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Introducing Local Insight Concierge Picks!
May 27, 2010 | Local Insight | Read More
Our Local Experts around the world are at it again! They’ve been searching the globe for the very best tips and tricks for your next trip, busy finding the best watering holes in their cities by turning to hotel concierges for recommendations on the very best cocktails and evenings out. Kicking...
Cancer Survivor Sails the High Seas
May 26, 2010 | Travel News | Read More
After a horrific year battling cancer at the age of 43, one woman decided to celebrate her newly established health…but for a cause. Dennise Shepherd, of the United Kingdom, will participate in a sailing challenge to raise donations and awareness for breast cancer.
On June 19th, four nominated...
Italian Ghost Towns Lead to Dispersed Hotel Concepts
May 26, 2010 | Italy, Offbeat | Read More
It can be hard to find the bright spot in the wake of a natural disaster. Destroyed homes generally force families to move on. In Friuli, one Italian man moved in.
The mountainous area near the Alpine border with Switzerland doesn’t see a lot of travelers, less so since an earthquake leveled houses...
8 Abandoned American Theme Parks “Open” for Exploration
May 26, 2010 | Featured | Read More
Amusement parks walk the fine line between fun-ish and semi-creepy. Maybe it’s the combination of sketchy rides, circus folk, questionable attractions, and way too many screaming kids, but there’s something a little unsettling about them. Add an ill-advised theme into the mix, and you’ve...
California City Home to Car Charging Stations Including Rapid Option
May 26, 2010 | Eco-Travel, San Francisco, Travel News | Read More
Vaca is Spanish for cow, but the California city of Vacaville is more bullish about the prospect of electric car technology among its nearly 100,000 residents.
It’s a haven for eco-conscious tourists and travelers who enjoy festivals near the Vaca Mountains, and it now has the country’s first...
Celebrity Airport F-Bombs: Stars’ Tirades Becoming Common
May 26, 2010 | Celebrity Travel, Los Angeles, New York, Travel News, UK | Read More
Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb both recently launched into profanity-laced tirades in separate airport incidents. Tudors star Rhys Meyers got himself banned for life from United Airlines for raging at employees at JFK in New York who wouldn’t allow him on a flight to...
Twitter World Leaders: Spears, Kutcher, Obama, and JetBlue?
May 26, 2010 | Celebrity Travel, Travel News, USA | Read More
This past weekend was a huge and historic one in the 140-character world of Twitter. Sometime Sunday night, Britney Spears (@BritneySpears) became Twitter’s most followed tweeter, surpassing Austin Kutcher (@aplusk) with somewhere in the neighborhood of 4.95 million followers. The day before,...
NileGuide 5 with Jamie Pearson of Travel Savvy Mom
May 26, 2010 | NileGuide 5 | Read More
Jamie Pearson is a writer, mother of two, and founder of Travel Savvy Mom. Her writing has appeared in Parenting, the Utne Reader, and in the award-winning anthology Toddler: Real-life Stories of Those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love. She has traveled extensively with and without her...
Offbeat Laws, Rules, and Regulations Around the Globe
May 25, 2010 | Around the World, Offbeat | Read More
At one point or another you’ve skimmed through a laundry-list of ridiculous ordinances that are questionable in nature. A famous “blue law” from Virginia supposedly bans more than five unrelated women living in a house together, because it would constitute a brothel, although this has...
A Note to Tipplers: Low Cost Alcohol a No-Go in UK
May 25, 2010 | Offbeat, Travel News, UK | Read More
Authorities in the United Kingdom had been worried over a price war on booze in the face of one of the most alcohol-friendly events in recent memory, the 2010 World Cup.
But a new law proposed as part of the Queen’s speech would ban the sale of ultra-low cost beverages in England and Wales as part...
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