AMA Waterways, marijuana tours, minding your manners... and more...
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Travel News for April 2014
Hi All,
  
In this issue, I invite you to join me at a consumer event sponsored by AMA Waterways and TPI.

In addition, we look at Marijuana tours and minding your manners...not to mention a few tidbits!
  
As always, grab a beverage, put your feet up and enjoy!
Special Invitation!
TPI & AMA Waterways Consumer Night

If you have ever thought about taking a river cruise, this is a must attend event!

If you are in Toronto 28-Apr-2014, please RSVP for a great evening with TPI and AMA Waterways.

Please join me on Monday April 28th, 2014, at 7:00 pm, for a complimentary evening of  hors d'oeuvres and cocktails as we hear about the spectacular AmaWaterways river cruises in Europe, Russia, Africa, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Discover river cruising and experience award winning service, luxurious custom-designed ships and specially-crafted itineraries.

 

Our TPI Regional Sales Manager and our AmaWaterways representative will be on hand to introduce these spectacular river cruises and offer special savings.

 

Crowne Plaza Toronto Airport

33 Carlson Court

Toronto, ON M9W 6H5

*Regent Room*

 

Invite your friends and if they book a river cruise in 2014,you'll receive a referral gift!

 

Please RSVP to me at jguay@tpi.ca by Friday, April 25th.

 

I look forward to seeing you there!

 

Tidbit:     36 hours in Jamaica... click here
It was bound to happen!
Marijuana tours sprout up by the dozen in Denver (USA Today Travel)

At first glance, the people convened in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel appear to have little in common. There's a retiree from Salt Lake City, a former Marine from North Carolina and a thirtysomething couple from El Paso, among others.

 

But the look of collective delight when they reach into their goody bags and withdraw the accoutrements for a multi-day cannabis tour - glass pipe, vaporizer pen, butane lighter, eye drops, and a couple of big fat buds - unites them in purpose, if not demographics.

 

Even before Colorado's law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana took effect Jan. 1, ganjapreneurs were conjuring ways to cash in on the green rush. No fewer than a dozen tour operators are angling for this new breed of Mile High City visitor. Options range from a chauffeured VW bus making the rounds of marijuana dispensaries, to multidimensional excursions like My 420 Tours' outings, which include a cooking-with-cannabis class, visits to dispensaries and a grow facility, and transport via a snack-equipped party bus.

 

First stop on the itinerary is Stir Cooking School, where you might find foodies honing their risotto-making skills. On today's menu: cannabis-infused gluten-free trail mix, chocolate truffles and pumpkin muffins.

 

On the party bus, the black vinyl seats are comfy. The lighting is mellow. Rocky Mountain High is in heavy rotation on the sound system. Pot smoke drifts like stratus clouds.

 

By Day 2, the tour has hit multiple dispensaries, where participants consult with "budtenders" on how different levels of cannabinoids produce different effects.

 

"Do you get paranoid easily? Do you want to sleep, or stay awake?" They guide customers through bountiful and often bewildering purchase options: AK-47 or Girl Scout Cookie? Sour Diesel or Pink Lady? "A" Train or Crazy Train?

 

To read the full article, please click here 

 

To book your next vacation, please contact me anytime 

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Mind your Manners
Cultural culinary customs (USA Today)

There are almost too many cultures in the world to count. Each with their own set of rules and etiquette for dining with one another. If you were to reach across the table in Hawaii and snag food off of someone's plate you'd be encouraged and applauded -- do the same thing in Wisconsin and you're liable to get slapped. It can be tricky to figure out where belching is rude or where it is the highest compliment you can pay to a host.

 

One of the trickiest table customs is when to clink your glass and how.  In Hungary, you should never clink your beer glass when hoisting a cheers. After Hungary lost the battle for independence in 1849, it is said that the suppressing force of Austrians celebrated by clinking their beer steins. The Hungarians vowed to never clink their beer glasses together for the next 150 years.

 

If you find yourself in Thailand be careful of how you use your fork. The fork is considered merely a tool to move food onto your spoon.

 

in Ecuador, it is the custom to arrive 30 to 40 minutes late to a dinner party. This gives the hosts extra time to prepare for your arrival and is the norm. When you do arrive, it is expected that you'll be finely dressed.

 

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