Articles for Romantic
Invisible Ink Recipe Revealed: National Security in Jeopardy, Love Letters Get More Romantic

In Australia, the Central Intelligence Agency recently declassified six World War I documents, the oldest held by the agency. Their contents? The ingredients used to create invisible ink.
The ingredients, it seems, are a little more complicated than the ones used in the (seemingly) awesome toys we played...
Flirt On the Run: Get Your Groove On With Flirtomatic

Are you a busy professional and don’t have the time to deal with the complexity of a dating website? Do you ever stumble across those “It’s Just Lunch” advertisements within your in-flight magazine and *sigh* in exasperation? Are you constantly on your smartphone checking email,...
Away From Your Valentine Next Week? Never Fear, Skype Can Help

This year Valentine’s Day falls on a Monday, and while most couples will be celebrating over the weekend, there is still that urge to hole up with a loved one on the actual day. Of course, nasty little things like “work” or “business travel” or “snow” or just...
Dine Like a Lover: Splurge, Charm, and Fall in Love This Valentine’s

You’ve caught her fancy. You’ve got his number. You want to impress. You’re looking to charm. You’re in love.
You’re hungry.
Luckily for you, we here at NileGuide HQ have tapped our vast network of Local Experts to bring you the end-all, be-all list of the world’s...
Couple Sets Guinness Records for Most Marriages, Honeymoon Trips

Most of us think that just getting married once will be one of the biggest days in our lives. For Mark and Denise Duffield-Thomas, they’ve taken things a tad further and have gotten married 85 times in 6 months. According to the UK Mirror, six months ago the couple won a contest for the “Ultimate...
Travel Like a Local: Sunsets in Bangkok, Istanbul, Rio, and More

We’ve once again challenged our Local Experts to provide you, the blog peruser, with über-specific travel content, this time in the form of sunset snapshots from their destinations. The results were stunning, and we were quite frankly surprised by some of our experts’ photography skills.
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Destination Weddings Increase (and so do Guest Complaints)

One in five American couples now tie the knot far from home in a destination wedding, according to TheKnot.com & WeddingChannel.com 2009 Destination Weddings Study. With the economy still lousy, destination weddings make sense for couples who want to get a little more travel bang for their wedding...
Take a Mini ‘Moon: Five Romantic Cities for Staycation Honeymoons

It’s almost that time again; the start of wedding season is fast approaching and newlyweds have commenced honeymoon planning! Like most, you’ve planned your dream wedding and the pocketbook is a wee bit lighter than you had initially hoped. Have no fear – you can have that romantic getaway...
Shanghai: A City of Romance and Proposal Paradise

For the passionately romantic traveler hoping to take his or her lover on the date of a lifetime, there is no more romantic and exotic place than Shanghai. The city itself is divided in half by a slow moving river, with both banks reaching towards each other forever in requited romance. Often overlooked...
Romantic Restaurants from London to NYC

OpenTable recently released their list of the top romantic restaurants around the world as voted by diners. While I don’t necessarily disagree with them, I thought we would turn to the fantastic NileGuide team to see where they’d like to take their sweetheart for some Valentine’s dining –...