Let Our Women Jump!

FEMALE POWERHOUSE DEEDEE CORRADINI IS A LEADER IN THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT, determined to make a difference for women when it comes to the winter games.She hails from Rhode Island but spent her early years in Lebanon and Syria, where her father was an educator at the American University of Beirut and president of two colleges in Lebanon and Syria. After returning from the Middle East, she went to high school in Maine and completed her B.S. and M.S. at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She served two members of Congress as a press secretary and special assistant after her education was completed. more

Cast a Spell at Barnsley Gardens

Dozens of lit tea light candles, hundreds of real, red rose petals scattered on the bed, champagne chilling, flowered lights around the mirror, grass skirts, flowered top, and straw hats carefully laid out on the bed.  Enter the bathroom where shark balloons sail over the grass-skirt wearing claw-foot tube, lit by dozens more tea light candles and fish games waiting playtime in the tub. more

Top Ten Favorite
Travel Apps

Not sure I ever wanted an iPhone, I now fall firmly into the what-would-I-do-without-it category. In our current issue I wrote about some of my favorite accessories for pimping my iPhone. Now here are my top ten favorite travel-related applications, many of which are also available on Blackberry. Most of these are free, although I did find a few of them more than worth the small amount of money they cost. If you've got any favorites of your own, please share with me at jan@travelgirlinc.com.
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Sintra: "A Glorious Eden"

Travelgirl Managing Editor Jan Schroder wrote about Lisbon in our current issue. Armed with a Eurail pass, she was able to sidetrip to the charming town of Sintra. more