Travel Journal

With Sounds for Sights you can take walking tours of New York City listening on your MP3 player. Go at your own pace with professionally narrated audio tours by local experts.

There are currently guides for Times Square, Rockfeller Center, Lower Manhattan and the South Stree Seaport. More iPod tours are on deck.

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It would seem that the Greek island of Santorini has its fair share of the luxury market with some wonderful accommodaton options offering superb views. You can add the 11 luxury homes at Ikies Traditional Houses to the list. This unique hotel occupies a unique location at the beginning of the village of Oia in the north of the island, with stunning views of the Cyclades all around. Each dwelling is perched on?a cliff some 15 minutes from the village, in a setting of unrivalled tranquillity. Honeymoon packages are available.

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“Mummy, I’m hungry. I want Mc Donald’s.” The young plump girl seems sleepy but her determined voice is enough to catch her mother’s attention.

“Yes sweetheart, I know you’re hungry. Charlie, can you look for somewhere to stop please? Daddy will find a place soon sweaty.”

“I want Mc Donald’s now. I want Mc Donald’s now.” She bounces up and down in the seat, repeating the four words endlessly.

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Traveling is a very fun and fulfilling experience, but most of the time it becomes stressful to deal with waiting in line for hours to board a commercial airline flight.? Commercial airlines also overbook each and every flight so chances are you will be bumped from your chosen flight sooner of later.

One of the best travel destinations is Spain and we are lucky that now, you have a choice of not dealing with the hassles of riding commercial airlines because air charter traveling to Spain has become more available to everyone.?

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I received an email from the Mileybymile.com folks a week or two ago letting me know that nearly all links on the site had been taken down. They explained that this was due to some abuses that had taken place but they did not elaborate.

It’s too bad because I had spent many hours adding links to my Road Map Guide about Vermont?s great Route 100. This road runs a couple hundred miles the length of the state. Consensus among locals is that Route 100 is the most scenic Vermont road. This is probably because it is the longest, is therefore nearest the greatest number of residents, and also therefore has the greatest number of scenic views.
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The annual CNT Readers Travel Awards is in, votes came in from the Travellers readers and the number one spot with a score of 96.45 out of 100 goes to Read the rest of this entry »