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Michael Dobson gave me the url of a very useful site for checking information on such things as electrical requirements, telephone adapters, etc. It is traveloasis.com
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www.literarytraveler.com The site contains literary travelogues, largely visiting locations in the U.S., but with some ventures to Europe. for New England www.canada.com/travelEncarta Maps
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Biztravel.com promises to do more for airline passengers than airlines have ever done themselves. For tickets purchased at Biztravel, customers are eligible for unprecedented refunds for late or cancelled flights on five big airlines: Air France, American Airlines, British Airways, Continental Airlines and US Airways. Refunds range from $100 to the entire fare, depending upon how late the flight is.
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Swiss Army knife stores data New from Victorinox, famous for their Swiss Army knives, come two versions of something they call SwissMemory, both featuring a removable data storage device and bright LED mini light.
The 64 MB Air Travel version retails for about $115, regular SwissMemory sells for about $125. You can upgrade the memory to 128 MB for $140 and $150 respectively. Transatlantic cruises offered spring and fall Spring and fall are the times of the year when cruise companies reposition their liners. For instance, during summer months cruising is more popular in the Mediterranean or on the Alaska run than it is in the Caribbean so ships are moved to those locations. Once autumn comes, they head back to the Caribbean or to other winter sun destinations.Tuesday Jul 20, 2004 ts
Topographic maps of Canada now on DVD Hikers, hunters, campers and fishermen, never again have to struggle with an unwieldy paper topographic map, like the hiker above.Tuesday Jul 20, 2004 ts
Barging through France
CANAL DU MIDI, France—It seems fitting somehow that the only creature on this boat completely accustomed to the snail`s pace of life here is the hitchhiker squatting in an ashtray in our galley.Tuesday 30 Mar 2004 CANADA TOURISM COMMISSION RELAUNCHES WEB SITE
The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) today re-launched CanadaTourism.com, its official business Web site. CanadaTourism.com has been updated to include enhanced technology and content. Users will have access to an environment that is easy to use and navigate, and information that is organized in a more intuitive and logical manner. More..pdf.
Saturday Aug 16, 2003 QUEBEC CITY
The American travel magazine Travel and Leisure reports that Quebec City is the fourth-most popular tourist destination in North America. The three top destinations are the U.S. cities of New York, San Francisco and Santa Fe. The magazine rates Vancouver, B.C., fifth and Montreal, Qué., 10th.Friday Aug 16, 2002 We have just returned from an around the world trip (we are going somewhere else next year!). Here are short page on modern Air Traval
Tuesday Jul 9, 2002 GOOD NEWS FOR SNOWBIRDS
The U.S. immigration authorities say Canadian vacationers will be exempted from the new regulations that could limit the period of time immigrants are allowed to stay to one month. Thousands of Canadians spend their winters in the southern U.S., and some had expressed apprehension that the new regulations would spoil their winter vacations in Florida, Texas, Arizona or California. The regulations were drawn up in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They would give the American authorities the power to reduce long-term visits from six months to one.Sat 5/26/01 Balearics go upmarket By: HELGA LOVERSEED The Gazette
I'd never drunk such delicious orange juice. Dark as blood and as thick as cream, it slipped down my throat like a piece of silk sliding off the edge of a table. And it was as thirst quenching as it was good - a welcome coolant after a hot, one-hour journey in an old-fashioned train. We'd taken the 1912 railway, a slow-moving rattler with wooden coaches, from Palma to Soller, a mountain resort in the northwestern corner of Mallorca, one of the Balearic Islands that lie in the Mediterranean ocean off the east coast of Spain. The Balearics, which comprise Mallorca and Menorca and the smaller islands of Ibiza and Formentera to the south, are not very well-known in Canada, but they've long been popular with British vacationers. In the 1960s and '70s, they were frequented by backpackers and by what the travel industry disparagingly calls the "bucket-and-spade brigade" - holidaymakers seeking cheap vacations with sun, sea and sand.Sat 3/3/01 Paradise at $25 a night By: MARTIN COLES Freelance I lay in my hammock and glanced along the beach in the direction of the sea-turtle museum. If this were a brief vacation, I'd rush to visit the museum. Short vacations create in me a need to cram in as many new experiences as possible. However, three weeks stretched, and my intention was to log as many hammock hours as possible.
I even managed to refrain from joining a throng of people gathered on the beach one afternoon to liberate some tiny sea turtles that had been hatched at the museum. Instead, I swung in my hammock and contemplated the proceedings from afar.Sat 3/3/01 Recapturing the past is a tricky business By: PAUL WATERS Nostalgia, the lust for travel and the aging of the boomer generation have created some odd new commercial enterprises in the last decade or so.
