Some well deserved luxury travel…
Today’s economy has caused people to cut back in many areas of their lives; they’re driving less, eating out less and buying less in both stores and on-line, while at the same time people are working harder and longer hours. Don’t you think, though, that there should be some small reward for all this sacrifice? It would be terrible to someday look back on these days and not have at least a handful of extremely pleasant memories to recall.

Now, I’m not suggesting that one should run out and start living every day as if one were Bill Gates. What I am suggesting, though, is that one spend at least a week or two each year rewarding oneself by living in the lap of some well-deserved luxury.
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The land of ice & fire
Legend has it that Flóki Vilgerðarson, a Scandinavian who may have been the first to discover Iceland, gave it it’s rather uninviting name because one winter he spotted some ice in the fjords and, for some reason, the appearance of ice in the middle of winter seems to have made quite an impression on him.
We should all be grateful that Flóki didn’t similarly name any American cities like Chicago, which could now be called You’ll-Freeze-Your-Skin-In-Thirty-Seconds-Land or Phoenix which might now be known as It’s-So-Hot-You’ll-Burst-Into-Flames-Land. Yes, Iceland does have ice in the winter, but the name is pretty misleading.












