On the Road Again - the Gentzlers and the Claytons in New Zealand
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Archive for February 19th, 2010
Kiwi Kapers by Keith ( a kiwi wanna be) — Mt. Cook Village, South Island, New Zealand
A Rotorua i cigni sono neri — Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
Viaggio verso il paese ai confini del mondo
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Universal Florida: Harry Potter AAA Packages
Hogwart's Castle, Universal Orlando AAA is now selling vacation packages to Universal Orlando® for travel beginning May 28 to include the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter area in the Islands of Adventure theme park scheduled to open this spring. The 4-night AAA Universal Vacations package starts from $285 per adult for off-site...
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Win a free cruise! One little catch: The cruise line is out of business
Scam alert: If you get a phone call saying that you'll get a free Caribbean cruise just for taking part in a brief survey, it's probably best to hang up. David Lazarus, a columnist for the LA Times , reports how he just recently received such a phone call. The survey began with...
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St Lucia Holidays, Best Caribbean Food and Drink
Flavour and fragrance are the hallmarks of St Lucia's Caribbean cuisine, blessed by tropical sun, fertile soil and bountiful seas.
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Hate winter? Live in the Caribbean… Barbados vs. Playa Del Carmen
I don’t hate many things in life, but being cold is no 1 on my list. For 27 years I would see the leafs change in Montreal and I knew that my worst nightmare was only a few months away, winter was coming! Anyone who’s lived a cold winter has probably gone through what...
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Spotting Cool Stuff in Jamaica
Reporting live from the Caribbean, Feb 22 to 27
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Normandie’s art deco at South Street Seaport Museum
The short life of SS Normandie, one of the grandest ocean liners ever built, is receiving tribute at the South Street Seaport Museum , as many of its salvaged art deco interiors are on display through January. “It was the most flawless of the ocean liners,” curator and cruise ship historian Bill Miller...
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Ryanair dumps passengers on wrong island – doesn’t care
Filed under: Europe , Spain , United Kingdom , Airlines A planeload of passengers on a Ryanair flight from the UK to Lanzarote (one of the Spanish Canary Islands) learned the hard way that low cost carriers carry a hidden price. Instead of landing in Lanzarote, the plane landed in Fuerteventura (about 30...
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Orlando: Universal Studios Announces First Hotel Package For Its Harry Potter Theme Park
Happy Friday! It's a very happy Friday indeed for fans of Harry Potter and Universal Studios actually, since the first vacation and hotel package was just announced for the getting-ready-to-open "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" theme park at Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure . The park, which will recreate Hogwarts, Ollivander's wand shop,...
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