Greetings from Mexico!
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Mexico is home to world-class beach resorts, stunning archaeological sites, beautifully restored colonial towns, traditional villages and one of the largest cities in the world. Vibrant and full of contrasts, Mexico tugs at your emotions and challenges preconceptions. Anyone who ventures outside the resorts or off the regular tourist trail will experience a country far different than those who stay behind.
I invite you to experience more of Mexico, its people and culture by getting to know...
May 11th, 2010 | Laura Nazimiec | Read More | Comments: 7Filed under: Announcements, featuredarticle
Arizona’s Other Grand Canyon
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Rafting season at Arizona’s spectacular Salt River Canyon is coming to a close this June. It began in March, where boaters launched into the river to run white-water rapids between high walls of sandstone and granite. Due to 9,000 cubic feet per second of rushing water flowing into Roosevelt Lake, this season is considered one of our best, comparable with the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
Paddle through an incredible 2000-foot deep rock canyon as you take on rapids such as “Wall...
May 11th, 2010 | Heather Wright Schlichting | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: featuredarticle, outdoors and recreation, river rafting, Salt River
Be Your Own Tour Guide with MP3 Sydney Tours
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We all know that guided tours are a great way to make the most of your destination. Expert guides really know their stuff, and they’ll teach you some fascinating facts about the city you’re visiting.
But by the same token, tours can be a hassle. Firstly you need to make sure you’re organised enough to be in the right place at the right time to start. Then you’ve got to keep up with everyone else, even if you’d really rather stay a bit longer in one place.
Talking of Sydney Tours strike...
May 11th, 2010 | Lauren Katulka | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: download, featuredarticle, guided tours
Celebrate Craft Beer Week
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From May 10 – 16, Vancouver will showcase 27 local micro breweries with a Vancouver Craft Beer Week celebration. Local restaurateurs, bar owners and brewers will host this inaugural fest with tastings and events at restaurants around the city. It’s the first of its kind in Canada, paying tribute to the many micro breweries that produce fine beers using products like whole grains, creating an excellent tasting brew without the added flavors of rice and corn used by macro breweries...
May 11th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 4Filed under: Announcements, breweries, Events, featuredarticle, Food & Beverage
6 Things to do in the Metro-Atlanta Area This Weekend
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So the weekend is still days away (long days away), but that doesn’t mean you can’t make plans now.
And honestly, it will give you something to look forward to when it feels like 2 p.m. on Wednesday will never end.
In Atlanta, you can always count on A LOT happening and it’s not a problem to find six, or 20 things to do in one weekend. However, if you need a start on your list or help narrowing it down, here are six events this weekend that shouldn’t be missed.
Do you like art? Do you like...
May 10th, 2010 | Apryl Chapman Thomas | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, featuredarticle, weekend events
Come Join the Efforts of World Fest
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Eat and play while supporting the environmental efforts of World Fest, the largest Earth Day celebration in Los Angeles. The solar-powered event brings live music and over 100 environmental exhibitors to spread eco-friendly practices. You can also expect a variety of vegetarian cuisine from all over the world at their food court. All family members are welcome, even the pets.
Well used recycling bin outside my house
One of the main purposes of the festival is to spread awareness on what we can do...
May 10th, 2010 | Joannaline C. Young | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: community events, featuredarticle, festivals
Mystery meets history at the Pera Palace Hotel
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The Pera Palace Hotel, a historic landmark in Istanbul’s Beyoglu district, will finally open its doors again to the public on September 1st 2010. A few years and a lot of money have gone into the complete restoration of the famous hotel which in its heyday, was much frequented by the elegant and affluent travellers who stayed there after the Orient Express had brought them to Sirkeci Gare.
Pera Palace Hotel Beyoglu
Politicians, heads of state, artists, journalists, you name it, they came as well...
May 10th, 2010 | inka | Read More | Comments: 3Filed under: featuredarticle, Hotels & Places to Stay, luxury hotels
Shark Week Surfaces at Birch Aquarium
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Soak up an entire week dedicated to sharks this summer at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Shark Week runs July 17-23 and features a week of hands-on exploration for all ages into the world of these mesmerizing and misunderstood ocean predators.
Meet local leopard sharks and their relatives. Discover why sharks are vulnerable and must be protected. Explore how sharks use their teeth the way humans use utensils. Learn from Scripps Oceanography scientists...
May 10th, 2010 | Pam Nagata | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: aquarium, Attractions, Events, featuredarticle
Save Your Money – Don’t Speed in Washington DC
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Washington DC tops the list of the most likely place in America
where you’ll get a speeding ticket.
The latest Top Ten list from Driverside.com shows the states that average the highest number of speeding tickets per capita. And while not a state, the District of Columbia raced into the top spot, with a shocking equivalent of 78% of the population getting a speeding tickets last year. That’s a walloping 434,301 citations.
Aided by 10 permanent fixed radar speeding cameras, and another 35...
May 10th, 2010 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: best of weeek, featuredarticle, police, speeding Top Ten, tickets
Budget Travel’s Top Tips for Cruise Travel
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Want to make sure you get the most out of your next cruise?
Then check out Budget Travel magazine’s list of 50 Top Tips From the World’s Smartest Cruisers collected from frequent cruise travellers and cruise travel professionals.
Covering everything from how to drink for free to avoiding cell roaming charges, these tips will help everyone from first time cruisers to seasoned pros.
Here’s just a sampling of useful cruise tis:
Avoid long buffet lines (and the risk of missing your departure)...
