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15 hotel gifts for anyone missing travel

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It’s the job of a good hotel to curate lovely items for guests to enjoy during their visit. Hotel designers and consultants scour the globe for the right linens, paint colors and fragrances to make a guest’s stay just right — and some offer those items for sale in gift shops and online stores.





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At the end of a year that kept most would-be travelers at home dreaming about travel instead of actually doing it, gifts from hotels may make the holiday season a little brighter. Here are gifts that bring the glamour, comfort and hospitality of a hotel experience home.

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The DoubleTree Cookie, $15.50

The free cookie on arrival at a DoubleTree hotel is a great American tradition, and you can enjoy it at home this holiday season. DoubleTree by Hilton sells them online (all year, for the record) in tins

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My three book clubs: Feel-good romance balances out heavy reading | Books

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At book club • Is it symbolic that two book club members stopped reading at the point where the couple’s teen son threw up? “Leave the World Behind” is a title three of us had on our “to read” list because of the hype it received and the interesting premise. But for most of this group, it did not hit its mark. I was the only reader who liked it, though it was my least favorite of the books I read this month.

Most were not fans of Alam’s overwritten, erudite prose, but the lack of closure and unsatisfactory ending was most bothersome. It went on and on and never really got anywhere, one member said. I kept hoping for an explanation, said another. One reader called it the second-worst book she had ever read, followed only by “Eat, Pray, Love,” which did lead to a discussion of the most

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Luxury travel deals this Black Friday | INDULGE Miami

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Give yourself (or very lucky friends and family members) the gift of a luxurious staycation at a chic resort like the Shelborne South Beach.

November 27, 2020

We. Were. Robbed. Due to the pandemic, many of us cancelled celebratory trips and bucket-list vacations this year, and we’re all dreaming of making up for lost time next year. Truth is, early 2021 will likely mean staying close to home and domestic travel, and hopefully – things have to get better, right? – more trips abroad by summer or fall.

So, instead of splurging on a TV or the latest gadget this Black Friday or Cyber Monday, jump on the internets to scoop up a solid travel deal. Some places are slashing prices by up to 50%! Below, some of the best deals around Florida and beyond.

Kick-it in the Florida Keys. Snag up to 50% off at the new Barbary Beach

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How to get a Black Friday travel deal during the pandemic

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You can plan your next great escape, even in turbulent travel times. 

Hotels and cruise lines are offering Black Friday deals after the travel industry took a major blow during coronavirus shutdowns earlier this year. 

More hotels and travel booking companies are offering deals up to 75% on Black Friday with free cancelllations during COVID-19. (iStock). 

More hotels and travel booking companies are offering deals up to 75% on Black Friday with free cancelllations during COVID-19. (iStock). 

A number of budget booking websites are slashing prices of hotels and resorts across the United States and in the Caribbean. And with flexible cancellation policies during the pandemic with the uncertainty of travel restrictions amid spiking cases, experts say there’s no financial risk to booking now, even if you have to back out later. 

“Make sure to prioritize flexibility alongside price this year. Look for airline and lodging deals that have waived change and cancellation fees, should plans change,” Kelly Soderlund, a travel trends expert with travel app TripIt, tells Fox.

“Many travel

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All Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book does is win

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Anticipation was muted more than 37 months ago, when Notre Dame made its previous trip to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

With starting quarterback Brandon Wimbush nursing a sprained foot, a redshirt freshman named Ian Book was given his first career start. A three-star recruit from El Dorado Hills, California — about seven miles from Folsom State Prison of Johnny Cash fame — Book seemingly lacked the size, arm strength and hype to make this much more than a cameo.

Even after Book dropped the Tar Heels to 1-5 with a solid but unspectacular performance, there was no ensuing quarterback controversy. Buoyed by twin 100-yard rushing days by Heisman candidate Josh Adams and Deon McIntosh, Book finished 17-for-31 passing for 146 yards — just 4.7 yards per attempt.

He threw a six-yard touchdown pass to Cameron Smith in the first quarter but also was intercepted twice in

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Rich People’s Problems: Should I book a holiday?

