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Adventures By Disney: England and France

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As an Anglophile of French descent, I can’t think of a better family vacation than this one! Once you pick up your luggage and pass through customs in London, an Adventures by Disney representative will meet you and direct you to transportation to the Renaissance Chancery Court London. Your Guides will handle your hotel check in so you can start relaxing right away. You’ll meet up with your fellow adventurers at a cocktail reception and British feast that evening. Day two will see you boarding a double decker bus for a grand tour of London including Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace … Continue reading →

London: Good News/Bad News

Attention travelers bound for London, England: I have news you can use. Let’s start with the good news. Thanks to a new line of budget hotels, you will have a much easier time taking a nap at London’s Gatwick Airport. (The airport is notorious for delays, which means at some point you will inevitably be scrounging the terminals for a place to crash.) Yotels, located within the airport’s terminal, features budget-priced pint-sized cabins with beds, showers, flat-screen TVs and free Internet. Cabins range in size from about 22 to 32 square feet and cost $50-$80 per four-hour minimum. Additional hours … Continue reading →

Prince to Tour London then Study the Bible

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His name once seemed almost synonymous with the word “sex,” but now Prince has other things on his mind. He plans to play twenty one concert dates in London starting August 1st of this year and will then take time off to study the Bible. Over his career, Prince has sold approximately 80 million albums. Hits like “When Doves Cry,” “Little Red Corvette,” and “1999” have made him a household name in the 80s. But now it seems that as he closes in on age 50, Prince has things more spiritual in nature on his mind. Prince said that he … Continue reading →

New Family-Friendly Theme Park—“READ” All About It

It’s a place where literary classics come to life. If you are a fan of famed author Charles Dickens… and you love water rides then consider adding London to your list of summer vacation hotspots. Next month, a new $125-million theme park inspired by the works of the acclaimed author opens in a 70,000-square-foot warehouse in Chatham, 35 miles southeast of London. If you have voracious young readers in your family who can’t get enough of titles such as “The Pickwick Papers,” “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” and “Oliver” you may want to forgo Disney World and head straight for … Continue reading →

Planning A European Vacation

Long before I visited a movie theater to see “National Lampoon’s European Vacation” I dreamt of strolling along the streets of Paris and exploring all that Italy had to offer. In fact, I had even completed preliminary research for a European honeymoon, but alas, we ended up getting married in Hawaii and honeymooning there. As it stands now, my dreams of taking a European holiday are permanently on hold, especially since we now have a young daughter who would rather visit Elmo than the Eiffel Tower. While we are in Elmoland a new survey found more than 64% of all … Continue reading →

The Last Suspect – Susan Evans McCloud

Inspector Callum MacGregor has been called out to investigate the murder of one Archibald Linton, businessman, playboy, and now, dead. Found in a glass-enclosed gazebo on his property, the only known person to have been on the premises that night was his business partner, a timid man named Clarence Thomas. From their first meeting, Callum can’t believe that a man such as Clarence could have committed this murder, and so he sets out to investigate every other possibility, further fueled by the need to protect Archibald’s daughter, a girl named Rosetti, now in the care of her spoiled step-mother. Meanwhile, … Continue reading →

A Family Vacation Courtesy of Uncle Sam

Hopefully, you got your taxes in on time (or at the very least filed for an extension). And if you are one of the millions of Americans who overpaid the federal government last year, you can now sit back and wait for your tax refund. According to the Internal Revenue Service, as of early April, the average tax refund is $2480. Sure, they are many ways you can blow that money, but why not consider using part of it for a family vacation. Visit Internet travel sites and you will see just how many great deals are being offered. Here … Continue reading →