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Travel headlines for the weekend of 9/3/06.

Travel news headlines for the weekend of August 6, 2006.

There was a bumper crop of worthwhile features this weekend – including a special on Africa from the LA Times, and coverage of who’d-a-thunk-it destinations like Johannesburg and LA’s Valley – so I’ll cut the preamble and get down to business.

You’re going to have excuse my francophilic posting this week–first the Tour de France, then some frenchy sounding chef–because today is France’s fête nationale, which we freedom lovers typically refer to as “Bastille Day�.

UNESCO is on a preservation spree this week, naming eight sites to its World Heritage list yesterday and an additional 10 today.

Those left unsatisfied by France’s loss in the World Cup final on Sunday can take some comfort in the fact that the Euro-sport focus is now fixed firmly on the Tour de France, which is basically a month-long picture postcard of the French countryside.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 7/8/06

Today saw the first encierro of Pamplona’s San Fermín festival, in which several hundred drunken Spaniards and tourists decide that it will be a great idea to let several tons of pissed-off bovine chase them through the streets of the old city.

Last weekend’s travel stories were slim pickings, no doubt due to writers and editors phoning it in before skipping out of town, but apparently on 4th of July weekend, we the people feel very, er, nautical.