Photos of Tornyospalca, Hungary
Travel articles World-Class Golf Special At World Golf Village, St. Augustine, Florida World Golf Village, St. Augustine, FLPhoto Courtesy of World Golf Village
Good through December, 2009, GolfPac Travel and World Golf Village are offering a great golf special. This package provides three... 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.
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.
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.
Home Exchange Tips Home Exchanges can be a terrific way to travel affordably and with the conveniences, kitchen, laundry, and multiple bedrooms of home. If lodgings are free, then suddenly dream... |
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