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TRAVEL, HOSPITALITY, HOTELS, VACATIONS

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HOLIDAYS AND WEEKENDS IN FRANCE
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Holiday 10 Best: Wild places

This week we’re taking you to some of the world’s wildest places to get you out of your comfort zone and into some non-stop adventure.

Connemara

Fly-fishing in Connemara. Lough Inagh Lodge. Price: £75 per person. Ballynahinch Castle: £81 per person. Both based on two sharing from May - September 2005.

Galapagos Islands

Galapagos Islands. Price: From £2350 per person in 2005.

Galapagos Islands

Arizona

Arizona. Price: From £571 per person in May 2005.

Argentina

Argentina. Price: From £1490 per person in October 2005.

Whale watching in Norway

Whale watching in Norway. Price: From £995 per person in winter 2005.

Reykjavik

Weekend in Reykjavik Price: Around £578 per person in 2005. About this trip. It includes 3 nights, b&b, flights and transfers. Sample costs: Half day jeep hire with driver costs around £250. Snowmobile: approx £77 per person per hour. Whale watching: around £35 adult, £15 child (ages 6-12).

British Columbia

British Columbia. Price: From around £1595 per person in May 2005. About this trip. It includes 3 nights, full board, some activities. Sample costs. Flights cost extra.

Namibia

Namibia. Price: Around £745 per person in May 2005. About this trip. It includes 7 nights, camping, meals, flights, transfers, guide.

Namibia

Northern Australia. Price: From £435 per person based on two sharing in 2005. About the trip. It includes 5 days, camping, park fees, transfers. Sample costs. Flights cost extra from £695.

Northern Territory

India, Rajastan. Price: Flights to Delhi cost from £400 return. Sample costs. Park entry, car, guide: £15 per person.

TIgers in Rajasthan

TIgers in Rajasthan

Top choices in  Holiday 2006. Full story

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World's Best Hotels and Resorts. To all those who searched for exotic beauty, heavens on earth, majestic nature, divine serenity, extreme adventures, romance, forbidden whispers, succulent specialties, sinful luxury, scandalous extravaganza, outrageous decadence and cadence,  family and warm ambiance...I think I found the world's most fabulous and unmatched spots on earth. I have it...a bouquet of hotels, spas and resorts which will transport you to another dimension, or could transport that "other dimension" to your life and make your fantasy a scary reality...
 
Montmartre - the capital of the passionate city: illustration by Vald'Es in La Vie Parisienne, 21st June 1924 Fabulous Places, travel, vacations, food, hospitality, people, times and eras. Mon Dieu! To be and live in Paris during "Les annees folles", between the end of  1917 and 1934, especially if you were an eccentric artist, an intellectual adventurer, a frou-frou femme fatale, a genius or an independently wealthy American, willing to spend a lot of money on arts, dating and women. Ask Madonna, Paulette Attie, Penelope de Vassy and Louise de Chambertin.
The lady pays the bill: illustration by Lorenzi in Fantasio, 15th Jan 1923Really "real" America's la crème de la crème was there. The "real" American high society, the privileged class, the snobs (Although it was too early for the Americans to know how to be a snob), les bourgeois,  wealth filthy characters, the hustlers with a style, the scandalous adventurous women, the schmoozer and the cruisers, the handsome gigolos, the champagne, the caviar, the kisses and the misses, sex, the drama and all the "chic" pleasures of the era. Hemingway was here. Paramour Stein too. Why Paris - what made everybody want to come here and create, and drink, and dance, and paint, and write stories or invent them? Women? obnoxious, over-cultured and over-sophisticated Frenchmen? Bubbly champagne? Sinfully good wine? Nice plat de fromage? A nostalgia? A fantasy? A new social, political and artistic era? A modern Parisian revolution? Yes! Yes! All of the above! Paris was a magic. And the people who lived in Paris were fabulous and delightfully mad! Tout le monde etait fou et philosophe, meaning "Everybody was crazy and  a philosopher."...
 
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TRAVEL AND TRAFFIC NEWS

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New runway planned for Olympics. Bosses at Luton Airport have announced proposals for a replacement runway and a new terminal to be completed in time for London's 2012 Olympics...

Luton airport: new plans unveiled. As plans for the expansion of Luton Airport are unveiled, tell us what you think of the proposals. Passenger numbers are set to triple over the next 25 years as plans for a new full-length runway and a new south terminal at Luton Airport have been unveiled...

LONDON UNDERGROUND NEWS...

AAA Reports Increased Lodging, Dining Vacation Costs.

Fortune Announces the Closing of the Acquisition of Andros Isle Development Ltd

 

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