Category: Cruising
Great deals on European River Cruises.
Lately, my email inbox is filled with offers on European River Cruises. And some of them are pretty hard to pass up.
If you’ve never taken a river cruise, you should consider one. You usually spend some time each day exploring one of Europe’s charming towns or villages, and then spend a few hours cruising one of the Continent’s great rivers, like the Rhine or the Danube. The scenery is great – and so close you can almost touch it – the food is first-rate, and since most river boats carry fewer than 200 passengers, the experience is much more intimate than an ocean cruise.
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Taronga Zoo -- also one of the most unique places to stay in Sydney.
We rarely visit zoos. Much less sleep at them.
But in the case of Sydney's Taronga Zoo, we're willing to make an exception.
First of all, getting there is one of the most memorable travel experiences in the world. You take a 12-minute ferry ride from Circular Quay across Sydney Harbour, passing the spectacular Opera House en route.
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Great Deals on Alaska Cruises.
There's not much worse than being sick on vacation.
We've been pretty lucky in this regard. Only once, have we been truly ill; on an Alaska cruise, which, all things considered, is a pretty convenient place to be sick. One of us drank wine and spent four days kayaking, bicycling, and buzzing over glaciers in helicopters. Two of us didn't drink wine and spent four days in the head, wanting to die.
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