'We all love heat, sea, new cultures, sightseeing, snorkelling... but can we do all that for a week this Christmas on our budget, or is this a fantasy too far?
Gray Line New York has introduced a new style of sightseeing bus to New York City.
Sightseeing New Orleans is a city for walkers and lovers of old streetcars.
"But we're beginning to see welcome signs in Chinese all over the city," said Nils Cho, 59, a guide with Gray Line New York Sightseeing who leads tours in Mandarin.
Gray Line New York Sightseeing, which runs those ubiquitous double-decker tourist wagons around Manhattan, has added a Brooklyn bus that runs from Lower Manhattan to the recently renamed New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge and then throughout Downtown Brooklyn and into Prospect Heights.
On Jan . 29 Gray Line New York Sightseeing, which runs about 80 buses a day down Bleecker in the summer and 36 in winter, announced that in response to a request from Mr. Gerson it would stop using its loudspeakers on the street.
Sightseeing The new Hawaii Museums and Cultural Attractions is the first statewide directory of such sites, and costs $8 from the Hawaii Museums Association, in care of Anne Smoke, Post Office Box 4125, Honolulu 96812-4125; (808) 988-7814; by e-mail to [email protected].
Sightseeing The new Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, which opened in November in a splendid five-acre landscape with lagoons and bridges adjacent to the New Orleans Museum of Art, is a place to stroll along winding paths with benches for observing the scene.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are taking sightseeing to new heights.
Exploring new cities, towns, countries, sightseeing, observing how other people live and simply getting out of the daily routine to view what else the world has to offer.
