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Mar 20th, 2008
Honeymoon in Italy
I finally broke down and bought our tickets to Italy this week so it’s time to start planning in earnest. And just in time for our trip, I see that Rick Steves has put up a series of iPod tours for Italy. Excellent.
I have recenty started reading his Italy book, and we’ve been working our way through his Italy shows. I’ve got a vague outline for our itinerary and should be firming it up in the months to come. I do know that our trip will start in Milan and end in Rome, it’s the middle bit that is still fuzzy.
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Feb 13th, 2007
Further Love For Audio Tours
I don’t know why I love audio tours so much, but I do. I’ve written about them extensively in the past and will continue to hunt them down for whatever upcoming trips we might have.
Today, while browsing around on Audible I came across various audio tours of sites on the Yucatan Peninsula put together by a company called TekTrek. I’m glad I found them through Audible first and not just by stumbling across their web site, because if that had been the case I never would have been able to figure out where to get them as there is nothing on their site even indicating that they are for sale. Now I don’t want to tell them how to run their business, but it’s an oversight they may want to correct.
Anyway, when I start to research our Mexico trip, I will have a better idea which tours are for us, but I’m sure we’ll try out a couple of them if they fit into our itinerary.
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Jan 11th, 2007
Soundwalk Paris
I’m very excited to see that Soundwalk has some new Paris walking tours. Five of them, to be exact. I am a big fan of both this concept in general and this company in particular (as you can see from my review of two of the New York tours).
I all ready plan on getting at least two of them (the Marais and the St Germain tours), and may break down and get them all. I know we won’t have time to do all of them, but they will be fun to listen to anyway.
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Nov 9th, 2006
National Geographic Walking Tours
National Geographic Traveler offers a number of interesting podcasts, one of which is a series of walking tours narrated by Rudy Maxa of PBS’ Smart Travels.
Destinations covered include a wide range of cities including Paris, Amsterdam, New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
I haven’t listened to them yet, but I’ll check out one soon and write a little review.
To subscribe to this podcast in iTunes click here.
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Oct 5th, 2006
MTV Guides
I saw an MTV Europe
I wonder who the target audience for these things could be? College frat boys and Girls Gone Wild?
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