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Madonna Inn - Old Mill - Photos of the Madonna Inn - Rooms at the Madonna Inn
Old Mill: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel. Another Secret to Snagging Low Fares
Airfarewatchdog--whose low-fare alerts I get in my email in-box every day--had an interesting post on its Airfare WatchBlog yesterday about "Secret Airline Deals": When it comes to air fares, it says, "the genuine steals often just languish unpublished, unadvertised, and...
Global Culinary School: Learn along the way
You'll find that culinary learning vacations are a great way to marinate yourself in local culture, make new friends, and impress old ones.
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.
Madonna Inn - Love Nest - Photos of the Madonna Inn - Rooms at the Madonna Inn
Love Nest: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel.
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