TRAVEL BLOGS
TRAVEL BLOGS
category: travel
02 Jan 2009

The ‘Heineken Experience’ has reopened in Amsterdam after a year of renovations.  One of the most popular attractions in the Dutch city with young adults, the new museum offers a tour that shows visitors different sides of production, and history.  At one point, visitors can even find out what it’s like to be on a beer production line.  And of course, the tour ends off in a bar stocked with, you guessed it, Heineken.  Read more…

category: travel
02 Jan 2009

Get this:  One million revelers in Times Square for New Year’s festivities generated over 40 tons of garbage.  Sanitation crews started clean-up shortly after midnight, and due to high winds, confetti and trash was scattered as far as the East River.  But good times were had by all!  Read more…

category: travel
02 Jan 2009

Gambling away money seems to be the last thing on peoples’ minds these days, and the effects are showing in the gambling hub, Atlantic City.  As many as five of the eleven casinos in the area could wind up filing for bankruptcy this year, and hundreds ofworkers have been laid off.  Plans for new casinos have been shelved, and even the Donald - Mr. Trump - himself is hoping to sell off one of his three Atlantic City properties.  2008 is the second year in a row that Atlantic City revenues dropped, after 28 years of increases.  Read more…