Start packing your swimsuits and sunglasses, and head to the Caribbean this winter! BA has launched several new flights to the Caribbean this season, bringing their total number of flights to the region up to 45 flights every week. The new flights will be between
London Gatwick and Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic (both known for their sun-drenched beaches). These new routes mean that British Airways currently
offer more flights to the Caribbean than any other UK carrier.
So if your summer tan is fast fading away and you’re languishing under layers of knitted jumpers, maybe it’s time to ask the boss nicely for a week or two off. After all, lounging about on the golden sands of a beach in St. Kitts, rum-based cocktail in hand, will surely help recharge your batteries in no time. Just tell your boss you’re trying to boost your productivity. If St Kitts or Montego Bay isn’t your scene, BA also offers flights to Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, and St. Lucia. Just open up a map of the Caribbean, close your eyes point, and BA will take you there.
And don’t forget to pack your sunscreen!
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We arrived at sunset. The Temple of Apollo, now just a remnant of the original, ancient edifice, clung to a rocky outcrop just north of the port. We walked out along the quay to see the stone pillars, backlit against the 
pomegranate-red sunset. Others stood in small groups viewing the ruins. The only sound was of the waves cutting against the rocks.
This peaceful introduction to Naxos set the tone for our visit. Naxos, Greece has only recently discovered tourism and it still retains a sleepy atmosphere in keeping with its agricultural roots. The largest island in the Cyclades chain, Naxos has a hilly, green interior that is ringed by sandy beaches and small towns. We based ourselves in Chora Naxos and settled in for a wonderful week of leisurely exploration.
Lining the waterfront promenade of this busy town, are several open-air restaurants. And despite their touristy appeal, quite a few offer delicious, fresh seafood at a reasonable cost. Alleys lead back from the waterfront into the winding streets of the town’s Venetian quarter, the Kastro. In a full week of exploring this area, we could never quite map-out the intricate maze of narrow pedestrian streets. And it was this feature that contributed to the charm of stumbling upon hidden shops and plazas. We often found breakfast by discovering a bakery as it opened, and paying a mere euro for a delicious, hot spankopita off the tray.
One morning, we wandered into an inviting café that was tucked away somewhere up a hill. Its dark wood interior framed charming windows that opened to a cobblestone alley below. It was a neighborhood place, lovingly tended by the owners who invited us back that night for ouzo, appetizers, and traditional Greek music. This type of small-town friendliness is common on Naxos, many of whose residents are still farmers or fishermen.
The towns people take great pride in the Naxos Castle and the adjacent Tower of Glezos. The castle, surounded by a pentagonal wall, long served as a fortification, and most recently was transformed into the Venetian Museum. Entrance to the museum, which sponsors classical music concerts in the summer months, is just inside the gates of the castle.
Chora’s main square is a bustling mix of tourist restaurants and bars. It’s the best place on the island to catch a soccer game, and is a lively mixture of visitors and locals. Chora Naxos also boasts some of the best Mexican food in Greece at the Picasso Mexican Bistro, an expat-owned restaurant that will satisfy any homesickness with a heaping plate of beans, sizzling peppers, and homemade tortillas.
To the south, the town gives way to Agios Georgios, a crowded but pretty stretch of beach, popular for swimming. We, however, preferred the narrow beaches of Plaka and Agia Anna, a few minutes further down the road, that were full of bars, snack shops, live music, and more youthful crowds.
Having heard about Naxos’ lovely interior, we planed to rent motorcycles and explore. Unfortunately, we were provided with a less glamorous option: a 4-Wheeler. These squat, hardy machines top out at around 40 mph. We rented a bright purple creature and took off into the mountains. Despite the indignity of sleek Ducatis passing our silly little 4-Wheeler, we learned that independent transport is really the best way to see Naxos. We wound through gray olive groves, quaint farms, and tiny villages comprised of a few white, sun-baked homes. We refueled in the mountain village of Filoti, a cluster of buildings perched above a wide agricultural valley, and were delighted by the sight of Mt. Zeus, the island’s highest point, which cast its shadow over the valley.
In the town of Halki, the Vallindras Distillery makes citron, a liquor distilled from the local fruit of the same name. We toured the distillery, which has been in operation since the late 19th century and still uses its original methods and equipment. At the end of our complimentary tour, the guide poured a taste of the sweet, citrusy, emerald-green liquor. The traditional processes used to make citron, its homegrown ingredients, and the distillery’s new focus on tourism, perfectly embodied the changing character of this quiet island.
