Holiday Hotspots: MAKE DAD's DAY
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TREAT dad to one of three special Father's Day mini-breaks with Warners.   They include a golfing weekend in Alvaston Hall, Cheshire, featuring two hours' tuition and computer analysis of your swing plus a gala dinner. Dads can also learn how to brew beer on a visit to Thoresby Hall, Notts.
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Investor's Business Daily - Flat-panel TVs, notebook computers and video game consoles are hot items this holiday season. And apparently, Best Buy stores are where consumers want to buy them.
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The holidays may mean food and decorating to some, but for the geek crowd, they're just another excuse to buy gadgets. Here's a collection of cool ones. By Xeni Jardin.
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By MEREDITH GRENIER\\ Staff Writer  PACIFIC GROVE -- Romantic Asilomar on California's Central Coast seemed the perfect place to celebrate my husband's birthday.
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Even for families vacationing closer to home than Venice, there is something to be said for inviting along a companion for a child or children.
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By Eric Gwinn, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 10--The holidays are about much more than gifts, of course, but if you want to spread some electronic joy, here are a few ideas.
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Memorial Day is one of the three most popular grilling holidays, according to the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association.
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Short-staffed for the holidays but still game, the GeekDads grill their guest on his geek cred and other esoterica.
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Sun's out, heat is on. Get the goods on the world's most chic beach bars, coolest summer ski spots, must-see concerts and more.
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Daily Telegram Staff Writer. ADRIAN -- In the midst of planning holiday get-togethers, shopping trips and Christmas lists, remember to take time for those not as fortunate.
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THERE are plenty of educational holidays to choose from these days that teach you to cook, paint, play golf or even to fly. But to learn the art of relaxation, you really can't beat Barbados.   I'm not normally a fan of "relaxing" holidays.
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By Ana Menendez, The Miami Herald  Feb. 14--My father's love affair with citrus trees goes back further than I can remember. Other dads played golf; mine spent his weekends pruning, watering, pampering. And wherever we lived, our backyard was always filled with the sweet scent of orange.
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In some places, holiday givers are coming up with creative alternatives this season.
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LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters Life) - Congratulations! You can  win the holiday of your dreams - a break from telemarketers --  if you're willing to moo, fake a murder scene, or follow a list  of other diversonary tactics.
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NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters Life!) - The holidays are a time for fun, food, family, gifts -- and stress, with more women 1tending to suffer than men and turning to food, booze and the couch to get over the holidays.
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(InfoWorld) - Strange but true, some people -- certified techies among them -- prefer to turn it all off when theyâre on holiday. [See also: Great escapes for geeks | Top 10 vacations] Stanton W. Schmidt writes, âI really do want to leave it all behind when I go on vacation. With that in mind I would recommend the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. There, you cannot get a signal for your cell phone, no matter which provider you have. You don't drive in, you paddle in (no boat motors allowed either). And they don't even allow you to carry in cans or bottles. And no matter where you go, you are likely not to see another human being for most of your trip.â âI purposefully select vacation choices where it's extremely difficult to geek out every day,â replied Ed Kummel. âMy last vacation was in Durango, Colo. Sure, there are coffeehouses in town that have Internet access, but the bike ride down and back up the mountain is not worth it! I learned to make do with my BlackBerry for that week!â For those who would brave the mountain for some quality Internet time, hereâs your real cold turkey, from Gregg Cooke: âThe banks of West Virginia's Greenbrier River, most of which lies inside the National Radio Quiet Zone, so named because it is a 13,000-square-mile âholeâ in the eastern part of the state centered over the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). Even the slightest radio transmissions are hunted down by a team of radio detectives and silenced â¦ they even find malfunctioning microwaves and mistuned automobiles. (Your tax dollars go toward this, you know.) The result is blissful radio silence for the gi-normous radio dishes the NRAO operates to scan the skies and look deep into celestial radio sources. You'll get no cell or wireless signal here, guaranteed!â
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NEW YORK The holiday season is an especially busy time for global travelers intent on delivering gifts to friends and relatives from faraway places.