Indy Hotels Offer King Tut Ticket Packages
affiliate program “Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharoahs” runs through Oct. 25 at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, and five Indy hotels have become King Tut Hotels for the duration. They’re offering packages for two or a family of four from $129-$249 per night, with a breakfast buffet and VIP tickets to jump [...]
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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...Awash with Sights on the Chicago River
By Betsa Marsh On a beautiful spring day, there may be no more serene way to explore a city than gliding along on a quiet boat, looking up at the tall buildings and sighing. It works in Venice, it works in Chicago. In the Windy City, the focus is on those tall buildings during Chicago Architecture Foundation cruises, [...]
Keep Reading...Brutus the Bear Hits the Heights in Pittsburgh
By Betsa Marsh Brutus the Traveling Teddy hopped onto the historic Duquesne Incline in Pittsburgh and chugged all the way to the top. Brutus travels for the third-grade glass of Meredith Schroeder at St. Joseph Consolidated School in Hamilton, Ohio. The Traveling Teddy program is a geography outreach of the Society of American Travel Writers. [...]
Keep Reading...Daydreaming of Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons
By Betsa Marsh I’m so addicted to “Last Restaurant Standing” with Chef Raymond Blanc on BBC America that I’m thinking back to a stay at his elegant Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons in Great Milton, outside Oxford. The Manor House. Betsa Marsh photo The manor dates back to 1225 and beyond, but the modern retrofitting [...]
Keep Reading...Does Greenland Have the World’s Only Shipwrecked Church?
Whatever the weather, the fishing village of Qaqortoq in southern Greenland looks like a joyous Legoland. The sharp-peaked houses gleam in coral, teal, sunflower and jade. Life here is even color-coded: Doctors’ home and hospitals are usually yellow, sheriffs’ homes and jails green. Danes founded this coastal trading settlement in 1775. The colonial downtown clusters [...]
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