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IHG 48 Hour Sale for 600 hotels UK and Europe from £29 to £169

IHG 48 hour sale for 600 hotels UK and Europe from £29 to £169 is a flash sale for next 60 hours. IHG Rewards Club members have the chance to book rooms in the UK and Europe at potentially discount

Norwegian OAK-ARN $373 round trip Feb 2015

Norwegian Air has some seriously discounted airfare for California to cities in Europe. Oakland, California OAK to ARN, Stockholm, Sweden is as low as $373 round trip for February departures. That is the base price with taxes for a round

Dublin footsteps of Bono, Michael Collins and Oliver Hardy

I wondered if I had made a huge mistake booking the Radisson Blu St. Helen’s Dublin? The hotel is lovely, but the location is several miles away from the center of Dublin and the main tourist sites. There are loads

Oops! Radisson Royal Bergen hotel damaged Bryggen UNESCO World Heritage Site.

When the SAS Hotel in Bergen, now the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Bergen, was constructed in the late 1970s beside the Bryggen UNESCO World Heritage Site, local groundwater began leaking into the hotel construction site. Groundwater beneath historic Bryggen maintained

Hotel Review Clarion Royal Christiania Oslo, Norway

Hotel review Clarion Royal Christiania Oslo, Norway is based on my one night stay in the modern conference center hotel across the street from Oslo Sentralstasjon train station. My stay was a points reward booked with 16,000 Choice Privileges points. The

Flight over the Grand Canyon

Bird’s eye views of Grand Canyon are an awesome sight to behold, even if it is in the blazing heat of mid-afternoon on a record setting temperature day for the Las Vegas area. Blogger Disclosure: Grand Canyon Airlines provides audio

TBEX Toronto via Death Valley–part 1

Death Valley called to me again yesterday. I made my first ever trip to Death Valley National Park just two weeks ago. The mountains and valley did not have much appeal for me on a mostly cloudy, mostly 103 F

Bottom to Top of California in Six Hours

Today has been a day of extremes. In six hours I traveled from 190 feet below sea level at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park to 9,000 feet in a room at the highest lodge in California at Mammoth

Revisiting St. James Court Hotel, London (now Taj 51 and Crowne Plaza St. James)

London and Paris are the top two international tourism destinations for Americans and international travelers. I have been to London four times and Paris three times.  I would like to spend more time in these cities, but my travels have

Wild California Condors of Big Sur

Today I photographed two California condors feeding on a dead sea lion. California condors are the largest land birds of North America. They are a rare sighting with only 232 California condor birds in the wild as of October 31,

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