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free vacation activities — all you have to do is get there!

You're a tourist in Paris. You spent 13 euros and wait in line for 45 minutes to ride the elevator to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Finally at the top, you got out your camera, all ready to take a prizewinning shot of the city's most famous landmark lighting up the sky. But guess what? Those crafty French ... » more

Why watch on C-SPAN in the middle of the night when you can see the real thing, live and in person? To witness a British parliamentary debate in all its bombastic, sarcastic glory, all you have to do is ... » more

Imagine a shopping mall eight stories high, with hundreds of stores, all dedicated to IT and computers. Imagine it has everything from brighty-lit megastores to tiny little one-man shops selling strange bits of hardware more suited to a museum than a desktop. Imagine it's got shady software pirates ... » more