You can still do something good for the world and its people in 2008. Bridges to Understanding, a Seattle non-profit, has one more international workshop next month. The Bridges team including founder and world-renowned photographer Phil Borges will take a group of volunteers to Guatemala November 1-9th to work with Fotokids, a Guatemalan organization.

The volunteers and the children will work together on storytelling. While familiarity with digital cameras and photography is a help, you don’t have to be an expert. You are likely to find avid amateur photographers along. Go to the Bridges Web site (http://www.bridgesweb.org/) to see the amazing and touching results from earlier trips.

Cost is $2,535 for adults, which includes food, lodging and in-country travel. Jeff Speigner, who went on this trip to Santiago Antitlan last year, said he found himself surprised and delighted by, “The degree of camaraderie amongst the volunteers and the kids as they went from introduction to producing a community film festival in a week.”

To go, contact Bridges to Understanding at info@bridgesweb.org.

If a boat trip down the Seine is in your plans this fall, buy your ticket for the Vedettes du Pont Neuf on the Web before you leave for Paris and save. An added bonus is that you also avoid the lines. If you pre-purchase your tickets on their web site, adults receive a discount of four euros and children get two euros off. The tickets are good for any of the day or night cruises, which generally depart about every half hour from the center of Paris, next to the famous Pont Neuf bridge. Or if you prefer, print out the other coupon, which entitles everyone in your party to a two-euro discount without the obligation of pre-purchase.

So if taking in the sunset on a crisp fall evening in the city of light is your idea of heaven, take a river cruise.  Discover some of the most beautiful monuments of Paris, and rest your feet while your stretch your savings!

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