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• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Market to Generate a Revenue of US$ 163.9 Mn by 2026, Says TMR

  25-05-2018 13:30
  
  ALBANY, New York, May 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Transparency Market Research (TMR) has published a new report titled, "Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast, 2018-2026". According to the report, the global coronary...
  
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• How did I avoid paying Venice’s new ‘entrance fee’? By joining the local Venezia FC fans

  08-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fans heading to the waterside stadium don’t have to pay the €5 tourist fee. And with the team fighting for promotion to Serie A, the atmosphere at the last home game of the season is electricSunday day-trippers to Venice flashing their €5 entry ticket QR code to get through the turnstiles at the city’s main access points look bemused when football supporters simply show their match tickets instead. Attending a sporting event just happens to be one of the exemptions in the o
  
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• Share a tip on an unsung UK seaside town – you could win a holiday voucher

  07-05-2024 14:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Tell us about your favourite under-the-radar coastal town – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakIn the last two decades many UK seaside towns have undergone a quiet transformation. Art galleries, boutique hotels and Michelin-starred restaurants are breathing new life into once down-at-heel resorts such as Blackpool and Margate, while coastal hotspots like Padstow, Southwold and Whitby continue to draw the crowds on sunny days. While these places are popular for good reaso
  
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• Why clubbers are raving about Germany’s cross-country Techno Train

  07-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With DJs, bouncers and bars, the Nuremberg train offers a complete clubbing experience for hundreds of ‘clubbers’– and some lovely views of the Bavarian countryside …‘Do you ever get seasick?” Timm Schirmer, a 27-year-old DJ with a fabulous blond moustache, asks me shortly before we board the Techno Train. “When you’re dancing on the train it can feel like you’re at sea, because you can’t always see that you’re moving.” Wor
  
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• Europe’s best beach holidays: Cadaqués, Spain

  06-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Forget what you think about the Costa Brava: this whitewashed town on a horseshoe bay was ‘the best place in the world’ for Dalí – and is still pretty much perfect todayI have travelled all over Spain for both work and fun in the past two decades, but the Catalan seaside town of Cadaqués had somehow failed to register on my radar. Last year, my husband was working in Catalonia and when he had a few days off between jobs, I proposed an impromptu tryst. The brief: s
  
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• Europe’s best beach holidays: Arcachon, France

  05-05-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A buzzy town prom, plates of moules with chilled rosé and cycle rides to sandy beaches on Cap Ferret add up to happy holidays on the Atlantic coastThe Bay of Arcachon, on the south-west coast of France, is a happy place. It must be, because I’ve been visiting it with my family nearly every year for the past 15 years. We usually rent a small apartment in Arcachon town for four or five days, but such is the draw that we have been known to make a two-hour drive just to spend the day th
  
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• 10 UK stays that take tranquillity to the next level

  05-05-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From a hideaway with star-gazing spectacular enough to keep you off your phone to a ‘burnout’ retreat and a reimagined coastguard lookoutBordering the Consall Nature Park, a nature reserve featuring 740 acres of woodland, heath and moor, is The Tawny, a “deconstructed hotel”. This means that instead of a single house with rooms there are a collection of boathouses, huts and treehouses scattered around the woodlands and lakes. At the top of the hill is a modern glass build
  
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• Europe’s best beach holidays: Peniche, Portugal

  05-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  There’s a great restaurant and bar scene in this surf mecca, plus birdlife and snorkelling on peaceful islands a short ride awayIt was the small and enigmatic Berlengas archipelago that drew us to Peniche harbour. Peniche, 60 miles north of Lisbon, is famous for its surfing beaches, but the islands off its coast often get overlooked. Every morning a couple of hardy passenger boats bounce over eight miles of waves from the peninsula of Peniche to Berlenga Grande. We took our seats on deck b
  
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• Europe’s best beach holidays: Pesaro, Italy

  04-05-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Pizzas, aperitivos and a big sandy beach add to the offbeat charm of this Adriatic resort townI hadn’t heard of Pesaro before my ex-flatmate sent me there in summer 2018. I was writing a book at the time, and Giulia reckoned the best place for me to do such work was in her grandad’s old flat, a modest unit in a block put up in 1946, during the short reign of Umberto II. It had lain empty since her nonno – Dottor Spinicci – died of liver failure, having failed to take his
  
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• 10 of the best beach towns in Europe, with places to stay

  04-05-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From the Turkish Riviera to the Île de Ré, we select quiet and unspoilt places to stay for sun, sand, snorkelling – or just snoozingThere’s something quite particular about small but perfectly formed Assos – butterscotch and rose-pink houses line a horseshoe bay, with Venetian ruins scattered between the narrow alleys. There are two small beaches, but the real joy is to rent a motor boat and discover the small bays and coves that fringe this part of the Cephalonian
  
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• Europe’s best beach holidays: Donoussa, Greece

