Roaming trauma: Man runs up $240k phone bill on Swiss holiday
US couple return home to a mobile phone bill steeper than the Matterhorn.
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Everybody wants to experience Lake Como and that's the problem.
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Spanish restaurants can now charge more for seating in shade
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The Greeks have been lying to us: There are way better islands than Santorini
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On holiday in the ‘unhappiest’ place in Europe
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Sagrada Familia: At last, Barcelona's unfinished cathedral gets completion date
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Five bizarre French laws that could trip up Paris tourists
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In Italy, once you start looking, little-known places are never far away
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On your marks, Garcons, go! Paris holds world's fastest waiter race in Olympic run up
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Where conquest and survival are on full show and history flows as freely as the river.
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Dance to Darude Sandstorm and tag on a bungy jump this week in Queenstown
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Is this the death of 'shoulder season'?
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Palermo here we come: Sicily's capital city is attracting renewed attention
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'€400 taken in broad daylight': Kiwi falls victim to Paris clipboard scam
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