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Personalized World Map – The perfect gift for Christmas

November 30th, 2010 Comments off

Custom Map of the World – The perfect gift for Christmas

International Maps has added a new beautiful wall map at your fingertips. The Personalized World Traveler Map allows you to add your own message by creating a custom title and subtitle. The border color can also be modified to suit any decor. Personalized World Traveler Plan boarded and supplemented by a series of pins on the range map to allow the recipient to customize their own desires. You can create your own categories and password (eg, places visited, want to visit, populated places, etc..)

The Personalized World Traveler Map is the perfect gift for Christmas this year for this comparison that already has everything. The recipient can remember one year sabbatical, honeymoon or a trip of a lifetime, or use it to plan a new adventure. map of the traveler to add a personal touch to any office or home.

For a limited period of international cards offer a 10% discount on custom map World Traveller. Simply enter PSL10 on the coupon code box when ordering. Action on the offer ends December 18. Http: / / www.mapsinternational.co.uk / personal tour to learn more about this unique card that will delight.

Mapsinternational.co.uk is the largest online resource for maps and guides. Its product range includes about 40,000 products and services, maps, wall maps, travel maps and guides, gifts, maps and activity guides, educational products and much more. Mapsinternational.co.uk is the trading name of Lovell Johns Ltd, a leader in mapping and mapping solutions.
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Gift Ideas: Give the Gift of Travel

October 13th, 2010 Comments off

Finding the perfect gift for your friend or loved one can be a challenge.  As much as you think you know somebody, it always seems difficult to find a gift that best expresses your appreciation of that person.  Well there is one thing that is liked among almost all people: travel.  However, it’s not exactly cost efficient to buy plane tickets for a vacation, at least in most cases.   Add in those tickets with the high cost of hotels, vacations may not seem like the best gift idea.  That’s where MetroFlats. com comes in.  Our vacation rentals and sublets are already at pretty reasonable prices, but you can now make them even cheaper.  How?  By buying a MetroFlats. com Gift Card for your friend or loved one.  We are the first vacation rental website to offer gift cards, and we think that they make the perfect gift for any occasion.  As I mentioned before, everyone likes receiving travel gifts, and vacation rentals and sublets are the best way to experience any destination. So how do these gift cards work, exactly?  It’s pretty simple, actually.  All you have to do is go to the MetroFlats. com Gift Card site and click BUY.  After that, you can enter your own personalized message or (if you can’t think of anything to write) choose a pre-written message.  Then you can choose a picture to go with your card, and finally you choose the amount you want to be on the gift card.  Prices range from $20 to $600, and you can also choose your own price.  So depending on how much you like the person in question, they can end up saving a ton of money on their next vacation rental purchase.  The MetroFlats. com gift card is redeemable with any of our properties, so there is no restriction on where it can be used.  And if the recipient does not yet have an account with us (which is free, by the way), redeeming the gift card will create one for you! So this year, give the gift of travel to your friend or loved one, and get them a Gift Card from MetroFlats. com!

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Travel To Athens: A Gift From The Gods

October 4th, 2010 Comments off

Travelers who expect to be greeted by lone standing relics of ancient Greece will be awestruck by the sprawling urban metropolis of today’s Athens. The capital city is an explorer’s paradise as historic gems are embedded within the modern day melee and cultural nuances of a turbulent past are written between the lines of concrete and the sparkling blue Aegean Sea. Everywhere in Athens is a testament to why this mythic peninsula is considered the cradle of Western civilization and modern democracy.
Of particular interest, Athens received a much needed facelift in preparation for the 2004 Olympics. Notorious for its nefos (smog) resulting from rapid growth and congestion following World War II and the Cold War, Athens realized the need to clean up its act when it became clear that historic monuments were eroding at an alarming rate due to acid rain from air pollution. Due to this Olympic makeover, it is extremely easy to navigate around the well marked streets in English and Greek and transportation has never been more streamlined.
Mythological Mythos
Ancient Greece reached its societal peak in the 1st century BC when magnificent monuments like the Parthenon and the Temple of Athena Nike were constructed on the fortified Acropolis and Socrates and Plato developed their Western thinking schools of thought. While most of the major attractions from the time period are in the center of the city, travel in the outskirts of Athens will bring encounters with many significant locations from this time period. Marathon, of the famous battle (and today’s 26. 22 mile race), is just northeast of Athens and the ancient Mycenaean excavation site at Velatouri is to the south, boasting the unearthed Thorikos theatre. While the Grecian period is omnipresent, Greece has fascinating Turkish and Persian cultural influences as a result of many wars and takeovers until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the 20th century.
Club Hopping or Island Hopping?
In the spring and summer evenings, enjoy the cafés and restaurants as they begin to spill into the streets and squares. Greece, and particularly Athens, is notorious for its boisterous and tireless nightlife. The Port of Piraeus comes to life as many vacationers head out for their island excursions from this historic cove. Athens is the perfect place to become immersed in Greek culture and life before taking a ferry ride to one of the surrounding tranquil, historic or party islands – the choice is yours. The port itself is also of particular historic interest. One of the oldest in the world, the port was heavily used during the Peloponnesian Wars in the 4th century BC and remnants of the long Themistoclean Walls, which fortified the port and Athens together during this time period, still survive today.
A trip to Athens is not only a journey of history, but one of modernity and progress. After Greece’s golden age, Athens’ grandeur was squandered to nearly nothing by invaders and the sweeping tides of history. Today, the free and booming capital city is again a testament to its historic commitment to forward thinking civilization. Experience the rebirth of the foundations of the western world in Athens!

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