"And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?"Tillie Olsen
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Choosing the Best MP3 player for travel.
MP3 players are now capable of many things including making your life easier while traveling. With more of us traveling these days whether it be across State, interstate or around the world, often one home comfort we miss is our music. The choice of music ...
Online Travel Statistics
The Travel Industry Association of America (TIA) released their annual Travelers’ Use of the Internet study in December 2003. The study shows an increase in the number of people using the internet to research and book travel.TIA found that 30% of the ...
Traveling to Boston? Eight tips to save you a boatload of cash.
You may be ready for your trip to Boston, but is your bank account? As one of the most expensive cities in the country, Boston can quickly deplete your vacation funds. The average hotel cost per night in 2004 according to the Greater Boston Convention ...
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A new year always means a chance for a new start. You and yours can begin this new year by making some travel resolutions together, regardless of your time and budget restraints. Put aside those old travel habits and make some new ones! Let this be the year that your travel plans focus on fun, fantasy, and festivities!
(1) We're going to plan a real vacation. No, it doesn't have to be an around the world cruise or first class getaway (but if you can afford it, what are you waiting for?) It does have to be an honest-to-goodness vacation, though. No cell phones, no laptops. Mark the dates on the calendar and keep it just like you'd keep any business appointment. The business of romantic travel, though, is a fun one and an activity that the two of you can plan for months.
(2) We're going to involve each other in the trip planning. All too often, one partner gets the job for planning a trip...and that task quickly becomes a bore. Plan your trips together! Anticipation is half the fun. Visit a travel agent. Collect brochures. Buy a guidebook. Rent a video about your destination. Search the internet for information.
(3) We're going to do something we've never done. Here you can be as mild -- or as wild -- as you dare. Go whitewater rafting. Rent a houseboat. Take a hot air balloon ride. Spend the night in a local bed and breakfast. Learn to scuba dive. Dance the whole night away under the stars. The choice is yours.
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We're going to take one mini-vacation every month. Whether it's for the night or just for the night out, plan one tiny slice of a vacation every single month. The only rule: you must pretend you're on vacation. Book a night at a local bed and breakfast. Call your local hotel and find out their non-peak nights (in business-oriented cities, it's usually Friday and Saturday) then plan a short romantic getaway.
(5) We're going to go to at least one festival. Special events take place at just about every community around the world. Whatever your interests -- from square dancing to sandcastle building -- you'll find a festival celebrating with a day or two of fun and food. If you don't have the time or budget to go far, contact area chamber of commerce or tourism offices within a day's drive of your home for their calendar of events. If you can, extend your trip into a long weekend. If you've got the time and resources, check out some of the major fun festivals: Carnival, Mardi Gras, Rio's Carnivale. Don't forget your costume!
Husband and wife team Paris Permenter and John Bigley edit the award-winning Lovetripper.com (www.lovetripper.com), a romantic travel magazine and resource featuring honeymoons, destination weddings, and romantic getaways worldwide.
editors@lovetripper.com
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 Urquhart Travel misses the dividends bus - Scotsman.com
DAVID Urquhart Travel, one of the UK's biggest independent coach tour companies, will not pay a dividend for the second year running after full-year profits more than halved. Accounts newly filed at Companies House reveal that profit before tax fell ...
2009 Travel: What's Hot and What's Not - PR Newswire
RESTON, Va., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the new national focus on economizing, green living and getting back to basics, 2009 promises to be a year of change in many areas of our lives, including travel. Here's a look at What's Hot and ...
Travel guru Rick Steves in Iran - Seattle Post Intelligencer
EDMONDS -- The transition to Iran's conformist, Islamic-dictated society began even before Rick Steves' flight from Istanbul touched down at Khomeini Airport in Tehran. "Suddenly all these voluptuous, elegant women on the plane began getting modest ...
TRENDnet Launches the World's Smallest Wireless N Travel Router - Consumer Electronics Net
TORRANCE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/08/09 -- TRENDnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking hardware brand, today announces the launch of the world's smallest 300Mbps Wireless N Travel Router Kit, model TEW-654TR; this high performance ...
Bus services at risk due to cost of free travel for elderly - Daily Telegraph
Councils said they may be forced to remove subsidies for other groups such as students or schoolchildren, or cut support for loss-making routes, because so many over-60s are taking advantage of the bus passes they were given last year. They say the ...
Australian travel boosts arrivals in Fiji - e-Travel Blackboard
Economic downturn did not prevent Fiji from reaching record visitor levels in 2008, a growth factor which can be largely attributed to Australian arrivals. According to Tourism Fiji, the rise in Australian arrivals assisted the 8.9 percent growth ...
Avis Budget Group and RaySat Broadcasting Corporation to Bring ... - MSN MoneyCentral
Avis Budget Group and RaySat Broadcasting Corp. are teaming up to make road trips more enjoyable by offering Avis and Budget Rent A Car customers AT&T CruiseCast(SM), a new satellite television service that delivers popular news, family, sports ...
Travel tips for inaugural visitors - Baltimore Sun
• MARC train tickets are still available from the Maryland Transit Administration but are selling fast. The $25 round-trip tickets can be bought through the MTA Web site at www.CommuterDirect.com. Some trains are sold out. • MTA commuter buses ...
Internet travel searches drop 42 per cent - Times Online
The number of people searching for flights in the week after Christmas fell 42 per cent this year compared to the same period last year, as consumers rein in their spending as a result of the slowdown. January and the period immediately after ...
We're all going on a summer Aldi... Budget chain offers four-star ... - Daily Mail
Aldi will today begin selling four-star holidays which it claims will undercut rivals by up to 50 per cent. The budget supermarket will offer a choice of ten to 12 holiday deals every two weeks. They will be sold in large volumes, allowing the firm ...
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