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Travel 39 | Thursday, August 13, 2015 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" BEAVER TRAILS TO PORTUGAL: The Oakville Beaver travelled with team Canada K4 that went to Portugal to compete at the 2015 under-23 world championships for Sprint canoe/kayak and finished fifth in the world. Pictured, at the race course, are, from left: Alexa Irvin (N.S.), Courtney Stott (Pickering,Ont.), Maddison Mackenzie (Qué.), and Alanna Bray-Lougheed (Oakville,Ont.) BEAVER TRAILS TO SUNDRIDGE: The Oakville Beaver travelled with the Heck and McCormick family of Oakville to a cottage in Sundridge, Ont. As the sign tells the tale, Lake Bernard is the largest freshwater lake in the world without an Island. Take along a copy of the Oakville Beaver on your next vacation and send it in for publication to Beaver Trails, Oakville Beaver, 5046 Mainway, Unit 2, Burlington ON L7L 5Z1 or e-mail to ablackburn@oakvillebeaver.com. SUN, SEA & SAND YOUR RELAXATION PARADISE NEXT EXIT McTavish Travel Alba Tours is offering a one-of-a-kind transatlantic crossing this fall. Fly to Venice and enjoy a 2-night stay in Venice, with tours of Venice, then embark on MSC Cruises' MSC Poesia for a 21-night cruise from Venice to Buenos Aires ­ visiting Italy, Malta,Tunisia, Spain, Morocco, Brazil and Argentina, followed by 2-nights in Buenos Aires.The 26-night tour includes roundtrip air Toronto ­ Venice on Alitalia and Buenos Aires ­ Toronto on Air Canada; Meet & Greet service in Venice and Buenos Aires; group transfers, hotel taxes, fees and service charges; a 2-night stay in the 4-star NH Laguna Palace Hotel in Venice in Mestre-Venice; guided walking tour of Venice, a full-day excursion to Verona, and a half-day excursion to Villa Sandi in Prosecco Wine Country; 21-night transatlantic cruise on MS Poesia with stops in Bari, Valetta, La Goulette, Malaga, Casablanca, Arrecife de Lanzarote, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Rio de Janeiro; a 2-night stay in the 4-star Intersur Recoleta Buenos Aires Hotel; a guided city tour of Buenos Aires followed by an excursion to San Antonia de Areco. The per person fare for an Inside cabin (1) is CAD5,628 plus CAD762 taxes and fees. Optional upgrades to Oceanview (01) or Balcony Stateroom (B1) are available. Call us for reservations on this unique transatlantic experience. albatours.com Costa Cruises is updating its lunch and dinner menus to feature more authentic Italian cuisine with help from one of the Italy's best culinary experts. Michelin-star chef Fabio Cucchelli worked with a new team of corporate chefs to update the line's onboard cuisine, creating 14 authentic regional lunch and dinner menus and 252 new dishes. Onboard, guests will find an assortment of Italian fare. New regional offerings include a fillet of spatula with bread and raisins, served with Sicilian capponata and sweet and sour red onion (from the Sicily region); Gricia-style rigatoni pasta with jowl bacon and Roman Pecorino cheese cream (from the Lazio region); and golden fried breaded pork cordon bleu with potato croquettes and grilled tomato (from the Friuli region). Yum! costacruises.com Fewer crowds, excellent prices and ­ particularly in southern Europe, pleasant temperatures are the reasons more Canadians are travelling to Europe in the off-season. Globus has just released its first winter Europe e-brochure outlining itineraries from Avalon Waterways, Globus, Cosmos and Monograms. The 70 pages brochure outlines a host of travel options, including Avalon's early winter Christmas market cruises and a 15-day Amsterdam to Budapest itinerary departing Amsterdam 21DEC15, as well as a 9-day Zurich to Amsterdam cruise departing 14DEC15. Globus offers some of its most popular escorted motorcoach itineraries on a year-round basis, and the e-brochure highlights these 44 tours including Spain, Italy, the Alpine region/Eastern Europe and several multi-country tours. And value-priced Cosmos offers 9 multi-country escorted tours plus an always popular Britain & Ireland itinerary. Monograms, the specialist in independent pre-packaged touring, offers A Week in London & Paris, two Italian itineraries, plus ­ for a truly novel getaway ­ a three day break in Reykjavik, which can easily be combined with a longer trip to Europe. Check out the e-brochure at globusjourneys.ca, click on Request Brochure, then Interactive Online Brochures, then the "Wintertime Wonders 2015" icon, and then call us for reservations. TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING Hit the Road! Start planning your dream road trip with travel deals on hotels, vacation rentals, tours, and more! NEW COSTA MENUS WINTER EUROPE E-BROCHURE Suite 300, South Oakville Centre · 1515 Rebecca Street, Oakville 905.827.1100 travel@mctavish.com www.mctavishtravel.com Only at Ont Reg No 1437985