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Where to go and what to do for some fun in the sun, walk upon a great glacier, or just have some five star fun!
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JoeInJax Could Europe Drought Spell Big Trouble for River Cruise Lines?
(Update 10:38 a.m. EST) -- River cruise operators in Europe are hoping that rain forecast for this weekend will resolve the disastrous situation of exceptionally low water levels on the Rhine and Danube. An autumn drought has meant that the port of Budapest has been closed this week and passengers on Christmas markets river cruises have been ferried around by bus instead of ship in the first busy week of the season.
Read more at …http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=4673
Mon Dec 5, 2011, 1:12:08 PM EST
(Update 10:38 a.m. EST) -- River cruise operators in Europe are hoping that rain forecast for this weekend will resolve the disastrous situation of exceptionally low water levels on the Rhine and Danube. An autumn drought has meant that the port of Budapest has been closed this week and passengers on Christmas markets river cruises have been ferried around by bus instead of ship in the first busy week of the season.
Read more at …http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=4673
Mon Dec 5, 2011, 1:12:08 PM EST
JoeInJax Winter Getaways for Canadians
Toronto Star
Visit the land of the Maya The Yucatán Peninsula is a land apart from Mexico, and not only because it sticks out from the mainland like a hitchhiker’s thumb. Today’s Maya, whose ancestors waged a centuries-long battle for independence, remain Yucatecans first, Mexicans second. One of Frommer’s Top Destination picks for 2012, it remains the safest region in Mexico, with far less crime than travelers are likely to encounter at home. Canadians flock to Mexico, with more than 1.4 million visits per year. Even so, the Yucatán offers all that is best about Mexico—sublime beaches, a unique cuisine, joyous fiestas and exotic wildlife. Beyond Cancún and the Maya Riviera’s enormous resorts lie inexpensive guesthouses on white sands shared only with scattered fishing families and near jungle villages where many Maya still live in thatch-roofed stone houses, sometimes among the ruins of great cities built by their forebears. In the Yucatán, you could breakfast on eggs Benedict in your all-inclusive, climb a 1,500-year-old pyramid, cool off in a cenote (the Maya’s “sacred wells”), feast on piquant recipes hundreds of years old, and bed down that night in a restored 19th-century hacienda. Better plan: Take it slow, spend some time with the stoic, dignified people whose culture is anything but a “lost civilization,” and it will rearrange your perspective on the world.
(Works for US too.... ;>) )
Joe Santoni
(904) 645-9080
Joe@AmericanCruiseAndTour.Com
Fri Dec 2, 2011, 12:45:24 PM EST
Toronto Star
Visit the land of the Maya The Yucatán Peninsula is a land apart from Mexico, and not only because it sticks out from the mainland like a hitchhiker’s thumb. Today’s Maya, whose ancestors waged a centuries-long battle for independence, remain Yucatecans first, Mexicans second. One of Frommer’s Top Destination picks for 2012, it remains the safest region in Mexico, with far less crime than travelers are likely to encounter at home. Canadians flock to Mexico, with more than 1.4 million visits per year. Even so, the Yucatán offers all that is best about Mexico—sublime beaches, a unique cuisine, joyous fiestas and exotic wildlife. Beyond Cancún and the Maya Riviera’s enormous resorts lie inexpensive guesthouses on white sands shared only with scattered fishing families and near jungle villages where many Maya still live in thatch-roofed stone houses, sometimes among the ruins of great cities built by their forebears. In the Yucatán, you could breakfast on eggs Benedict in your all-inclusive, climb a 1,500-year-old pyramid, cool off in a cenote (the Maya’s “sacred wells”), feast on piquant recipes hundreds of years old, and bed down that night in a restored 19th-century hacienda. Better plan: Take it slow, spend some time with the stoic, dignified people whose culture is anything but a “lost civilization,” and it will rearrange your perspective on the world.
(Works for US too.... ;>) )
Joe Santoni
(904) 645-9080
Joe@AmericanCruiseAndTour.Com
Fri Dec 2, 2011, 12:45:24 PM EST
JoeInJax Where to go in 2012 by THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
“The Yucatán Peninsula is a land apart from Mexico, and not only because it sticks out from the mainland like a hitchhiker’s thumb. Today’s Maya, whose ancestors waged a centuries-long battle for independence, remain Yucatecans first, Mexicans second. This ‘otherness’ is one reason the Yucatán has largely escaped the drug violence plaguing other parts of the country; it remains the safest region in Mexico, with far less crime than travelers are likely to encounter at home. Even so, the Yucatán offers all that is best about Mexico — sublime beaches, a unique cuisine, joyous fiestas and exotic wildlife.”
To find out more, Just ask:
Joe@AmericanCruiseAndTour.Com
Sat Nov 5, 2011, 3:21:17 PM EDT
“The Yucatán Peninsula is a land apart from Mexico, and not only because it sticks out from the mainland like a hitchhiker’s thumb. Today’s Maya, whose ancestors waged a centuries-long battle for independence, remain Yucatecans first, Mexicans second. This ‘otherness’ is one reason the Yucatán has largely escaped the drug violence plaguing other parts of the country; it remains the safest region in Mexico, with far less crime than travelers are likely to encounter at home. Even so, the Yucatán offers all that is best about Mexico — sublime beaches, a unique cuisine, joyous fiestas and exotic wildlife.”
To find out more, Just ask:
Joe@AmericanCruiseAndTour.Com
Sat Nov 5, 2011, 3:21:17 PM EDT
JoeInJax JoeInJax created the topic "Adult Travel" with description "Where to go and what to do for some fun in the sun, walk upon a great glacier, or just have some five star fun!".
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