This Week’s  Tips, Trips and Traps: Feeding the Chicks Feeding the Chickens From the super savvy family travel people at Takingthekids.com, come fun suggestions about family vacations this summer. What caught our attention is the Farm Holiday where kids get to feed the chickens, pluck carrots, pick berries and get to connect ...

[audio:http://newmediatravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Denmark.mp3|titles=Denmark] Breakfast At Tivoli’s I remember Denmark well. (Please click the audio player above for this Denmark AudioPostCard) I lived there years ago when I was the Director of a theatre company, located one of the city’s many picturesque, cobbled streets. It had a nearly hidden entrance, and was wonderfully placed between the ...

[audio:http://newmediatravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5_Audio_Postcard___Spain6.mp3|titles=5_Audio_Postcard___Spain] Andalusia, Spain: The Cross and Crescent-Audio PostCard   Please click the player above to listen to this sound-rich, Audio PostCard from Andalusia, Spain When Europe was groping its way through the Dark Ages, 10th century Islamic Spain, Andalusia, was considered the jewel of the world. Christianity and Judaism mixed easily with Islam, and no ...

Clobbering the Klout Score Imagine this scenario. You’re boarding your flight, and an announcement is made that there are three free upgrades to First Class. Free. For those whose Klout scores are 50 or higher. Or you complain to a company about some defect in their product, and you never get an ...

When Women Travel Solo Many women  want to travel alone, or with other women,  and not a guy... a fact most men find very difficult to accept. And while we think there are too many movies and books that give us too many images of women as helpless victims, the truth is ...

Inn Style: Cliffside Inn Review, Newport, RI In the land of the Great Gatsby there's no shortage of towering, masterpiece theatre- like mansions that look like PBS’ Downton Abbey. But for mere mortals interested in enjoying the sea, shops and charms of Newport, RI, we easily recommend the Cliffside Inn. This more modest ...

This Week's Travel Tips, Trips and Traps Flash Sales Change Travel Think about it, The Washington Post, asks, do you really want to go to the Shady Hill Inn in Maine because you’ve always wanted to go there? Or do you want to go there because Sniqueaway.com has a sudden flash offer, and ...

Saying “I Love You” at 35,000 Feet-From  Seat 7B Why Not? Flight attendants are not inherently anti-romantic or anti-social, they’re just brainwashed when it comes to using cell phones in the air. “Please switch off all mobile phones as they can interfere with the aircraft’s rafts navigation system,” is the flight attendant’s ...

Tired of Traveling With Ugly People? No, this doesn’t come from us, but from someone who Tweeted about a new travel-dating site called, Misstravel.com It’s pretty much a travel dating site...with plenty of innuendo. The explanatory video asks are you attractive, love to travel, but don’t have the money? It then explains that there ...

This Week’s Travel Tips, Trip and Traps Top Ten Things Airlines Don't Tell You Do pilots and flight attendants have relationships in the air? What do pilots do when they have to take a pee? What goes on in that sacred space, the cockpit? Away.com thinks you’d like to know, and we would. So ...