Archive for the 'Travel' Category
Travel: Stay healthy when you fly
Saturday, April 11th, 2009Do you take care of your health when you’re flying? Airline travel, especially on long flights, delivers health challenges. Personal Health – Flying Healthy, From Takeoff Past Landing – NYTimes.com reports: “Airline cabins are commonly pressurized to altitudes of 1,524 to 2,438 meters, or about 5,000 to 8,000 feet, above sea level. Healthy people have [...]
Cruises: how to budget for your cruise
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Once upon a time, luxury cruises were only for the rich. Others certainly did travel by ship, even 100 years ago. But they were transported in ‘steerage’, a dingy and uncomfortable accommodation. In the 1950s, cruises became the in thing among those with a little spare cash, even when they weren’t wealthy. Today, even those [...]
Paris – La Ville Lumière
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Translated from the French, the title means ‘City of Lights’. By now a commonplace description, there’s nothing commonplace about the place. Paris, for those who love… well, anything, is stellar. With over 2 million inhabitants, 11 million in the Ile-de-France region overall, Paris is a metropolis second to none. A center of world culture for [...]