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Every holiday or staycation I’ve planned since March has been a casualty of Covid. I know. Diddums.

My usual trips to my pad in the French Alps, cancelled. A road trip to the west cost of France, scuppered. My annual pilgrimage to the temple of luxury, Hotel Cipriani in Venice, ditched. A cheeky long weekend to Norfolk, abandoned. And a walking trip to the Lakes, postponed.

What a total ’mare. I am now left wondering whether I should even bother building up my hopes to go away or simply resign myself to the fact that travel before the vaccine rollout is a risky business.

I’m well aware that the pandemic has seriously impacted economies and people around the globe. With many deaths, prolonged illness, disruption to daily lives and businesses wrecked, my demands for a holiday may seem trivial.

Perhaps, but I have worked every day since mid-February. Although I

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Denver Riggleman’s Bigfoot quest brings lessons on QAnon, antifa

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Now in one of his last acts as a Republican congressman from Virginia, Riggleman is asking the same questions of QAnon supporters and President-elect Joe Biden deniers.

Months after his ouster by Rep.-elect Bob Good (R) in a contentious GOP convention, Riggleman has become one of the loudest voices in Congress warning of the infiltration of conspiracy theories into political discourse.

And he is surely the only voice to have made the point after self-publishing a book about Bigfoot beliefs.

To Riggleman, the book, “Bigfoot . . . It’s Complicated,” mirrors the way pockets of the country are falling into conspiracy wormholes — everything from extremist fringe groups such as QAnon and the “boogaloo” movement to President Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud.

Like the Bigfoot hunters in the Olympic National Forest, they see what they want to see.

“I always say the [Bigfoot] expedition leader and Rudy Giuliani are

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Lorde urges climate action ahead of new book on Antarctica trip

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The singer Lorde has written an impassioned entreaty for the world to face the climate emergency head-on after visiting Antarctica.



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Lorde said Donald Trump, California wildfires and the advocacy of Greta Thunberg spurred her to “head south” in a bid to visit the frozen continent before it turned “to slush”.

In addition to the magazine essay, Lorde will be releasing a book called Going South – her first – about the journey, with the proceeds directed towards funding a PhD student to study climate change in Antarctica.

She said: “The heated global discourse around climate change was coming to a furious, bubbling head. The Trump administration had the previous year announced its intention to withdraw from the Paris agreement. In August, Swedish 15-year-old Greta Thunberg painted her simple sign and, taking a seat outside her nation’s parliament, mobilised a generation of passionate

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Lorde Went to Antarctica and Is Publishing a Photo Book to Prove It

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Perhaps you’ve wondered what singer, songwriter, and champion of democracy Lorde has been up to lately. In an email to fans on Tuesday, Lorde answered this question in the form of a book announcement. “In early 2019 I took a trip to Antarctica … The continent has fascinated me since I was old enough to read,” she wrote. “I was accompanied down there by my beautiful friend Harriet Were, who photographed our days, lugging all these cameras and lenses and film — yup, she shot completely on film in Antarctica — around in the snow. And the pictures turned out so beautiful, I thought it was only right to make them into a little catalogue-style book, alongside a piece of writing I did about my experience on the frozen continent.”



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The book, titled GOING SOUTH, compiles photos from Were and writing from Lorde, who

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Lorde releasing photo book | People

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Lorde releasing photo book

Lorde is releasing a book about her trip to Antarctica.

The ‘Royals’ singer paid a visit to the polar continent early last year as she has always been “fascinated” by the region and she’s so delighted with the “beautiful” photos her friend took during the trip, she’s releasing a collection of them alongside a piece of writing about her experiences on her holiday.

She announced in an email to fans: “In early 2019 I took a trip to Antarctica. The continent has fascinated me since I was old enough to read.

“”It started to interest me again in recent years as my environmental awareness went up and up, and questions about how to change my personal and professional footprints on this earth occupied much of my time.

“I was accompanied down there by my beautiful friend Harriet Were, who photographed our days, lugging all these cameras and lenses and film

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