Viewing by month: January 2010
Grilled cheese sandwich calling your name? Here’s where to answer the call.
You’ve probably heard that it’s raining here in California. So much so that we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see a pair of zebras wade by on their way to the Ark.
Anyway, on these icky, rainy days, nothing sounds quite as good as a piping hot grilled cheese. Unless it’s a grilled cheese with a cup of tomato soup.
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Cheap airfares to Europe with British Airways fare sale.
British Airways announced a fare sale yesterday that cuts the cost of international airfare in half. Fares from Los Angeles are as low as $219 each way to Barcelona and Madrid. Non stop service from Los Angeles to London is $249 each way. And Rome and Amsterdam are both $269 each way.
Fares from New York are about $20 less each way.
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Great deals on European River Cruises.
Lately, my email inbox is filled with offers on European River Cruises. And some of them are pretty hard to pass up.
If you’ve never taken a river cruise, you should consider one. You usually spend some time each day exploring one of Europe’s charming towns or villages, and then spend a few hours cruising one of the Continent’s great rivers, like the Rhine or the Danube. The scenery is great – and so close you can almost touch it – the food is first-rate, and since most river boats carry fewer than 200 passengers, the experience is much more intimate than an ocean cruise.
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