The Newfoundland and Labrador coasts in Canada are some of the best spots for iceberg spotting. You can even see two to three storey icebergs in Iceberg Alley where icebergs make their way from Greenland to the Atlantic.
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© maliasYou can create your own personalised travel guides on the traveldk.com site. You can select which content you want to include in your guide, which could be a mixture of user generated reviews and attraction submissions, photos, maps and Dorling Kindersley content. If you want to download your guide as a pdf file there is a charge of £2.50. If you prefer a hard copy the price is £10 including postage and packing. The traveldk.com site has recently won 2 awards from Travelmole as the Best Travel Extras site and from Travolution as for the Best of Use of Technology. I think you could probably collate your own personalised travel guide using various websites as sources for your desired information but it would be more convenient to do it all on one site and end up with a pdf file instead of a pile of printouts from various sites.
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The Flip Video Camera is billed as the “ultimate point and click” video camera and it does live up to this as it's very simple even for a non techie person like me to use. I liked the fact that the Flip is very compact and light and fits easily in my handbag. The quality of the video footage and the sound was pretty good for a relatively cheap video camera. Hey, we're not talking about making professional movies here. I think that the footage is ideal to capture travel locations either for your own personal use or to upload to your website or blog to give readers more insight into a destination. The Flip records up to 60 minutes of footage. It costs around £100 to buy
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Air Tahiti Nui is offering free companion airfare to travelers who have previously visited Tahiti (and can prove it). The first flight costs $1,368 from Los Angeles or $1,668 from New York, not including taxes and fees.
Proof of a previous trip to Tahiti includes either a copy of a passport page displaying a visa entry stamp and the passport number or a photo of the paying traveler at a recognizable landmark in French Polynesia, such as an overwater bungalow.
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The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen will be 95 years of age on the 23 August 2008. The statue, by the Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen, was presented to the city by the Carlsberg Brewery on August 23 1913. The tragic heroine of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale gazes wistfully in search of her Prince. a tale of enduring but doomed love.
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Sodwana Shootout
You will be forgiven for thinking that the Shootout at Sodwana Bay is yet another cowboy style cash-in-transit heist gone wrong in this country with its voracious appetite for exotic crime. In fact it is nothing of the sort. The Shootout is an annual gathering of national and international SCUBA diver photographers and videographers at one of Southern Africa’s finest coral reef sites, Sodwana Bay in the Maputaland region. This beautiful, sweeping bay on the northern borders of the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Area, itself a World Heritage Site, is home to one of the most exquisite stretches of coastal waters north of the country’s shipping capital of Durban.
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I was intrigued by the mention of the elegant city of Arequipa in Peru when reading Pauline Frommer's Top Ten Budget Destinations of Summer 2008 I decided to find out a bit more.
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Not You Again!
Some things change, and some things don’t. Robert Mugabe, after almost five weeks of political hiatus, remains in power, while galloping inflation – touted now at about 200 000% – necessitated the issue of another new banknote, the third issue in a year. This time it was a Z$500 million bill, up 400 million from the last. Currently the rate of exchange is Z$52 million to £1 sterling. A letter I recently received from a friend in Harare told me that a brief trip to the supermarket to purchase 2 onions, 4 bread rolls, 1 packet of coffee, 2 litres of milk and a cucumber came to a total of Z$1.25 billion, which would have been Z$1.25 trillion had the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe not recently removed several zeros from the local currency. You may ask me how does a man who presides over such unimaginable economic lunacy survive in power, and the truth is I haven’t got a clue.
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Whenever Madonna takes the stage, you know you’re in for a memorable show. Judging from early reviews, her current “Sticky & Sweet Tour” is no exception. She’s wowing the European audiences with this tour, which is in support of her new #1 cd Hard Candy.
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