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Don’t want to cook? Many national restaurant chains are open on Thanksgiving Day 2023, ready to serve you and your family or friends a traditional turkey dinner or regular menu items. Be sure to make a reservation, and be sure to tip generously, since the folks cooking and serving you are giving up their own
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Once again this year, restaurant and fast-food chains are honoring current and retired military with free or discounted meals on Veterans Day, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023. Some deals are for the entire weekend, Nov. 10-12, others include coupons valid for additional days. Expect to show a military ID to get the deal – or show
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No tricks, only treats at these national restaurant, fast food and ice cream chains, including free donuts and kids eat free with the purchase of an adult entree. There’s nothing scary about these special 2023 Halloween offers. Some are Oct. 31 only, others start the weekend before. Some require you to be in costume, but
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Princess Cruises is acknowledging the changing tastes and dietary needs of some guests by adding plant-based vegan menu items. The new choices will be available in the main dining rooms and are rolling out now across the fleet of 15 ships. The vegan items are prepared without the use of any animal products, and include
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Beer is an integral part Germany’s culture and history. It is estimated that Germans drink an average of over 100 liters per person yearly, much of it consumed at annual Oktoberfest celebrations each fall, including Munich and Stuttgart, where the two largest Oktoberfests are held. Oktoberfest in Munich (my mother’s hometown – she was born
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Frugal Over Fifty: There are benefits to getting older, especially discounts for shopping, dining and traveling. More than 100 retailers, supermarket chains, health and wellness chains, airlines, hotels, restaurants and movie theater chains nationwide offer discounts to seniors. Few of these offers are widely promoted. Some don’t even appear on the company website. The top
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For many of us, room service is an important hotel amenity. Most orders are conventional, but this Room Service Report shows some strange and weird room service requests, including “diet water” and an over-the-top $1,600 Wagyu beef burger. The room service survey also finds that demand for the popular amenity is on the rise according
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Lucky me – I met King Charles III – when he was still Prince Charles – up close and personal, however briefly. He was in Austin to celebrate the Texas Sesquicentennial (150th Birthday), and I was there to film him cutting the world’s largest birthday cake with Sam Houston’s sword. The cake measured 110 feet
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You are busy. So busy that you sometimes miss things. That’s why we are publishing this Weekend Round-up of the most popular articles of the week, along with some reminders of things to come. ecoXplorer readers have been clicking on these posts past week: Dining Out – Food is always popular with ecoXplorer followers. Save
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If you don’t want to cook yourself, there are plenty of deals from national restaurant chains for Easter Sunday, April 9, to eat-in, take-out or delivery. Be sure to make reservations or orders ASAP, and tip well, since kitchen, wait staff and order taking staff are giving up their holiday with their family and friends
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