In Fall a Tourist's Thoughts Turn to . . .

Autumn is an excellent time to hit the roads or the rails. Budget travelers look forward to the crisp crunch of leaves and the cooling breezes that signify the falling of prices. Many resorts and small hotels offer lower rates after the summer price wave. Seaside resorts everywhere offer off-season rates while there is sufficient sun to top off a tan.

It really doesn't matter where you start from or where you are going to in the Northern Hemisphere--- it is a time of year when the leaves burst into poetic rhapsodies of color, museums are relatively crowd free and tourists confined by school schedules are stuck in the work a day world. If "Ode to a Grecian Vacation" has been your personal poem, you'll find costs reduced, and in cafés you'll easily acquire a table for two. If you've dreamed of the canals of Venice or long wanted to visit the city that all roads lead to, autumn is the time when the heat and crowds have deserted Italy.

If you are in the USA or headed this way, nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina --- or Tennessee, because fall is the best time to check out the Smoky Mountain National Park and find out why it is the most visited National Park in the US National Park line up. German speaking tourists can find out about the US National Park system by checking out the offering at http://www.tkz.fhworms.de/tii/buechernew... If you are comfortable with English, http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/US_Nat... offers all the information you need to experience the Smoky's virtually and plan to see them in their autumn splendor. http://www.travelbase.com/auto/features/... can introduce you to the Asheville, NC area. In addition to the glorious show of leaves Asheville boasts Biltmore House and Gardens ---as close to a castle as we get in the USA and a beautiful botanical garden.

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If you are car traveling the rails are the way to get the best bang for your Autumn bucks or the best value for money - whether you watch the misty landscape of the English lake country or speed by vineyards in France it's the season for seeing the sights around every corner bathed in the amber light of shorter days. Autumn is also the ultimate hiking season - cool enough to spur you onto greater distances without freezing off portions of your anatomy that you'd rather keep.

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