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How to make travel more bearable? Bring on the robot suitcase

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In 1946, the Italian car manufacturer Piaggio made travelling by two wheels a cool pursuit by inventing the Vespa. Now its US offshoot, Piaggio Fast Forward, has embraced convenience, and invented a small blue robot on wheels that will follow you around and carry your stuff. Gita (the Italian word for “outing”) can hold 20kg (a case of wine, some hand luggage, a bounty of snacks or a five-year-old). It won’t be available until 2019, however,  Jav Streaming  and only if it’s a staycation, because it’s unclear if this two-foot-high two-wheeler will be allowed on planes. But it’s a start … So what other inventions might make holidaying more bearable? Smart glasses On arrival at your destination, they switch to the local language and project phrases of your choice across them, such as “I am lost” and “Are you showing the World Cup here?” Home spray Developed by specialists, it captures the scent of your home or a loved one to spray on your pillow if you get homesick. A tranquilisin
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On holiday in Mexico's murder capital - what it's really like down in Acapulco

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As a toddler clinked together a bucket and spade in childish approval of the nearby three-piece mariachi band, a soldier fiddled with the butt of his automatic machine gun. His polished black boots were impossible to miss among the hundreds of pairs of flip-flops. Sweat streamed over the khaki chinstrap of his camouflage helmet. His heavy bulletproof vest doubled the size of his barely adult torso. It was 34 degrees centigrade and there was scarcely a free patch of sand between the beach towels and parasols, but he was dressed for all-out war. Despite playing host to Hollywood’s great and good between  Jav Tube  the 1950s and 1980s, Acapulco’s crescent bay has fallen on troubled times. Frank Sinatra famously described the city as “perfect for a flying honeymoon,” in his 1958 hit Come Fly with Me, but in each of the past five years the homicide rate has been higher here than anywhere else in Mexico, giving rise to a notorious modern title: Mexico’s murder capital. According to the
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How to make the most of this year's bank holidays – 15 breaks that won't use up your annual leave

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We’ve all been caught in the conundrum at some point – standing, perhaps, in the freezer aisle of our local supermarket, or in the hardwood flooring section of the nearest DIY emporium, and realising that, yet again, a bank-holiday weekend is upon us, and once more, we have done nothing with it beyond an “excursion” to buy a replacement hammer. Well not again. Not this time. We are now but three weeks from Britain’s next dose of government-anointed time off in the form of the Easter weekend –  Jav  enough warning, just about, to make sure that 2018 is not the year you spend this four-day segment of freedom from the workplace and the daily routine doing nothing more than shopping for crockery. This feature provides ideas for rapid getaways. And not just for Easter – but for the May bank holidays (May 7 and 28), and their August colleagues (August 6 or 27, depending on where you are in the UK), plus various other corners of the calendar. These are short breaks, shaped by the number o
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