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Travel Features - AP
Istanbul landmark seeks return to glory era
(AP)
30 Jul 2010 at 8:49am
AP - It was the last stop on the Orient Express, a grand hotel with Istanbul's first electric elevator where artists and aristocrats sipped champagne beneath chandeliers as the Ottoman Empire dissolved and the world drifted toward war.
Volunteer greeters offer free tours of hometowns
(AP)
29 Jul 2010 at 11:10am
AP - Naila Qureshi has lived in Houston for 14 years, but she didn't notice how green her city was until she started showing around visitors from foreign countries two years ago.
Brooklyn's DUMBO: History, chocolate and bridges
(AP)
28 Jul 2010 at 1:06pm
AP - Four centuries in 30 minutes. That's what tourists get in trendy DUMBO. The history of this offbeat Brooklyn neighborhood includes Dutch settlers, George Washington, Walt Whitman, the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, and a 21st-century chocolate shop.
London takes its food scene underground
(AP)
27 Jul 2010 at 7:38am
AP - On a balmy summer Sunday, Tim Scorer and his girlfriend Emma Jarvis welcome brunch guests to their spacious London flat.
Kayak adventure in Alaska: Wildlife and glaciers
(AP)
26 Jul 2010 at 8:55am
AP - We're standing in a field of rocks in a dense fog, surrounded by icebergs stranded at low tide.
Survivors of earlier era: 11 beloved trolley parks
(AP)
21 Jul 2010 at 12:45pm
AP - Before Disneyland and Six Flags, before steel coasters went 50 mph and rides were named for cartoons, movies and superheroes, there were trolley parks.
Fla. fruit stand begun by boy celebrates 50 years
(AP)
20 Jul 2010 at 9:27am
AP - Robert is here, and he's been here for more than five decades.
Boulder in summer: Hiking, performances and beer
(AP)
19 Jul 2010 at 9:31am
AP - Anybody who thinks of Colorado as just a winter destination ought to go to Boulder and talk to Frank Shorter. Or Kim Farin. Or maybe William Shakespeare.
Will tourists return to Panhandle when oil stops?
(AP)
20 Jul 2010 at 9:49am
AP - Efforts to cap the oil well are under way. But even if they are successful at stopping the gusher, the tourist-dependent Florida Panhandle now faces the hurdle of luring visitors back to a coastline that still could see tar balls wash ashore.
Animals of war at WWII Museum in New Orleans
(AP)
19 Jul 2010 at 9:22am
AP - Smoky the Yorkshire terrier, Lady Astor the pigeon and a host of horses and mules are among war heroes and heroines featured in the latest exhibit at the National World War II Museum.
Obama's Maine island long visited by rich, famous
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15 Jul 2010 at 8:40am
AP - Serving as a summer retreat for Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Morgans, this town and the surrounding area have long been known as a place where well-heeled and well-known visitors could beat the heat - and have their privacy respected.
Swim with the world's largest fish in Mexico
(AP)
15 Jul 2010 at 9:21am
AP - Everyone got excited when the 20-foot-shark, inches below the surface of the water, started circling slowly under our little fiberglass boat and wouldn't leave.
Stockholm tour for 'Girl with Dragon Tattoo' fans
(AP)
12 Jul 2010 at 10:19am
AP - Fans of the late crime novelist Stieg Larsson are getting lost in the Swedish countryside, searching for the quaint town of Hedestad featured in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
Austrian beer fest: Get your lederhosen on
(AP)
13 Jul 2010 at 8:46am
AP - Dirndls, lederhosen, an oom-pah-pah band and beer: It doesn't get more traditional than this when the sleepy Austrian village of Altaussee wakes up for a nonstop beer party, Sept. 4-6.
Everglades home to snakes, gators and cable show
(AP)
12 Jul 2010 at 11:43am
AP - The Florida Everglades are home to snakes and gators, and now they're the setting for a cable show called "Swamp Men."
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