Happy New Years!

Are you ready for a new year and a fresh new start? It’s time to come up with New Year’s resolutions, celebrate the New Year and make the most of your last hours in 2013! Celebrating the New Year is exciting because you can get together with your family and friends and go somewhere, or you can party at your own place. Many people like to go see the Ball drop in New York City. It is a huge event where many people all over the United States go into the city to watch the famous ball drop. They also have concerts, food and many things to do on New Year’s! Many people come up with a New Year’s resolution every year. Sometimes they go through with the resolution, but often times they don’t! Making a New Year’s resolution, may be a good idea because it is a way to commit to something you’ve always wanted to do. A great New Year’s resolution is to reduce stress in your life. Stress is not a good thing, it can deteriorate your health, make you unhappy and it can drain you mentally. A perfect way to relieve stress is by traveling. Even if you choose to stay in your own town (a staycation) or you can stay at a hotel and sightsee where you live. You can also, go to a city that is a couple of hours away from you or explore a new country or place that you have not been to. Traveling or taking trips will help you get away from your “reality”, it will refresh your mind and it will take you out of your everyday routine. Besides being a relaxing and refreshing experience, traveling is also an enriching experience where you gain great knowledge from the new place you are traveling to. In fact, let’s rename traveling “the cure for stress!” Okay, perhaps the FDA won’t allow that, but when is the last time you were sipping a piña colada on a Caribbean Island and felt overwhelmed with stress? If you are like me, NEVER! This New Year make it your resolution, to travel to any place, to get out of your routine and reduce your stress!  

Sports Around The World

All over the world sports are very popular events where people get together with their friends and family to go see a game and root for their team. Different countries are passionate about different sports. For example, here in the United States the most popular sport has to be football followed by basketball and baseball. In many countries in South America, like Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Peru the most popular sport is soccer. In Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela the most popular sport is baseball and in most European countries, like Spain, Italy, Germany and France soccer is the most popular sport. One sport the world has in common is soccer. Soccer is the most popular, watched and played sport in the world. Every four years people travel from all over the world to see the World Cup of Soccer. This event has the whole world watching. Every country is rooting for their team and watching all the games to see what country is going to be the champion of the world in Soccer. Every four years a country is selected to host this world event and people all over the world try to find hotels, resorts and friends’ houses they can stay at, to go to the World Cup. It is a huge event for the world, but also for the travel industry and the country that is hosting it. Everyone comes into that country to see the soccer games and the cities of the host country gets flooded with tourists everywhere.  Usually, every property in the area or near the area is completely full. It is an exciting time because there are many people on the streets celebrating their team wins, people dress up with their countries colors, families spend time together and share a passion for soccer and people get to experience and new country and culture when they go visit the hosting country. The World Cup is a great event to travel to and experience a new country and culture through a sport that everyone loves!