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Good Evening, This time last year I was en route to Mauritania to join a Dragoman Overland exploratory journey. The experience was quite extraordinary and a more refreshingly alternative 12 days of Christmas would be hard to determine. However, I have to admit my wife and I didn't really see eye to eye on this point. Protesting that 'it really was the best time to be in the Mauritanian Sahara' didn't elicit much seasonal good will either. 'Bah Humbug!' would be an generous and archaic alternative to the rather coarse contemporary appreciation she gave freely and often. So Christmas 2006 approaches and though I may still find myself in 'the place of winds'. This time, it'll be down to the combination of an exotic stuffing mix, roast parsnips and too much Tesco cava, not proximity to the warm Saharan breezes of Nouakchott. 2007 will see me inflicting more bad French (I know no other kind) on innocent West Africans, that's for sure. Though perhaps the man in red and his team need to come up with a suitably sybaritic sojourn a deux to maintain New Year karma. Time to wrap this up... This week's website of the week - apologies if it's old hat but hey, it's Christmas - is http://wwwwww.businessballs.com/airtrafficcontrollersfunnyquotesairtrafficcontrollersfunnyquotes.htm That's all for now Have a good week.
Best, Nick
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| Dragoman Overland |
STRICTLY CARNIVAL - THE ROAD TO RIO… CHILE, ARGENTINA & BRAZIL
HIP-SWIVELLING 20% DISCOUNT Cost £796 Combine a love of the outdoors – volcano climbs, skiing, superb wildlife viewing and horse riding with a more flamboyant urge to strip down to sequins and feathers and practice your samba à-la-Strictly Come Dancing, at the Rio Carnival! Dragoman Overland’s 30-day adventure through Chile, Argentina and Brazil concludes in Rio just in time for the carnival, and to get the party started, there’s a hip-swivelling 20% discount up for grabs! Departing Santiago 17th January 07. |
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| Equine Adventures |
CHILE’S TORRES DEL PAINE - ON HORSE BACK Cost £2,195 Equine Adventures offer two fantastic 14-day riding holidays within Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park, famous for big skies and open pampas, glaciers, iceberg-filled lakes and gigantic granite monoliths, departures from London between January and March 2007. |
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| Families Worldwide |
FAMILY OPERATOR FORGES LINKS WITH AGENTS - FREE HOLIDAY FOR TOP SELLER Cost £739 adt £659 chd Specialist tour operator, Families Worldwide, a new and independent travel company, is currently aiming to forge links with agents possessing the necessary knowledge and experience to sell adventurous trips to active families. Mark Wright, Managing Director of Families Worldwide reports, ‘ As the UK demographic continues to display a burgeoning number of families with children aged 10-15 years, now is the time to capitalise on a maturing market in active and adventurous family travel'. As a sales incentive to agents, Families Worldwide is offering an air and land package to Morocco, to their top selling agent during the period December 06 to February 07. |
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| Footloose South America |
TREK PATAGONIA - ***10% DISCOUNT*** Cost £1,233
Discover the expansive pampas, wild fjords, fiery volcanoes and spectacular glacial national parks of Chile and Argentina on Footloose South America’s 19-day Patagonia Adventure camping and lodging tour, departing Santiago 11th February 2007.
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| Made to Measure Holidays |
NEW YEAR SHOPPING - 4-NIGHTS FOR THE PRICE OF 3 - VIENNA Cost £449 Made to Measure Holidays offer a ‘4 for 3’ break to bag those bargains amongst the designer boutiques and café society of Vienna, cosseted in 4-star comfort after pounding the pavements at the Hotel Astoria, departing Heathrow 4th January 2007.
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| Naturetrek |
JUST TIGERS! – JUST IN TIME! - INDIA’S KANHA NATIONAL PARK Cost £1,945 Naturetrek still has places on its 13-day Just Tigers! tour of Kanha National Park, one of India’s finest and most remote Tiger Reserves, statistically proven to offer the world’s best chance to see wild Tigers, departing 22nd December 2006. |
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| Peregrine Adventures |
SPICE UP NEW YEAR - SOUTHERN INDIA & KERALA -LATE AVAILABILITY Cost £1,165 Book now for a chilled-out New Year’s exploration of Southern India and Kerala, visiting exotic temples in Chennai, hunting for souvenirs in the colourful Madurai markets, spotting wildlife in Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary, taking tea in Munnar, one of the world’s highest tea plantations, and sailing Kerala’s beautiful backwaters on a converted rice barge. Peregrine Adventures still has late availability on a 14-day tour departing Chennai 13th January 2007. |
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| Quest Travel |
£1 = $2... WALDORF=ASTORIA
AS STERLING APPROACHES THE TWO-DOLLAR MARK HEAD FOR NYC Cost £659! As the strong pound gets US tills ringing, Quest Travel invite shoppers and aspiring high-rollers to take a juicy bite out of the Big Apple with a glamorous 3-night New York city-break staying at Park Avenue’s most exclusive address – the 5* Waldorf=Astoria. Departures from Gatwick, 3rd January to 15th March 2007. |
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| TrekAmerica |
NO COUCH POTATOES FOR FAT TUESDAY - MARDI GRAS & AMERICA’S DEEP SOUTH Cost £789 After Christmas and New Year, the next big date in the party calendar is Mardi Gras. Experience the party of all parties during TrekAmerica’s new Trek Mardi Gras 12-day lodging and camping tour, the perfect introduction to the diversity of America's Deep South. Explore the coral shores of Key West and alligator-infested Everglades of Florida, via Orlando and Gulf Coast beaches, to Louisiana and a resurgent Big Easy, timed to coincide with the Dixieland Jazz and Cajun carousals of New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations, departing Miami 14th Feb 07. |
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| Walks Worldwide |
THE COPPER CANYON - MEXICO - NEW FOR 2007 Cost £2,525 Walks Worldwide has added a little style and a great deal of comfort to their brand-new Mexican walking trip. By day, follow the ancient trails of the native Tarahumara through the world's largest canyon system - the Copper Canyon in Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains. By night, sip a margarita and rest those weary limbs in stunningly located wilderness lodges and beautifully restored haciendas. The 11-day trip departs London 5th January 2007. (Other dates available throughout the year) |
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| Wildlife Worldwide |
100% SOLAR ECLIPSE - 90° NORTH - NUCLEAR POWERED ICEBREAKER Cost £13,995 The next total solar eclipse is due 1st August 2008 when the moon’s shadow describes a path though some of the world’s harshest and most remote regions. Wildlife Worldwide offer a 13-night voyage from Murmansk, through the permanent sea-ice of the Arctic Ocean aboard the 23,000 tonne, 150 metre, twin nuclear reactor-powered ice-breaker Yamal. Head first for ‘the top of the world’, the geographic North Pole (90° North), then experience the ‘zone of totality’ in the company of Britain’s top eclipse authority John Parkinson, Professor of Astrophysics at Sheffield Hallam University, departing UK by air 19th July 2008. |
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