  04-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This quiet island in the Small Cyclades has one small town, several wild sandy bays and a plethora of panoramic walking and running trailsElias, quiet and unassuming, meets us at the tiny harbour and says he could drive us to the house but it would be quicker on foot. He directs us up a narrow alley past a bustling kafeneio, where people are debating the news of the day over coffee.One of a little cluster of houses, ours has a pergola of rough-hewn logs and bamboo, and looks out to sea across a
  
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• ‘If I could be teleported to any beach, this would be it’: readers choose their favourite European beaches

  03-05-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Seaside idylls from Île de Ré to eastern Crete feature as our tipsters report that even popular destinations such as Menorca and Sicily have their quieter spotsCala Galdana beach – and its neighbours – are spectacular. Turn off at Ferreries and take the attractive Me-22 road that brings you to a breathtaking horseshoe bay shrouded by pine trees. The golden sandy beach is peaceful, even on a busy day. There are beach toilets and a cafe. There are also water sports facilit
  
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• A trail of two cities: an alternative guide to Salford and Manchester

  03-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sunday’s Sounds from the Other City festival is a joyful celebration of Greater Manchester’s leftfield cultureOn the first Sunday of May every year, Chapel Street, where central Manchester and Salford meet, comes alive with DIY art, music and spectacle at the Sounds from the Other City festival. It is a vibrant public celebration of the “community spirit and collaborative working” which co-director Emma Thompson says sustains much alternative culture in the region.“
  
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• Where Odysseus threw a barbecue: exploring Sicily’s Favignana island

  02-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Egadi isles are said to have inspired the mythical islands in the Odyssey. Today, the largest of the group is a quiet place of blissful beaches, fresh fish, neon seas and ice-cream breakfastsI cycled into birdsong, into colour, the light glimmering against the white of the low stone walls. There was a spaciousness as I cycled, a lateral stretching of soundscape, big skies, birds fluting. I didn’t meet anyone else on the narrow lanes and had a sense of being completely alone on an islan
  
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• ‘It’s not the Zambezi, but the Tweed has its moments’: canoeing in the Scottish Borders

  01-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A 30-mile route has opened up along this spectacular river that’s great for beginners but has challenges for more experienced paddlers tooIt was a morning of brooding green banks and dark skies on the River Tweed. Heavy rains had hit southern Scotland and the waterway had turned into a fast flood, with the deluge sweeping our two-seater canoe downstream through farmland and fishing beats as fast as a salmon escaping a rod and reel.The river, usually easy to navigate and at times only a few
  
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• Share a tip on a favourite campsite – you could win a holiday voucher

  30-04-2024 12:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Tell us about your camping holidays in the UK – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakWith the weather slowly starting to improve, it’s time to start planning camping trips in the UK. We’d love to hear about your favourite places to camp. Maybe it’s somewhere wild near the sea, or a campsite with the best facilities for a memorable family holiday. Tell us about your adventures under canvas and in glamping pods and yurts for the chance to win a holiday vouc
  
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• ‘You can walk virtually everywhere in England by using the train’: the man connecting rail-based walks

  30-04-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A new website aims to offer a wide network of walking routes from British train stations, and is calling on hikers to add their favourites. Our writer accompanies the founder on a ramble to Bath Spa stationA British railway station can be many things. A place of tended flowers and toytown paintwork. A concourse of shuttered ticket booths and overpriced pasties. A terminus, a meeting spot, a gateway to escape. It can be heart-lifting or drab, bathed in birdsong or heaving with commuters. It can a
  
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• ‘Slow travel at its most joyous’: our three-week road trip to Croatia

  29-04-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Rather than bomb down motorways for marathon stretches, the idea was to see new things along the way, such as the great lakes of Germany and a Renaissance town in ItalyHow far would you go – and how long would you take – to avoid flying and thoroughly embrace the idea of slow travel? In my case, it was 3,167 miles over three weeks. For nearly a decade I had wanted to do a road trip to Croatia, and to get as much out of the journey as the destination itself. Rather than bomb down
  
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• Turkey’s melting pot: a foodie break in Istanbul

  28-04-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The best way to understand the city is through its food, and the best guide is a Michelin-star chef who knows where to find succulent doners, crisp calamari and rich taramasalata Saturday morning, 10am, and I’m sitting at a café table on a cobbled street in the Beşiktaş neighbourhood of Istanbul, sipping a glass of çay (Turkish tea) and waiting for breakfast. By the café entrance, a plump, grey-haired man in a crisp white apron is sharpening a&
  
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• My four-day rail and ferry adventure from the UK to Albania

  27-04-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From London to Tirana, via Chambéry’s medieval streets, bustling Bari and Albania’s dynamic capital, this trip across Europe has treats at every turnMy overriding memories of crossing countries by train, on a trip from London to Albania, are of half-empty carriages and countryside sweeping past windows bathed in the soft orange glow of sunset. I remember cypress trees, red-roofed villages with square churches, farmland in neat strips and row upon row of vineyards.On my London-
  
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• Confessions of an 82-year-old hitchhiker

