No doubt that if used properly Ryanair is fantastic, but make sure you do your homework or things can get non-budget quite quickly (i.e paying for customer service, £5 per checked bag, £5.50 / £8 per kilo for baggage over the 15kg limit).  On Sept. 20th Ryanair will introduce a £2 fee for passengers who DO NOT check-in online; [...]

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Berlin- 100 women raced 100 meters in the second Glamour Magazine Stiletto-Race. The winner, Denise Hanitzsch, posted a time of 14.7 seconds. This time may not seem very quick compared to the woman’s world record of 10.49 posted by Florence Griffith Joyner, however Frau Hanitzsch was wearing stilettos which had which had to [...]

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Virgin Travel Insurance has interviewed 1,267 holidaymakers about what their most disappointing sights are abroad and in Britain. 
Listed in order from 1st to 10th most disappointing:
The Eiffel Tower, Paris; Mona Lisa at the Louvre, Paris; Times Square, New York; Las Ramblas, Barcelona; Statue of Liberty, New York; Spanish Steps, Rome; The White House, Washington DC; The Pyramids, Egypt; The Brandenburg [...]

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[ August 16, 2008; ] Buenos Dias Amigos!

Humantla, Mexico- In the 53rd addition of the Huamantlada, one man was killed and 24 others were injured- click here for video but BEWARE it is graphic! The be a bullfigher (torero) for a minute festival is held every year on the 1st Saturday after August 15th in Humantla, which is a city 170km (100 miles) south of Mexico City.  The [...]

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[ August 29, 2007; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Always on last Wednesday of August

Place: Main square in Buñol, Spain.  Just west of Valencia

Why you want to go:  the chance to smear 240,000 lbs. of tomatos on 30,000 people while wearing protective goggles.

Logistics:  Buñol is pretty small and does not accommodate very well with its one hotel.  Staying in Valencia and traveling over to Buñol for the event is [...]

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A good reason for keeping in touch when you are away from home, or at least for keeping some decent notes about your experiences.
It seems as though Marco Polo discovered the west coast of North America about 200 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue.  According to an article in the Corriere della Sera the great explorer did not record half [...]

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Guten Tag Travelers,
We surveyed some tour guides about common questions that they get and learned that a many travelers are curious as to the whereabouts of Raphael’s little angels; the same cherubs that are commonly on t-shirts, prints, post cards and numerious other little knickknacks found in tourist shops throughout Europe. We heard that tourists [...]

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Here we are in a case of he said, he said. As iKangaroo reported earlier this week a gay couple in Rome was cited for obscene acts in public while the couple said that they were only kissing. Well, now things have gotten more interesting because tonight in Rome August 2, 2007 a Kiss-in has [...]

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We just learned that a couple was sited for kissing in front of the Colosseum on the night of July 26, 2007. The charge was ‘obscene acts in a public place.’ We like this story because it is a great example that the more things change the more they stay the same. [...]

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Ciao Travelers!
Follow this advice to be a green traveler, save money and the frustration of ordering the wrong kind of water. Yes, there is more then one kind of water.
The water from the street fountains in Rome is safe to drink! According an article published to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Rome’s water [...]

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