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Tuesday April 25, 2017

Destinations

Millennials Answer the Call of Mexican Wine Country
Tear yourself away from the picture-postcard Pacific views on Route 1, south of the border between California and Mexico, and you see Valle de Guadalupe undulating to the east, its Mars-like boulders and vast stretches of rose-gold-colored dirt belying the fact that there is some pretty great wine being grown here…

Live Like A Local In Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon is Portugal’s coastal capital city, full of charisma, beautifully detailed ceramic tiled buildings, and scenic views of Rio Tejo. Many of the central district’s streets and plazas are lined with bars, bakeries, and pop-up coffee vendors. With so many amazing foods to try and all the pastel de nata you can eat, the cardio getting from place to place in this hilly city will be a welcome challenge, always rewarded with a breathtaking city view…

Island hopping in Greece’s Dodecanese
There is a blueness of sea that seems feasible only via Photoshop or an Instagram filter, but which is made real around the south-east Aegean’s Dodecanese islands. The star players of the archipelago are Rhodes, Lesbos and Kos, but there are 12 large islands in the group, plus tens of smaller ones…

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Tours and Activities

Valley of the Fallen: Spain's most chilling and controversial tourist attraction
A cobalt sky blazes behind a hilltop cross in the wooded landscape of the Sierra de Guadarrama, northwest of Madrid. Made of the local granite, the cross is nearly 500 ft (150m) high with a span of 150 ft (46m)…

Budapest's Secret Underground Hospital
Even though the government declassified the hospital’s existence in 2002, and this year it will celebrate its 10th year as the Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum, the space remains frozen in time, full of mysteries and untold stories. The Seibrigers’ story is one of only hundreds that have emerged since the museum opened…

Holocaust records project launched at FDR Library and Museum
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum has launched an effort to find “unique but dispersed” Holocaust documents and other related material included in the institution’s vast archives.The library and museum located in FDR’s hometown of Hyde Park, New York, announced the launching of the Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Holocaust Collections: A Curatorial Project on Monday, Holocaust Remembrance Day…

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Cruise

Construction Photos of the World's Largest Cruise Ship, Symphony of the Seas
Currently under construction at the STX shipyard in France, the 6,780 passenger cruise ship will sail a season in the Mediterranean before heading to her home in the Cruise Capital of the World, PortMiami. Once in Miami, Symphony of the Seas will sail week long cruises to the Eastern and Western Caribbean…

Just Back From Windstar Cruises' Wind Surf: Hits and Misses
The 310-passenger Wind Surf -- the largest ship in Windstar's six-strong fleet -- has just arrived in Europe where it will spend the summer season sailing Western Mediterranean itineraries. The seven-sail ship isn't new -- it debuted in 1990 -- but it received a soft refurbishment in November 2016 during an 11-day dry dock…

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Transportation

Qatar Airways plans new San Francisco route despite U.S. uncertainty
Qatar Airways said San Francisco as its newest U.S. destination, revealing those plans Monday along with 11 other new destinations the carrier intends to add to its route map. The airline's San Francisco service would begin “in 2018,” though it did not offer a specific launch date or schedule details…

The Safest Seat On A Plane, According To Studies Of Crash Data
Experts estimate your overall odds of perishing in a plane crash are well into the millions. Curious travelers may still wonder about the safest place to be in the event of a very unlikely accident. The answer, it turns out, depends on the type of crash you’re in…

United Airlines commercial axed from Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival organizers have decided to stop screening a 30-second spot advertising United’s Polaris Business Class before films due to “a wave of comical reactions from audiences.” The airline, which continues to provide travel for filmmakers to and from New York City for the prestigious event, has been an official sponsor of Robert De Niro’s film festival since 2014…

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Lodging

After Decline in Paris Tourism, Hotels Offer Discounts
What’s better than a springtime getaway to Paris? There may be only one answer: a trip to the City of Light that’s more affordable this year compared with the past several seasons…

Best hotels in Mauritius: How top designers remade luxury in paradise
Luxury hotels have staked claims to Mauritius's famed beaches for decades, but over the last couple of years, elite designers have remade venerable island institutions and built new paradise retreats from the ground up…

Carcassonne, France, offers castle-on-the-hill getaway
Somewhere at the intersection of fantasy and history stands the medieval city of Carcassonne, a castle-on-the-hill getaway in the south of France. The Cite, as the walled-off hilltop section of Carcassonne is known, has been a strategically important hub for millennia…

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Other and Odd

Putting the Front Desk in the Hotel Guest’s Pocket
When Lenette and Charlie Frye arrived recently at the Four Seasons in Orlando, Fla., for a two-night stay, they spotted an iPad loaded with the hotel’s app that they could use to order food, call for their car or read about activities in the hotel…

For Road-Weary Cyclists, a Room, a Couch, Maybe Even a Meal
Warm Showers started small in 1993, but its website now lists 39,000 hosts and 89,000 bicycle tourers — people who hit the road for extended long-distance trips — in 175 countries. Hosts offer what they can: a couch, a room, or a place outside to pitch a tent, and sometimes meals, too…

Today in History

La Marseillaise
On April 25th, 1792, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composed "La Marseillaise", the song destined to become the French national anthem…

Press Releases of Interest

South African Airways And Hawaiian Airlines Launch New Interline Partnership
South African Airways (SAA), the national carrier of South Africa and Hawaiian Airlines, Hawaii’s largest and longest serving carrier, announced today that they have established a new interline agreement, that provides new and convenient flight options for both SAA and Hawaiian customers traveling between the Hawaiian Islands and Southern…

Mike's Morning Missives

You Want Faster Results? Target Your Market

I often approach an unsuspecting woman in a live seminar audience and catch her by surprise by asking her if she would consider marrying me. It should come as no surprise that a quick, and oftentimes terse, refusal follows in a Nano-second.

Priding myself as being rejection-proof, I immediately swing to a second woman sitting near by and ask the same question … only to receive the same answer. After the third attempt it becomes clear to the group that I am not interested in any particular individual, and that I must be working from a self-serving agenda. I simply want to become married, and I don’t particularly care with whom I perform the ceremony. As a result, not one of my targets should be flattered,…

  — Travel Research Online
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60-Second Geography

Experience Akaroa's French Charm with Shore Trips
by Simone Hasskew
Tuesday April 25, 2017

Akaroa may only be a small part of New Zealand, located 52 miles from Christchurch, but it is not one to be missed. Surrounded by beautiful bays and harbors, and lush with French and English history, Akaroa is a destination with more to offer than meets the eye. Spend your days outside, and your early evenings wine-tasting in this small piece of New Zealand paradise.

Thanks to Shore Trips, the supplier sponsor of this column, you can use this 60-Second Geography article in your own travel agency’s newsletters and…

  — Travel Research Online
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Outposts

D-Day Battles for France by Back-Roads Touring Co.
by Richard Earls
Tuesday April 04, 2017

The largest amphibious invasion in history took place on the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Allied forces from the United States, Canada, Britain and France waded ashore that day to establish a beachhead in the north of France. Sailing from bases on the southern coast of England, the forces landed on five French beaches with the codenames Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah. The successful invasion paved the way for the eventual victory of Allied forces in Europe and the end of World War II.

American Cemetery in Normandy

Today, those same beaches on the coast of France are still known by their D-Day code names. Throughout the…

  — Travel Research Online
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