The StarPhoenix - Travel

• Learn to cook, stalk a stag or just sit back at this Scottish hotel
  A posh fish 'n' chips shop, a back-to-basics cooking school, a rural tearoom, a traditional bakery, a working farm and a stylish boutique hotel: this is the mighty clan of Mhor.

  
  

  
  
  
• From fluffy robes to female-only floors, more hotels are catering to women
  Hotels know that businesswomen are a lucrative market: high-income, fiercely loyal and willing to pay more to have their needs met. But what they're just beginning to figure out is exactly how to capitalize on what these women want.

  
  

  
  
  
• A little planning can route you around Los Angeles traffic to the cool sights
  If you plan well and have a little luck, you can see the world in Los Angeles. If not, all you’ll see is a world of traffic. More likely, you’ll experience some of both.

  
  

  
  
  
• How to turn your travel experiences into cold hard cash
  Whether you’re flying over local or international borders, it’s possible to make money while traveling. Here are a few strategies.

  
  

  
  
  
• The brooding English countryside of the Bronte sisters
  The West Yorkshire world of the Bronte sisters was more often than not gray, hard and grim. The romantic gloom of the moors permeated the young women’s novels.

  
  

  
  
  
• Ski at the end of the world in Telluride
  Welcome to the end of the world. We're not talking Bora Bora, but rather its winter equivalent in southwest Colorado.

  
  

  
  
  
• Weddings at sea are growing in popularity
  More brides are going to sea than ever before. Some are even taking along a lot more than the groom.

  
  

  
  
  
• Finding ecstasy in Mexico
  It took us a while to figure out that our Mazatlan hotel probably rents rooms by the hour, or in the case of seniors like us, for a whole night. For the first time in our lives, we had booked into a "love hotel."

  
  

  
  
  
• How to devour squirming octopi in Seoul
  Before you set out in search of something to chew to death in Seoul, it is best to tell no one.

  
  

  
  
  
• Georgia's coast is unspoiled
  Coastal Georgia is wild, verdant and very not-Florida.