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Travel to Europe – The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal – this Fall and Winter at great fares!
Depart from 10/30/2009 – 3/28-2010 and return by 6/28/2010. A Saturday night stay is required, and the maximum stay is limited to 3 months.
You must book by November 5, 2009.
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Amsterdam from $310*
Lisbon from $ 280*
Rome from $321*
Barcelona from $321*
Examples of your options from San Francisco are:
Frankfort from $366*
Madrid from $377*
Paris from $410*
Marseille from $410*
Other departure cities are available.
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Roast chestnuts, festive music, mulled wine and shopping ideas galore – these are just some of the ingredients that make up the traditional Bath Christmas Market.
The annual Bath Christmas Market takes place in late November - early December and runs for 11 days (in 2009, it runs from 26th November to 6th December.) Traditional wooden stalls are erected in the city center, near the famous Bath Abbey and Roman Baths. Stallholders sell handmade and unusual gifts, Christmas decorations, cards, and food and drink that mark the holiday season. There are over 100 stalls, built in a style reminiscent of European chalets, each with an abundance of Christmas lights strung around them, creating a celebratory atmosphere on a typical, dull, dark December day or as daylight fades and dusk arrives.
The Christmas market has become a popular Bath attraction, with many people from a wide surrounding area making day trips or taking weekend breaks to the city to take full advantage of the market. It does get extremely busy, especially on weekends, so if you want to browse the stalls properly, then it’s best to go early or late in the day and avoid the peak times at weekends.
Street entertainment is a big part of the overall experience, so you can expect to enjoy watching and listening to a variety of novel amusments and diversions as you wander the market grounds. Carol singing is, of course, a favourite form of entertainment at this time of year, but there are also children’s entertainers and a good selection of musicians to keep the crowds happy. Children – or children at heart – can also enjoy a ride on the Victorian Galloper Carousel, which offers rides throughout the day.
Three stage areas have been introduced this year to provide a real break from the shopping crowds and give you time to focus on the entertainment in style. Plus, you may get lucky and catch the sounds of a full choir singing in the Bath Abbey.
Holiday food and drink is available throughout the market area, so you will certainly want to enjoy a warming glass of mulled wine, tuck into mince pies or nibble on traditional roasted chestnuts. Other European favourites are available as well, from freshly made pancakes and crepes, to German Bratwurst.
The market is ideally located for exploring the rest of Bath’s shops, where you can get more of your Christmas shopping done. And there are plenty of restaurants and cafes in which to stop for a refreshing cup of tea or coffee, or have a bite to eat at lunchtime. If you are visiting on a weekend, 
then the streets are likely to be heaving with visitors – the market attracts coach loads of extra visitors – so if you are planning on treating yourself to lunch out, then it’s advisable to book a table in advance. If you don’t, you could find yourself queuing for ages, or waiting in vain for a free table.
On most days, the market opens at 10am (11am on Sundays) and stays open until 6pm, 7pm or even 9pm. It provides a wonderful festive atmosphere, especially at night, and is a lovely way for all ages to enjoy the festive season and find some great gift ideas.
Photos courtesy of visitbath.co.uk
Copyright: Bath Tourism Plus / Colin Hawkins
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- For the past month, 10 slabs of the Berlin Wall have been installed outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). According to thelocal.de,
“The 2.6-tonne slabs have been made available to artists, who have been
given free rein to make their own statements on each block of
concrete.” The wall will be on display until November 8, “being
symbolically toppled.” [thelocal.de]
- Through November 5, Omni Hotels is offering 40 percent off select stays in Austin, Chicago, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Diego, New Orleans,
San Antonio, Houston, and Tucson. Reservations must be made for travel between Dec. 2, 2009 and Feb. 10, 2010 (and excluding December 31). Fore more information, click here. [Omni Hotels]
Photo: currentevents via Flickr
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National Geographic Magazine’s International Photo Contest has just ended, and there are some great submissions, like this one taken in India’s Ganges River.
Says photographer Jenay Martin, “The Ganges is the holiest river in India. Every morning and every evening Hindus bathe in the holy river. However, it is very polluted, and in this very location there is no living oxygen and is pure sewage. Even in the filth of Varanasi, life goes on. People still bathe, and animals still manage to find things to eat. This goat is eating a holy garland that was offered to the river during a funeral procession.”
