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Latest News – Onassis yacht: Stepping back to the 1950s
Onassis yacht: Stepping back to the 1950s Gavin Bell is spirited back to the Fifties on Aristotle Onassis’s famous yacht, the Christina. Extracted from: Read more on Daily Telegraph Forget websites, veteran traveller advises to listen to the locals You can get a lot of information about a destination from the internet, but sometimes the best advice can only be had from someone who actually lives there. Extracted from: Read more on Abbotsford Mission Times Enjoying the company of amazing,lovely,kind souls and friends..Dan Treacy and Andrew VanWynGarden…we celebrate!Feb 12 2010 xx
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A Brief introduction to Cancun
Cancun Hotels Cancun is a man-made tourist destination, which was designed from scratch with tourists in mind. Cancun is basically divided into two zones – Downtown and the Hotel Zone (this is an island shaped like the number ‘7’). This was done with the geography of Cancun in mind. The east side of the island is inundated with more waves than the northern side, which has the natural protection of Isla Mujeres. Some beaches are not accessible during high tide. Cancun Hotel Zone The Cancun Hotel Zone is where the prime hotels and resorts are located. It is an island with the open sea to one of its sides, the…
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Online Hotels Booking Delhi
Online Hotels Booking Delhi If you have ever spent couple of days at a budget hotel, you would probably have a rough idea about the services and amenities, provided by such hotels. Depending upon the location of that hotel, you must have seen the variations in the level of services. Sometimes, it must have been just ok and at other times, it might have proved too much to bear. If you have gone through such kind of experience then, it is not your fault. When any industry grows from the state of ‘ignorance and insignificance’ to abundance, quality is bound to suffer. Same thing applies to hospitality industry in India,…
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Listen up: TuneSmith’s musical recommendations for November
It’s All Soul Day for Smith’s resident musical maestro Rob Wood. Here are this month’s picks… ALBUM OF THE MONTH Good Things by Aloe Blacc When? This ole world is getting you down Why? It’s a new soul voice on a mission to uplift Tough times breed good music, and here’s a case in point. Born out of compassion for the homeless and jobless, Good Things is the dose of reality that hip hop so often needs. Acknowledging the hard times he sees around him, Orange County’s Blacc opts for positive social change over the glorification of personal wealth. Such anti-bling sentiment flows through the music as well as the…
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Smallest House in Great Britain
The Smallest House in Great Britain, also known as the Quay House, is a tourist attraction on the quay in Conwy, Wales. The 3.05 metre by 1.8 metre (10 feet by 6 feet) structure was used as a residence from the 16th century until 1900; as its name indicates, it is reputed to be Britain’s smallest house. The house was lived in until 1900, when the owner was a 6ft 3 inch fisherman named Robert Jones. The rooms were too small for him to stand up in fully and he was eventually forced to move out when the council declared the house unfit for human habitation. The house is still…