Discover Asheville, The Blue Ridge Mountains And The Great Smoky Mountain

Asheville is the perfect base from which to explore on your holiday to the Carolinas. Drive just a few miles outside of town and enter into Americas greatest gift to motoring the spectacular Blue Ridge Parkway....

Hello From Chicago – Part 3 – Multiple Austrian Connections

So the two of us expatriate Austrians are staying at the Arlington House Hostel, in itself an exciting experience, to be immersed in this environment of young (and older) travellers from all over the world.

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“Why be normal?” You have probably seen this question plastered on mugs, buttons, and bumper stickers. If you think about it, this could be considered a rephrasing of the saying, “Variety is the spice of life.” Variety makes life interesting. We can choose which flavor of...

Hello From Chicago – Part 2 – What A Fabulously Photogenic City!

Yesterday I woke up at 5:00 am Chicago time and I figured I might as well get ahead of the crowd at the Arlington House Youth Hostel and take an early shower. At 6 am I was already on the Internet, recording my...

Preventing motion sickness is easier than you may think. All it requires is a little advance planning. If you wait for the symptoms to rear their ugly heads before starting treatment, you are already too late. Instead, you can one-up them by preventing motion sickness in the first place. ...

Today, in the age of the Internet, savvy travelers can quickly and efficiently package vacations that include the options that matter most to them. For scuba diving enthusiasts, putting together a scuba diving vacation package that bundles all the features you most look for in a vacation is as...

Sicily’s prime geographic location in the centre of the Mediterranean Basin has meant that, over time, settlers and conquerors from the medieval Normans, Aragonese Spanish, Moorish North Africans, ancient Greeks, Phoenicians, and Romans have come and, except for the latter, mostly, gone....

Whenever traveling, you want to be sure you are properly insured for a number of emergency medical conditions that could occur. This includes pre-existing medical conditions that could require immediate medical attention, unforeseen conditions that may occur, and accidents. When purchasing...

Many discounted travel savings U.S., can be realized through the use of by Internet search engines, visiting your travel agent, that may or may be located in your home town, or by accessing many of the major discounted travel sites through a web portal to their virtual storefront. The most...

To purchase or not to purchase travel insurance, that is the question. If you have done some research or talked to a travel agent, you might have been told that insurance is absolutely necessary. After all, you have put a lot of money into airfare and booking your hotel. But does that mean...

So here I am again, on another short excursion away from home. I’ve been awake for an hour already and decided the best thing is to get up and put my first impressions on paper. Since there is only a one hour time difference between Toronto and Chicago I decided yesterday I wasn’t...

There are discounted travel savings for United Kingdom room rates that will save you as much as 70%, and place you in some of the best of cities that are located throughout the United Kingdom. They are offered by discounted travel agency sites that beckon you to save by any type of communication...