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Here's the deal: Daughter in Spain studying her Spanish language major since Jan, will be there until end of May. Her spring break starts 3/26 for two weeks. I am going over, alone, and arrive 3/26 and will stay in her town of San Sebastian for two days. We intend to take the train to Paris and then to Normandy to see the D-Day sites and perhaps stay overnight there before returning to Paris. ANY input into a decent hotel near the DDay sites?? (Checking TripAdvisor later...) Then train to Berlin for several days and finish up with several days...
Published on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 07:22:19 PM
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Nothing succeeds in the travel industry like a bad idea. The latest hidden mandatory add-on is a "health" charge added to restaurant bills. As far as I know, this scam cropped up first in San Francisco, but you can count on it to spread. The rationale for this one is to cover the employers' mandatory contribution to the City's "Healthy San Francisco" health-coverage system. The charge actually is levied on employers, but at least some restaurants are adding a few dollars or percentage points to each customer's bill to cover this charge. The restaurants' excuse for assessing this charge separately...
Published on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 07:22:19 PM
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Hi people, I have to visit Los Angeles with my 20month old son in April. My first time in Los Angeles - wondering if anyone has suggestions what to do that can both entertain me an dmy wife and my 20 month old son. Think Disneyland and the theme parks are not suitable as he is too young. Ideas? -where to stay - which is safe neighborhood?
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When Peter Bishop travels to Maine with his wife, Sarabeth Guptill, and their two kids, the Bay State family typically rides the train from Boston to Wells. Here to visit relatives, the Framingham, Mass., couple, and children Miles, 6, and Maya, 5, usually take the Downeaster — an Amtrak rail service that hopes to see more out-of-staters like Bishop after it completes an expected $35 million expansion to Freeport and Brunswick. About 84 percent of people who currently take the Downeaster are passengers heading to Boston, according to transportation officials. "We take the train quite often," Bishop said while waiting...
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There aren’t many cruises I’m dying to get aboard, but here is one such cruise. Not only does it visit ports I have always desired to visit, but the speakers aboard this cruise are simply amazing, especially for anyone interested in International Relations. Condi and Gorbachev are two of the featured speakers.
Published on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 07:22:19 PM
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To screen passengers as persons would reduce costs and inconvenience very greatly, because entire categories of passengers could be waived through with a rapid examination of travel documents and a few random checks now and then. These include a variety of easily recognizable groups that not even the most ingenious terrorists could simulate: touring senior citizens traveling together (a category that contains a good portion of all American, European and East Asian tourist traffic), airline flying personnel who come to the security gate as a crew, families complete with children, and more. In each case, the critical procedure would be...
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ROMULUS, Mich. -- The Transportation Security Administration says unruly passengers on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit were interviewed by Customs and Border Protection officials after the plane landed.
Published on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 07:22:19 PM
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Link only, I'm unsure of their excerpt policy...
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