Monday, December 21, 2009

Las Vegas - must visit

Shimmering from the desert haze of Nevada like a latter-day El Dorado, Las Vegas is the most dynamic, spectacular city on earth. At the start of the twentieth century, it didn't even exist; at the start of the twenty-first, it's home to well over one million people, with enough newcomers arriving to need a new school every month. Las Vegas is not like other cities. No city in history has so explicitly...

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Hamilton, Bermuda

Front_Street_Hamilton_Bermuda Located 650 miles off the coast of North Carolina is a 21-square-mile island dotted with pastel-colored houses, pink sand beaches and narrow winding roads. As a self-governing British colony, Bermuda is comprised of 181 small islands and islets connected by bridges and causeways that resemble a fishhook from the air. Bermuda is divided into nine parishes or "tribes,"...

Cancun, Mexico

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