February 15, 2012

Tuesday Travel Ticker: Sports Illustrated puts away the passports
http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-tuesday-travel-ticker-si-puts-away-the-passports-20120210,1,4519045.story
The streets of the French Quarter are usually full of music, but they really come alive during the April 12 music festival. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times) By Chris Erskine Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Currently there are no comments.


Testing, testing: What Valentine's Day and travel have in common
http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-valentines-day-quiz-20120213,1,3274582.story
In what Roman festival is Valentine's Day said to have its origins? How long did it take for this day to become about love and romance? When did the first commercial valentines appear in the US? Why are birds sometimes depicted on Valentine's cards?


Hail Fifth Desert Festival: A window to the past
http://arabnews.com/variety/travel/article575261.ece
By MUHAMMAD AL-SULAMI | ARAB NEWS Fihaidah Al-Shammari or Umm Rabie, an elderly Saudi woman participating in the Hail Fifth Desert Festival, turned down offers of more than SR100,000 by some visitors to buy her handworks, because she has already given ...


A Hot Chocolate Tour of New York. What Are The Top Three?
http://www.thedailymeal.com/hot-chocolate-tour-new-york-what-are-top-three
Weekly newsletter with party-planning ideas, menu tips, decorating how-tos and more. Weekly newsletter with culinary travel ideas, festival coverage, hotels and spa news. A Hot Chocolate Tour of New York. What Are The Top Three? by alocavore The ...


Group brings Asian tradition home to Iowa with Lunar New Year festival
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20120211/NEWS01/302110034/Group-brings-Asian-tradition-home-Iowa-Lunar-New-Year-festival
Many members of the local Asian-American community aren't able to travel home to celebrate Lunar New Year, one of the most important holidays in many Asian countries, Hoang Nguyen said. So, they bring Lunar New Year to them.


Spring Festival in the heart of remotest rural China
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/mychinastory/2012-02/14/content_14603561.htm
However, one of the biggest pleasures of my life in China is to travel to other parts of the country during the Spring Festival break and see the "real China". It is something I have done every year since I arrived here.


Organizers introduce Myrtle Beach Race Week, October events set
http://www2.scnow.com/news/grand-strand/2012/feb/14/organizers-introduce-myrtle-beach-race-week-octobe-ar-3229535/
MYRTLE BEACH, SC ? Continental Event & Sports Management Group, LLC have announced they will produce the 2012 Myrtle Beach Classic Triathlon, incorporating it into a weeklong festival dubbed Myrtle Beach Race Week this October. The Myrtle Beach Classic ...


Film festival world tour comes to Hamilton Theater
http://www.uticaod.com/mid-yorkweekly/x962220069/Film-festival-world-tour-comes-to-Hamilton-Theater
Posing for a picture at the theater during a stop in Hamilton as part of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour are, left to right, Michael Savage from Colgate's Outdoor Education Program, Luke Logan from the Banff Centre and Hamilton Theater ...