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Travel is about food!
Sure, it’s about shopping and seeing the sights, but there's no better way to get to know a culture and its people than by sharing their food with them. Not cuisine, food! I
We mean the fabled falafel stands and savory street food in North Africa, the small tavernas of Italy and Greece.
Maybe the Fish and Chips stands in the UK and certainly the mole sauces in Mexico.
In Canada’s Prince Edward Island we fell in lo
Tamarindo Costa Rica is one of the most popular tourism destinations in the world. So many travel agents around the world suggest their guests to visit Tamarindo Beach. Sunny days, nice atmosphere, beautiful sunset, and great waves in the beaches make this beach as a perfect holiday place.
Special Offer at Jardin del Eden Hotel in Tamarindo Costa Rica:
If you are looking to take 3-4 nights at the beach, considerer Jardin del Eden Hotel who offers 3 nights but just paying 2, or 4 nights just paying
A few heads were scratched at AOL Travel’s recent story about bed bugs.
We weren’t scratching from the bugs, but from curiosity: Why would author Libby Zay do a piece on the nasty critters?
A comment from a reader actually suggested she needed “to get a life.”
Well, the reality is that the bed bugs infest places that are part of travel, like motels. hotels, planes, trains and buses. And bed bug infestation is increasing, it seems, because the decline in using pesticides has contributed to the scou
The question everyone is afraid to ask: So how safe is this airline?
For better or worse, there is no real answer.
The Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation which prides itself on being independent and impartial, candidly admits that since there are so few U.S. airplane fatalities, there really is no recognized way to determine which airline is safer than another. The statistical sample is too small.
It’s possible to look up such intriguing data as fatal events by airlines, most recent crashes,
Wohoo! Spring break is here and if you miss that feeling of carefree abandon and going on a road trip…via your airplane...then read on my friends. Frankly, I think many of us in our college years were too busy prepping for finals, looking for summer jobs, or just didn’t have the cash on hand or an airplane to fly to do much with their last spring break. So I am offering you a chance to go back in time and have the spring break you should have had in college–but better, because you’re a little ol
It happened quite by accident, and I was hooked. My first trip to Italy — back in the Spring of 2000 — was
organized by some friends who said that we would be renting a villa. I had no idea what to expect. I looked
up the word “villa” and here’s what I found: (a) a large, luxurious house in the country or (b) a house rented
for a vacation. I immediately saw the potential discrepancy between these two definitions, but decided to go,
anyway.
Soon
It may just be the event planner in me, but I L-O-V-E- anything with a cool theme. So it’s not going to come as a surprise to anyone that I want to introduce you to Briar Rose Winery in the Temecula Wine Country. Based on a Snow White theme, this high-end boutique winery not only showcases a Disney’esque ambiance, but it delivers the goods with ultra premium wines. So any of you looking to arrange a day fit for a princess with an emphasis on amazing wine…read on!
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Since the recent news touching on the chaos that the Icelandic Eyjafjallajokull volcano caused for tens of thousands of air travellers, I decided to look at the possibility of travelling overland to West Africa. It may take much longer, however it also could cost about the same as a flight, be much more rewarding, allow you to explore different elements of African culture along the way and be more environmentally friendly when it comes to your carbon footprint. After all, according to a Chinese
Brian and Leslie Mulcahy work very hard for their accolades and consistently outstanding reviews by always being there for their guests.
"It’s not easy,” say the innkeepers of the quintessential New England inn, Rabbit Hill Inn, in the Currier and Ives town of Lower Waterford, Vermont.
But Leslie is reading Groundswell ("winning in a world transformed by social technologies,"), which sounds the clarion call for a social tools-based mind se
From time to time I need some help in keeping up with the twists and turns of travel, so I thought of a few travel "heroes" I'd like to havedrink with and talk travel.
I’d first set a date with Travel Weekly's Editor in-Chief, Arnie Weissmann, a terrific writer whose editorials always leave me wanting more.
