KDFC Lecture with Rick Steves
January 9, 2010, 6pm Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Join Classical 102.1 KDFC for an exclusive lecture with travel host Rick Steves, Saturday, January 9th, 6pm, at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. Rick Steves, author of “Europe through the Back Door”, shares lessons he’s learned from a lifetime of travel. His entertaining, information-packed 90-minute slideshow will teach you how to stretch your travel dollar, avoid crowds, pack smart, and eat and sleep well. If you love to travel, you’ll love meeting Rick Steves. He’ll also be selling and autographing his book after the lecture. Tickets are $15 and on sale now – just click here. There will be a no-host cocktail hour at 6pm, lecture from 7-8:30pm. Seating is general admission.
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The American Southeast, Florida’s panhandle never gets the respect it deserves. Dubbed the “Redneck Riviera” by dismissive northerners, northwest Florida, in fact, contains some of the most diverse recreation choices along Florida’s drastically under-appreciated Gulf coast, and some of the best options for visitors seeking an affordable family vacation. From Destin to the west, where you can hire a fishing or sailing charter, to the smattering of National Seashores as you move east, there’s really something for everyone. You’ll also find old-school Florida towns with funky shops, tiny hotels, pristine beaches, and the perfect cottage to rent.
You could be the lucky one. This will be hoteltravelrewards.com Community’s first Christmas, and to celebrate, we are giving away one brand new 8gb iPod Touch to one of the lucky members of our Community.
For most travelers to Italy, Rome is the furthest south they will travel. The golden triangle encompassing Rome, Venice and Florence is the main route. But the south has so much to offer! The regions of the south include, Lazio and within it Rome and Vatican city, Abruzzo, Molise and Puglia along the Adriatic, Naples and Campania, the toe of the boot Basilicata and Calabria, and the island of Sicily.
There’s something odd about buying gifts for travelers. Whatever you get them, you obviously hope it will come in handy on their next adventure. If you think about it, you’re basically saying, “Here, I got this for you. Now go away.”
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Gleaming streets, awesome aura of festivity, snow clad trees and roofs, colorful lights and decorated houses mean that Christmas travel holiday season is fast arriving. This is the time when people travel to some of the most famous holiday destinations across the world.
Christmas in Europe is a time for elaborate pastries straight out of a medieval cookbook, for lyrical midnight masses in Gothic churches, and for the upholding of quirky local traditions—in many countries, Christmas just isn’t complete without mischievous pixies, kindly witches (Rome), treacherous demons (Salzburg), or an 8,000-pound fruitcake (Dresden). However else Europeans celebrate the Yuletide season, Christmas still centers around an Advent market that, in most cases, has filled the square before the cathedral each December for hundreds upon hundreds of years. Many markets start on the Friday before Advent, which is four Sundays before Christmas Eve; most end on December 24, especially in Germanic countries, where Christmas Eve is set aside for trimming the tree at home. Others keep celebrating until Epiphany on January 6.
Money-Check, Hangover pills-Check, Ride is on the way-check. I just booked a hotel on the Las Vegas strip for my wife and I and our friends and we are off to the races. The hotel rooms I booked was cheaper than the hostel, which claimed to be it on the strip and technically it is on the same road but miles out of town!! I searched for where to stay and for cheap hotels that had the best reviews. For anyone ever looking to stay here, the cheapest options are: Circus circus, Excalibur, Imperial palace and the Stratosphere (at the very top of the strip so it’s a big walk to everything else). However if you prefer slightly more service in your stay and a staff that perhaps cares about customer service, I would suggest you pay a little more and go with the mid range options. 
