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Destinations
On Samos, Aesop’s Fabled Isle, a Mix of Greeks, Migrants and Tourists
Legend has it that when Aesop, a slave, was brought to the Greek island of Samos, he so charmed the locals with his fables that they not only freed him, but honored him with a shrine. That Aesop should have come to this Northern Aegean island for freedom holds a special poignancy today, even if it is only myth, because Samos is now home to…
— New York Times
Cool-Girl Stylist Peju Famojure’s Guide to Shopping and Relaxing in Republic of Congo
A mere glimpse at Peju Famojure’s Instagram will leave you wishing that you, too, were gallivanting from one far flung locale to the next in #oldceline. The New York-born fashion editor and stylist has held posts at various glossies, and styles big names like Solange Knowles, all the while living between New York and Paris. So it’s really no surprise…
— Vogue
Tours and Activities
Why You Should Lose Your Ski Touring Virginity in Norway
Skis desperately gripping the sugary snow and forehead slick with sweat as I stand panting heavily, I have one of those moments where I wonder if this might be how I die. Yes, I have a taste for melodrama. But I also honestly don’t know how I’m going to make it down the next hundred metres or so of rugged terrain, all of it blanketed in…
— The Independent
12 Must-Do Adventures Down Under
The best thing about traveling in Australia’s far north is connecting with the Aboriginal people who have roamed these canyons and coasts for some 65,000 years. Nowhere is their culture more alive than in Arnhem Land, a 37,500-square-mile preserve with rusty red coastlines, rugged escarpments, and croc-filled oxbow lakes. You can camp on…
— Outside Online
Cruise
World's best cruise lines: U.S. News & World Report's 2019 award winners
Which is a better cruise line for the money, Costa Cruises or Celebrity Cruises? U.S. News & World Report's 2019 rankings for the world's best cruise lines are out this week, and while Costa just squeezes into the Top 8 list for Best Cruise Lines for the Money, it's Celebrity that pulls down the top honors at No. 1. For its sixth annual Best Cruise…
— USA Today
Cruise Line Turns Away 80-Year-Old Widow From Scottish Voyage
An 80-year-old great-grandmother was turned away from a UK cruise because she did not have acceptable ID – and was then given no assistance as she sought to catch up with the ship. In January, Shelagh Doyle paid £950 for a one-week “Lochs of Scotland” cruise aboard the Fred. Olsen ship Black Watch. She was told at the time that she must…
— The Independent
Transportation
Growing Consensus: Thanksgiving Will Be Busiest Ever for Air Travel
There’s growing consensus: This will be the busiest Thanksgiving ever for air travel. The latest comes from airline trade group Airlines for America (A4A), which will issue its annual Thanksgiving travel forecast Wednesday. A4A is projecting a record holiday in terms of passenger traffic, matching similar expectations from the Transportation…
— USA Today
The US Airlines Most and Least Likely to Mishandle Your Luggage
Each year, thousands of suitcases end up separated from their owners due to airline baggage mishandlings. Although many of these missing suitcases eventually get to the right place, some never do. Just last month, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) issued their latest airline travel report that lists the mishandled baggage stats for…
— Insider
Lodging
Sneak Peek: Rosemont Lands Its First Boutique Hotel, The Rose
For a village of roughly 4,000 residents, Rosemont is rife with hotels. Nearly 20 of them populate this northwest suburb, in the shadow of O’Hare International Airport. Yet another hotel is about to join Rosemont’s ranks, but this one is billed as the town’s first boutique offering: The Rose, a 165-room property “where classy meets edgy.” It opens…
— Chicago Tribune
Maui's Wailea Resorts Are Best in Hawaii, Condé Nast Traveler's Readers Say
South Maui’s Wailea resorts overshadowed better-known Waikiki in the recently released Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers Choice Awards 2018. Of the top resorts in Hawaii, five of the top 10 are on Maui. The Hotel Wailea, an adults-only hotel about three-quarters of a mile from the ocean, came in at No. 1.“… [B]e sure to put your vacation in…
— LA Times
Other and Odd
How to Up the Spontaneity Quotient on Your Next Trip
Nothing against relaxing on beachfront daybeds or doing the cathedral-monument-museum circuit, but for travelers like me (and, I’m guessing, like some of you) the ideal vacation is one that combines relaxation and sightseeing with unexpected finds down narrow streets, lively conversations with surprising locals and wrong exits leading to hidden…
— New York Times
Four Miami Men Died Rafting During a Costa Rica Bachelor Trip. They Weren’t the First.
As Jaycee Greenblatt read a story about the five men, four of them from Miami, who died in a white water rafting accident in Costa Rica last month, the similarities between that tragedy and the worst day of her life made her feel ill. Just two years ago Greenblatt, 32, saw the current of the Sarapiquí River sweep the limp body of her…
— Miami Herald
Today in History
Claude Monet
The French Impressionist painter Claude Monet was born on this day in 1840. Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise, gave the Impressionist movement its name. His series of more than 250 paintings of waterlilies may be his most famous work. Monet revised many of those paintings after surgery for cataracts enhanced his vision to see higher into the…
— Travel Research Online
Mike's Morning Missives
To Sell Is Human: Attunement
 It was an excess of assertiveness and zeal that led to contacting customers too frequently. Extroverts, in other words, often stumble over themselves. They can talk too much and listen too little… which can be read as pushy and drive people away.
- To Sell Is Human, Dan Pinker, pg.…
— Travel Research Online
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