posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
Yes dad, it’s a real submarine
OK - so I’m heading to Waikiki and Oahu with my family (two boys - 8 and 6) and my lovely wife. What to do? Of course we planned on spending time on the beach, heading to the north shore (no waves in June… doh!) and enjoying the multitude of shops and restaurants. But we needed some adventure!
So browsing the Viator products for Honolulu I stumbled upon the Atlantis Submarine. Interesting… I wrongly assumed that Submarines were limited to Paul Allen and the world’s major navies. I decide to give it a go.
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
I just stumbled across a new footwear company that seems to have some pretty good designs. The company is called Ahnu. The Ahnu name comes from Celtic mythology, from the goddess of balance and well being. Balance, seems like a good feature to have in a shoe.
They don
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
Coupons
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
Editor’s Note: The 52nd Venice Biennale runs June 10 - November 21, 2007
Venice hosts the 52nd Biennale in 2007
Venice brings to mind a glorious past of glamorous parties in Palazzo lining the Grand Canal: champagne flowing, voices chattering, rich fabrics rustling.
This year, I was lucky enough to be in Venice during the opening of the 52nd Venice Biennale. There were parties, there was champagne (fabrics, sadly, do not rustle much these days). I was privy to the glamour of it all from a lumbering vaparetto on the Grand Canal. But even getting a glimpse of people mingling on the rooftop of the Peggy Guggenheim Gallery, gossiping in the party-dressed Rialto Market and networking at the Palazzo Giustinian Lolin made me feel I was in Venice at a special time.
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
Fremantle is possibly the nicest city on the west coast of Australia. It
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
Editor’s Note: The following blog post is by Don George from his recent trip to Kenya & Tanzania. Don, a pioneering travel writer and editor for 25 years, is the host and creator of the adventure travel web site Don
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
Throughout the Bush presidency, we U.S. travelers have watched our dollars become less and less valuable on the world stage. That hasn’t seemed to hurt our growing number of billionaires, but it does make it tough for the rest of us who want to go travel around the world.
I get interviewed about this subject a lot by journalists and my stock answers used to be “go to Asia” and “go to Latin America.” It’s not that simple anymore though. Currencies are floating more freely, nations are acting more independently, and the world of global finance is becoming more complicated. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the dollar is down over 10 percent this year alone against the currencies of Thailand and India, two of the prime World’s Cheapest Destinations. Besides the euro zone, the dollar is also sucking wind badly in Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, and Turkey.
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
So you’ve been following the Northern Territory (NT) motto for a while now — Not Today, Not Tomorrow, Not Tuesday, Not Thursday. You’re kicking back with some second-rate Australian beers (Fosters anyone?) or expensive imported stuff underneath the palm tree of your choice, and now you reckon the day has arrived to leave Australia
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
Zuca
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
Let me start off by saying I am not a huge Harry Potter fan. I’ve read the books, but until recently I’d never bought any of them (all borrowed from friends). I mostly have seen the movies on tv. Of my friends and colleagues, I am the exception not the rule. I am not going to tell you how many Amazon boxes with the final Harry Potter were shipped to Viator’s San Francisco office this last weekend, or how many discussions about good Snape versus bad Snape I have overheard or how many visits to mugglenet happen during lunch breaks. Let’s just say there’s some Harry Potter fans working at Viator.
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