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The Travellerspoint 2007 Calendar

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

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Beautiful calendar filled with inspiring travel photos. Designed so that the photos can be reused and sent off as a postcard. All profits from sales of the calendar are donated to Green Wifi.
Price is EUR 10. (about $13.00 US dollars) at Travellerspoint
About Green Wifi
Green WiFi in partnership with Inveneo provides solar powered Internet access and communications to communities in developing areas where electric power is nonexistent or unreliable. Green WiFi was founded on the belief that the welfare of the world depends on providing the 3 billion people living in these conditions with access to the world’s information.
[Via Sustainablog]

Veracruz Coffee Tour — January 17–24, 2007

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

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Join the University of Vermont Educational and Cultural Tours and learn about fair trade, organic, and shade-grown coffee. Open to the public, this tour is for coffee enthusiasts, coffee professionals, students, environmentalists, and social justice advocates. Participants will gain hands-on experience and first-hand insight into the day-to-day reality of small coffee producing families and their communities. Tour members will observe why coffee is related to some of the most urgent and critical issues of our times. Join us to see why seemingly unrelated subjects – from illegal immigration and illegal drugs, to the decline of migratory songbirds and the disintegration of farming communities in Latin America – all come together around coffee production and the cup of coffee we consumers choose to drink.
More info at Coffee to Go
$1445 plus airfare (after November 15, 2006)

Hotelito Desconocido

Monday, December 4th, 2006

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“Hotelito” is a small, luxurious, getaway intent on keeping the local environment as close to natural as nature intended. Solar energy supplies the power used to run the hotel. As evening approaches, candles light the guest rooms (each guest room is also supplied with a flashlight) and restaurant where dinner is served. Luminaries provide light along the pathways that weave throughout the resort.

Just sixty miles south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, “Hotelito” is located on a wetland estuary between the Sierra Madre Mountains and the beautiful Pacific Ocean. It is home to sea turtles and over 150 species of birds. As a guest you will have the opportunity to closely view the birds, and, perhaps witness the baby sea turtles making their way to the sea for the first time.

As a luxury resort, all amenities are available for you. The difference here is how owner and creator Marcello Murzilli has chosen to deliver them; with care and attention to the natural surroundings, giving back to the local economy, and providing a truly enchanting off-the-grid resort. GreatGreen gives Hotelito 4 Big Green Thumbs Up!

For Rates, Reservations, all information visit: www.hotelito.com

Bicycle Beano Cycling Holidays

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Pembrokeshire Coast

Home made vegetarian food and outstanding vistas along glorious coastlines with quiet roads and plush accommodations in England and Wales.  Expect to bike around 30 miles a day.  Three and seven day trips are available.  These seem like a down to earth solid group with a great reputation.  (in business for 26 years).

More info on their website at http://www.bicycle-beano.co.uk/

P.S.  a beano is “a merry time or spree”. The word beano is derived from beanfeast,
an annual celebration which included a meal of beans and bacon.


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