  27-04-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The founder of the Bradt travel guides and author of a new memoir has been thumbing lifts all over the world since her teens – and has no intention of stopping now‘‘No one hitchhikes any more, do they?” I often hear people saying this and am proud to reply that I’ve hitchhiked every decade of my life, except the first. And I don’t intend to stop just because I’m now in my 80s.So there I was, standing beside the road in southern Bavaria last year at the a
  
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• ‘Ahead lay cypress-lined Tuscan roads waiting to be discovered’: readers’ best road trips

  26-04-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Our tipsters navigate Alpine passes, serene backcountry and dramatic coastlines across Europe, stopping off for the odd hike, cycle or dip in the seaDriving through the Tuscan hills, the sun beginning its slow descent in the hazy, glowing heat on an August evening was one of the most exquisite experiences I have ever had. Travelling slowly along small, winding roads near Siena in our old Polo, we settled in to the rhythm the locals live by. The peaceful embrace of the Tuscan way of life was felt
  
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• Fish, foraging, fermentation: nine of the best places to eat in Denmark

  25-04-2024 11:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Eat your way across a country generously scattered with Michelin and Michelin green-starred restaurants for world-class dining. It’s not all high end, though – the Danish culinary scene offers up experiences across all budgetsIrrespective of rain or sunshine, the Danes are always ready to embrace hygge, a concept that involves enjoying the good things in life – and that definitely includes enjoying the excellent cuisine the country has on offer. Dive into Denmark’s gastro
  
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• Viking trails to vineyard tours: 10 of the best cycle routes in Denmark

  25-04-2024 11:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Freewheel around Scandinavia’s capital of cycling and discover the greenest way to see DenmarkDenmark is a haven for cyclists of all abilities, with 11,000km of marked cycle routes to ride. From adventurous cycling on multi-day trips that take in the country’s most varied scenery, to day trips and wine tours, these are the country’s best bike routes for everyone, from hobbyists to expert-level athletes.
  To make it extra easy, accommodation options line the routes, including sim
  
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• Eco island hopping, world-class food and Vikings: Denmark’s 2024 cultural highlights

  25-04-2024 11:12 via theguardian.com
  
  You don’t really ever need extra reasons to visit Denmark, but the country’s sheer variety of cultural highlights looks set to enliven any stay this yearStargazing, seals and sandbanks in Mandø
  Denmark’s wilderness zones and sparsely populated isles have long been havens for nature lovers and stargazers. Mandø, on the south-west coast of Jutland, is the most recent addition to the country’s four Dark Sky Parks. A small island in the Wadden Sea National Park,
  
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• Hej, nej, hej hej: Danish words and phrases all travellers should learn

  25-04-2024 11:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Thinking about visiting Denmark? From saying hello, to talking about owls in the bog, here’s how learning a little local lingo can enhance your trip and leave you feeling like an egg yolk …OK, we’ll admit it. Danish isn’t the easiest language to learn – pronouncing certain words involves some invigorating tongue gymnastics and a talent for gulping down glottal stops. With just 6 million native speakers, Danish hardly matches widely spoken Mandarin (941 million spea
  
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• Restorative in every way: a rewilding retreat in Somerset

  25-04-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A Wild Weekend on the 42 Acres estate near Frome offers fresh air, cosy rooms, sumptuous food and a chance to get hands dirty with some land regeneration workThe honk of the geese as they take off from the lake is comically loud, reeds quiver and the reflection of the clouds on the water is momentarily fractured. A butterfly flits by, landing on my boot. We’re on a guided walk at 42 Acres, a regenerative farm, nature reserve and retreat centre near Frome in Somerset – and the whole p
  
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• ‘Are we joking?’: Venice residents protest as city starts charging visitors to enter

  25-04-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Day-trippers will have to pay €5 to visit Italian city under scheme designed to protect it from excess tourismAuthorities in Venice have been accused of transforming the famous lagoon city into a “theme park” as a long-mooted entrance fee for day trippers comes into force.Venice is the first major city in the world to enact such a scheme. The €5 (£4.30) charge, which comes into force today, is aimed at protecting the Unesco world heritage site from the effects of exce
  
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• Venice access fee: what is it and how much does it cost?

  24-04-2024 12:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The Italian Unesco site is hoping to reduce over-tourism with the charge – the first of its kind in a major cityAfter years in the making, Venice will on Thursday begin charging day trippers to enter the city in an effort to protect the Unesco world heritage site from the effects of over-tourism.While the measure has ignited criticism and derision from some, who argue it is unconstitutional and restrictive of freedom of movement – the Venice mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, has compared his &l
  
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• Rail route of the month: vines on the line from Avignon to Lyon, France

  24-04-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Our slow travel expert takes the train through the Rhône’s wine country, hoping for grand cru views and a glass of CondrieuTrains and wine make natural partners, be it a glass of crisp white over a leisurely lunch in a restaurant car while cruising through the Alps or a rail itinerary that meanders through a region noted for its fine wines. Many of Europe’s most prized wine regions lend themselves naturally to exploration by rail.Take the train from São Bento station in
  
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