Really Nice Vacations

The top tourist attractions in the British capital are the most expensive in the world according to a survey of major cities by The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
Visitors have to pay more at London’s fee-paying sights such as Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London and Madame Tussauds, than at other similar attractions around the world.
A family [...]

I went to Malaysia on a business trip recently. En route to Singapore to catch my flight back , my Malaysian associate brought me to a organic farm at Kluang in Johor to see how dragon fruits (also known as pitaya) were grown. I had eaten some back home, mainly the white flesh and the [...]

Well, I wrote Tourist Trap: Leaning Tower of Pisa on 8 May 2008 and I said the tower was still tilting. Well, I was wrong.
This 14,000 tonne free-standing bell tower - an internally recognized architecture symbol of Italy along with Rome’s Colosseum, was built in several stages between 1174 and 1370. It began to tilt [...]

When you think about going on a holiday, what are you most afraid of?
- over priced souvenirs
- horrible restaurants
- dishonest tour guides
- over priced “attractions”
And this is exactly what Fisherman Wharf - crowded stretch of San Francisco waterfront from Ghirardelli Square to Pier 39 - offered.
But I tell you, what does Fisherman’s Wharf offer [...]

Every year, as you watch the Miss Universe Pageants, you never fail to notice that the South Americans are almost always represented in the top ten.
Every time you see a beautiful postcard of beaches and sunsets, you know that many of these locations are in South America. Well, I have a fantasy. A beautiful [...]

There is no place more beautiful than the Hawaiian islands. Every time we vacation there, it breaks our hearts to leave.
Recently, I seriously started thinking about Hawaii homes on a more permanent basis.  After all, to me, Hawaii already feels so welcoming that I cannot imagine anywhere else that I would like to make my [...]

If you have ever wanted to visit China’s capital Beijing, there is no better time than 2008 to do so.
For the past few years, Beijing has been a hot bed of construction, re-construction and restoration projects. But all that dust has settled and the Beijing that emerge is more than ready for the Olympics 2008. [...]