Zipping More or Less Through the Trees
affiliate program By Betsa Marsh Wrrrrrrrrrrh, whack, wrrrrrrrrrrh whack! Like a bad Wile E. Coyote cartoon, I step off into the air, wrrrrrrrrrrh past leafy branches and whack into the tree trunk at the end of the line. Not once, but five times—will the new Ozone zipline never end? It’s serious operator error, to be [...]
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Explore ‘The Great War’ at National WWI Museum
affiliate program By Betsa Marsh It was, of course, the War to End All Wars, and we know how well humankind has fulfilled that prophecy since World War I engulfed the globe in 1914-1919. This Sunday will be the 90th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, the formal document that ended the war. Maybe the [...]
Keep Reading...New Traveling Teddy Explores New Harmony
affiliate program By Betsa Marsh Traveling Teddy, who will be named by the incoming third-grade class of Meredith Schroeder at St. Joseph Consolidated School in Hamilton, Ohio, began his globe-trotting year with a jaunt to New Harmony, Ind. The Traveling Teddy program is a geography outreach program of the Society of American Travel Writers. Teddy [...]
Keep Reading...Latest UK Bargains at Britain on the Cheap
Heading to England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland soon? Don’t miss all the bargains on hotels, dining, attractions, festivals and transportation at Britain on the Cheap, part of the burgeoning Cities on the Cheap network. It’s your cheap-and-cheerful guide to value for money throughout the UK.
Keep Reading...Junk Food–Noshing Lost in Translation
By Naomi Lewin Globespinners Guest Blogger Your bags are packed; you’ve got your plane tickets, your passport, and your Red Michelin guide, with circles around all the multi-forked restaurants you’re dying to try. But when you’re traveling abroad, don’t neglect the junk food. I have no problem resisting American junk food like potato chips, corn [...]
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