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US Airways reports
fewer passengers in June

Rising oil prices and airfares may be curbing summer travel, though the airline's revenue has not fallen.

US Airways provided a sign Monday of how rising oil prices and airfares might be curbing travel, reporting that passenger traffic in June was down slightly from last year.

FUN AROUND THE GRAND STRAND

Dining in Conway

Crady's | The place: 332 Main St., Conway, S.C. Hours: 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. (lunch) Monday-Friday, 5:30-9 p.m. (dinner), Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (brunch) the first Saturday of the month. Details: 843-248-3321; www.cradysrestaurant.com.

TRAVEL GIRL

An online soulmate for us travel girls

Divine Caroline has forums for women.

We've found an online soulmate. Come visit us online at the fabulous Web site Divine Caroline, where along with some of your favorite travelgirl stories, you'll find articles on just about every topic from relationships to career and money to style and parenting.

DESTINATION

  • More on the Moravian front

    If Old Salem has become old hat, give Bethania and Bethabara a visit.

    Although Old Salem is the most publicized attraction, Bethania and Bethabara, two other Moravian congregational villages in the greater Winston-Salem area, also offer visitors insight on the life and times of backcountry pioneers in colonial North Carolina.

MORE TRAVEL

  • Enter our photo contest

    We hope you'll be back from your vacation before Sept. 2. That's the day we need a photo from your trip. Give us your best shot for our annual “How I Shot My Summer Vacation” contest.

NEARBY

  • A celebration of the terrific tomato

    Garden classic | Northeast Georgia

    Clarkesville's Glen-Ella Springs Inn will host the fifth annual Heirloom Tomato Festival, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 20 (a Sunday). This year, the inn was named by National Geographic Traveler Magazine's editors as “one of 150 unique destination properties in North America.”

CORRESPONDENCE

0% visibility – and 100% fun

In a ditch cut through a Welsh peat bog, one small town conducts snorkeling races.

Gordon Green, of Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, is the founder of the World Bog Snorkeling Championship, now in its 23rd year. It will be staged Aug. 25. Green, 73, is originally from Manchester, England, where he was a production manager for an ice cream company. He and his wife moved to Wales 33 years ago.

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