Take , for example, the trade in vintage rail cars. Twenty years ago, the few remaining passenger rail services in North America were dumping rolling stock as fast as they could. They were virtually giving away sleepers and dining cars so they could replace them with tight steel tubes with the same delightful seating arrangement made so popular by the airlines.Sat 3/3/01 Mexican road hazards include menacing cops By: LYNN MOORE The Gazette We rolled into Mexico with a solid game plan: we'd always travel in a caravan with other recreational vehicles; we'd never be on the road after dark and we'd only stay in accredited RV parks. In other words, we were going to play it safe. The problem - as best I can discern it a year after our 10,000-kilometre trek - is that ''safe'' doesn't play well in Mexico if you have any sense of adventure. Which explains, in part, how we came to find ourselves at the centre of an ugly situation involving armed men with police badges and larcenous intent.
The Speedtrap Registry www.speedtrap.com Check the Speedtrap Registry. This site gives you a map of the U.S. to click on. Choose a state, and you get a list of all the speed traps. These locations were submitted by users. Precise directions to the favoured spots are included, times of day they are active, and other hints are noted. You can write in to the site with your own addition to the speed trap database. The Registry has separate sections for a number of countries, including a thorough list of Canadian speed traps.
If you go on a trip, and drop by an Internet Diner somewhere, you may want to surf some of your familiar sites, but can't remember the URLs. The solution is BookmarksPlus. This is a Web based www.bookmarksplus.com bookmark site that lets you access from any computer anywhere on the Net, and find your own list of favorite sites.
Frequent travellers may soon enjoy automated border checking.. click here if the thought of disembarking from a flight at Dorval Airport or driving back into Canada and not being cross-examined by a customs officer sound appealing
Servas is an international network of hosts and travelers and is a non-profit, Non-Governmental organization. Contributions are tax-deductible. Servas International is one of the many Non-Governmental Organizations represented at the United Nations. [12 Languages] ... thanks to Sally Aitken
Check out the city guides offered from Lycos (http://cityguide.lycos.com), Yahoo! (http://travel.yahoo.com) and Excite (http://city.net/regions).
Yahoo!'s Boston guide (http://boston.yahoo.com) for general information. A sister site offered hotel and restaurant reviews from Fodor's, the travel-guide publishers (http://boston.yahoo.com/external/fodors).
Microsoft Sidewalk (http://boston.sidewalk.com) and the Boston Globe's city guide, Boston.com (www.boston.com) for events listings and reviews.
A side-trip took us to four currency converters, at CNN, at Yahoo! Finance, or 164 currencies and THE UNIVERSAL CURRENCY CONVERTER™. See the charts on Cdn»US $1.45 or US»Cdn $.69 (aprox) See Wednesday-Night on One dollar in North Amercia and our New Aug 99 Dollar Stories & Dollar... Archives files
The Radisson chain offers one of the most powerful and useful sites (www.radisson.com). It allows you to check everything from whether there are modem hookup in a particular hotel's rooms to how far it is from the train station. Find the hotel in the global directory, then click on Hotel Information for details.
The map service (http://maps.yahoo.com) is only available for U.S. addresses, though the site promises Canadian ones will be map-able soon. Also Map/Atlas Earth View and the National Atlas on Canada's
CIA Factbook
CIA World Map of Wednesday-Nights.. hear us talk about where you are going!
Bed and Breakfast Online (www.bbcanada.com), a site that has been useful to us in finding accommodations in Toronto and Ottawa. Or Ottawa's Albert House (www.alberthouseinn.on.ca), a 17-room inn whose Web site presents the breakfast menu, photos of rooms, tourist suggestions, along with its very own Anarchists' Guide to Ottawa.
Thanks to Andy Riga of The Gazette for some of these ideas
In Cuba, government vehicles are required by law to pick up hitchhikers. Well, that's just the sort of detail that Lonely Planet is famous for, but the site is not just for backpackers any more. It covers major destinations and attractions. Of course, only Lonely Planet would discuss "the possibly mind-altering consequences of a trip to Disney World."
The online leader is Travelocity.com Inc., which had $504 million in gross > first-quarter bookings and more than 8 million visitors in April, making > it one of the most popular of all Internet sites. It is 70 percent owned > by Sabre Inc., an airline reservation-system company recently spun off > from the parent of American Airlines. > Travelocity's site includes information on more than 300 countries and > features such as Best Fare Finder, but its success is probably due more to > its relationships with Internet service providers.
Overlooked gems
By: TERRY MOSHER and MARY HUGHSON Freelance
Too many travelers barrel right through New Brunswick on their way to Prince
Edward Island or Nova Scotia. Having been guilty of this numerous times, we
decided to spend 10 days last June following our noses circling the province,
visiting some lesser-known areas.
Finding the unusual usually means talking to as many people as possible rather
than visiting too many tourist attractions. Early on, we discovered that if you
want to find out what's going on locally, hang out at the nearest Tim Horton
Donut Shop and keep your ears open.
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