Photos of Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia
Travel articles Room at the Inn: Finding hotel deals in 2009 It's an understatement to say that location is everything. The economic crisis is not affecting all markets equally, so just how great a bargain you find will depend largely on where you look.
Sydney Festival 2009 On Through 1/31 After a reportedly epic Festival First Night shindig in the streets got the whole shebang off to a great start, Sydney Festival 2009 is now solidly under way in Oz's... Mason House Inn Are these pictures really ghosts caught on film? See for yourself with these ghostly pictures taken in reportedly haunted hotels by guests. Valentine's Day Getaways Can't think of a Valentine's Day gift for him or for her? Give a weekend Valentine's Day getaway instead. 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.
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