Category: Family Travel
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Family villa rental properties in Italy
I recently received information from Doorways Ltd. This Pennsylvania based firm says that it that specializes in Italian villa rentals and it has announced that it has a new portfolio of villas, specifically chosen for family travel. “Traveling abroad with small children can be a challenging task,” says Kit Burns, President, Doorways, Ltd. “Villas offer…
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Muppets are NYC’s official family ambassadors for 2012
The Muppets have been named by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and NYC & Company, New York City’s tourism and marketing organization, as this year’s official NYC Family Ambassadors. Click here to view this program’s site which highlights family-friendly things to do and see for visiting families as well as locals. On http://www.nyc.gov,…
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Entertaining your child during travel with digital maps
Ted Florence, president of Avenza Systems, Inc., has developed PDF Maps app for the iPhone and iPad. Mr. Florence provides the following ways to keep the family involved and entertained on the next family trip with Digital Maps: 1) Create the position of Onboard Digital Historian: Family taking a road trip for the week? …
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Great Ideas From The New York Times Travel Show
Last Saturday I traveled down to Manhattan’s Javits Center to attend the annual New York Times Travel Show. Located primarily on this convention center’s main floor, this show provided information for over 500 destinations from around the world, and it was divided into various sections including the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the United…
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Mom Gives Birth on Train To NYC
The Associated Press reports that a 31-year-old New Jersey woman gave birth on a PATH train to New York City yesterday. The AP reports that “PATH officials turned the train into an express, bypassing most stops so that it would get to its final stop, 33rd Street in midtown Manhattan, as soon as possible. Emergency…
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Wintry Adventure to Ripley’s Boo-lieve It or Not Extreme Times Square Slumber Fest
Last Saturday, my husband, Robert, my son Alex, and I, along with two of Alex’s buddies braved that night’s freakishly early snow storm to travel to New York City. Months before I had won a charity auction prize for five people to attend Ripley’s Boo-lieve It or Not Extreme Times Square Slumber Fest. …
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Culinary Institute of America’s Parent-Teen Cooking Course-Priceless Experience
A couple of weeks ago, my son, Alex, and I were invited to come to one of the Culinary Institute of America’s Parent-Teen days where we participated in a terrific one day cooking course for parents and children 12 years and older. I was happy to participate because I wanted to share my love for…
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Cutting Travel Costs By Organizing Group Trips
Check out the interesting article that Billie Cohen of the New York Times wrote about how to make group trips more affordable and how to streamline the planning. Cohen discusses cruises as being the easiest trip of this type because so many things are provided to all the members of your group once you’re on board. Cohen also…
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Eco-Fun For Adults and Kids-Vermont’s British School of Falconry
Last Mother’s Day, my family gave my favorite present – the gift of travel. But where to go that day? My first thought was NYC. You know by now that I love visiting that city and I had just told you about all of the festivals, fairs, and other events were going on that…
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Key West-Travel From New York and the Hyatt Key West
Last week I started telling you about my trip to Key West, Florida. On a bright, sunny day, I landed at the Miami Airport and,with three of the women from my group, we took US1 to drive through miles and miles of beautiful scenery in order to get to our final destination. When we were about half of the way to…
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