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Orlando discounts holidays stays

Orlando discounts holidays stays

PRESS RELEASE FROM VISIT ORLANDO: Celebrate The Holiday Season in Orlando; save up to 45% on Orlando hotels this holiday season ORLANDO, Fla. – This holiday season, Orlando decks the halls with festive celebrations for the entire family. Visitors who book their Orlando holiday hotel by Dec. 15 can save up to 45% and experience [...]

November 6, 2012No CommentRead More

New Louvre to open in France

New Louvre to open in France

PARIS–Much attention has been paid to the planned–but long-delayed–opening of a Middle Eastern branch of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi (now not expected to open until 2014 or after) but the world’s most famous museum is set to open a less-heralded, but no less spectacular, outpost a bit closer to home with the Dec. 4 [...]

November 3, 2012No CommentRead More

Review: At Hoshinoya Kyoto, life as art

Review: At Hoshinoya Kyoto, life as art

KYOTO, Japan – There are certain spots in the world where, as (in)famous Irish wit, thinker and author Oscar Wilde put it, life imitates art. Not figuratively, but literally. Places that, although beautiful in and of themselves, seem even more so to the observer because they recall a particular work or style of art, or [...]

July 3, 20122 CommentsRead More

Hidden Rio: Artsy Santa Teresa beckons

Hidden Rio: Artsy Santa Teresa beckons

RIO DE JANEIRO — When people refer to Rio de Janeiro as Cidade Maravilhosa, or the “Marvelous City,” they usually have in mind the bikinis, bossa nova and beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana — not to mention churrascaria barbecue and caipirinha cocktails — but there’s a lot more to this amazing Brazilian city that just food, [...]

June 27, 2012No CommentRead More

Video/slideshow: Antigua, Guatemala

Video/slideshow: Antigua, Guatemala

ANTIGUA, Guatemala — Nestled in a valley beneath three volcanoes, the postcard-perfect, colonial-era city of Antigua de Guatemala is this Central American country’s tourism trump card. Charming cobblestone streets wind between pastel-colored Spanish structures housing restaurants, gift shops, galleries and nightspots. Ancient churches, convents, monasteries and administrative buildings raised by the conquistadors — some in [...]

June 26, 2012No CommentRead More

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Gettin’ some gemutlichkeit: Day 2

Recently, treKKen’ headed overseas to southwestern Germany for a 10-day, culinary- and culture-themed trek from Mainz to Lake Constance, with stops in Freiburg, Stuttgart, Hohenzollern Castle and other towns, cities, vineyards and sightseeing spots well-known, and less so, across the Black Forest, the Schwabische Alb (Swabian Alps) and the states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wurttemberg. [...]

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