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From Paris to Patagonia, Barcelona to Bora Bora, here's our pick of the world's most interesting webcams

The best travel networking websites

Blogs, networking sites, peer review sites... which do you choose when you go travelling? And which ones are any good?

How to set up your own travel blog

Ginny McGrath rounds up the best websites to start an online journal plus blogs from Project Trust gap year volunteers

100 best travel websites 

How they made the 100

We've crawled and clicked the world of internet travel to find the best

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Vivienne Parry meets Wakamaru, the yellow household robot made by Mitsubishi, yours for £6,200

Tokyo, technology central

The Tomorrow’s World presenter, Vivienne Parry, visits a high-tech city of robots and strangely warm loo seats

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A holiday in Second Life

Matt Rudd takes a zero-carbon break in a virtual world

An iPod tour of a French chateau

Can we ditch the guidebooks yet? Will Hide says no after his techno-tour of a château

Just me and my MP3 in London

Our correspondent revels in a podcast walk around historic London - plus more audio guides

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Website of the week: multimap.co.uk

Mark Frary praises the new look site, with new functions that are 'a leap forward'

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Website of the week: Google Maps

A new Google Maps feature that offers street level views of US cities is causing a stir among bloggers, and should also please tourists

Website of the week: travelturtle.co.uk

This week's diagnosis from Ginny McGrath is a new travel health website that covers jabs, bugs and drugs

Website of the week: passportstamp.com

A bit of fun this week, but be warned, this site can get very competitive

more webs of the weeks

Website of the week: Travelsupermarket.co.uk

Ginny McGrath tests the accommodation search following news that the site added B&Bs to its content

Website of the week: TripAdvisor Traveller Network

The hotel review site dabbles with social networking. Ginny McGrath is impressed

Website of the week: Family Fun

Cartoon graphics and an interactive map offer fun ways to fill the long summer holiday, says Ginny McGrath

Website of the week: excess4carhire.com

A site that makes car hire charges more transparent can only be good news, says Ginny McGrath

Travel News: what's happening in the world and how it affects your travel plans

Flights online

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How to book a cheap flight

Cath Urquhart offers expert advice on how to get a good deal on flights

Airfare comparison websites

New ‘sweeper’ sites promise to save the hassle of hunting for deals online

Go online to get the seat you want on the plane

Go online to bag the best spot on the plane. Stephen Bleach and Richard Green know how

Hotels online

Hotel butler service

Hotel review websites: a five-star scam

The Sunday Times investigates how the internet is throwing hotel and restaurant guides into chaos

Hotel doorman

A guide to booking hotels online

Cath Urquhart, travel editor of The Times on how to get a good deal and look after your money

Boutique Brighton hotels on new site

Tourists in search of a funky seaside hotel can check out a new website, says Tom Chesshyre

How to www.saveapacket.com on this hotel

Mark Hodson tests the new websites that promise to save you a fortune on hotels

Get to grips with online travel

50 best travel websites of 2007

Another year of innovation and refinement as travel websites continue to become more niche, focussed and useful

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The best travel networking websites

Blogs, networking sites, peer review sites... which do you choose when you go travelling? And which ones are any good?

Where to book your travel online

Leapfrog the losers to bag the best travel bargains. How? By becoming a cyber-surfing smarty pants of course

Travel News

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Travel Images 

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Times photo comp

Enter our July competition to win a Mediterranean cruise

Tim Norris and Justina Southworth, who have just returned from 8 months in South America, with an excellent perspective shot from Bolivia's salt plains

Your smug photos

The weekly gallery of the most self-satisfied and silly snaps

Tania Talma from London spotted this sign in the Old Town of Rhodes last month. Underneath it a brave motorcyclist had parked his bike!

Signs of the times '08

Your funny and weird travel signs - the latest gallery is up

best read features

Savvy traveller

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10 tips for a cheaper summer holiday

SEASIDE SPECIAL

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From the archive: the Great British seaside

What about the weather? The British have always had a good time on the beach

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Driving requirements for driving in Europe

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Latest videos: driving abroad, the £700 motor suitcase

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