Travel articles New York City Lights Up for the Holidays
Few urban settings capture the spirit of Christmas, Chanukah and New Year's than New York City, which even received a fresh layer of snow over the weekend. The city's most... Bathroom Vanity
Picture of the vanity in the bathroom of Cinderella's castle suite in Walt Disney World. Swimming Pool at Circus Circus Hotel Casino
Picture and details about the swimming pool area at the Circus Circus Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. The Summer Airfare Sales to Europe Have Begun
Quite a few of you have been asking how to get lower airfares for travel to Europe this summer. The latest query comes from reader Leslie, who needs four tickets to Rome in late June: "The fares I've found are...
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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