TW is the travel industry’s publication of record, and Arnie’s one of travel’s most respected voices. His insights always take me to another level of understanding travel, and he probably has t
Can you imagine the travel industry, limping along in this sclerotic economy, not catering to the needs of an important travel niche market: Single Parents?
This travel cohort feels like second class citizens.
They’re not swingers.
Not looking for wild parties.
They want quality vacations that let them connect with other single
parents, and they want attention paid to them and their kids.
They want the travel industry to know they have needs that are different
from coupl
Medical Tourism: Beaches and Buttocks
People travel for many reason.
They travel to see the ocean, to meet people or to shop…
and now they’re shopping for a new nose or bigger breasts all while seeing the sights.
Medical tourism is the latest trend in the search for the perfect body or a money saving medical procedure like replacing a hip or getting your teeth straight.
Or for costly medical procedures for the uninsured and unde-rinsured
Some studies say the cost of surgery in India, Thailand and Sou
Danielle Nierenberg is blogging everyday from across Africa for the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet blog. She is also writing with her partner Bernard Pollack at her personal blog: BorderJumpers.
In Malawi, we visited the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre, a project supported by companies like the Body Shop, providing sanctuary space for rescued, confiscated, orphaned and injured wild animals of Malawi. While touring their facility we met Kambuk (which means “leopard” in Chichewa), who was so
You can tell when spring has finally sprung when you take a look at the new growth on the freshly prunedvines in the countryside around Montefalco.
New growth - Sagrantino vines
The green is all around you, in the new cereals growing in the fields, the new growth on the trees – that lovely unmistakeable springgreen!
Spring from the terrace
By this time of year the wine makers have pruned their vines carefully to allow maximum exposure for their chosen selection ofgrapes. With the Montefalco Rosso an
Forty-eight engaging commentaries by "a modern day Mark Twain," sociologist, photographer, and prize-winning travel journalist, Peter Rose. Included are accounts of excursions on land and sea and portraits of places and people from Cape Cod to Cape Horn. There are captivating photos, stories about playing gumshoe in Honolulu, tour guide in Amsterdam and taxonomist in China, descriptions of windjamming in Maine and on the Mediterranean, trekking in Tuscany, exploring Tierra del Fuego aboard the M
Judging by the new round of airline fees, probably not much!
Southwest Airlines opted not to charge for carry-ons (other airlines opted out too), but then announced it was doubling the fees it charges unaccompanied kids to fly.
There has always been a fee for “UM’s aka/Unaccompanied Minors, as they’re called in the biz, but Southwest’s jump from $25.00 to $50.00 each way says a lot about the “fee-madness" that has infected airlines everywhere,
I posted this at The Travel Doc. I took this photo a few years ago in Bruge, Belgium. This was before digital cameras and I took this the first week of a 5 week trip. I had to wait 2 months to see it. The photo is 3'x4' and hangs framed on my wall. Should my home catch on fire, it would be one of the first things I would grab. Great memories (:
By Borderjumpers.org, a blog by Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack
We’ve taken some long bus rides in Africa. We spent eight bumpy hours on a bus from Nairobi to Arusha and another eight from Arusha to Dar Es Salaam. The longest so far, though, has been from Kampala, Uganda to Kigali, Rwanda.
Once we finally arrived, we quickly realized, that we've never traveled anywhere quite like Rwanda.
Fifteen years ago one of the largest modern genocides occurred here.
Our visit to the genocide memorial m
Take Care at the We Care Spa
If you have ever experienced the signs of burnout, then you will have probably dreamt of escaping the stresses of everyday life and heading to a hideaway to unwind.
Such as the private oasis that is the We Care Spa in Desert Hot Springs, California. This is one of the best-kept secrets of the Hollywood starlets, rock stars and power players who come here to experience the intensive cleansing and personal touch of this healing retreat. We Care really does care about yo
