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Chocolates and cherry beer in Belgium
Source: CNN

Belgium another beautiful paradise on earth. With some the best chocolates, cherry beers, and the most fabulous glass works in the world

Mozart 'peeing stone' parties boost Lower Austrian town
Source: austriantimes.at

A Lower Austrian town is holding a series of parties to mark a local's claim that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart once visited – to take a pee.

How many credit cards do you currently use? (Poll)

I use only ONE at the moment. It serves as a debit card as well so I get the best of both worlds when I am travelling. I don't have to use two or three different cards, which also means NO debt as all the money I use comes directly from my account.

President Obama to Lift Restrictions on Cuba - Political Punch
Source: ABC News Blogs

ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report:  At today's daily White House briefing, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs will announce that the administration will lift travel, remittance, mail and business restrictions relating to the Communist nation of Cuba.

'Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel' moves your stuff so Mother Nature can't
Source: PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com

By Lon Wagner The Virginian-Pilot © September 26, 2008 It' wasn't a tropical storm that stopped drivers at the north toll plaza of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel on Thursday morning.

My trip to The Gambia (Part III)

After a few days of getting into the swing of things and running about with guides, we managed to hire our taxi driver, Abdullaih, as our guide instead of having a new guides daily. With him we took all kinds of trips in the area around the hotel.

My trip to the Gambia (Part I)

My husband and I got a nice chunk back on our tax return and noticed that we hadn't been travelling a lot since we moved to the US. By now we had been back in Germany, and many more options for travelling were there, so we set about finding a place to go on vacation at.

Where the Hell is Matt
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Matt is a 31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually realized there might be other stuff he was missing out on.

Outfoxing airlines unlikely to spare travelers American Airlines' baggage fee
Source: NY Daily News

Think you can weasel your way out of paying American Airlines' new $15 fee for checked bags? Don't bet on it. I twice tried to evade the fee Sunday by sneaking an oversized suitcase aboard American flights as a carry-on bag.

Where Mountains Kiss the Heavens

After a long period of silence and soul searching trying to understand the culture of blogging, I have resolved to break the silence. Fast track. I'm in the airport lounge in Kigali Rwanda waiting to catch flight to Uganda.

The 31 Places to Go This Summer
Source: The New York Times

Traveling this summer may sound like a cruel joke: airlines are getting worse, gas prices are creeping toward $5 a gallon and the euro continues to go up, up, up. It's almost enough to make you stay home. Almost.

TSA Forces Woman To Remove Nipple Rings At Airport Security Gate
Source: cbs2.com

A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.

Thank You, Stranger
Source: The Washington Post

Steve Ray tells his story as one of kindness and compassion; A seemingly random happy-stance. :)

Back To The Land Via The Peace Corps
Source: motherearthnews.com

Have you ever considered joining the Peace Corps? Don't rule it out: It just may be the "hands on" introduction to self-sufficient living you've been looking for ... and the fringe benefits are certainly worth thinking about.

Russia: A Guide for the Cautious Traveler
Source: La Russophobe

"I don't reproach the Russians for being what they are; what I blame them for is their desire to appear to be what we are. They are much less interested in being civilized than in making us believe them so.

San Andrés, Colombia: il paradiso naturale dei turisti dello sballo
Source: blog.panorama.it

How the Western tourists are using a Colombian island, San Andrés, for cocaine shopping. And how they are transforming a paradise into a hell...

The Many Benefits of All Inclusive Caribbean Cruises
Source: qualitylifestyleblog.com

You want to take a cruise in the near future, but have never taken one before. Various family members and friends have taken cruises, but they took just very basic ones to save their money.

Annals of Transport: There and Back Again
Source: New Yorker

Last year, Midas, the muffler company, in honor of its fiftieth anniversary, gave an award for America's longest commute to an engineer at Cisco Systems, in California, who travels three hundred and seventy-two miles—seven hours—a day, from the Sierra foothills to San Jose  …

Radio host Mark Williams on imams thrown off flight:
Source: Media Matters for America

Summary: Mark Williams stated the six imams removed from a November 20 US Airways flight "are one of two things. ...

Tahiti in French Polynesia – the Island of Love
Source: waymag.com

The Tahiti Island has a rugged topography and the coast full of bays and beaches.

Entrepreneurs with Wanderlust
Source: Forbes

The next spring, Bohl shelled out for a shiny new 2003 Damon Escaper (base ticket price: $200,000) and decided to put his house up for sale. Dorothy's reaction? "No matter what I suggested, she'd say 'What if it doesn't work?'" says Bohl. "And I said: 'What if it does?'"

Mobile phone roaming fees slashed
Source: BBC News

Some of Europe's big phone operators have agreed to reduced mobile phone roaming charges - which is good news for everyone who likes to travel abroad and use their mobiles.

UK issues first biometric passport
Source: vnunet.com

The UK has issued it's first biometic passport in line with the internation standards. This is the first in a new line of passports to be used when travelling.

Exploring Turkey
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Turkey. Turk-ey. As those two syllables traipse off the tongue, what springs to mind? A fattened bird on the Christmas table, or an adjective that means duff, dud, no good? Not me. I think of Turkey the country; beautiful, unexpected and largely unexplored.

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