Shopping in Orlando

As a repatriated foreign national, I am often ‘lucky’ enough to have both the near and extended family come stay with me for their summer holidays - a season we are on the very brink of now.
Aside from host, tour guide, butler, chef, chamber maid and free lodging, one of the main duties I fulfill [...]

Visiting Orlando Florida This Summer? Read This

Orlando Florida is home to some of the best attractions and theme parks in the world and the water parks are no exception! The following is a complete review with tips for the top water parks for Summer 2008.
Discovery Cove
Discovery Cove is a truly unique water park! Here, you’ll enjoy an entire day up close [...]

Atlantic City vs Las Vegas

In a recent article published by TravelMole Atlantic City was said to be rated higher by consumers than Las Vegas. Here are the highlights:

Market Metrix’s latest hospitality study reported that Atlantic City was rated higher by consumers for price, sophistication and pampering.
A recent survey published in Hotel & Motel Management magazine said that Atlantic City [...]

Cedar Pointe

Cedar Pointe is a seasonal park located in Sandusky, Ohio that is open May through September. If you live close by, it’s an easy drive from Toledo or Cleveland, a little further from the Detriot area, but still doable as a day trip. For 2008 a one day pass will only cost you $42.95 per [...]

Potosi

A minimun of three days are needed to get to know the place. Potosi in an intricate marvelous laberrynth of narrow streets, an endless pattern of railways going up and down covered by wires hanging from building with wooden colonial balconies, silent witnesses of what it once was: one of the biggest and richest cities [...]

More reasons to visit Sanremo, Italy……

Spring’s lush colors on the Italian Riviera are worth a visit to literally smell the roses. This Casino town is the heart of the Riviera dei Fiori, flowering coast. Brilliant magenta bougainvilleas cascades down rocky slopes, barely stopping for spiny cactus, as trumpets of morning glories clamber through oleander bushes dense with blossoms.

On Tuesday [...]

Chicago - The windy city in a day

Recently my girlfriend and I made a trip to Chicago. Basically it was a Chicago in a day trip starting downtown and culminating at the friendly confines of Wrigley Field to watch the Cubs play (a can’t miss). So we started at Sears Tower, the tallest building in the US. Now a normal tourist would [...]

Caesarea Israel - Remains and Future

(Remains of Harod’s Palace)
It seems to be a common picture, but very few people know that the wrecked wall has been there for two thousand years. It witnessed the up and down of an ancient city, Caesarea, and reminds visitors of the history of human beings: built, destroyed and rebuilt.

(Caesarea Theatre)

Existing people are the main [...]

Walking Tour of Plaka and Monastiraki, Athens

(The Stanley Hotel)
Plaka is one of the city’s major attractions. It was only a couple of stops on the subway from where i was staying at the Stanley Hotel so i decided to go and see some of the many interesting sights such as ancient monuments, Byzantine churches and beautifully restored mansions can [...]

Yorkshire - God’s own county

Hi, I’m Melissa from the European Product team and I will be doing my first blog on the area of the UK that I am from - Yorkshire – God’s own County.
Location - For those of you not familiar with the geography of Great Britain, Yorkshire is the largest
County of England covering approximately [...]