June 20th, 2008 by Susan - NWA WorldVacations
Travel experts are predicting that people will be looking to travel more efficiently with their time and money. With a little planning, these travel tips will help you avoid the lines and crowds…year round.
Go when others don’t go - For a potentially less-crowded airplane ride, consider taking a flight that departs on Monday or Tuesday instead of Saturday or Sunday.
Shift your day - Get up early and eat at the buffet or a restaurant before the rush. You will then be able to eat earlier for lunch and dinner, too. Or, you could shift the other direction and get up later, especially if your travel destination is more focused on evening activities. While everyone else is waiting in line for a table, you will be out exploring.
February 18th, 2008 by LK - NWA WorldVacations
It was suppose to be the Taj Mahal.
I mean, if there is a full moon three days after your 50th birthday and the government of India now allows tourists to visit the Taj Mahal when there is full moon (they didn’t before), doesn’t it make total sense to spend the biggest and best birthday of your life there? Well, I thought it did. But, unfortunately, my husband didn’t. He was already going to be out of the office for one week in January for work so taking another two weeks off to go to India just didn’t make sense. And so, instead, we chose to go to Paris to celebrate my 50th — it’s where we spent our honeymoon, my favorite restaurant in the whole wide world is there, and if it was cold, we could hang in the Louvre, the Musee d’Orsay, or maybe Willie’s Wine Bar.
February 4th, 2008 by Eleise, Itinerant World Traveler
While in England I had the pleasure of being treated to a leisurely, decadent, three-and-a-half-hour lunch in the charming village of Bray, at The Fat Duck — one of three 3-Michelin-star restaurants to be found in England. (The other two are The Waterside Inn and Gordon Ramsay’s eponymous venture.)
My senses are still awhirl. Founder Heston Blumenthal employs psychologists to contribute to his brilliant menus, which are experimental and tasty above all. Since the menu was largely in French, I will do my best to describe the following culinary adventure in English terms.
January 30th, 2008 by Eleise, Itinerant World Traveler
Saturday was a red-letter day. To start, we joined what felt like a thousand fashionable people in Southwark at the Borough Market, a popular weekend farmer’s market in existence since 1276, at least. My traveling partner was in seventh heaven, every few minutes exclaiming, “Man, I just love this. Smell that, would you? Oooh, lookie here!”
January 25th, 2008 by Eleise, Itinerant World Traveler
The transition to another school year was made smoother by a holiday in Belgium to celebrate my birthday. What a beautiful, civilized country! We consumed our weight in scrumptious Belgian beer and chocolate through the cities of Brussels, Antwerp, and Bruges.
We first arrived in Brussels by way of a two-and-a-half-hour train ride from London on the EuroStar. I wasn’t sure what to expect — wouldn’t I feel claustrophobic in a tunnel surrounded by the weight of the English Channel? But besides a good deal of ear-popping, it was an easy twenty minutes of darkness. For our four-night stay we secured a seventeenth-century bed & breakfast in Bruges (to the north), so day one we first hung out in Brussels to see what we could see centrally. First task: get into French language mode. Bonjour, pardon, charcuterie, sacre bleu — you know, all the basics. It was a good laugh, but we got by.
