The newest resort in Lanzarote is Playa Blanca , which translates to the white beach and is situated in the South of the island. The resort caters for families but for this article we will focus on what there is to do for couples. There is a great range of accommodation in Playa...
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Featured Family Travel Deal The Metropolitan Hotel in Vancouver, Canada is offering a buy two nights get the third free package . I've stayed at this hotel (on my own dime) in the past, and it is well located and welcoming with marble bathrooms, down duvets, generally comforting and warmly decorated rooms. The...
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As noted here a couple weeks back, Norwegian Cruise Line has plans to completely re-make its childrens' and teens' programs, with an initial introduction aboard Norwegian Gem scheduled for mid-February and a rollout across the NCL fleet planned thereafter. But what’re the new programs called?...
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Most of the time, I love living in a part of the country that has four distinct weather seasons. But when winter’s grip is deep and strong, as it is now, I find myself longing for a warm respite. Oh, to be in Los Angeles, where February’s average temperatures range from 49 degrees...
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In this season of elections and campaigns in politics, Hollywood, American Idol–land, and beyond, the closest contest of all may well have been Budget Travel magazine’s 7th "Coolest Small Towns." It was so close, in fact, that we have declared a tie between ...
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Filed under: Europe , Oceania , Maldives , Liechtenstein , Malta , Monaco , San Marino , Vatican City , St. Kitts & Nevis , Marshall Islands , Nauru , Tuvalu , Caribbean The world's ten smallest countries in terms of area fall into two general categories: European microstates ( Liechtenstein , Malta...
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Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes books about extinct birds, frogs of Australia, and New World flesh-eating plants that have been newly published in North America and the UK Books to the ceiling, Books to the...
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What's better - new mega boats or the smaller, older ships like the Carnival Ecstasy? While I can't answer the first part, I can say that the Ecstasy is an extremely fine ship and was as clean and polished as the Carnival Victory that ...
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'When you tell people you're going swimming with tuna, they laugh in your face' Swimming with dolphins. Everyone yaps on about wanting to do that before they die. But swimming with tuna? For some reason, when you tell people you're going swimming with tuna, they laugh in your face. It?sounds inherently absurd, and...
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We received the following message from John Taylor, a resident in Lanzarote who had nothing but praise for the local general hospital Hospital Doctor José Molina Orosa when his wife required emergency treatment. You obviously receive numerous letters in praise of the...
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