Care of risqué Medieval sculpture, Canada and her Olympics, Stratton, Vermont, revels in deep snow
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My computer greeted me with this Disney headline when I woke it from its sleep — Epcot Landscape Dons Spring’s Vibrant Colors For 17th Flower & Garden Festival Beginning March 3. Now, I’m not a flower loving guy nor that big into landscaping, but just the thought of flowers after my snowy reality seemed almost blissful.
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Last weekend’s blizzard was a warning to air travelers: Winter is only starting, and when bad weather moves in, your flight schedule isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
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This weekend’s snowstorm in the eastern United States shut down several major airports and stranded tens of thousands of airline passengers. Most flights are operating normally this morning, but there’s always the trip home. I asked Howard Altschule, a meteorologist with Forensic Weather Consultants, what to do when weather threatens to ground your next flight.
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If your immediate travel itinerary includes a train trip on the Eurostar, you’d better make alternative reservations and hope. Eurostar has announced it’s suspending service indefinitely until the company is able to rectify the most recent problems that caused trains to break down and passengers to be stranded. With Christmas only days away, more than [...]
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Rob Katz is the chief executive of Vail Resorts, which owns Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Heavenly, Keystone, and, of course, Vail. Parts of Colorado just received record amounts of early-season snow, which is all the excuse I needed to talk skiing with Katz.
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There are tremendous photographic opportunities while traveling in cold-weather destinations, but the opportunities have challenges you must overcome. Ned Levi has suggestions to help make your travel photographic memories in winter’s cold.
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Heavy snow last Monday forced Air France to cancel 150 out of 400 scheduled flights from Roissy. Three thousand passengers had to stay at nearby hotels while another 2000 people camped out in the airport’s terminals. Paris simply isn’t prepared for snow or frigid temperatures.
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As airlines cut back their schedules, a connecting flight may be your only choice to your destination. As winter approaches, those connections have more and more potential for trouble. But while there are no guarantees in travel, there are ways to increase the odds of getting to your destination. It’s not just the obvious warm [...]
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Heavy snow and sleet prompted officials to cancel some 500 departing flights at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Thursday.
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