Trying to accommodate a list of preferences, above all, budget and location, during prime tourist season was a challenge. It was possible at that point that availability for a choice hotel was going to be sparse. But then I remembered a colleague who told me about an alternative vacation rental option with RedWeek, a travel hack that acts like a back door to hotel room inventory. So I checked it out.
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A recent announcement from Insider Expeditions in partnership with tennis legends John and Patrick McEnroe revealed a very special event taking place in Tanzania in December 2023 as part of a new goodwill awareness and sports program. And it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event that travelers and tennis aficionados will have a chance to join them.
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Have you ever watched one of those TV shows where a celebrity meets one-on-one with a genealogist to discover all kinds of stories and unknown ancestry?
Ancestry on the Rhine: Cruising with AmaWaterways Read More »
Five countries, seven days, pure river cruise travel adventure on the Captivating Rhine featuring Ancestry.com Discovery. Join me and Wanderama for a glimpse as I embark on a luxurious river cruise, waking up daily to whole new adventures and exploring different cultural histories in storybook towns of the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, and Switzerland with genealogists and new f
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Immediately, I was nostalgic for all that woos me there. But among the newer things instantaneously weaving themselves into an adventurous itinerary were the Sazerac House by the French Quarter and the eye-popping multi-media art pop-up by the Bywater called JamNOLA.
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But the new exhibits at the high-tech National World War II Museum paired with the new art-deco 1940s era Higgins Hotel on Magazine Street presented some immersive escapism and intrigue.
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The city that never sleeps has one of the most iconic, recognizable skylines in the world.
From iconic to new to reinvented, New York City’s best observatories offer up glimpses of its continuous evolution and incarnations. They seem to perpetually evoke all kinds of familiar stories in its sprawling playground where dreams are made.
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Montreal’s eclectic arts and food scenes have much to offer, and exploring on foot is the easy, oft-preferred mode for many to get about, just like I do at home in NYC. I’ve explored the obvious cultural aspects when first dipping my toes here in what Mark Twain once dubbed, ‘The
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The howl of the dogs could be heard before even reaching the base camp. After climbing deep into the elaborate range of Norway’s Lyngen Alps, our wheels turned onto the crunchy, icy gravel of the lot, and our headlights scanned across the trees of the compound, before idling nearby a Sámi’s lavvu at Aurora Alps.
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Racing on the Autobahn past Heidelberg through Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt some friends and I began our immersive quest to explore the Bauhaus movement’s art and culture.
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