On Course: Five new U.S. five-star hotels (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
For 2007, the editors of Mobil Travel Guide considered 35 U.S. hotels worthy of five-star status. New to the list are: the Tower Suites in Las Vegas; St. Regis Resort at Monarch Beach in Dana Point, Calif.; the Mandarin Oriental in New York; St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, and the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, the first five-star in Tennessee. Properties worthy of five stars are rated in a ......more...A three-day guide to Lake Como (Times Online)
Shelley said Lake Como ?exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty?. He had a point, says Anthony Peregrine, on a drive through Italy...more... Search engine for budget hotels in Europe (eyefortravel.com)
CheapoSearch lets users find and book small hotels, pensions, B&B?s, and hostels throughout Europe and compare rates from multiple reservation agencies. According to the company, it boosts ?EuroCheapo?s inventory of penny-pinching hotels to more than 25,000 across 32 countries.?...more... Travel Briefs: Bus link for tourists heading to Disneyland (San Jose Mercury News)
UNITED STATES Denver International explores storm failures Denver International Airport needs multifunction equipment that can plow, sweep and blow snow as part of its plan to stay open during heavy storms, a report commissioned by the airport said....more... Pentagon ?three-day blitz? plan for Iran (Times Online)
THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians? military capability in three days, according to a national security expert....more... Albania hidden for so long (Canada.com)
A wriggling snake tossed into our path by a scary-looking guy sipping Turkish coffee with his cronies at a sidewalk caf stopped me in my tracks. Everyone stared to see what would happen next. But when he suddenly picked the snake up, stroked it and grinned, I realized it was a joke - maybe....more... |