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Anytime I travel to a foreign country I try to learn the basics of the native language. Your travel guides and brochures will tell you that almost everyone in the Caribbean speaks English, and most do. However, when not among tourists, native islanders are really more comfortable in their local tongue. Patois is spoken in many Caribbean islands, particularly those with a French history such as St Lucia. A number of the older members of my extended family can understand English but will always respond in Patois. Although English is taught in all schools, Patois is still spoken inverness uk vacation villas at home for the vast majority of St Lucians. In my three years on the island I have only met one St Lucian who claims
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The most overhyped summer destinations
By Gary A. Warner
The Orange County Register
Article Last Updated: 07/26/2008 11:06:00 AM MDT
Summer has just begun and I am already tired of hearing about some vacation destinations. But not so tired that we won't run stories about these places ourselves. Sometimes the beaten path is the beaten path for vacation bible school a reason.
Still, there is a certain amount of eye-rolling repetition in the news these days about places tied to big summer events. Or a long island vacation rental certain trend. Here's my list of the most overhyped and overexposed places of northcoast california vacation renatal mendocino the summer of 2008:
Your maryland vacation rentals home » Every few years a cutesy new vacation term dreamed up by some marketing types starts wildwood vacation rentals making the rounds. There were ''babymoons'' (a trip just before having a baby) and ''oblications'' (those mandatory trips to see the relatives - something an Orange County Register writer more than a decade ago termed ''tours of duty''). There are ''mancations'' - where guys go off to blast birds or just drink a lot.
This year the term I became tired of in, oh, late March is ''staycation.'' A combination of ''stay'' and ''vacation.'' The idea is that you don't go anywhere this summer because of high gas prices, high airfares and recession worries. The Washington Post even came up with a version where you tell people you are leaving town, then hide in your house: a ''fakation.''
lake of the ozarks vacation packages It's san diego vacation packages true that fewer people are planning a trip of over 75 miles this summer - 57 percent, down from 63 percent in 2007, according to
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a survey by national leisure marketing firm Y Partnership. But most people still realize that the term ''vacation'' has at its root the word ''vacate'' as in leave, blow town, get away.
Here's my advice: If you were planning a two-week vacation, make it 10 days. If you were planning a week, make it five days. Go three-star instead of toronto escorted vacation four-star. Eat only one meal a day in a restaurant, using markets and bakeries for lunch.
west virginia vacation There are lots of ways to enjoy summer without boring yourself to death at home. I have dubbed these with trendy new names: ''a short vacation'' and ''a budget vacation.''
Beijing » The world comes to one of the most populous and least freedom-loving countries on the planet. No Summer Olympics has been quite so controversial since Moscow in 1980 (or perhaps Berlin in 1936). Between the protests about Tibet and the police swarms on Tiananmen Square, there will be a respite when the greatest runners, swimmers, gymnasts and javelin throwers get their once-every-four-years moment of glory packed between baseball's All-Star Game and the opening of the NFL season. But this is one country that probably doesn't need the post-Olympics tourism bump. China is expected to be the No. 1 tourist destination in the world by midcentury.
Minneapolis » President Bush's ratings may be at an all-time low, but the Republicans are hoping for resurgence at their national convention Sept. 1-4. Though modern Minneapolis gets first billing, the taupo new zealand vacation villas convention will actually occur across the river in St. Paul. That's OK with me - I prefer the town that was home to F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose namesake theater is the headquarters of the radio show ''A Prairie Home Companion.''
Denver » The looooong race to pick a Democratic nominee luckily ended destin florida vacation before the donkey delegates arrive in the Mile High City for their national convention Aug. 25-28 at the Pepsi Center. The Dems should take time out to tour the LoDo district of warehouses and bookstores, and the gun lobby will love the firearms collections and game (no elephant) served at The Buckhorn Exchange. The Democrats are hoping the nominee can go further than the Denver Nuggets did against the Lakers.
Washington, D.C » Congress leaves town just as the tourists start flocking in. Maybe they realize that 100 degrees with sopping humidity doesn't make for a lot of fun. Especially when you are on one of those forced marches from monument to monument, all of which seem to be in treeless plazas surrounding by glaring white marble. Instead, vacation in amsterdam visit in April when the cherry trees are blossoming. The politicians know that summer is only for amateurs.
Yankee Stadium » The House That Ruth Built and Steinbrenner Renovated Badly closes at the end of the year, and a new Yankee Stadium (higher ticket prices, more luxury boxes) opens across the way in the Bronx in New York. A 1970s makeover took away some of the old charm, giving it a less authentic feeling than Boston's Fenway Park or Chicago's Wrigley Field. But if you can endure the summer heat and overwhelming hotel prices in New York, check it out before it goes away. As for Shea Stadium, home to the Mets, that is also closing: Don't bother; it's a dump. A luxury maui vacation villas for rent dump with a lot of great baseball memories, but a dump nonetheless.
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