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Maureen & Bernie's Wine Travel Guides - Venice One of the most fun things to do in Venice is to wander the back streets and alleys away from the touristy areas. This was how Maureen found the Vino e Vini enoteca in the Castello district. This friendly enoteca offered tastings of eight Veneto wines that it sells to neighborhood customers as 'vino sfuso da tavola,' or 'open wine' meant for immediate consumption. We recently saw that this enoteca is under new ownership and is now a wine bar called Enoteca La Caneva, located next to a well regarded restaurant, Ristorante Cantina Canaletto. There are dozens of excellent seafood restaurants to choose from in Venice, but one we enjoyed is Corte Sconta in the Castello district. Closed Sundays and Mondays, reservations recommended. Phone: (41) 5227024 Thanks to great recommendations from one of my cousins who honeymooned in Italy, we dined at Corte Sconta and stayed at a wonderful pensione nearby in the Castello district, Hotel Bucintoro. Phone: 39-041-5289909 Fax: 39-041-5280938 Valpolicella

Spectrum: Geek Guide to London On a tech tour of London, you can take in the best of the old and the new. After all, the very same Royal Society that spearheaded research in Darwin's day continues to foster a vibrant scientific community today. While most visitors concentrate on prominent tech-oriented institutions like the Science Museum, you can also learn about London's geeky past and present in more unusual locations. Antique: Kew Bridge Steam Museum Does your idea of London come from Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, or another Charles Dickens novel? Then get a taste of the tech of the time at this former pumping station, which Dickens himself visited in 1850. Timely: Clockmakers' Museum For a brief history of time, stop by this elegant one-room museum. Modern: New London Architecture Space Tired of checking out historical exhibits and ancient dungeons? Practical: The Thames Barrier What's hovering on the surface of the Thames? Enterprising: Computer Exchange

Bikely - Discover and share your favorite bicycle routes Are Wikis the Best Format For Travel Guides? Wikia, a for-profit offshoot of Wikipedia, will announce the launch of a free, editable “worldwide guide of places to go and things to do” on Monday, called World Wikia. The content is very light for now, although for an example of how this might look down the road see their deep content on Roman churches. They will also announce a number of partnerships with commercial publishers to open-source their content and get it up on Wikia. Smartertravel.com and hostelsclub.com are two of the initial partners being announced. Travel is a big category – if Wikia can pull off a large number of page views they’ll make good money on high CPC contextual ads, their primary revenue source. I imagine demand will quickly develop for a downloadable version of individual cities (or the whole travel section) for mobile devices – something that’s been available for wikipedia for some time.

Palin's Travels: Michael Palin's travel website TheTravelzine.com Foreign Affairs Canada Hot Topics Canada stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine in their fight for a free and democratic Ukraine. This landmark agreement constitutes Canada’s first free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region. An interactive global map.

On rassemble dans ce site tous les conseils pour voyager à l'étranger, et ce, pays par pays. Ce site est très intéressant. by arianeparis Dec 7

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