“New Travel Guides, From Lonely Planet to Luxury - EDGE Boston” plus 3 more |
- New Travel Guides, From Lonely Planet to Luxury - EDGE Boston
- Web sites help navigate the unfriendly skies - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
- Fantastic Fathers Day Presents Available From Maps ... - PRLog (free press release)
- B y KIRBY NEUMANN-REA - Hood River News
| New Travel Guides, From Lonely Planet to Luxury - EDGE Boston Posted: 12 May 2010 09:01 PM PDT Spring is the time when many travelers plan their biggest vacations of the year: Leisurely road trips, family getaways with kids out of school, and travel abroad over the peak summer season. Here are some of the new guidebook releases from this season to inspire you and help plan your itineraries. They include titles from Lonely Planet, Frommer's, DK Eyewitness, a luxury hotel group, and Budget Travel. LONELY PLANET'S DISCOVER SERIES: Once upon a time, the stereotypical Lonely Planet reader was an adventurous young backpacker on a budget, ready to rough it and explore. But today Lonely Planet fans include older travelers, travelers who don't mind spending more for comfort, and travelers looking for advice about basics and must-sees, not just offbeat adventures. To cater to this audience, Lonely Planet has launched a new series called "Discover," with thick $25 paperback books just released on Australia, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Spain and Thailand. The books are ideal for planning one- to two-week trips. "Discover Europe" will be added to the series May 10. The full-color books include maps, best-of lists, recommendations for a variety of budgets, tips from locals on visiting major attractions, and suggested itineraries organized by region, theme and length of trip. One especially nice touch: "If You Like" features direct readers to less well-known attractions by comparing them to better-known places. For example, the Venice section of the Italy guide says that "If you like the masterpieces of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, we think you'll like these other modern art gems," and it goes on to list Ca' Pesaro and Museo della Fondazione Querini Stampalia. FROMMER'S DAY BY DAY GUIDES: Frommer's "Day by Day" city guides have been among the brand's best-selling books for years. Earlier this year, Frommer's launched full-size "Day by Day" guides to countries, states and other large regions. The full-color books are itinerary-based, include more than 100 maps and a pocket with a large pullout map, and are chock-full of photos. "Frommer's Italy Day by Day," "Frommer's Ireland Day by Day" and "Frommer's Hawaii Day by Day" are available now, while Costa Rica and Spain are due out in October. The guides, all under $30, include easy-to-use features like what to see if you have a day, three days or a week, and "best-of" lists for lodging, dining and shopping. The Ireland guide, for example, includes a list of favorite moments (taking afternoon tea at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, visiting the Giant's Causeway, and seeing the murals of the Belfast peace wall), along with a list of favorite small towns (Carlingford, Inistioge, Kinsale, Kenmare, Dingle). Also new from Frommer's is "500 Adrenaline Adventures," providing inspiration for daredevils, geeks and other travelers with a taste for unusual, wacky and heart-racing experiences. Among the ideas listed in the $20 paperback: ziplining, wildlife encounters, extreme eating contests, like the famous Coney Island hot dog competition, and the annual Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling Race in England. DK EYEWITNESS TRAVEL'S BACK ROADS: Road trips are a beloved way to explore America, but DK Eyewitness Travel has launched a new series this spring to inspire road trips in Europe. The "Back Roads" series includes guides to France, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland and Spain. Each $25 paperback describes two dozen "leisurely drives" designed to take anywhere from a day to a week. Tours outlined in the France book, for example, include the Alsace wine route, Obernai to Eguisheim; the Champagne route, Reims to Montagne de Reims; Normandy, from Giverny to Varengeville-sur-Mer; and the Pyrenees, from Collioure to St-Jean-de-Luz. Other features include mapped itineraries with highlights, detours and activities; "where the locals go" listings of small hotels and restaurants with regional cuisine; a pullout country map; zip codes to make it easy to coordinate the text with a GPS; and practical information on driving conditions, road signs and parking. LUXURY COLLECTION DESTINATION GUIDES: This set of six paperbacks from The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts, a group of more than 70 hotels and resorts in 30 countries, includes guides to India, Italy, the U.S., Spain, Argentina and Greece. The slim paperbacks do not offer the detailed content of traditional travel guides but do have lush photographs, inspirational quotes and a few pages of highlights listing