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Living on a cruise for eight years

I still remember his words. "Don't stop cruising," my husband told me the day before he died of cancer in 1997.

Paris: Queuing for the Louvre

The Louvre, as a famous museum, even has a museum celebrating its own history. It's in two sections across a hall near the entrance and is well worth a few minutes.

Buffalo enters bar, crashes party

Talk about a bull in a china shop - but this time, it's a buffalo in a bar.

Where Kiwis can bag a hotel room bargain

NZ hotel prices are surging but there are still some bargains for Kiwi travellers in holiday hotspots

Cruise passenger struck by champagne cork

A megaliner faced delays after a passenger was injured during a extravagant on-board celebration, just as the vessel left port.

Longest women staffed flight by Air India

India's state airline Air India is operating what it claims to be the world's longest flight staffed only by women from New Delhi to San Francisco .

Athens: Stairways to heaven

I'm walking with gods. I took my first steps beside them 40-some years ago. Not steps; I was in bed. Mum and Dad had come in to tell me and my brother it was lights out.

Brazil: The wild wildlife

There's an awful lot of wildlife in Brazil. Most of it lives in the Amazon rainforest, home to one in 10 of all the plant and animal species in the world.

Q&A: Ask an expert

Airline food goes gourmet

Plane food traditionally gets a bad rap, but recent collaborations between airlines and top chefs look set to change that.

Tigers don't exist for your selfies

The booming tourist trade has had a serious impact on the welfare of Thailand's wildlife.

French chefs scramble Palestinian cuisine

At a time of simmering Mideast tensions and rising malaise, a group of French chefs recently visited the West Bank to bring a little joie de vivre to Palestinian kitchens.

The best flights to view an eclipse

Talk about in-flight entertainment - a number of flights next week will give passengers the best seat in the world to view a solar eclipse.

Blunders mean 1 in 7 enter without checks

A border security system is failing to check the passports of every person arriving in the UK against terrorist and criminal watchlists, a damning report has revealed.

Hawai'i: Facing a manta ray

Night snorkelling with giant manta rays off the Kona coast in Hawaii is undoubtedly a major drawcard for tourists.

The guilty secrets of cabin crew

If they aren't stealing from passengers, they are having sex mid-flight.

San Francisco: A golden way to travel

I wondered if deciding to cycle over San Fran's Golden Gate Bridge on one of the busiest public holidays of the year was up there with the time I visited Disneyland on Independence Day.

Tourists swamp Italian coastal villages

Italy plans to slash the number of tourists visiting the Cinque Terre park, as the rugged coastal area risks being wrecked by coach parties.