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Archive for October, 2009

Auckland, New Zealand [Photo by Light Knight/Flickr]

·Jet Blue to increase flights to Boston by %30 [AP]
·A picture perfect Austrian ski vacation [CNN]
·Offbeat Auckland on the cheap [MSNBC]
·Trying on the Cordon Bleu’s Canadian outpost for size [NYT]
·How to save on airfare after you’ve booked your ticket [USAToday]

Kerrville, Texas [Photo by Vicki Gibson/Flickr]

·The Mandarin Oriental Barcelona to open November 26 [HC]
·Airtran offering free gogo inflight wifi to first-timers [Gadling]
·A look at who is visiting America the most this year [MSNBC]
·Loads of culture in Texas’ not so cosmopolitan Kerrville [NYT]
·A guide to ski resorts in France [Telegraph]

It may seem ghoulish, but graveyard tourists are being entertained, learning about strangers, history and cultures, getting close to the famous and gathering life-affirming lessons.

The restaurateur Michelle Garnaut has opened a third in her line of M restaurants — Capital M — in Beijing, with a view of Tiananmen Square.

National Express is criticised by its largest shareholder for not properly assessing a proposed merger with rival Stagecoach.

I love Halloween, chills and thrills and ghostly manifestations as much as anyone. But here’s the thing. I hate the dark and being cold, and all that manky mildew in haunted cellars makes me sneeze.

So how am I supposed to go ghost hunting?

Lucky for me the web can solve anything. Some of the most haunted places in the UK now have web cams – ghost cams actually – trained on them during the spookiest times of day…and night. If, like me, you prefer armchair ghost hunting, check out Haunted Places with Ghost Cams around the UK.

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Ghost Cams for Armchair Ghost Hunters originally appeared on About.com United Kingdom Travel on Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 01:21:07.

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