Cost-Friendly, Time-Efficient Guides to Airport Parking in London
Airport parking is one of those traveling glitches that you don’t realize its magnitude until you’ve experienced it yourself. When it comes to this problem, most major airports all over the world welcome the services...
A Return to Lyon!
Join followsummer onboard Air Canada’s inaugural flight 828 connecting Montreal/Lyon as we renewed our senses in the wine, food and lavender fields of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, relaxing and...
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followsummer travel news for April 22, 2016 Interview: Paris Convention Bureau Responds to Post-Attack Challenges In any other year, France’s new business events video would elicit a sense of wonder at the...
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followsummer travel news for April 9th, 2016 Air France Is Trying to Woo Young Travelers with a Discount Loyalty Program Air France will introduce loyalty cards offering 30 percent discounts on domestic routes to passengers aged...
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followsummer travel news for April 8, 2016 Crystal Cruises Reveals New Product Timeline and World Cruise Aboard Crystal Cruises’ current world cruise on the Crystal Serenity, the line’s president and CEO,...
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followsummer travel news for April 2, 2016 Airlines’ Fight for Cuba Flights Is Getting Dirty The competition for the limited number of flights between the United States and Cuba has been quite heated. The DOT will be unable...
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followsummer Travel News for March 25th, 2016 Travel Massive’s Top 10 Most Influential Instagrammers This month we’re kicking off a new series called the Travel Massive Top 10 to highlight members in our...
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followsummer Travel News for March 24th, 2016 What Are the World’s Most Popular Destinations? Travelers have spoken, and TripAdvisor has analyzed the results. London is the top destination in the world based on an algorithm...
One Night in St. Maarten
After a boozy dinner with John`s cousins Jim and Joanne, we are in slight pain this morning for our final pack and go through before we head to the airport for our early afternoon flight to St. Maarten. I am thinking that...
Seven Yummy Food Choices in London
Finding food can be quite daunting in London: so many options, so many locations, so many choices. And trying to sift your way through the enormous gastronomic foodie choices in one of the largest cities in the world, unaided and...
An Interview with Llangoed Hall’s Chef Nick Brodie
Nick Brodie is a very busy man. Between heading up the kitchen at Llangoed Hall in Wales, picking up two recent awards including Condé Nast’s ‘Best Green Practices’ for 2016 and claiming...
A Sunny French Sunday: Last Day in Mulhouse
I awake to the sounds of church bells this sunny French Sunday, and I throw open my hotel window and breath in the Alsatian air. We have a full day today involving a classic car, an écomuseé and a Petit Prince....
Festive France Day 3: Food, Cheese, and Alsatian Wine.
What better way to start a sunny, crisp Alsatian Saturday morning in Mulhouse than with a little shopping? And shopping it is at the Marché du Canal Couvert de Mulhouse the largest public market in...
Festive France Day One: Bienvenu!
Since 2011, France has celebrated its gastronomy with a typical passion and style unheralded and this 5th annual edition of Fête de la Gastronomie, the country-wide celebration of all things French food and drink is...
We are joining Bloglovin’!
followsummer has always been a reflection on the day-to-day personal experiences of our worldly travel. What started in 2004 with us jetting away for a year voyaging around the globe – two suitcases, a computer and camera...
First Day: Scuba Diving in Saba
A leisurely morning. Dives 2 and 3 of the trip, and after yesterday’s diving I am feeling much more confident about hitting the water. I am wearing Greg’s mask as we have concluded, after 3 very waterlogged dives,...
A Southwestern Ontario Road Trip
Growing up, my family did not pack me up with my two older brothers and Fuzzy, our cat, to embark on the typical family summer odyssey of drive, pee, sleep and keep-the-kids-from-killing-each-other-in-the-backseat road trip kind...
Arriving at CDG: Bienvenue à Paris!
We are about to board an overnight Air France flight to Paris, one of our favorite cities in the world. We thought it might be fun to look back on some old #FSTravels trips to the City of Lights. And in the divine Ms. Audrey...
The newspaper this morning in Singapore
is full of the aftermath of bombings and the fallout from the Spanish election, tells us that Indonesia, our next stop, has declared that its Dengue Fever epidemic is over – after close to 500 people have died. The paper also informs us that Singapore has been averaging 89 cases/week through 2004, although recently this has declined to an average of 81 cases/week. Deaths from Dengue in Singapore were not stated. We observe that insect repellent has replaced sunscreen since we got to Singapore. We also learn that the US NIH has committed significant dollars to finding a vaccine for Dengue, which has to be good news.
Every contact we’ve had with mother recently has included the advice to go to the Singapore Orchid Garden, and so we do. We take the MRT and then a bus and walk through the lush grounds of…
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The Beautiful Orchid Garden in Singapore
The newspaper this morning in Singapore is full of the aftermath of bombings and the fallout from the Spanish election, tells us that Indonesia, our next stop, has declared that its Dengue Fever epidemic is over – after close to 500 people have died....
Some Thoughts on India
N 29 E 079 Delhi to Corbett National Park For our last outing in India, we are treating ourselves to a safari in Jim Corbett National Park, in the state of Uttaranchal, nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, where we...