Photos of Steenokkerzeel, Belgium
Travel articles Disney's Saratoga Springs The "World's" newest Home Away from Home resort, Disney's Saratoga Springs, sprung from the ashes of the former Villas at Disney Institute. Disney's Saratoga Springs offers a range of accomodations from standard guest rooms (some with kitchenettes) to residential-style, three-bedroom, two-story villas that sleep up to twelve people. The theming of Disney's Saratoga Springs is upstate New York at the turn of the century, and there are charming details every where you look. Do you want a full-service spa? Take the Disney World Hotels test, a quick and fun quiz that helps you select the best hotel for your next trip. This question is: Do you want a full-service spa? Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard? While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Take Me Home, Italian Roads I've just completed a jaunt along Mexico's Mayan Riviera (more on that soon), and although I still have another month or so on the road, word of new openings in my adopted country, Italy, has been tempting me home. If you are heading that way this year, here are some places that you, too, should keep on the radar.
More on Ditching Planes and the A320's Water-Friendly Design Most flight crews get at least one day of training in a pool in swimsuits for that rarest of airline disasters, a ditching. If you think that sounds fun, you're wrong. Among other things, you have to demonstrate that you're a strong swimmer and that you're capable of climbing into and out of one of those inflatable evacuation chutes, which become life rafts in the water.
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