Photos of Achern, Germany
Travel articles Take Me Home, Italian Roads I've just completed a jaunt along Mexico's Mayan Riviera (more on that soon), and although I still have another month or so on the road, word of new openings in my adopted country, Italy, has been tempting me home. If you are heading that way this year, here are some places that you, too, should keep on the radar.
Finding a Pad in Venice Start with a visit to Wendy's Rolodex of Top Villa Agents. There you will see that the right person to contact is Denise Corsile of Venice Rentals in Quincy, Massachusetts, for an apartment.
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.
Italian Gourmet Italian Gourmet: Pictures of the Manchebo Beach Resort. Orange Lake AVID GOLFER Package - Unlimited Golf on 4 Courses for 7 Days The Legends at Orange Lake Orlando, FLPhoto Courtesy of Orange Lake Orlando
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