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Francesca Street, CNN

Stories by Francesca

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He danced in the airport and missed his flight. Then he inspired a TikTok travel trend

A shoe hurled into the air. A traveler pirouetting and somersaulting through the departure gate. The voice of Celine Dion reverberating across the terminal. It’s not a scene you often come across at the airport — or at least, it didn’t used to be.

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She was in a candlelit hut in the Himalayas. Then her future husband walked through the door

When Jason O’Sullivan walked through the door of Jenny McGowan’s accommodation in Nangi, a tiny village deep in the mountains of Nepal, she couldn’t believe it.

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Flight attendants share secrets to surviving holiday travel

Navigating airports and airplanes can be stressful at the best of times. As millions of travelers take to the skies over the busy holiday period, that inbuilt stress can hit new heights.

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Fire breaks out on world’s largest cruise ship

Crew on board the world’s largest cruise ship, the Icon of the Seas, were called on to tackle a fire this week as the gigantic vessel was berthed in a port in Mexico.

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They met hiking Machu Picchu; didn’t swap details; never expected to meet again - did not work out that way

There’s a photograph of Laura and Adrian on the day they met. It’s a group shot, taken on the outset of an Inca Trail trek in the autumn of 2010.

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She arranged date with guy met on plane; he didn’t show - she unexpectedly met future husband

When the guy she’d met on the plane asked her out, Cristina Farina said yes without hesitation.

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They fell in love three decades ago - now, pilot planes together

On their first flight together, Joel Atkinson and Shelley Atkinson couldn’t contain their excitement. They enthused to the flight attendants. They posed for photos. They told passengers via a pre-flight announcement.