Paris, the city of romance elicits exotic and beautiful dreams of relaxation and culture in those who love to travel. And for those who do travel, Paris has many beautiful sights to offer to beguile the traveler into staying…and staying just a while longer than planned.
What could be more romantic than getting married on a beach, under the sun, to the person you love? Sure it is wonderful to be surrounded by hundreds of friends and family members, but it is also extremely expensive, enormously hectic and ultimately can end up being more of a burden than a pleasure. Destination weddings are the perfect compromise. You get your honeymoon and wedding in one, and can invite your nearest and dearest to come join you.
Maybe you don’t want an active vacation at all. Maybe what you’d really like to do is lie back and soak up some sun. Or maybe you can’t decide. You’d like to relax, but you’d also like the excitement of seeing new places. Cruises offer the best of two worlds. The chance to travel while you enjoy the pleasures of resort life at sea.
Mardi Gras would be heaven without the multitudes of half-lit partygoers, but it also wouldn’t be Mardi Gras. Those who subscribe to the old maxim that ‘Hell is other people’, should stay far, far away. Celebrated by those of the ‘laissez les bons temps roulez’ (‘let the good times roll’) mentality, Mardi Gras is America’s biggest, liveliest and most show-stopping party.
Grenada is a beautiful island that sits close to Trinidad and Tobago. Most famous for it’s beaches, almost perfect weather and people, it’s also got a ton of great tourist delights. There are many incredible reasons to visit Grenada including the beautiful vegetation, the carnival and laid back vibe.
The Provence-Alps-Côte d’Azur region is ideally situated between the Mediterranean coastline and the Alps. Its location and climate are extremely attractive.
San Francisco is the city Americans fantasise about, sing about and leave their heart in, a place of myth and magic on a par with Paris and Venice. One of California’s greatest native writers, John Steinbeck, called it “a golden handcuff with the key thrown away”. With a stunning waterfront setting that rivals Rio de Janeiro’s, and just 750,000 inhabitants, it is America’s most livable great city, and its fascinating mosaic of ethnic neighbourhoods is one of its most charming features.
A place called ‘big hole’ was hardly an insult to mountain men such as Jim Bridger and Jedediah Smith, who were among the first white people to explore and label the northern Rocky Mountains. The term was simply frontier-speak for a wide, deep valley.
