villages, as the roadside, do not expect to make gourmet feasts. Enjoy without guilt rather thick club sandwiches, huge pizzas and other frozen chocolate pies. In recent...
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If the Pacific Northwest foodie-ism of Portlandia has been stoking your appetite for locally-grown and harvested yumminess, put Vancouver's Granville Island Public Market on your to do list, stat. The formerly industrial, now artsy neighborhood of Granville Island gets a lot of tourist traffic but it also draws locals...
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Featured Family Travel Deal The Metropolitan Hotel in Vancouver, Canada is offering a buy two nights get the third free package . I've stayed at this hotel (on my own dime) in the past, and it is well located and welcoming with marble bathrooms, down duvets, generally comforting and warmly decorated rooms. The...
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Vacationeering is here to announce the next big MiceChat Vacation.  Join us on the Wonder this September as we sail from Vancouver to Los Angeles with a two night stay in San Francisco.  This one is not as expensive since it is a repositioning cruise
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An EV Car Charging Station at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront. (Courtesy Marriott ) It's been a rough half–decade for the travel industry, and to compete for ever–scarcer tourism dollars, service providers have been forced to come up with new ways to attract...
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With its fleet about to expand to four vessels (following next month’s debut of Disney Fantasy ), Disney Cruise Line has just announced a range of new itineraries for 2013, including an expanded portfolio of European itineraries and ports. Check ’em out: ...
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The line plans to sail to the region out of Vancouver in 2013 instead of Seattle.
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Cape Scott, Vancouver Island. I have a lot of ideas for trips I would love to do with my kids, but I know that many of those ideas are not going to happen anytime soon (ever?), unless we all of a sudden are rolling in money... However, here are 5 trips...
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