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Your next vacation can be virtual

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The largest Japanese airline is guessing that the future of travel will not travel at all. Last month a married couple from the Oita prefecture exchanged a robot named Avatar, driven by his daughter hundreds of miles away in Tokyo. Made by ANA Holdings Inc., it looks like a vacuum cleaner with a connected iPad. But the screen shows her daughter's face as they chat and her wheels let her roam the house as if she were real and sitting at her parents' table. This may seem strange to an international airline. As the population ages, tourist attractions become more popular and travel abroad less sustainable. ANA and its competitors are counting on making money by keeping potential travelers at home. The "virtual journey" is of course nothing new. Storytellers, travel writers and artists have been stimulating the senses of wheelchair tourists for centuries. Only in recent decades have frequent and safe journeys - especially abroad - been made accessible to the poor, lar...

6 scary castles in Western Europe to stay at Halloween

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Do you like to celebrate Halloween? Cut a pumpkin? Decorate the house with fake spiders? Do you dress like a zombie and terrorize your neighbors? Why not start your game this year and book a night in a real castle, with cracking doors, secret passages and inexplicable sounds? The castles have long been surrounded by mysteries and superstitions and recall prisoners imprisoned in dungeons and eccentric dukes who have devised vicious plans. The best of castles? They are generally built in strategic positions on heights for defense purposes and thus offer a fantastic panoramic view of the surrounding landscape. Gather your friends and / or family and book a night in one of these six quaint West European castles, which can be booked through the Holidu travel agency. 1Château Saint-Philippe, Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny, France It dates from the medieval period and resides in the mysterious French Saint Philippe castle dating from 1032. Originally built by the Benedictine monks as ...