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Travel News Round-Up: November 15-21

Posted: 11/20/09 5:45PM
Filed Under: TravelTravel Round Up

A French hotel is hoping to cash in wealthy hamster lovers.  For $150 a night guests to the Hamster Villa in Nantes, France get to eat hamster food, run around in a giant wheel and sleep in haystacks.
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A French hotel is hoping to cash in wealthy hamster lovers. For $150 a night guests to the Hamster Villa in Nantes, France get to eat hamster food, run around in a giant wheel and sleep in haystacks.

Plane Overshoots Runway, Lands in Lava

Posted: 11/20/09 4:30PM
Filed Under: TravelTrains & Planes

A passenger plane missed a runway in eastern Congo, abruptly coming to a halt in a hardened lava field at the end of the airstrip.
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A passenger plane missed a runway in eastern Congo, abruptly coming to a halt in a hardened lava field at the end of the airstrip, according to Associated Press and Agence France Presse reports.

Montreal's Best Cool Concept Stores

Posted: 11/20/09 5:01PM
Filed Under: TravelCanada Travel Guide MontrealPop Culture

Surface Jalouse brings graphic design to your furniture and walls.
Surface Jalouse

One of the city's coolest and most unique boutiques, Old Gold stocks hip clothing, most of which is imported from or influenced by Asia.

Montreal's Hidden Clothing Boutiques

Posted: 11/20/09 4:14PM
Filed Under: TravelCanada Travel Guide MontrealPop Culture

Harmony Code shop in Montreal, Quebec.
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Harmony Code owner Stephanie Dixon loves surrounding herself and her friends in beauty and opened this little boutique adjacent to Parc Mont-Royal to do just that.

Drilling for Scotch Whisky in Antarctica

Posted: 11/17/09 12:22PM
Filed Under: TravelAdventure Travel

Crates buried beneath the arctic ice contain bottles of McKinlay and Co whiskey.
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Ever wanted to try a 100 year old Scotch chilled to perfection? Than listen up, this story is for you! The New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust has announced plans to retrieve a pair of crates buried in the Antarctic ice following a failed attempted to reach the South Pole more than a century ago. The crates contain bottles of McKinlay and Co whiskey.

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