Travel websites

Here is an interesting travel website i ran across this weekend while looking into going to back to Europe. Funny what great stuff you can find on the web, i’ve got 50-60 travel web sites bookmarked and 6 rss feeds to my desktop and still had never run across this site before.

Octopustravel

QUOTE

“Discounted hotels, apartments, sightseeing tours, chauffeur-driven transfers and travel guides.

OctopusTravel offers over 23,000 discounted hotels and self-catering apartments in 3,000 cities worldwide. You can also book sightseeing tours and excursions, plus chauffeur-driven transfers to and from your hotel on this easy-to-use website.
Support and offices worldwide OctopusTravel is an innovative travel company with offices in London, Athens, Rome, Madrid, New York, Sydney, Osaka, Hong Kong, Seoul and Dubai. We pride ourselves on our levels of customer service and provide all our customers with 24 hour contact numbers, wherever they are travelling…”

The hotel room prices i looked into looked quite reasonable, i did not look into apartment prices. They also can handle private (VIP) pickup and transfers, sightseeing tours and group rate discounts. This might be a site to look into further, if anybody has ever used them please post back here on your thoughts. Once i figure out my itinerary for my next trip (looks like Spain & France) i might give them a try on a couple of hotel bookings.

http://www.octopustravel.com/

Everybody needs a laugh

*The Virtues of Government*

1.  Suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of Congress, but then I repeat myself.
—Mark Twain

2.  I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
—Winston Churchill

3.  A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support………..  from Paul.
—-George Bernard Shaw

4.  Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
—James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

5.  Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
—Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown Univ.

6.  Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
—P.  J.  O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

7.  Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
—Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

8.  Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
—Ronald Reagan (1986)

9.  I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
—Will Rogers

10.  If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.
—P.  J.  O’Rourke

11.  In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
—Voltaire (1764)

12.  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
—Winston Churchill

13.  What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
—Edward Langley, Artist (1928 – 1995)

14.  A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
—Thomas Jefferson