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What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Portugal

Planning Your Trip to Portugal Before you go you might pick up a DVD of Fados, a 2007 documentary about the soul music of the Portuguese working class. The film comes at an opportune…

Park of the Week: Dry Tortugas National Park

One of the smallest national parks, and probably the hardest to get to, is Dry Tortugas, 70 miles west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, reachable only by boat or plane. Seven…

10 Wonderful Day Trips from San Francisco

Yes, San Francisco is an amazing city (my favorite, actually), but if you've traveled all the way out here, you might as well take in more of gorgeous Northern California. Here are 10…

Key West: Conch Fritters, Margaritas & Characters

I like Key West because it is replete with characters, and often weird juxtapositions of these people, usually when you least expect it. I lived there for five years in the 1990s,…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Virgin Islands

St. Thomas Where to Stay Instead of staying at a hotel, many visitors, especially those with families, are now heading for The Anchorage, Antilles Resorts in Christiansted (tel.…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Hawaii

Tourism, which has been in Hawaii since Captain James Cook sailed into its waters in 1778, really became an industry in 1959 when Hawaii became a state and jet travel became…

Rocky Mountain Report: Improvements, Expansions and Consolidations

Lift and Kids' Facility Improvements at Vail Vail is upgrading two lifts on the east side of the mountain -- Chairs 10 (Highline) and 14 (Sourdough) -- to high-speed quads, cutting…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Madrid

Just before Christmas 2006 the Minister of the Environment, Cristina Narbona, became the first politician in Spanish history to recommend that, in the foreseeable future, bulls should…

7 Ways to Have a Winning Time in Macau (Without Gambling)

Planning a trip to Macau can be deceiving. For the traveler with a casual interest, a quick online search finds countless articles about Macau's colonial Portuguese charm and its…

How to See the Roman Empire Without Visiting Italy

If you thought the best Roman ruins and architecture were in Rome (or Italy for that matter) you'd only be half right. Certainly during its heyday Rome was a majestic architectural…

New Sport-Centric Cube Hotels Make the Alps Less Square

A pair of new hotels in the Alps has updated the chalet for the X-Games generation. The two Cube Hotels in the ski resort hamlets of Nassfeld, Austria and Savognin, Switzerland are…