Taking off: Fodor's releases 'Go List' of destinations

January 21, 2012 at 6:36PM
Photographer: Theresa Crosby of Maple Grove. The scene: Rievaulx Abbey near Hemsley in Yorkshire was a highlight of a Road Scholar/Elderhostel tour that Crosby took in October. She wrote by e-mail that the abbey is one of the most extensive ruins standing after Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the mid-16th century. She said "the rising mist seems to give the setting a mystical quality and there is a sense of other worldliness about the place even today."
Photographer: Theresa Crosby of Maple Grove. The scene: Rievaulx Abbey near Hemsley in Yorkshire was a highlight of a Road Scholar/Elderhostel tour that Crosby took in October. She wrote by e-mail that the abbey is one of the most extensive ruins standing after Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the mid-16th century. She said "the rising mist seems to give the setting a mystical quality and there is a sense of other worldliness about the place even today." (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Fodor's has looked into its crystal ball and seen ... the gotta-go destinations of 2012. At the top of its Go List are up-and-comers Istria, Croatia; Cuba; Panama; Rwanda; South Korea, and Wales. If your wallet makes the final decision on your vacation plans, the travel guidebook gurus suggest such "value" spots as Charlevoix region of Quebec; Budapest; Portugal, and Matera, Italy. If you aim to follow the trends, check out Cuzco, Peru; Oahu, Hawaii; Scrub Island, British Virgin Islands; Paris; Charleston, S.C., and Milan (www.fodors.com/world/where-to-go/2012).

WASHINGTON POST

Freedom Trail is part of the package in Boston A deal offered by the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel in Boston highlights the Freedom Trail, a collection of 16 historic sites connected by a 2.5-mile red brick line. The Freedom Trail Discovery Package includes one night's stay, two passes to the Walk Into History tour with a costumed guide, two tickets to the three Freedom Trail historic museums and a book about the trail. This package is available through June 30, subject to availability. Rates start at $289 per night, based on double occupancy (www.fairmont.com/copleyplaza; 1-866-540-4417).

KERRI WESTENBERG

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