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Up to 25% Off Adventure Travel DealsSave $400 per couple on 2011 Africa VacationsThe Amateur Traveler talks to Marilyn about her recent trip to Madagascar. Marilyn grew up in this remote and [...]

Near Venice’s St Mark’s square I once overheard an american tourist complain that everywhere they went in Europe there were crowds. This same tourist was wearing a Globus tour company name tag [...]

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Anthony Sandberg from the OCSC about the sport of sailing, sailing vacations and sailing in the Aegean. Learn about private beaches, picturesque fishing villages and how you [...]

These are desperate days for the airline industry so we can probably understand that when readers of two Philadelphia newspapers read last week that a new airline would charge by the pound [...]

If you have traveled to a foreign country, especially one where it is not healthy to drink the water you may have encountered the common traveler’s ailment known by names such as [...]

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Save up to $2,000 per stateroom on select 2010 Europe River Cruises Here is is a video tour I shot of Holland America’s MS Volendam. I talked more about this particular ship [...]