Greetings, Blandine, and welcome to Tripatini! It's great to have you with us -- and we think you'll find our site productive as well as interesting and enjoyable.

To get the most out of Tripatini, you may want to take a moment to join several other of our many groups which you may find of particular interest, such as Senegal, Hotels/Motels, Eco/Sustainable Tourism, Family Travel, Adventure Travel, Eating/Drinking the World, History/Heritage/Architecture, African Diaspora Tourism, our French and Spanish language/culture clubs, and plenty of others covering many other topics and most destinations across the globe.

FYI, on your profile you'll see a green bar marked "Text Box," which you can turn into a box containing not just text but also photos and even videos about yourself, your interests, your travels, Senegal, and your hotel (you'll help both yourself and our other members by providing its name and web site in your profile).

Finally, if you would, please be so kind as to spread the word among your travel-interested friends, family, colleagues, associates, and guests. It's fast and easy to use our "INVITE" function above left on the navigation bar to enter e-mails (even your whole list at once!).

Thanks much for joining us; we wish you an outstanding holiday season, a great start to 2010, and look forward to seeing you online.

Cheers!