Last year, in honor of our 20th year of helping travelers discover the world, Go Ahead Tours offered ten free trips for two to the winners of our 20th anniversary contests. One of those winners was Liz Holbrook, and as luck would have it, she works at Boston’s Museum of Science, right across the street [...]
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Posted in Europe, Events, Featured Traveler, Festivals, food, General Travel, History, Lisbon, Madrid, Madrid, Portugal, Seville, Spain, Travel Photography, Travel Stories, Travel Tips on Jul 27th, 2011
Anthony of Padua is the patron saint of Portugal. Anthony Rambaud is Go Ahead’s Product Development Coordinator. Coincidence? Almost certainly, yes. But during Anthony Rambaud’s recent tour of Lisbon, Seville & Madrid, he and his fellow travelers were lucky enough to start their tour in Lisbon as the Portuguese capital celebrated its favorite son. “My [...]
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With one of the mildest climates in Europe, Portugal’s capital is the second oldest European capital city after Athens and, like much of Europe, was once part of the vast Roman Empire. Unfortunately, much of Lisbon was destroyed on November 1, 1755 when a magnitude 8.9 earthquake took the lives of thousands of people. The [...]
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Written by Go Ahead’s copywriter, Dan, while on tour in Italy. Getting lost isn’t always a bad thing, particularly when you’re getting lost someplace as beautiful as Venice. Today, on our tour of Venice, Florence & Rome we visited the Doge’s Palace, the center of civic power in Renaissance Venice. Our local guide showed us [...]
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“One of the biggest differences I’ve noticed between amateur photographers and professionals lies in the questions they ask me. When I return from a photo shoot, amateurs usually ask, ‘How many photos did you take?’; professionals simply ask, ‘Did you get the shot?’” -Oliviero Olivieri When Go Ahead started to explore the possibility of creating [...]
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