
Airfare, hotel rooms, cruise tickets and all-inclusive vacations at a discount
November marks the start of the high season for many of the world's warm weather destinations. Travel to places like Thailand, Turkey and the Caribbean starts to get expensive. Meanwhile, the ski season in Europe and North America prepares to get into high gear. Fortunately, there are good ...
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Stay with the rich & famous on Italy’s luxury island
Since the early 1960s the Italian island of Sardinia has been a popular destination for the international jet set. The beautiful landscape, the clear blue sea, the amazing archeaology (such as the 3,000-year-old megalithic edifices that are the
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Feast with felines in Japan
Japan's capital city can be a tough place for a cat lovers to live. Small apartments, long work hours and restrictive housing codes make it difficult for Tokyoians (Tokyoites? Tokyoids?) to keep cats at home. No wonder then that the city is seeing an increasing number of cat ...
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Get lost! And have fun in these 8 incredible mazes.
The world "mazerific" is thrown around a lot these days. But we've found eight mazes that really are superlative, either for their size, history or quirky features.
Check out our review below . . . and try not to get lost along the way.
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Amazon’s e-book reader now works internationally
Regular readers of the Spot Cool Stuff Tech blog know what huge fans we are of the Kindle. They also know that our Kindle enthusiasm comes despite harboring a few gripes about Amazon's e-book reader.
Well, today that list of gripes grew shorter by one: The Amazon Kindle is ...
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Pamper your feet Parisian-style
Monsieur Ho is to feet as Yves Saint Laurent was to fashion—worshipped by his fans and envied by his rivals as a master of his medium. For the last three decades his name has been passed from one glamorous Parisienne to another as the best pedicurist in ...
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