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Three dead and eight injured in horror smash as tourist coach crashes into cliff in France
GB News
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December 2, 2024
A tourist coach has crashed into a cliff near a popular Ski resort leaving three dead and several injured. The accident happened yesterday afternoon near the Pyrenees ski resort of Porté-Puymorens, near the boarder with Andorra. The bus was...
At least three dead after coach full of tourists crashes into cliff face
Metro
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December 1, 2024
At least three have died following a bus crash in France (Picture: EPA) Three people have died and at least 38 others are injured after a coach carrying tourists crashed into the side of a cliff face in southern France. A total of 47 people...
Three dead and several injured after tourist coach smashes into cliff near Pyrenees
Daily Star
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December 1, 2024
Three people have died after a tourist coach smashed into a cliff in the south west of France. The horror accident happened on Sunday afternoon close to the Pyrenees ski resort of Porté-Puymorens, near Andorra. It is being reported that eight...
Three dead after tourist bus crash in France: Eight others including a child, four, are fighting for their lives after coach smashed into cliff near ski resort
Daily Mail
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December 1, 2024
By ED HOLT and PETER ALLEN Published: 17:03 EST, 1 December 2024 | Updated: 17:16 EST, 1 December 2024 Three people have died and eight others are fighting for their lives this evening a coach coach carrying tourists crashed into a cliff face in...
At least three dead and eight injured after tourist coach smashes into cliff near Pyrenees ski resort
The Sun
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December 1, 2024
THREE people have died and several are injured after a tourist coach crashed into a cliff near a ski resort in France. The accident happened on Sunday afternoon near the Pyrenees ski resort of Porté-Puymorens, by Andorra. 2 The bus was carrying 48...
Coach load of 40 tourists crashes in horror scenes in France - two dead
Daily Express
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December 1, 2024
At least two people have died, with five more seriously injured after a horror bus crash in France - near to the Andorra border. Emergency services raced to the scene of the incident in Porté-Puymorens, at around 5pm on Sunday evening (December...
£880 warning issued to UK tourists going on winter sports holiday
Birmingham Live
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November 27, 2024
UK tourists can save an eye-watering £880 by picking the date of their winter sports holiday more smartly, it has been warned. The Guardian crunched the numbers from Sunweb and found an all-inclusive week-long stay at Belambra Club Les Cimes du...
Don’t lose your valuables when you travel. Here are the rules.
Elliott Advocacy
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November 30, 2024
Where’s the safest place for your valuables? Mark Alsip found out the hard way — and at the worst possible time. Alsip, a computer programmer from Lexington, Ky., was in St. Maarten with his girlfriend. When he arrived at his hotel, he got out and...
Andorra’s 73 Jews Are Proud to Hold Down a Tiny Community in a Tiny Country
The Jewish Journal - California
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July 26, 2024
To the south, in Spain, raucous protesters emboldened by their government’s recent recognition of Palestine are urging Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to go even farther and cut diplomatic relations with Israel. And to the north, in France, Jews fear...
Joyful Aging — Carole Carson: Creating a new life at age 80
The Union - California
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Do you have the impulse to pick up and move to another country? To start over where new ways must be learned and old habits are disrupted? Many Americans do. Nearly four million expatriates like me live outside the United States as immigrants in...
Europe’s cheaper ski resorts for a snow-filled winter holiday
The New Zealand Herald
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November 22, 2024
Zakopane is my preferred destination in Poland because of the number of ski resorts all offering something a little bit different. If you’re travelling with a group, a chalet or hotel close to Białka Tatrzańska would be the perfect base, giving...
Meet the 22-year-old who's become an Internet sensation from posting videos of her travels with a 40-year-old Land Rover called Blue Tit (even clips of her fixing the engine get thousands of views)
Daily Mail
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November 29, 2024
On the face of it, it's one of the more unlikely Instagram sensations – the trials and tribulations of a 22-year-old woman and her beloved 40-year-old blue Land Rover 90. Yet Tati Reed, from West Sussex, has discovered a knack for making snappy,...
How to save on winter sports holidays
The Guardian
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November 27, 2024
Pick a cheap destination When it comes to skiing and snowboarding, going to Europe will always be cheaper than flying to somewhere such as the US or Canada – but costs vary massively on the continent. Marcus Blunt, the co-founder of the ski...
3 Rules For Keeping Your Valuables From Getting Lost When You Travel
Forbes
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Should you put your valuables in your luggage? Here's what experts say. getty Where's the safest place for your valuables? Mark Alsip found out the hard way — and at the worst possible time. Alsip, a computer programmer from Lexington, Ky., was in...
Philippine Tourism Secretary highlights AI and tourism at WTM
TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific
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November 10, 2024
Secretary Frasco promotes AI-driven tourism strategies and Philippine tourism initiatives at WTM London 2024 Ministers’ Summit on emerging technologies. Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco on Wednesday,...
Velilla-Taramay and its beach
All Andorra
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November 20, 2024
Velilla-Taramay is a resort town belonging to the municipality of Almuñécar (Spain), in the province of Granada, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located in the western part of the region of the Costa Tropical of the Mediterranean resorts...
The China-Japan Travel Visa Spat
The Diplomat
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November 13, 2024
Japanese travelers have been grappling recently with a problem: the absence of visa-free travel to China. Before COVID-19, Japanese did not need a visa to enter China, but Beijing suspended that privilege in March 2020 amid the pandemic, and it...
Active trips to inspire your 2025 travel goals
Intrepid Travel Blog
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October 10, 2024
Keen to be active and travel more? It’s approaching that time of year when we all start thinking about goals. Whether you love New Year’s resolutions or think they’re a fad, there’s no harm in using them to recalibrate and align with who you want...
Tax Hike Boosts ‘Tobacco Tourism’
Tobacco Reporter - North Carolina
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A recent tobacco tax hike in the Netherlands has boosted tobacco tourism to Luxembourg, reports The Luxembourg Times. Dutch smokers have been chartering buses to stock up on cigarettes in the Grand Duchy, where cigarettes are considerable cheaper...
Rough road ahead for Korea's travel balance over China's visa-free policy
The Korea Times
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November 9, 2024
A travel agency in Seoul promotes visa applications for China entry, Nov. 3. Korea is newly included in China's visa waiver list, effective from Nov. 8 to Dec. 31, 2025. Yonhap Experts expect Beijing to capitalize on close travel distance to...