CHEAPER EUROPEAN TRAVELS

Dear Peter, I am a great fan of yours and watch you constantly. My husband and I have booked free award business-class tickets to Paris March 29 through April 7, 2008. At this time we have not reserved any hotels.

Actually, we were going to rent a car and travel around to small towns to keep the price down as not to spend so much time in Paris only. With the euro so high would you even recommend going?

Is there any way to make this trip realistically reasonably priced? Both my husband and I feel if we go to Europe (we both have been often, however only …

Helicopter tours are fun, but they’re usually very expensive. There now a couple of tours out there that won’t break the bank.

From Hawaii to Manhattan, you can experience a bird’s-eye view almost anywhere.

For a taste of Sin City, Grand Canyon Tours offers a flight over Las Vegas.

With champagne and almost 22 miles of views included, this tour starts at $63 per person when you book online.

In Maui, Blue Hawaiian Helicopters will take you over Haleakala Crater, Hana rainforest and the shoreline of Northeast Maui.

Keep in mind, if you book online, it costs about $190, almost $30 cheaper than booking over the phone.

Liberty Helicopter Tours flies over Manhattan and out to Liberty Island, where you …

While today’s spiral notebooks and three-ring binders are much the same as they were 40 years ago, Levenger, a Florida-based company, has created a much-improved design, called Circa.

It fits right into our high-technology environment, providing a solution that lets us intermingle handwritten notes (which a vast majority of us still use) with computer-generated output.

The concept is quite simple. Circa consists of two components: paper pages with mushroom-shaped holes punched one inch apart along one edge and molded plastic discs that hold the pages together.

Stack together the pages and snap on the disks to make a Circa notebook of any thickness. Translucent plastic and leather covers are available or you

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With record-breaking numbers of flight delays, travelers are spending more and more time at the airport. Well the airlines may not be getting any better about it, but the airports are adapting. There are some airports that you can enjoy.

You thought it was difficult to cash in your frequent-flier miles before? Well it’s about to get even harder.

When you think of unforgettable New Year’s celebrations, you may think of reveling in Times Square or partying by the Eiffel Tower.

But contrarian travelers know better than to get caught up in the usual tourist traps.

So slap on your party hat, pack up your noisemaker, and head to one of these unusual New Year’s celebrations around the world.

Many of you know about the Kentucky Derby in the U.S. and you may have heard of Ascot Racecourse in England.

But if you want to see how the rest of the world celebrates horse racing, there are some lesser-known, but equally glamorous, racing venues.

Many restaurants tout that they use fresh and organic ingredients, but here’s one way to prove that they’re telling the truth, and travel at the same time.

Why not have dinner right on the farm?

With meals served right on the farm, diners can see exactly where their food comes from.

Joseph Decuis restaurant in Roanoke, Indiana offers something called “Farm to Fork Tours,” in which diners eat at the farm where they raise Kobe cattle and collect eggs from free-range chickens.

In the Connecticut River Valley, a company called Dinners at the Farm arranges meals prepared by chefs at 10 local farms and vineyards.

In Portland, Oregon, an organization called Plate & Pitchfork arranges meals in the field …