Enjoy a New Twist When Choosing Travel Destinations
If you have the time and leisure to travel, there are many fascinating alternatives to the traditional package tour. You can plan a culinary vacation for example, where food and wine is the major factor in choosing your travel destination. The experience may cover attending a food or wine festival, visiting farmers’ markets, sampling artisan products or driving through a food or wine area with tasting along the way.
Cruise ships have been famous for their eight meals a day and now a number of them offer cooking classes taught on board associated with the ships gourmet restaurant, with top chefs giving demonstrations of their culinary skills. In Italy and France, residential cooking schools are often held in lovely old villas in the countryside, with side trips around the local farms in cheese and wine-producing areas.
The urge to do something different and have a new skill or marketable talent to show for it, provides a new twist when planning to travel. Someone who has taken this to a whole different level is the treasure hunter, Stan Grist. Visit Stan’s website to get his secrets to traveling with a purpose, to discover treasure in new lands and take it from a hobby to an all-absorbing way of life.
He is happy to share his online guide, “Creating Wealth Through Adventure with the Stan Grist System”, to whet your appetite for adventure, discovery and treasure hunting. He gives the adventurous traveler an enormous amount of detailed advice, for example, he explains how gold diggers can start their own gold rush and cash in on the current high gold prices. He reveals in his Ecuador Gold Report how he discovered millions of ounces of Inca gold. If you are inspired by his enthusiasm to take up treasure hunting and exploration you will find on his site special resources, training courses, treasure guides, out of print adventure ebooks and report packages created to help you. All of this unique valuable information is not available anywhere else and is based on Stan’s lifetime of experience.
Stan’s website also details adventures you can experience as well as the pursuit of gold, such as hunting for raw diamonds, lost cities, buried treasure, ancient tunnels, sunken galleons, meteors, unexplained mysteries, and unknown animals (cryptozoology). You can find out more through online research if this level of exciting adventure stirs your imagination.
Most of us would be content with treasure hunting at a different level, poking around the antique shops in European cities for example, or the flea markets in smaller towns. For treasure hunters on a budget, nothing is more satisfying than exploring for treasures at European flea markets, the best of which are in Berlin, Paris and London.
In Berlin, the Mauer Park Flea Market is full of vendors selling old and new stuff from bikes, to hats, vintage stock sunglasses, old photo albums, and mid-century furniture. The most famous flea market in Paris Les Puces de Saint-Ouen, commonly referred to as Les Puces (The Fleas) is located at Porte de Clignancourt on Saturdays. Many of the stalls have been passed down through generations of antique collector’s families and you can bargain for a quality assortment of art deco furniture, prints, vintage jewelry, mirrors, etc.
London’s flea markets are throughout the city and one of the best known is at Covent Garden. On Mondays, both the Apple Market and Jubilee Market at Covent Garden are taken over by a variety of antique dealers and for treasures in the way of old lace and clothing there is the market at Petticoat Lane in the East End of London. Choosing travel destinations with a new twist can lead to exciting vacations, from discovering treasure in antique markets to high adventure looking for gold and sunken treasure.