select museums, cultural institutions, shops and restaurants in each destination. Each guide also includes commentary from celebrity chefs, with Mario Batali providing his thoughts on Italy, including a recipe for tortelloni with sage butter and his recommendations for favorite restaurants: Cibreo and Teatro del Sale in Florence; Al Covo, Da Fiore and Lina d'Ombra in Venice, and Ristorante Matricianella, Roscioli, Antico Forno and Checchino in Rome. The set of six, packaged in a beautiful oversized box, costs $140. The books will be available in Luxury Collection guest rooms, in Assouline Boutiques in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York, and online at http://www.luxurycollection.com and other retailers. THE SMART FAMILY'S PASSPORT: This book from Budget Travel, $14.95, is subtitled "350 Money, Time & Sanity Saving tips." Among the suggestions: Bring powdered iced-tea or fruit-punch packets to theme parks and add them to cups of water to save money on expensive drinks; find out if a membership to your local museum has reciprocal privileges at other institutions where you can get in free when you travel; and make your own picture dictionary. That way, if you don't know a foreign word for bathroom or taxi, you can get help from a local wherever you are just by pulling up the picture of the object on your phone or camera.
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| Web sites help navigate the unfriendly skies - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Posted: 12 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT Business travel is a pain. It upsets your routine and digestion. It throws you into a mix of strange places and stranger people. Worst of all, you usually have to deal with the one industry that proves service is dead: the airlines. While nothing except maybe a private jet can eliminate the suffering, there are ways to ease it a bit. Knowledge is key and here's how the Web can help. It always pays to know your enemies, so we'll start with some airline industry insider sites. Aircrewlayover.com is where flight crew members offer recommendations to each other on restaurants, nightlife, hotels and entertainment venues. Looking under LAX (yes, cities are listed by their three-letter airport code), the restaurant recommendations sort of explain the quality of airline food. Useful, if your company doesn't allow you to expense meals. More frightening than the food is Crew Rumors, which has a number of bulletin boards where pilots, flight attendants and ground crew post questions, gossip and complaints. Topics include stupid pax questions and the rudest pax. "Pax" are us, the passengers. If you upgrade, you'd better act it: "If I had to name a group of pax who tend to be on the rude side, it is the first-class upgrades -- definitely. Just because they are sitting in 1A does not mean they are a first-class pax, they are merely a pax with a first-class ticket." Or pax drinks: "I was once asked for prune juice. Can you imagine the damage that that could cause on a 14-hour flight to NRT? Gross!!!" Then there's the fight over jump seats between mechanics and pilots on one airline. That can't be good. Here and there between the juicy stuff are recommendations on travel sites and books. Crew Rumors is part of CrewStart.com, which has tips on places to eat and stay, a currency converter, a language translator, clothing size conversions and a host of other things that any frequent flier, pax or crew, would find useful. Airline pilots have their own Web site at www.airlinepilots.com. Before you fly read up on pilot fatigue and air safety. There are also chat rooms as opposed to bulletin boards. Hey, they've got to do something when the autopilot is on. We of the pax persuasion have our own forum for tips and complaints at Airwise. Topics include air rage, passenger rights, and individual airlines and airports. Airwise's main page has news, flight schedules and airport guides. An overwhelming and fascinating list of links is at JohnnyJet. Oh sure, you'd expect bargain flights, hotel and car bookings and individual airlines. But what about the best toilets? Or a group of links for "Bored in the Hotel Room." There are also travel guides, maps, links to the Sunday travel sections of major newspapers, consumer complaints and passenger rights. A section devoted to business travel includes links to best places to close a deal -- from Ontheroad.com, global business basics and drinking customs and toasts from around the world. For more on global business customs and etiquette, try Executive Planet, which covers top U.S. trading partners. For each country, articles include things to know before making a deal, making appointments, gift giving, conversation, business dress and public behavior. For example, if you're in England, it is not a good idea in conversation to bring up Northern Ireland. But current events are fine, so keep mentioning those cow bonfires. Business Travel News Online offers a more corporate look at travel. And we discovered hotel