Travel bag packing hint.
Here’s one of our favorite packing tips. We learned it from a former flight attendant who’d
been everywhere. Wear disposable clothes on your next long-haul flight.
If you’re like us, by the time you get off a twelve-hour plane
ride, you want to burn the clothes you’re wearing. Not only do you
never to wear those clothes again, you don’t even
want to put them back in your travel bag.
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Tips for traveling on French trains.
Our recent experience with French trains was mixed. We traveled from Gare de Lyon in Paris to
Avignon in first class and everything was great. But the return trip
in 2nd class was really stressful.
Since we were visiting the
Riviera during the Cannes
Film Festival, we made reservations and purchased our tickets
about six weeks in
advance. By then, many of the least expensive advance-purchase fares
for the TGV were already sold out.
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Santa Barbara food and wine festivals.
The Central Coast
of California produces some great wine. And during the summer,
there are wonderful festivals where you can taste dozens of wines,
accompanied by food from top area restaurants and catering companies.
Santa
Barbara, which is one of the most beautiful cities anywhere, has two
excellent wine festivals coming up.
The first is
the Santa Barbara Wine
Festival which takes place this year on June 26. Located at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History near the old Santa Barbara Mission, the festival
helps to fund exhibits and educational programs at the museum.
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