After booking yourself into a hotel, Florence , Italy, awaits for your exploration of its numerous paintings, sculptures, and artifacts — its art and history available to travelers in 70 museums, from the Museum of Prehistory to Michelangelo’s house to the Alinari Museum of Photography. The Museum of Prehistory may be found in the Palace [...]
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Getting Married in Las Vegas
What is the first place most people think of when they hear the phrase quickie wedding, or the word elope? Of course it is Las Vegas, that great Nevada city with a reputation as big as its glamour and great offerings. And getting married there is just one of the standard reasons to visit it. [...]
American Idol, Lakers and Star Homes All in Los Angeles
While one of the hottest topics coming out of LA today is the Lakers’ current performance in the NBA finals, this is not the only thing the city has to talk about and while they are certainly grabbling a lot of attention as they try and claim the title again and edge out their historic [...]
The Singapore School System
Singapore has an excellent reputation when it comes to education. This small country spends about 20 percent of its budget on the schools, and for a nation as prosperous as Singapore, one would expect certain levels of excellence for their young people. There are six years of education from the ages of 6-12. The Ministry [...]
The Weather in Melbourne
Australia has a reputation in the world for being unbearably hot, as hot as any desert anywhere, and sometimes even worse than that. However, that reputation isn’t exactly well-founded. There are areas where there is some pretty extreme heat, to be sure. Oodnadatta has seen temperatures rise into the 120s in the summer months. There [...]
Hot Yoga in Miami
The craze for Vikram Yoga is still on, and still going very strong. In a city like Miami, there are more than enough options, due to Miami’s status as a world-class city with an extremely cosmopolitan population. One might well imagine that a place that has this many bathing suits would also have a lot [...]
New York Video Cameras
New York is a city that seems made for video cameras. Even more than photography, where the click of a button can capture a moment in time for the next generation, preserving an energy in motion, video cameras can track the speed of life here. Or seem to. Watching New York on video is a [...]
Outdoor Movies in Zurich
One of the great delights about travel, when there’s enough time to see the sights and still have enough down time to connect with the local culture in a meaningful way, is seeing films in another country. Even travel in the most luxurious of places can be a little tiring, when the daily negotiations of [...]
London Club Notes
Anyone who goes to a club is looking for something. Usually it’s something very particular, and usually is exactly what everyone thinks it is, and that’s a good thing. Because it’s easier to meet people knowing that everyone’s there for the same reason, or reasons. The chance to meet the perfect someone is always on [...]