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Don’t get rejected at club OSHUM and try to find other ways in. This includes one or more actions we did: climbing over a big fence around back, climbing a ladder to the roof and then into the attic, and eventually running into the club through the kitchen… despite what made a great story, we still didn’t last more than 10 minutes in the club
Do plan accordingly for your bills. Barcelona can be expensive a
| by Emily Guilmette |
While I know that gourmets have been savoring the world’s most fabulous foods since the dawn of time, I do think that the past few years (at least in the U.S.) have seen a particular renaissance of appreciation of great eats. There is more interest in local food, less processed food, traditional tastes and culinary innovations than ever. Perhaps economic tough times have made cooking and food even more of a comfort – and a relatively affordable adventure. We’re more and more op |
Are Facebook Fans Really Useless?
Depends.
If a Facebook page is designed to generate revenue, says Hotelmarketing.com, there’s a problem.
The online research and news site says 70 percent of Facebook users do not want to be advertised to by the very same businesses they “fan.”
New Media Travel/Travel Video PostCard, the company I mostly work for, has some 7,000 + “likes” or fans, and as a small organization, we’re very proud of that.
But we don’t use Facebook to generate revenue.
We use it to prov
Although the superstitions and believes surrounding Halloween may have evolved over the years, as the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people can still look forward to parades, costumes and sweet treats to usher in the winter season. With Halloween just around the corner, we thought you might be interested to find out where some of the spookiest, spine-chilling, weird, ghostly and mysterious places around the world are. In honor of this eerie Celtic-Catholic pagan holiday, we will ta
Published: Ocotber 3, 2011
Founder of GirlPorts.com Tanya Churchmuch dines at her favorite Paris restaurant, Le Chartier.
Photo Credit: Carrie MacPherson
An avid worldwide traveler, Canadian Tanya Churchmuch wanted more from lesbian travel guides, but couldn't find what she wanted.
"I was somebody who always traveled a lot and always became frustrated by the lack of useful information for lesbian travelers that was available," says Churchmuch, a former broadcast anchor and inter
Rara Lake is the largest lake of Nepal, situated in Mugu district in the far western Karnali region of Nepal, near the district headquarter Gam Ghadi and Talcha airport. It takes around 3 to 4 days of trekking to reach Rara from Jumla. Rara Lake is the centerpiece of Rara National Park.
The Lake is stunningly beautiful, with unbelievably tranquility, a paradise untouched. The region around Jumla and Rara Lake is still relatively unexplored. The large lake, at an altitude of 2980 meters, is perche
Published: Ocotber 3, 2011
Finding lesbians in New York City or London is somewhat easy, but it is a whole other story in distant lands, especially when women have very little if any rights at all - don't even mention the "L" word - but these are minor challenges to Gina Gatta and Tanya Churchmuch.
Damron owner Gina Gatta with business and life partner, Erika O'Conner, enjoying Iceland.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Damron
Gatta is president and editor-in-chief of Damron, the oldest
Discovering Dublin, Ireland w/1-min Video
I skipped down the stairs of our hotel, the Mont Clare, in fairly fashionable Merrion Square on a pharmacy mission.
I turned the corner, passed an antiquated, rather haphazard shop, and stopped.
A white-thatched, distinguished gentleman was sitting behind a counter, reading out loud to a few customers.
I stopped to listen.
It turns out this was the pharmacy I was looking for: Sweny’s.
Here in a 12 by 14 foot space, the gentleman reader, was one P.J. Murphy r
by Shirley Linde
A small ship is part cruise ship and part private yacht. You have many of the advantages of cruising, but you can go to remote locations and out-of-the-way ports where big ships can’t go.
Typically, there are no group games, few announcements, no assigned dining room seating. Instead of bingo, you have the opportunity to visit the bridge at any time and stand at the helmstation, or on a very small ship perhaps take the helm yourself. Instead of a cruise director, you have his
Responsible tourism is about tourists making environmentally friendly, sustainable, ethical and respectful choices when travelling and minimising the negative impact of tourism. Being responsible is something all tourists needs to take into consideration when making a decision on travelling to a destination.
Responsible travel can be considered as the most enjoyable way to travel because it brings you closer to local people and culture, it gives you the chance to experience the authenticity of t
As with all things, when you first start out, you make some stupid mistakes that you learn from and move on and they help you grow. Well, I've made some mistakes in my writin
Edited by Gina M. Gatta; Damron Company, 648 pages; paperback, $18.95
Reviewed by Heather Cassell
Don't leave home without it. Damron Women's Traveller, the most popular travel guide for queer women, is back with all new and updated listings for 2012. Want to know where to go in Nashville? Damron Women's Traveller will point you in the right direction. It is the must have guide for queer girls and their friends.
Damron's crew gathers the latest information about its queer women-only and lesbian, g
What to tell you. For starters, don't drive in. Don't do it.
Park at the Piazzo de Michelangelo.
It's free. Then take a taxi in, or
you can walk it, but its a hike.
PARK NEXT TO THIS GUY.
Most everything is in the center of the city. DON'T GO ON MONDAY. EVERYTHING
IS CLOSED. I made that mistake.
The Duomo was open, and the line was huge (but free).
The local flea market runs like 9am-2pm.
There's a fake David outside of
the Museo de Uffizi, if you can't get in the Academia to see the real one.
Brilliant reds and yellows pop from these images because of the use of a rare-earth filter.
Jim DeLillo has announced today that he has added new images using this technique to his 'Autumn' gallery at
http://jim-delillo.artistwebsites.com/
These images were recently taken in New Jersey and enhanced using the special on-camera filter to further saturate and beautify the colors of the fall foliage.
The filter is made from Didymium, a mixture of the rare-earth elements praseodymium and neodymium. F
PECKS POND MEETS AUTUMN LEAVES
Yes, Pecks Pond. What ever happened to apostrophes? But it's too fine a day to agonize about that; besides, I was looking for fall colors, not grammar. So I took a walk around this pond -- a lake, really -- on Rte. 402 in Pike County, part of the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. That's Pike, as in the general, not the fish.
Rule #1 about fall foliage: It's often most colorful around lakes. In part that's because of the nice contrast between the blue of the
Published: Ocotber 3, 2011
Women are grabbing the last few hours of Indian summer before the holidays hit with three fun in the sun weekend getaways.
Bliss guests enjoy the pool. .
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Movement Productions.
TripAdvisor “Makes Nice” With Hotels
At least that’s what most observers think.
Or they believe the move is a reaction to Google's increasingly strong forays into the travel space.
The relationship between hoteliers and TripAdvisor has not been a happy one.
Successful hotel managers or innkeepers like Dick Pabich of the popular Salem Inn in Salem, Massachusetts, have been burned by false and exaggeratedly negative reviews on TripAdvisor all too many times. “It really drives us crazy,” he says. “
Athens, Greece
Think Athens is an old, dusty, unmaintained, just another dirty city. A European capital with no reason to reason to spend an extensive stay, unless you’re a history buff or in transit to the Greek Islands, think again. Ask anyone in the world, who enjoys a vibrant nightlife, and I guarantee you that they will say, “Athens Rocks.” Even in hard economic times, the Greeks know how to party. Athens is on par with any other city on the planet and a “party capital” full of en
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010: True Stories from Around the World
Edited by Stephanie Elizondo Grist; Travelers' Tales, 352 pages; paperback, $17.95
Reviewed by Heather Cassell
Published: Ocotber 5, 2011
Get ready. Pack your bags. You are about to embark on 27 adventures that will take you all over the world, inspire your wanderlust, and journey into your own heart in the Best Women's Travel Writing, edited by award-winning writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest.
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