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Parents Time-Out At Disney WorldCara Goldsbury So you think a trip to Walt Disney World is one only the kids can enjoy. Well, think again! Here are a few tips for making your vacation to Mickey Mouse Land a memorable one for the whole family.
| | | | RELATED ARTICLES Ten reasons to move to the Costa Brava After France, Spain is Europes most popular holiday destination, and the apparent dominance of France is to a large extent due to visitors in transit elsewhere. In 1996 between 1.2 and 1.3 million European tourists visited Spain. It is therefore not surprising that many of them become interested in buying a home there. Spains property market generally has enjoyed strong growth, with the Costa Brava enjoying a particularly large rise in values. About 20% of foreign owners are more or less permanent residents of Spain, while the remaining 80% bought their property for either holidays or investment purposes. Planning Your Dream Vacation Planning a vacation is a very important part of any vacation. It ensures that a vacation can be successful and enjoyable, and hopefully goes a long way to avoiding snags and hang ups. Vacation organization is something that once you do it once, you can do it fore vacations to come. To begin I will point out some tips that will hopefully help you in your quest to organize your vacation and/or trip. How To Deal With Airport Stress Your flights booked, and now its airport time.Airports can be stressful places nowadays, and these tips are designed for stress reduction... German castles -- 4 of the most incredible ones -- Part II Welcome to the second part of my special report of 4 awesome German castles! As I already have told, we have a long history here in Germany and very medieval castles. You can find them all over the country, but those four I have focused on South Germany, so that you do not have to travel hundreds of kilometres/miles and lose valuable time. 5 Romantic Travel Resolutions A new year always means a chance for a new start. You and yours can begin this new year by making some travel resolutions together, regardless of your time and budget restraints. Put aside those old travel habits and make some new ones! Let this be the year that your travel plans focus on fun, fantasy, and festivities! Donald Trump Builds Across From Wynn on the Las Vegas Strip Donald Trump has plans to begin the building of a $300 million tower on the Las Vegas Strip, in January 2005. Are You Prepared for a Winter Emergency Brrr! Its definitely winter here in the Carolinas! Snow backed up traffic in Raleigh, NC today with some people being stuck in traffic for 5 hours!!! Four different schools have children spending the night because driving conditions were too hazardous for the buses and parents could not get through the traffic to pick up their children! People are in ditches and cars are stalled. An older couple found themselves stranded for more than 4 hours after going off the road into a ditch. Police could not get to them sooner...they had to attend to more serious accidents. Movie Review - Shrek 2 The film opens with Shrek voiced over by Mike Myers and his beloved now turned into an Ogre Princess Fiona Cameron Diaz enjoying themselves on their honeymoon at sand-kissed beaches. Returning from their romantic idyll, Shrek and Princess Fiona are summoned by Fionas parents, the king John Cleese and queen Julie Andrews of the "Kingdom Far, Far Away" a fairy-tale version of Beverly Hills. After much discussion, the ogre couple finally decide to leave for the celebration at the "Kingdom Far, Far Away." Donkey also accompanies them with his whining and one-liner spouting all intact. Desert Inn Makes Room For "Encore at Wynn Las Vegas" The towers of the legendary Desert Inn in Las Vegas nine-story each were imploded on November 17, 2004, in order to make room for a new construction in the "Wynn Las Vegas" project, initially planned to span over 20 acres of land. Parents Time-Out At Disney World So you think a trip to Walt Disney World is one only the kids can enjoy. Well, think again! Here are a few tips for making your vacation to Mickey Mouse Land a memorable one for the whole family. The Costa Brava Insight Starting at Blanes to the south and ending at Cadaques in the North, the Costa Brava offers purchasers natural beauty, proximity to the great city of Barcelona, historic medieval villages, world-famous restaurants like "El Bulli" at Roses, innumberable excellent sporting opportunities including world famous golf courses and ski-ing in the Pyrenees. Costa Rica Travel Packages Located in southern Central America, Costa Rica is surrounded by three different bodies of water including the Panama Canal on the southeast, the Pacific Ocean on the southwest and west and the Caribbean Ocean on the east. Because of Costa Ricas close proximity to several bodies of water, the country is an ideal stopping point for various cruise ships carrying throngs of adventurous vacationers. Depending on the area of Costa Rica you are in, the climate can differ dramatically. There are cool wet mountain ranges, rain forests, dry tropical forests, cloud forests, the very dry Pacific coast and the damp Caribbean coast. Because of Costa Ricas diverse climate, the country is home to 850 species ofbirds, 205 species of mammals, 9,000 species of flowering plants, 1,200 species of orchids and 376 species of reptiles and amphibians. For a country that only measures 51,060 square kilometers, this is a wide variety of natural wildlife. Costa Rica strives to maintain the lands natural beauty and wildlife by designating one sixth of the country to national parks and wildlife refuges. Costa Rica is also home to several active volcanoes. Arenal erupts daily every fifteen minutes or so. The locals welcome foreigners with open arms making Costa Rica one of the most desirable vacation and retirement spots in the world. It is for these and other reasons that a Costa Rica vacation cruise should be booked today. The memories will last a lifetime. Jerusalem - City of Gold "It took just 6 days for God to createHis wonderful world - so big - so greatOn the 7th day - He had a rest -Hed worked so hard - Hed done his bestHe settled back and looked to see,"I need a city.. One thats just for Me"And as He watched in His new setting sunHis eyes looked down on Jerusalem.." India on the Rails If life is a journey than, in India at least, it chugs along on two parallel steel lines… the railways. No reference here to the local trains of Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, where citizens spend a substantial portion of their waking hours commuting increasing distances within ever expanding city-limits. Tourist in My Own Hometown I lived in the suburbs of New York City almost all my lifeand it was only when I was in my 20s and working on 5thAvenue when I finally went to the top of the Empire StateBuilding. It took me almost two decades as well to ice-skateat Rockefeller Center, browse the Museum of Natural History,and see a Broadway play. The Best of Universal Orlando So you’ve done Walt Disney World and now you’re ready to discover Universal Orlando. But where to start Universal Orlando is a whopper of a destination composed of exceptional resorts, first-rate restaurants, and two theme parks offering a certain brand of high-speed intensity certain to please. Here are some of Universal’s best experiences: Fractional Fairytales -Private Air Charter Once upon a time, long, long ago -- in the early 1990s -- the concept of fractional ownership in private aircraft was born, and there was much rejoicing throughout the land. People who never believed theyd be able to afford, or justify, owning a private jet suddenly had the opportunity to purchase partial ownership in one. The Memory Collector Everyone collects something rightIt may be baseball cards, hats, or some other type of sports memorabilia.Even if you don’t consider yourself a collector of anything, you may be and don’t even know it.How about the collection of tools in the cellar you don’t really use, but you have to have them!Even maybe all those movies laying around you no longer watch, sounds like a collection to me. Australias Undiscovered Jewel Bunbury and the South West area of Western Australia or WA is one of the worlds great places to live, with a Mediterranean climate, sandy-white beaches, beautiful native forests and all the infrastructure expected of a modern western society. Bob Hope Stories Once when he was a little boy in England, Leslie Hope He later renamed himself Bob after a race car driver he idolized wanted to pick an apple off a tree. Symbolic of his career, he didnt want just any apple but the highest one possible. He lost his balance, fell and permanently changed the shape of his nose. |
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