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An "Opaque" booking is one where you don't know the exact details of what you're booking until after you've made the booking. The most common form of opaque bookings are for hotels, but they also exist for flights.
There two general formats of booking sites for opaque hotels - those that work on a "bidding" concept, and those that have a fixed price.
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I don't recall any bars in NYC having a dress code, so T-Shirt and Jeans should be fine as long as you don't come in looking like a complete bum. Having said that there are quite a few rooftop bars. Here is the list of some of them that have menus available.
230 Fifth
The Heights
The Local cafe
But you can simply look at the top 10 list(?) to pick the ...
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There are a lot of possible day trips from Reykjavik to explore the surrounding area. If you only have the chance to do one I would suggest the Golden Circle, the tour will pick you up from your hotel and return you to it at the end of the day. During the day you will see geysir - the water spout that others are named after. Whilst geysir doesn't erupt ...
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If price is no object, then you really need to look at Tilley Hats.
They are basically an institution amongst those that own them, and have definitely been designed with at least most of your criteria in mind.
I don't own one, and am not enough of a hat person to be able to bring myself to spend ~US$80 on one, but having met people who have owned them I ...
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Some of the cheapest rooms in Manhattan you're going to get are at the YMCA and those are about $90-$130/night. I don't think you're going to have much luck with finding $50-$60/night rooms unless you have a friend, are okay with a hostel. You might be able to catch a lucky break on Airbnb if you're okay with being in someone's house.
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There is ofcourse the metro, but Paris also has a brilliant other way of transport , which is the Velib. This is city network of public bicycles. For 1 euro per day (and a credit card caution of 150) you can cycle through Paris for free if your trips remain shorter then 30 minutes. There is an increasing fee the longer you cycle after the 30 minutes. To ...
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Maybe you know it already, but might be helpful for other readers, too: wheelmap.org
It's an OpenStreetMap where users can mark if places/buildings are wheelchair accessible. You can filter the map to only show places related to tourism.
Also, at least in Germany, some cities/areas have accessibility guides that list accessible hotels, free time ...
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You could start your tour in Paris, visiting the grave of Napoleon in Dôme des Invalides. Napoleon is buried there since December 1840.
After that you could visit Longwood House on the island Saint Helena. Napoleon has spent his last days there.
Also worth a visit is Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. Not only because Napoleon has spent the time there during ...
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The rooftop bar at Hotel Metro in midtown is unpretentious, cheap (by midtown standards), and gives you a pretty spectacular view of the Empire State building, though not a lot more (since you're more or less surrounded by tall buildings). They have no dress code.
Top of the Strand (at the Strand Hotel) is similar to Hotel Metro - same neighborhood, same ...
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I found the Metro to be indispensable when I was there. Spend a little time studying the map and it will make sense. It's a good value to get a multi-day pass. There is a stop within a few hundred meters of the Louvre and Eiffel.
There are cafes everywhere. Yes, there are tourists, but sometimes people-watching is fun. If you get off the main routes a block ...
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Hostelling International USA - New York City on the Upper West Side @ Amsterdam Ave & 103rd St, 1/2 block from the #1-train which is a 10-minute ride to Midtown, or 12-14 min to lower Manhattan.
You would have your choice of a bed in an economy dormitory room which has 8-12 beds in it for 39 - 49 USD per night and includes linen and terry, or a premium ...
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Opaque flights, in the US at least, are far less common than opaque hotels - however they do still exist.
The most common companies that do them are the same as for hotels - Pricelist ("Name your own price flights") and Hotwire ("Hot Rates"). Some other websites do them as well, including Expedia and Kayak, however they normally don't have a separate ...
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Hard drives are not sturdy. Even ones with so-called rugged casings. What is much more sturdy and incredible durable is an SSD. This is a Solid State Disk with no moving part.
Compared to hard-drive, an SSD is more expensive, particularly a huge one. However for your purpose a smaller one will probably do an good ones under 240GB are quite reasonably ...