For more images, visit the weekly galleries on National Geographic Magazine’s site and vote for your favorite images. Viewer’s Choice winners will be announced in early December. Check out the gallery of last year’s Viewer’s Choice favorites. Voting closes November 8.
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Friend of IT (and author of delightful Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia) Roff Smith is just back from biking the Welsh national cycling route, and shares with us some tips on traveling in the area.
So how do you keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? You got me. It’s not easy. Since I’ve returned from cycling the Lôn Las Cymru–the Welsh national cycle route–I’ve thought of little else but going back and doing it all again. Stretching more than 250 picturesque miles from the ancient castle town of Chepstow in the south, to windswept Holyhead in the north, (home to the Holyhead Harpies Quiddich Team, if you happen to be a Harry Potter fan), this is said to be the most beautiful of Britain’s long-distance cycling trails and having cycled a good many of them myself, I’d be hard put to disagree.
Those five days I spent travelling its length were like a step out of time, a harkening back to a slower, gentler oil-painted world of leafy country lanes, old market towns, World Heritage castles and the romantic 11th-century ruins of Llanthony Priory–and yes, there’s plenty of utterly unpronounceable Welsh names along the way, not least of which is the aforementioned town on the isle of Anglesey, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the U.K.’s longest place name. Locals shorthand it to Llanfair P.G.
The route itself is cobbled together of quiet lanes, cycle paths, even a stretch of ancient coaching road. It is superbly signposted and so easy to follow that you don’t really need any maps, although the excellent ones published by Sustrans are well worth having since they can help you plan your day, and offer up interesting alternatives–you can, for example, start off from Cardiff if you wish. There are plenty of B&Bs and pretty little inns along the route, so you needn’t rough it or carry a lot of gear–a point worth considering since the Lôn Las Cymru meanders through the Brecon Beacons, the Cambrian Mountains and Snowdonia National Park, making it one of Britain’s more challenging rides as well.
Of course, you don’t have to cycle the whole thing in one go. Good rail connections and bicycle-hire shops mean that the Lôn Las Cymru is very do-able in weekend-sized bites, say, between Chepstow and Hay-on-Wye, sixty miles of the very same countryside for which William Gilpin, the 18th century traveler and essayist coined the word “picturesque”. There are still the hills of course, but then, isn’t that what those hearty B&B breakfasts are for?
Photo: George Borrow Photography
Roff Smith’s October article for National Geographic magazine, about the shipwreck of a 16th c. Portuguese ship carrying more than 100 million carats of diamonds, can be found here.
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Going to the World Series this year? Whether you’re a Phillies or Yankees fans (I’m just upset my hometown Nationals forgot how to play ball this year), here are some tips on traveling in both cities.
Getting There
Call it the Amtrak Series, but the cheapest way to get from city to city is by bus. Budget buses Megabus and BoltBus both offer inexpensive fares between Philadelphia and New York.
Philadelphia
I Heart My City: Philadelphia
Albert Lee serves as concierge at the Independence Visitor Centerhttp://www.independencevisitorcenter.com/, and tells us what to do, see, and where to eat in the City of Brotherly Love.
Philadelphia On Foot
One of the best ways to explore the city is by foot. Print out our map of Philly’s Northern Liberties neighborhood, and check out more tips on visiting the historic neighborhood from IT.
Family Vacation Planner: Pennsylvania
Get cool tips on all the places to take your kids in and around Philadelphia.
Philadelphia’s Italian Market
Philadelphia is home to America’s longest-operating outdoor market, and writer Jeff DiNunzio shares some insider tips on the best spots to visit.
Click below for tips on traveling in New York City.
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- Looking for a Thanksgiving getaway? Aspen, Colorado’s Hotel Jerome is offering a “120th Anniversary Celebration” package between November 25-29. For $1,889 (half the usual price–and the year the hotel opened), guests get: four-night’s accommodation for two in a junior suite, lift tickets for two days, and a full Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday evening. [Gadling]
- Want to celebrate the holidays with George and Martha Washington? Tickets to Mount Vernon’s annual Candlelight tours went on sale yesterday. Every year, the estate opens its doors at night, and leads tours of Mount Vernon, complete with hot apple cider, cookies, caroling, dancing, and even a special appearance of Mrs. Washington. Tours are offered on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from November 27 through December 13. Click here for more information and to make reservations.
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