One of the best ways to stay in your budget is to forgo staying in a traditional hotel. Instead, give some thought to staying at a vacation apartment. Vacation apartments generally have great holiday availability and even better nightly rates. ... Additionally you will want to take an afternoon to visit the Magere Brug. This is the most well known bridge in Amsterdam and it is the perfect place to take that ever important family Christmas picture. ...
SCHOOL bBUS/b: A boy waits in front of a converted school bbus/b at a Port-au-Prince bbus/b depot. Haitians are leaving for the countryside en masse. (Brian Vander bBrug/b / Los Angeles Times). JAMMED: bBuses/b are jammed when they leave b..../b RELIEF: Dan Woolley, of Compassion International, is rescued from the bHotel/b Montana, where he spent 65 hours pinned under rubble. Touching his face is Mondesir Luckson, a bellboy who was also trapped in the ruins and with whom he was able to ...
Stef was kind enough to babysit me from the bbus/b terminal to my hostel. In S?o Paulo and Curitiba I might have been able to figure things out, but in Rio there was no chance, especially coming in at night as I was. ... A cariocan friend of mine describes it well: "90 percent of the people who live in the favelas are not bdrug/b dealers [traficantes] or bad people, it's just the opposite, they are people who work hard [every day] and, as in every capitalist system, ...
