Photos of Lousa, Portugal
Travel articles Airfare Specials this Week Great set of airfare specials on this week. There are also several packages too.
United Airlines is having a sale on lots of domestic and international routes. Kayak tracked this... Travel and the Oscars Forget about the new president, the skyrocketing unemployment, or even George Clooney's latest acting turn. The real news this week is the announcement of the Academy Award nominations! And why do we care? Because this is one of the most travel-centric collections of films the Oscars have ever seen.
Stanley Hotel The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, which inspired Steven King's 'The Shining,' has a few ghosts of its own. 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.
Reclaim Romance: The world's most romantic restaurants Our 12 restaurant picks from around the world have all the right elements--a seductive view, an unhurried atmosphere, terrific food.
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