Photos of Pilion, Greece
Travel articles 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.
Pictures: Sonesta Key Biscayne Take a photo tour before you go with pictures of the Sonesta Beach Resort Key Biscayne. Pictures of the Sonesta Beach Resort Key Biscayne include the lobby, restaurants, swimming pool and beach. Hotel Del Coronado One woman who died in the Hotel Del Coronado still waits for her husband to return. Family Adventure: Harry Potter Fan Trips Don your robes and get aboard the Hogwarts Express: two Harry Potter Fan Trips (nine days, or five days) are timed to coincide with the release of the "Harry Potter... Cheryl's Bed Bug Bites From a Luxury Resort Cheryl's Bed Bug Bites From a Luxury Resort: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. |
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