TravelFunTravel.com

Share With Friends: | | Top News – Travel Stories, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla. Feedzilla: Travel News Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

June 7 is National Doughnut Day. Whether you’re partial to the cream-filled, glazed, jelly or chocolate varieties, the doughnut is something near and dear to so many of us. The Salvation Army established this sweet holiday in 1938 to raise funds during the Great Depression…      ABC News: Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...]

Yosemite National Park has almost everything a nature lover could desire: Glorious waterfalls, spectacular meadows and valleys, groves of ancient sequoias and the wildlife that call the park home. CNN.com – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on [...]

For Arvind Mahankali, the third, or, as he would say, t-h-i-r-d, time proved the charm. The 13-year-old from Bayside Hills, N.Y., won the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night after correctly spelling “knaidel,” the German-derived, Yiddish word for dumpling. Click HERE to see the…      ABC News: Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...]

Scenery and wildlife help attract 95m visitors a year who spend about £3bn. Sites are home to 22,500 business with turnover of £10.4bn Travel & Leisure Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Saskatoon-based jazz singer Alexis Normand stumbled to find the words for the Star-Spangled Banner before the Memorial Cup game Saturday. “I’m embarrassed and deeply sorry. I wish I’d had more time to learn the American anthem,” Normand tweeted after the game between the Halifax Mooseheads and the Portland Winterhawks. Normand said she was asked the [...]

Road-tripping to a national park makes for an easy — and spectacular — summer getaway. While all the U.S. national parks will be open this summer, forced federal spending cuts mean reduced programs and facility access. CNN.com – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet [...]

OTTAWA—Statistics Canada released the first tranche of results Wednesday from the 2011 voluntary National Household Survey, which replaced the cancelled mandatory long-form census. Some highlights: •Canada was home to an estimated 6,775,800 immigrants in 2011, comprising 20.6 per cent of the population — more than ever before and the highest proportion of all G8 countries. [...]

OTTAWA—Canada’s aboriginal population is young and growing fast. New statistics from the 2011 National Household Survey reveal that 1.4 million people reported an aboriginal identity in 2011, up 20 per cent from 2006, compared to a 5.2 per cent increase in the non-aboriginal population. Aboriginals now comprise 4.3 per cent of the country’s population, up [...]

OTTAWA — The Greater Toronto region is growing more diverse as immigration brings changes to religious practices, languages and the faces of its residents. New data released Wednesday from the 2011 National Household Survey highlight the changes unfolding in Canadian society: One-in-five is now foreign born, the highest proportion among G8 countries; The country has [...]