Plans for a book festival in Blairgowrie, a tourist bus in Breadalbane and a bridge near St Fillans have also been awarded money.

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"The bars just don't pay, " French says, watching with disgust as a tourist bus navigates the rutted street in front of his house in the flood-ravaged Ninth Ward.

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But if Mr Aquino seems ready to confront the church on this issue, he has tiptoed around a disaster that took place in August after a disgraced former police officer hijacked a tourist bus in Manila.

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We met in 1969, the summer of the moonwalk and Woodstock, on a six-week teen tour across the U.S. For those unfamiliar with the teen tour concept, it involved approximately 40 teenagers boarding a Greyhound bus and hitting almost every tourist hot spot and national park from New York City to the West Coast and back again the Corn Palace, Mt.

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It had been open just one day when I arrived, and the new rail service would save me from retracing the uncomfortable five-hour bus trip I had endured to get here from the tourist hub of Guilin city, about 150km to the southeast.

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Early this year, the city came up with an idea to reduce car use for short city trips: a free bus service circling the major business locations, government offices and tourist sites.

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And for the cost of a cheap public transport ticket you can ride the harbor boat-bus around the entire channel and see the same sites as the tourist boats (and even hop off and on along the way).

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