Destination Updates

In Vegas, a new cure for monster hangovers (via AFP) It’s Sunday lunchtime in Las Vegas and Justin looks like he wants to curl up and die. He has a monster hangover after drinking for two days solid. But help, he hopes, is at hand. The 38-year-old from Seattle is among the first customers trying [...]

Top 10 Things to See in Budapest (via Downtown Magazine NYC) For more on Budapest, be sure to pick up a copy of the spring 2012 issue of DOWNTOWN Magazine. If you do decide to go, here are the Top 10 must-see sights in this beautiful city.  1. Houses of Parliament (Pest side of river) [...]

4 Travel Destinations for Craft Beer Lovers (via The Good Pour) We have a son who’s the biggest beer geek we know. Every time we head to his house for dinner, we learn about another artisan or craft beer. Whenever we go out to eat together, he likes to choose an eatery with an impressive [...]

The Big Blue II? Free-diving with dolphins off Italy (via AFP) CAPOLIVERI, Italy (AFP) 1332417096 Fabio Muzzi/AFP Jean-Jacques Mayol, son of the late Jacques Mayol, the French diver who inspired the film “The Big Blue”, looks at the sea on March 16, 2012 from the terrace of Villa Glaucos, his father’s house near Capoliveri on [...]

Surf’s up in Peru, and commuters hit the waves (via AFP) Not for these commuters the rush for the bus, the crowds on the train or the slow, frustrating crawl through the traffic. Instead every day some Lima residents head for the beach on their way to work. The Peruvian capital is one of the [...]

Titanic comes home as Belfast launches attraction (via AFP) Peter Muhly/AFP/File A replica of a main staircase aboard the Titanic is pictured at the Belfast visitor centre — the world’s biggest Titanic visitor attraction — in Northern Ireland on March 13. The centre opens in the ship’s Belfast birthplace this month, 100 years to the [...]