May 10th, 2010 | Liz Lewis | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: cruise travel tips, featuredarticle
150th Anniversary Celebration of Rabindranath Tagore
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“To enjoy something, it’s essential to guard it with the fence of leisure”
Reliving Rabindranath Tagore in New Delhi
- Rabindranath Tagore (1862-1941)
Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1913, achieved more in life than most people. The array of skills in his repertoire were: poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, thespian, educationist, spiritualist, philosopher, cultural relativist, orator, composer,song-writer, singer, and artist. The man...
May 10th, 2010 | induspride | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Events, featuredarticle, festival
Niagara’s Farmers Markets
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There has been a lot said recently about the benefits of eating and buying local, and when you are living in or visiting Niagara, eating locally is pretty easy to do! Almost all of the municipalities in Niagara have their own weekly farmer’s market, and these are the places you’ll be able to get some great locally grown fruits and vegetables. Most of Niagara’s Farmer’s Markets have been around since the early 1900′s, and are an extremely ingrained and important part...
May 10th, 2010 | Megan Pasche | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: farmers markets, featuredarticle, local food
Drive Like a Racer at IndyCar Experience
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Those of us living in Indianapolis have to wait a few more days to hear that famous roar as the IndyCars take to the track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (map). But did you know that guests to Walt Disney World Speedway can experience the rush 350 days a year?
Located just outside the Magic Kingdom (map), WDW Speedway offers a thrilling ride. Operating almost daily, the IndyCar Experience offers race fans the ultimate ride or drive in an Indy Series Car.
Guests select from two experiences:
Ride–...
May 10th, 2010 | Jenni Ingersoll | Read More | Comments: 3Filed under: featuredarticle, motor racing, Walt Disney World
Buenos Aires Is The City For Book Lovers
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Buenos Aires is a literary city, with lots of bookstores and well organized book fairs, although unfortunately you will not find many public libraries. Still, in keeping with its literary tradition, Buenos Aires is one of the best places on the continent to buy books.
It has a flourishing book industry, one of the most competitive in Latin America. During the 20th century many important bookstores and publishing houses were open, such as Librería de la Ciudad, frequently visited by the late Jorge...
May 10th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: books, bookstores, featuredarticle, local culture, The Arts
Uncorked! Ghirardelli Square’s Wine Festival
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Ghirardelli Square, one of San Francisco’s most treasured icons hosts its Fifth Annual Uncorked! Wine Festival – Saturday, May 22. Enjoy unlimited wine tasting, Chef demos and more, all to benefit partner La Cocina, a non-profit organization serving as a platform for low-income entrepreneurs launching, formalizing or expanding their food businesses.
The Uncorked! Wine Festival, showcases more than 50 top-tier wineries from California’s premium wine making regions. A sampling of participating...
May 9th, 2010 | kleland | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, featuredarticle, festivals, Food & Beverage, wine
Fish & Chips in Dublin
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Whether you are trying to save a few ‘quid’ to splurge on one of Dublin’s fine-dining restaurants or just traveling on a budget, fish & chips makes for a satisfying lunch or dinner. You can find this staple throughout the city: in ‘chippers’ (fast-food chip shops), in pubs, or even on menus in more upscale gastro-pubs. If you’re looking to spend less than a 10 euro note for a hearty lunch, look no further than Beshoff’s.
Before living in Dublin, I had...
May 9th, 2010 | Jessica Colley | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: affordable dining, eating budget, featuredarticle, Restaurants
American Ship In The Center of St. Petersburg
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Photo credit: www.wikipedia.com
Russia is celebrating its victory in the WWII, and in Moscow and St. Petersburg solemn military parades are held.
Our city is being visited by an American naval ship, frigate USS Kauffman, to symbolize the help that was given by the Americans to the Soviet Union in 1941-1945 to defeat the fascism. Let’s think the figate has come to celebrate the common victory instead of Barack Obama who stayed at home.
The staff of the frigate will visit one of the St. Petersburg’s...
May 9th, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: featuredarticle, history, WWII
Skydive Madrid
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There are thousands of ways to see Madrid from above – but of course, the most thrilling one would have to be skydiving. For the dare-devils, leaping off a small jet at 4000m above the ground will surely feed your thirst for adrenaline and give you an alternative perspective of the city. Whether you are looking for something out-of-the-ordinary or simply experience the Spanish outdoors, skydiving in Madrid might just be the thing for you. Thrill seekers would enjoy free-falling at 200km/hr above...
May 9th, 2010 | Nellie Huang | Read More | Comments: 3Filed under: featuredarticle, Outdoors & Recreation, Sports & Recreation
Mamoun’s Falafel
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A place has got to be good if it’s still around after opening here in NYC back in 1971….and in the Village for that matter, with all its high priced gentrification. At 119 MacDougal St. (map), Mamoun’s serves up some mean falafel! It’s easy to pass with a brown awning blending in with the surrounding brownstones but you’ll know you’ve arrived when you see more than a few folks burying their faces in something wrapped in foil.
Falafel from Mamoun's
For...
May 8th, 2010 | Steve Mirsky | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
The Ultimate Wine Country Experience
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In just a few weeks over 50 Sonoma Valley wineries will open their doors to pass holders for the Passport to Sonoma weekend. The weekend held on Saturday, May 15 and Sunday, May 16 from 10:30 am – 4:00 pm featurs over three hundred exceptional wines with delicious food pairings and entertainment, along an eighteen mile drive through the Sonoma Valley. Here are just a few of the participating wineries.
Anaba Wine
Join Anaba for samples of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and artisanal Rhone-style...
May 8th, 2010 | kleland | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars, wine, wine country
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