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As comprehensive as Travel Squire is, we know there are other excellent places to read about travel and fascinating destination information. We’ll review books, newspapers, websites, television and any other media that we find helpful to the modern traveler.
When booking a trip, most people just buy the cheapest air fare they find. They figure they’ll be on the plane for, most likely, an uncomfortable amount of time but they’ll eventually get through it. Seatplans.com strives to help you find the best seat on the plane that fits your needs.
You can do this by entering your travel information on the homepage or by comparing stats and ratings for all airlines and even individual flights. Before doing so you should first read their list of crucial questions to ask yourself when choosing a seat: Aisle or window? Day flight or night flight? Seatplans.com gives you general guidelines of seats to avoid and where to sit for more leg room. If you haven’t bought your tickets already, you can book your trip right there on the site. After your trip you can submit your review so others can read about the best and worst seats.
Although, Seatplans.com can’t tell you if you’ll be sitting next to Ashton Kutcher, they can certainly make your trip a bit more comfortable for your needs.
Matt Long is a typical Gen-X professional who has a passion for all things travel. He is the creator of Landlopers.com and is himself a LandLoper-a wanderer and adventurer. The site brings a unique perspective on how to travel the world efficiently and without spending a fortune. It’s a great place to find information and tips on a variety of travel topics and destinations.
Just recently, Matt Long has launched an eBook called “Matt’s Money Saving Travel Tips!” It is a collection of the best tips and lessons he has learned along the way for efficient travel. It instills LandLopers’ message that there are many ways to
wander the world without draining your funds. You can obtain this eBook for FREE by signing up for the LandLopers newsletter on their website. www.landlopers.com
It’s no secret that traveling throughout Asia can be a memorable and enriching experience. Anyone seeking to fully experience the continent can now visit numerous countries thanks to an infrastructure that allows easy travel across destinations. This is the idea behind Discover Asia Now.
Discover Asia Now promotes fantastic travel deals and programs in Asia and offers in-depth information on traveling to the region under one interactive website: www.discoverasianow.com.
Developed by nine Asian tourism organizations including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Macau, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, visitors to the site can find information on cultural, culinary, adventure, romance, and wellness opportunities found in each of the participating destinations. Maps and other useful tools such as local weather, currency exchange, and price indices are also part of the site which aims to help make the planning process easier.
Leading tour operators, hotels, and airlines, including A Classic Tours, Asia Luxe Holidays, EVA Airlines, Harbour Grand Kowloon & Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees, the Langham Hotel Hong Kong, Goway, Pacific Holidays, SITA and Taj Hotels, are offering special discounted travel deals and promotions exclusive to the Discover Asia Now site.
For all of those frequent flyers who balk at losing their internet connection while in
the air, there’s great news. Just in time for the busy summer travel season, Aircell,
the world’s leading provider of in-flight connectivity, has recently announced that
its’ Gogo Unlimited monthly subscription service can be purchased on the ground at
www.gogoinflight.com. The service provides travelers with monthly unlimited internet
using any WI-FI enabled device on all Gogo-equipped flights. Gogo is currently available
on Virgin America and on select American, Delta, United and US Airways flights.
On top of the convenient on the ground purchase, if you purchase online, Aircell is
offering the first month for only $19.95 – a 40% discount off the normal $34.95 price.
Unlimited monthly internet service while airborne that can be purchased at an affordable
price before boarding? That’s staying connected!
You can now find all the travel tools you will ever need on your trip in one app. Frommer’s Travel Guides has just launched a new FREE app for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch that provides tools such as a tip calculator, packing list, postcards, currency converter, unit converter, time translator, travel trivia, city guides, flashlight and apps we love.
All of these features are designed to help make traveling easier and enjoyable:
The tip calculator gives travelers a global tipping guide and helps calculate splitting the bill. Packing list is a tool to create reminders to insure that you will not forget anything before your departure. You can create your own list or pick from Frommer’s suggestions. Postcards allow you to stay in touch with friends and family by creating an online postcard and sending it via e-mail, Twitter or Facebook. Currency converter can convert 180 currencies and the exchange rate is updated daily. Unit converter can convert global temperatures, distance, weight and volume. Time Translator will tell you the time of day anywhere in the world which is great for global meetings. While waiting for a flight you can test your travel knowledge with the Travel Trivia app. The most useful feature may be City Guides, since it can help you find a restaurant or hotel where ever you are using Frommer’s content. Flashlight is useful in dark places to read menus or find your way around an unfamiliar hotel. It stays lit for up to 30 minutes! Lastly, Apps We Love is a roundup of great travel apps that may also come in handy on your trip.
You can download it HERE for free or visit www.frommers.com to see all of the Frommer’s mobile apps.
If you love Italian food, the kind you’d eat in Italy, do yourself a favor and check out Matthew Scialabba and Melissa Pellegrino’s The Italian Farmer’s Table. Weighing in at 300 pages with over 150 recipes, this cookbook is filled with the most authentic Italian recipes and packed with anecdotes and photographs that make your mouth water. It’s like your own little visit to Italy.
Two years ago Melissa and Matthew dropped everything to visit their motherland. They quit their jobs, sold their cars and stored all their possessions to pursue their dream of writing a cookbook about the agriturismi of northern Italy. Agriturismi are small working family farms that open their doors to guests and provide them with meals. Developed by the Italian government in 1985 this system helps farmers earn additional income and helps them to survive as the face of rural Italy.
The pair visited and cooked at 30 agriturismi in the eight northernmost regions of the country. They then adapted each recipe they learned in their travels for home kitchens so that each delicious meal could be recreated effortlessly. The Italian Farmer’s Table presents unique recipes that fully represent what it means to “mangia.”
The Italian Farmer’s Table
Authentic Recipes and Local Lore of Northern Italy
By Matthew Scialabba and Melissa Pellegrino
www.theitalianfarmerstable.com
How many times have you been completely lost when trying to decide what wine to order from a restaurant’s endless wine list? At times this can be embarrassing if you are the one choosing a bottle for the table. There are so many things to consider: what type of wine you like, which complements the food and how much you want to spend. Fear no more, there’s now a wonderful iPhone app to the rescue!
Just launched on March 11th, Approach Guides’ Italian Wine Guide is all you need to get you to that first glass. No matter what your level of wine knowledge, you can easily navigate this application which has four options to help select a wine: by style, by grape, by region or food pairing. This app doesn’t need an internet connection so there’s no waiting. You can have your wine selection ready as soon as your waiter returns to the table. When you narrow your search with the four options you’ll be provided a list of wines that meet the criteria. From there you can read detailed descriptions, mark your favorites, find foods that will match your wine and get vintage ratings.
This amazing tool for the iPhone or the iPod Touch is available for $3.99 from the iTunes App Store on both devices, for more information, click here.
Check out a video demo at: www.agwine.com
Camille will visit cities all over the United States with disputes such as these and a blind taste testing challenge will determine the winner.
The show premiers Tuesday, March 9th 10pm EST when Camille travels to Chicago to settle an age-old battle between two Italian beef sandwich legends- Al's Beef and Mr. Beef. Viewers will get to go behind the scenes, learning their culinary secrets and who ultimately takes the title of Best Italian Beef Sandwich of Chicago!
Read more and watch sneak peak clips at travelchannel.com
