Buenos Aires was originally named after the Virgine de Bonaria of Cagliari, Sardinia and it was first established as Ciudad de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre. Those early settlers apparently liked their city names to be a mouthful!
Gone are the long names and in their place is the simple and elegant Buenos Aires – fair winds. The simple beauty of the name reflects the modern city that holds it. Buenos Aires is one of those places that will capture your heart and hold it captive. In addition to having style and grace, it is a city that has culture. It is a city that has been compared to Paris and in some ways it lives up to that comparison.
If you like your culture in the form of opera, symphonies and art museums, you will like Buenos Aires. If nightclubs and dancing are more your scene, Buenos Aires won’t disappoint. If you are a foodie, you’ll love the internationally-inspired cuisine. If you are a simple backpacker trying to live on the cheap, well, Buenos Aires is more expensive than many parts of South America, but a cheap vacation there is possible.
If you are convinced that Buenos Aires is a travel destination you want to visit, check out the deals on flights to the Argentine capital.
Everybody and their mother travel to London in the summer. Do you really want to hang out with other people’s mothers? Didn’t think so. You are hipper than that and you know that traveling during the off-peak months means you will save a lot of money and that you will have the tourist attractions all to yourself.
Even if you have no interest in traveling to the Bahamas you still might perk up when you see this deal. From now until July 31, 2007, you can book a seat on an American Airlines flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Nassau for just $68 round-trip. If Freeport is more your scene, you can fly there for $88. That is insane.
If you like your cities hot and humid you’ll love Baton Rouge. The capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge gets its fair share of rainfall all year round, while rarely dipping below freezing. Its low elevation rate and location right along the banks of the Mississippi River lend a tropical feel to the city.
The person who invented Oktoberfest should be given a medal of honor. The concept of holding a festival outdoors in Germany at the beginning of autumn with the focus of the event being beer is nothing short of brilliant. I’m not alone in this assessment. Every year around six million people visit the 42-hectare large Theresienwiese in Munich to take part in the festivities. Six million people can’t be wrong.
This is always the time of year when I get a hankering to visit France. Watching grown men in spandex exhaust themselves while going up crazy steep mountains draws me in like a moth to light. It makes me want to get dressed up in a silly outfit, wave my flag with pride and yell Ole when the riders in the 
When you think of relaxing vacation destinations around the world the chances are that Israel isn’t the first spot to come to mind. The images most of the outside world sees of the country are ones of bloodshed, violence and fear. The perception is that it is a dangerous place to be in a dangerous part of the world.
If you travel to South Africa today and spend any time in one of its major cities you are likely to come across more than a few construction spots. The country is on the move as it builds its way towards the 
You don’t hear or read much about Nicaragua these days. That is probably a good thing. It means that the violence and uncertainty that hung over the Central American country for years has declined and a return to quiet normalcy has resumed. It means the earthquakes, hurricanes and floods that have hit the country with such frequency have not been headline makers in recent years.
Modern Germany. The mere term conjures up efficiency, order and precision. Germany is a nation built on engineering and the country has been engineered to run like a well oiled machine. On the surface, this stereotype might seem inescapable while you are in the country. But once you spend time there you will find out that even in the most orderly of places, chaos and inefficiencies can break out. In most places experiencing this is a hassle while you travel. In Germany it is a relief. It is a sign of normalcy.