Travel & Culture

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• How Technology Is Indelibly Changing the Ways in Which We Travel

  
  Vagabondish — Authority: 523
  Tourism From The Comforts of Home When Google Street View recently hit the roads of my native Canada, it blew my mind. Here I was, sitting 6,426 kilometers away at my desk in Aarhus, Denmark staring at my green aging front door in Toronto, Ontario, as if the time and space between us was a figment of my ...
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• U.K. Government Announces Major Cycling Investment

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The British Government’s Cycling Demonstration Towns, the Peak District National Park and sustainable transport charity Sustrans are set to benefit from a £10m package of cycling improvements, Transport Minister Sadiq Khan has announced. The funding – which is the remaining allocation of the Government’s £60m ...
  1 day ago

• Archaeologists find mummy of young priestess from 300-450 AD in Peru

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Lima (Peru), November 9 (ANI): An archaeological excavation has uncovered the mummy of a young priestess, a member of the elite, with several precious items dating from the period of 300-450 AD in Cahuachi, Peru.According to a report in Travel Culture History News, the mummy was found inside a series of rooms between ...
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• Review: TEDIndia 2009, Part 1

  
  Blotting paper — Authority: 118
  I am, in general, a copious note-taker. I had my favourite pens, some reusable paper and a nice folder with me on my trip to Mysore. I could’ve taken notes at TEDIndia and I would’ve if it hadn’t been for the philosophy of what one could call ‘immersion’ at TED. Let me go back a second. If you don’t ...
  2 days ago

• Cooking and Manga on Menu for Our Everyday Harumi Book Contest, Part 3

  
  Serge the Concierge — Authority: 136
  After Crepes for Part 2 of our Everyday Harumi Book Contest , I was itching for a different direction. I asked myself what is a big part of Japanese popular culture. The answer was simple, manga and anime. Not being quite sure if cooking had its place in the manga world, I consulted a Japanese friend who said yes. ...
  4 days ago

• Cultural Constellations: The Hunt for Imperfection

  
  alex j. mann (.com) — Authority: 112
  Compulsive traveling, city hopping and geographic exploration are forms of novelty that stimulate the senses dynamically. Most young people will tell you they have a bug to travel. If they are already on the move, they’ll tell you they need more. Few intellectually curious people are content with their travels ...
  5 days ago

• 150 Years of the Floating Bridge

  
  Isle of Wight News: Island Pulse: — Authority: 145
  This year sees Cowes floating bridge celebrate its 150th anniversary which also marks the centenary of the fourth floating bridge. East Cowes Heritage is staging an exhibition at East Cowes Town Hall with a cake-cutting ceremony and an illustrated talk... Related posts: Tide takes Toll on East Cowes Floating ...
  1 week ago

• Let’s Boogie on down to the Boogie Café

  
  Stopping to smell the roses — Authority: 129
  It was a cold, rainy November Friday evening when my Japanese friend, rock and roll and tattoo brother Kenny Shangrila took me to the Boogie Café in Yokohama. On my way from Bangkok to Chicago via Japan, I had a three-day layover in Japan where I would be hanging out with Kenny. After he had met me a Narita ...
  1 week ago

• Ignorance or Bravery? A “Moral Holiday” in Indonesia

  
  Matador Abroad — Authority: 465
  Photos: author An American gets in over her head searching for challenge and adventure, and comes to understand something quite different from what she set out to learn. “Is it a man of a war?” I asked my boyfriend. In an instant, the scalding burn of the sting had progressed into an ache, shooting its way to ...
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• SNOOPING AROUND GIMLI, NEW ICELAND

  
  Viceland Today — Authority: 143
  Icelanders are taking over Manitoba. The once-glamorous country that is now officially bankrupt has been losing its citizens to Canada for over 100 years, and Manitoba now hosts roughly 88,000 of these Goolies (a derogatory term for Icelandic Canadians, probably coined by their emigrant rivals, the Ukrainians), which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Beach hotels lead Dubai tourism recovery

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 481
  Dubai beach hotel occupancy and room rates are almost back to boom time levels as this key sector of the economy leads the local recovery.However, it is a different story for the city hotels where a tidal wave of new room inventory is keeping the market under pressure, making life for the new entrants and [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Bachelorette Parties

  
  Free Online Article DirectoryFree Online Article Directory — Authority: 141
  Since the early 1960’s hen parties and bachelorette parties have appeared in vogue. These are to celebrate a single woman’s status before she gets married. It is important to make the night as memorable and successful as possible for the bride and there are many strategies on how to do this. There are many ...
  2 weeks ago

• Culinary Travel Journal: A Single Woman Finds Love in Paris Cooking Schools

  
  Peter Greenberg Worldwide — Authority: 527
  Our intrepid writer Cara Mangini discovered that Paris has all the right ingredients for cooking up a new romance.   After a rough year and a tough break up she fell foolishly in love again … with food. She reports on her experiences with culinary travel, French cuisine and much more below : In Paris, there ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wordless Wednesday - In Their Honor

  
  Dear Me — Authority: 118
  Dear Me, Heres my entry for this week. For clarity (as written in the memorial slab): Erected to the Filipino and American fighting men who gave their lives to win the land sea and air victories which restored freedom and peace to the Pacific Ocean area For more Wordless Wednesdays , take a peek ...
  3 weeks ago

• Festivals and Holidays in Thailand in 2010

  
  Thailand Voice — Authority: 155
  People are already planning their holidays in Thailand for 2010 and so we thought we would help out by letting you know the dates of the main events and holidays. I know so many people keep asking “When is Loy Krathong… Written by: Richard Barrow Read more: Festivals and Holidays in Thailand in 2010 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Things I wish Id known before I started traveling

  
  Popwuping — Authority: 433
  Photo by Thomas Tribe Chris Guillebeau writes for AC360 his short list of tips that he wished he knew before he started his routine of extensive routine of overseas travel. His is an interesting perspective. I listed my favourites with comments below. 7. Hire a taxi outside the airport, not from the guys who ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Day In The Life Of…#40

  
  notes by naive — Authority: 125
  Three-course breakfast.Starter.Main.Dessert. I didn’t have them in this order though.Garden chairs.Ah, I miss home.看到这些兔子，开始想伦敦的家了。Kiss.Williams-Sonoma in Singapore?Books Actually and Polymath & Crust are now in one building. It’s warm to be in a place where you can hear a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Things I Missed In October, Mooncake Festival and Nuit Blanche Paris

  
  Serge the Concierge — Authority: 136
  Once a year at least Paris stays up all night for Nuit Blanche where culture in all its forms takes over the city. I let the Nuit Blanche 2009 Edition which took place from 7 PM on October 3 to 7 AM on October 4 pass me by with events from the Chatelet to Buttes-Chaumont and many places in between. Revivez la ...
  3 weeks ago

• [links] Link salad heads for LA

  
  jlake.com — Authority: 439
  Join me for an open dinner tonight (Monday 10/12) in Torrance, CA (LA area) at 7 pm, details here: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] A Thom Tenery airship illustration from x-planes — This could be an illustration for Mainspring and its sequels. Very nice. A true classic from FAIL Blog — A photo of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• [links] Link salad brings you songs from the wood

  
  jlake.com — Authority: 439
  Join me for an open dinner in Torrance, CA, tomorrow Monday, 10/12 at 7 pm, details here: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] Does Posting a Calorie Count Change How People Eat? The awesome graffiti of Tenerife — (Via Dark Roasted Blend .) The New Plutoid — Not sure what this means, but it’s an ...
  4 weeks ago

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