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If you like scenic views, good food, very nice people, very beautiful gardens, traditional culture / museums than I would advise Funchal (Madeira). The temperature in winter is very nice and you can get very nice prices at this time of year.
Since it's one of the most southern cities in Europe, even in winter, you can expect to have daylight until ...
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The Moulin Rouge and Sacré Cœur are two attractions I would add to any Paris visit. Very easy to get to on the Metro, nice and central, and the views from Montmartre are lovely.
Watch out for lots of hawkers on the steps of the Sacré Cœur though, and head to the top. Round the corner there is a lovely square where you can drink a cold beer, people watch and ...
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You did not specify what kind of equipment, but in my experience most electronics I carry around can handle 100-240V on their own. (as @choster said) For old equipment you might well be able to buy a new adapter with the same specifications but also handles up to 240V.
However something nifty I found was a power-to-USB adapter. So I can charge my phone and ...
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In the US, you'd use Craigslist's missed connections. For example:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/mis/
As @Gagravarr points out, your best international bet is probably Facebook, using her name and hometown as search paramaters. I've been able to find people I met while traveling on a few occasions like that.
There's also the sometimes surprisingly accurate ...
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One option (that may not suit you exactly, but will be useful for other searchers of a question like this) is We Met On A Plane.
One media story described it as the solution to the problem "Have you ever met that special someone on a plane but for whatever reason you didn't end up exchanging your contact details with each other and later regretted it? ...
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I would strongly suggest you to try Petrini
Another very famous one (which is part of a well known brand in Italy) is Grom
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There are absolutely groups whose primary purpose is to meet up at malls and walk. Google has this information: here are some examples:
Avalon Mall Walkers
Burlington Ontario
List of programs in the Greater Toronto Area
Article giving some examples
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On Everytrail there is one person who set out a route. (like @Dirty-flow) He mentions Rhein-Radweg 1, Rhein-Radweg 2 and Rhein-Radwg 3.
If you are in to apps, I would recommend the Everytrail app, as an alternative to a set of books
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EDIT: I am a bit surprised that offroad parks here are relatively scarce, but on the other hand Germany is very densely populated with not so much ample room for activities. There you go:
Hessen, Knüllwald
http://www.offroadpark-knuellwald.de/index.php
Berlin, Jänschwalde
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Since use it for photography, I am assuming that you are carrying a camera and a laptop around with you too.
As mentioned by Itai, I would go for a rugged SSD drive. Everything else is a bit tricky if you plan to have a rougher trip.
What you need to consider however is that even a non-rugged drive will be in any case more stable than your laptop itself, ...
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More likely it was a group that happens to go to a mall to walk, as well as other events.
For example, you can look in a city on meetup.com for social groups. I've joined a few in Vancouver.
Several of them will advertise walks - be it around the waterfront, a hike, or quite likely indoors.
Indeed, a google search will reveal a few - for example, this ...
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Top Ten Places to Snorkel (away.com)
Utila, Honduras
Cozumel, Mexico
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Anegada, British Virgin Islands
Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
Dominica
Tobago Cays, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos
Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
The top 10 Caribbean snorkeling ...
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The best places to hire a car - with the widest choice of cars, most deals, most companies etc., will be at airports, particularly Heathrow. I'm not clear on what you mean by 'catch a train out of London and hire a car', but if you stop off at Heathrow, which is not far from central London, you can pick up a car there. There are a variety of ways to get ...
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The best country to visit when in a wheelchair is most likely the US. All public places have to be wheelchair-accessible, and nobody steals the designated parking spots.
What you want to visit depends on what you like most. There aren't that many old cities, of course (though e.g. Boston and San Francisco are nice), but there are plenty of amazing museums, ...
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Your question has taken me back to an incredibly pleasant trip to Rome which I had with my family (three people with a slightly older boy than your son) a few years ago in April.
We stayed in an extremely central place which I would recommend to you (Pensione Barrett), from which you can easily walk around Rome, which allows you to stumble into some of the ...
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