Photos of Talsi, Latvia
Travel articles Nickelodeon Hotel Pictures Our master bedroom in the family suite was a bit more subdued (well, as subdued as lime green gets). 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.
World Golf Village – Couples Golf Package at Laterra Resort and Spa World Golf Village, St. Augustine, FLPhoto Courtesy of World Golf Village
Golfpac Travel maintains that “one of our favorite properties for golfing couples is Laterra Resort & Spa near Jacksonville, Florida.”... Around the World in 80 Days: Rediscovering slow travel Read one travelers journey around the globe. He could not take a plane or helicopter, he could not travel more than 100 miles per hour, and he had to complete his trip in 80 days.
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