rates are dropping due to a dip in occupancy. There's good news in every downturn. Even more corporate is the National Business Travel Association, a site aimed at corporate travel managers. But all this corporate stuff is making us want to run, at least in place. FitforBusiness.com is a guide for travelers who don't want to miss a workout. The site includes best hotel gyms, where to find sports courts and healthy advice. If you don't care about athletic facilities, but want to make sure the room is up to snuff, there's WorldExecutive.com with its searchable listing of first-class and business hotels. You can view the rooms, as well as make reservations. To make sure your airline is as good as your hotel, try Skytrax, which rates airlines' quality based on product and service. There are no five-star airlines based in the United States. Cubana is the only one-star airline. But who cares about quality when your life is at stake? Amigoingdown.com lets you plug in your departure and arrival cities, the airline, the type of jet if you know it and the month you're flying. Then you get the odds of making it there alive. For our L.A.-to-Paris flight they were 1 in 1,801,586 and "That's very good for this route." Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| Fantastic Fathers Day Presents Available From Maps ... - PRLog (free press release) Posted: 12 May 2010 02:10 AM PDT PR Log (Press Release) – May 12, 2010 – Men are notoriously difficult to buy presents for. In general the older the man, the more difficult it is to find a gift you think they will like! Generally men prefer gifts with a practical use, making maps or travel items a fantastic gift idea.
Maps International knows that Father's Day is an important event in the calendar. We all love our Dads and Father's Day is one of the days of the year you can show him how you feel. Getting your Father a gift on Father's Day shows you value him and is a small token to show you care. Maps International has a range of products which make great gifts for Father's Day.
Wall map range:
The huge range of wall maps including maps of the UK, World and Europe as well as of most countries, continents and cities. There are a range of sizes available as well as a choice of finishes. The laminated maps are popular for Dad's home office or a family room, and the framed style makes a room look really classy! To truly spoil your Father on 20th June, you could surprise him with a personalised world wall map. Select the map's background colour and personalise with your choice of title and subtitle. Personalised World Wall Map:
Maps International also offer a range of gifts including a range of globes to a travel shop offering almost every single travel map and guide you could ever imagine!
Father's Day
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| B y KIRBY NEUMANN-REA - Hood River News Posted: 12 May 2010 08:58 AM PDT
| By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor Art makes the National Scenic Area just a bit more scenic. And you can see artists up close and shake their hands and see where they do their work in the fourth annual Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour, May 15-16. Meet 34 artists who make the Gorge their home. Organizer John Maher of Mosier (also one of the artists) called it "an opportunity to meet artists, see where they live and work and learn how and why they make art." Artists of all stripes will open their studios to share their creative processes and the fruits of their labors. Photographers, painters, sculptors, fabric artists, woodworkers, guitar builders and jewelers from Stevenson to Goldendale will show work and discuss their working methods. "You can get a peek into the creative process, make new friends and find that perfect piece of artwork to take home with you," Maher said. The ticket to the event is a $25 full-color tour guide that admits two people to all 34 studios for the entire weekend. The guide contains contact information and directions to each studio, and samples of the artists' work and information about the communities of the Gorge. Maps give detailed directions to each artist's location. Tour guides/maps are available online at: www.gorgeartists.org, or at Columbia Gorge Hotel, Waucoma Bookstore and Columbia Art Gallery in Hood River and at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson and Klindt's Booksellers in The Dalles. ARTIST ROSTER Cascade Locks — Brad Lorang Parkdale —
Sally Bills Bailey, Pam Regentin, Odell — Jim Diem Hood River — Elizabeth Anderson, Laurie Balmuth, Steven Daniel, Charlene Fort, Barbara Gleason, Rachel Harvey, Georgette Jones, Kenton and Liza Jones, Heather Marlow, Bonnie McGinnis, Sorcha Meek Paul, Elizabeth Pelley, Cathleen Rehfeld, Melanie Thompson, Karen Watson Mosier — Jan Byrkit, Jason Leslie, Ruth Longland, John Maher Goldendale — Beth Poirier, Pat Farrer, Charlotte VanZant-King Underwood — Joan Chase White Salmon — Katey Ellen Price High Prairie — Lee Musgrave
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