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Bringing you what’s new in travel for April 19th 2010 through April 21st 2010: Volcano Eruption Grounds Cruise Travelers, Disrupts Sailings – posted this over on Frommer’s : With the volcanic activity in Iceland interrupting thousands of vacations, the delays and inconvenience continues to reverberate far beyond northern Europe and far beyond air travel. Hawaiian [...]

Travel related news and tweets for November 19th 2009 through November 20th 2009: Literary Paris: A lesson in pictures – Meg Zimbeck recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek’s Travel Blog:Shakespeare & Company, the legendary left-bank English-language bookshop, has long been a magnet for literary talent. Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and [...]

Bing Travel recently posted this over on the Bing Travel Blog:

The onerous restrictions on travel imposed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks aren’t just a nuisance to law-abiding vacationers tired of separating out their liquids and taking off their shoes at interminable airport security lines. The additional hoops that international visitors must now jump through to enter the country are continuing to harm America’s image around the world. 

SonjaG recently posted this over on the Bing Travel Blog:

The French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once famously said, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” When we travel, it’s easy to get to know a place through our mouths as much as through our eyes and ears. While most of us won’t ever have the opportunity to experience food on the same level as Brillat-Savarin, almost anyone can get more familiar with a destination by simply stopping into a grocery store.

RobinD_travel recently posted this over on the Bing Travel Blog:

Ken Burns’ new series, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” is inspiring couch potatoes nationwide to plan their vacations to Acadia, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and more. If the six-part, 12-hour documentary film has your head swimming with the possibilities, perhaps Bing Travel’s latest photo gallery may help. “The Best National Parks For …” offers a few suggestions to narrow down the choices based on your preferred activities.

AmyS recently posted this over on the Bing Travel Blog:

It’s well known that New England is a spectacular place to be in the fall, when the advent of autumn turns the region’s trees into a riot of flaming color. But just because New England’s fall reputation is so stellar, does it follow that the region has the best foliage around? Not so fast, say many in the West, who assert that their leafy golden wonders can hold their own with New England during foliage season.

AmyS recently posted this over on the Bing Travel Blog:

If you’re like me, you probably don’t give travel insurance a second thought when you’re planning a vacation. But a new Bing Travel article by Peter Greenberg may open your eyes to the possibility. Greenberg gives a good overview of when it’s worth it to purchase insurance for your trip, noting that travel insurance can “save the day” if something were to go wrong. And that something can take oh-so-many forms: You get sick before you travel, you get sick while you travel, your flight gets canceled, your tour operator goes bankrupt, the airline loses your bags, your passport gets stolen, a hurricane wreaks havoc on your destination …

AmyS recently posted this over on the Bing Travel Blog:

The primary purpose of a lighthouse is to serve as a navigational aid — you could almost think of them as the original GPS. But they’re also incredibly romantic structures, generally located in a lovely waterfront location that’s drenched with the drama of storms at sea. Put it all together, and there’s something about lighthouses that’s incredibly captivating.