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August 12, 2009

Ponte Vecchio Bridge from the Hills

One of Florence, Italy's premier palces to visit.  The bridge was built back in medieval times, and unlike any other bridge you've been on, it actually still features a variety of shops on the bridge -- jewelers, art shops and souvenir stores.  It's considered by many to be one of the most beautiful and stunning bridges in the world.

Also just recently got an email from Schmap.com, a publisher for digital travel guides (computer and mobile) -- learning that this photo is on the short-list to appear in the 8th Edition of their Schmap Florence Guide.  A nice benefit of posting photoss to Flickr.  Check back here soon to learn more about Schmap and whether it'll be in the travel guide.

More photos of Florence.

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August 4, 2009

TripIt = Easy Organized Trip Planning

   
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TripIt is here because it simply makes your trip itinerary planning (life) easier and more organized.  Here's how it works:

You're planning to do a trip to Europe, Asia or maybe a weekend trip to Vegas.  You have about 10 different confirmation emails from your 2 flights, 4 different hotels, the rental car company, amtrak reservation, opentable dinner, shuttle bus and are feeling a bit overwhelmed.  All you want to think about is being in that ultimate travel paradise and not about the actual organization part.  Well fear not, because all you need to do is forward your confirmation emails as they come in, to Plans@TripIt.com and TripIt will start compiling your complete trip itinerary for you in an easy printable and shareable fashion.  They support more airline, hotel, car, partners than you can handle, so you don't have to even more about that.  And, no need to register on the site -- your first email already takes care of that. They've even created a free iPhone app in case you forget to print out this convenient little travel itinerary.  Happy Travels.

Improvesments: one area they need to overcome is getting people in the habit forward that quick email. Depending on feasibility/cost, they need to get their partners on board to promote a button of sorts on confirmation emails, to remind folks of TripIt's awesome service.

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If you haven't booked your flight yet, then you should probably use Farecast (slash, he best flight booking tool out there).

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July 13, 2009

Bing Travel (Farecast)- Smartest Travel Tool Ever

   
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A new feature of my posterous that you'll be reading about is called Websites to Know.  In this space, I'll be telling you about various websites and tools that you should absolutely be using (if you aren't already).

First up is Bing.com's Travel tool (the website formerly known as Farecast.com).  I'm a fan of the former name and will refer to as such.  Anyways, Farecast needs to be your go-to site for booking airfare.  Not only is an aggregator with Web 2.0 tools like Kayak, but it also gives you a prediction tool which tells you whether now is the time to buy or whether you'd save yourself a fair amount of cash by waiting just a few more days or weeks.  No longer is there a guessing game for the best time to buy.

So get smart, save some money and start using Bing Travel.  Happy travels.

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Learn about TripIt (quick and easy trip organizer) for the trip to AwesomeTown you just booked. 

Or check out GroupOn to find an absurdly great deal on restaurants or activities in a major US city you're heading to.  Great deal meaning up to 70% off.  Yes, I'm talking about that level of Great Deal.  Check it out.

 

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