A few ideas:

Prince Edward Island is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Anne of Green Gables with the opening of a new theater - the Montgomery - which will be presenting works by writers who influenced Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Gray Line of Seattle is offering eight different culinary tours of the city throughout the summer. A chef from a top restaurant boards the bus, takes participants to a market to shop fo dinner, and then brings everyone back to his (or her) restaurant to eat it. $99.95 per person.

Churchill, Manitoba is often billed as the "polar bear capital of the world," and you can go there with The Great Canadian Travel Company. (I told you last week there was something about that name.) There's a six-day trip scheduled for Oct. 30 and a three-day trip on Oct. 31. Price for the first is $1,969, for the second $1,589.

An e-mail arrived this week from the Department of State urging me to tell everyone that, beginning June 2009 - in other words, in one year - Americans will need "a passport or a passport card, or some other way to prove you're an American citizen" - no matter how you travel outside the United States. Because of this, they recommend that people who need passports apply for them now. Visit www.travel.state.gov/passport

The French Open (OK, I'm a little obsessed) reminds us that the U.S. Open is just a couple months away (Aug. 25-Sept. 7). The Bryant Park Hotel in Manhattan is offering special U.S. Open rates starting at $289 a night (plus taxes) for two people for a superior room. That ain't bad for New York.

A company with the nearly all-encompassing name of Global Eco-Spiritual Tours is offering a trip to Leh-Ladakh, India, to work on low imact ecological projects in the Himalayan Mountains.

Here in Florida, the Lower Keys are getting ready for the 24th annual Underwater Music Festival, a salute to the November "eel-ections" when "Reefpublicans" run against "Democrabs." Saturday, July 12.

And Thursday, June 12, the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society will host jazz drummer and composer Reuben Hoch at 6 pm at the New River Inn. Free for Gold Coast Jazz Society members; $5 for everyone else.