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Visit St Catherine's Monastery from Sharm El Sheikh port booking our one day shore excursion to the most important religious site in Sinai. Travel for around 3 hours in air-conditioned comfort with your personal tour guide who will introduce you to the history and religious significance of the monastery and its surrounds. Situated at the base of the mountain where Moses received the ten commandments, St Catherine's Monastery is one of the most famous in the world. Built between 527 and 565 AD, i

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9008611052?profile=originalAzulejos de Azeitão uses the European traditional methods of tile making and reproduces antique design from European countries like France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and other , but also Islamic and Chinese. 

 

They make flat hand painted tilas as well as relief tiles with different colored glazes, in the style of Hispano-Moorish tiles of the XVI Century.

 

More informationand tiles made by Azulejos de Azeitão at Portugal Dream Coast.

 

 

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Tlaquepaque is an old oasis within Guadalajara's modern big city sprawl. A small village that has been able to hold on to olden times and lifestyle. It is Mexico's premiere Arts and Crafts capital and your visit will certainly bring you to discover breathtaking works in ceramics, iron, blown glass, leather, wood and many other materials. Many of these creations are authored by local artisans and artists that live in this enclave and show and sell their works to you directly, many times from thei

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Christmas Shopping in La Jolla, California

9008583091?profile=originalLike other areas of San Diego, La Jolla has a plethora of stores – but there’s one very special place in our community that I’m afraid you might overlook: The St. James Gift Shop, located in La Jolla's cultural district, under the bell tower of St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church    Read more...

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Bespoke Shopping In Paris

The City of Light has many things to offer besides welcoming locals, famed French cuisine and the Eiffel Tower. A bustling city year-round, this tourist hot spot is home to some very exclusive restaurants and shops, also custom-made finds or 'bespoke,' including jewelry, scents, fashion, and more.

In the high-end jewelry district of rue de la Paix is a shoppers treasure for timeless and unique creations by Phillip Tournaire. Tournaire has been creating unique jewelry for clients for more than 3

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We are really lucky here in our little corner of the world when it comes to shopping. As the service hub for eastern, central, northern Maine and Atlantic Canada, the Greater Bangor Region has so many diverse ways to find that something special during the Holiday Season!

If you like shopping in a mall, we have a large shopping complex with over seventy stores, as well as many other stores located in our shopping district. We also have several large discount stores, which were added to the mix in
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US Virgin Islands: Paradise Awaits You!


– St Thomas/St John Trip to Paradise.

Spirit left late by 40 minutes from Ft Lauderdale as they were waiting for a flight connection to arrive so people weren’t stranded. What a nice thing to do for an airline. Normally they just don’t care. Arrival into St Thomas, pretty uneventful. A 22 year old tried to smoke a cigarette on the tarmac! To funny, although not so funny to security. They were like – what are you crazy dude this place could explode.

Arrival to Marriott Frenchman’s Reef. It was a pl

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Women's Top 10 Favorite Places in the World

Women tend to plan their vacations with retail therapy built in (true story!), but if you are wondering which could be your better half's favorite city in the world, then this list is for you as well. If planning to enjoy a little retail therapy on your vacation, or just need a reason to get out of the country, we've compiled the best cities in the world for your next shopping excursion. Now is the time to pay off some credit card debt, balance the bank account and head for a shopping stroll. Ju

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Coupons, Groupons, And Fashionistas

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Coupons, Groupons, And Fashionistas


Recently I met a vivacious, young mother of two, Vera Sweeney, who is very much an entrepreneur.

Vera runs three rather clever web sites, one of which, ladyandtheblog.com is a sassy example of “fashionistas” taking to the web, often with video cameras (vloggers), to share their shopping successes and opinions for those of us (all of us), ever eager to find deals and good goods.

Vera talked about her recent trip to New York’’s Shoegasm (she lives
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Hot Vacation Destinations

If you are planning a trip to a world destination, you will have many places from which to choose. The trip you take will depend on what you are looking for and the money you have to spend. Consider the following destinations.

Paris
Paris is an amazing city and a very popular tourist destination. You can go to the top of the Eiffel tower and see amazing views from high above the land. You can dine on some of the best food in the world. You can visit museums like the Louvre, which houses the amazin

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Shopaholics flock to London like fashionistas to a sample sale, and with good reason. A patchwork metropolis, London has everything from trendy flea-markets in the East to achingly cool designer outlets in Kensington and beyond.

And as every shopaholic knows, finding the perfect hotel can make or break the spree. This is TI’s pick of the best hotels for shopping in London: perfectly located near the capital’s retail meccas, with a style-savvy edge to boot.

For Designer Labels

West London is the pla
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by José Alejandro Adamuz


One of the best ways to get to know a country is through its markets. What you find is not only its products, but an entire way of life, of feeling, of talking… dare we even say, of falling in love with the place. An entire country is exposed to our senses, through its people and its culture. And so in order to get to know Ecuador better, we’re going to take a stroll through one of the most important markets – not just of the country, but of all South America. Get yo

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Diving Into Delft

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Amsterdam is justly celebrated for, among other things, its canals. But if any Netherlands canal city (and there are quite a few) can lay claim to being even more picture-postcard-perfect, it’s Delft, about an hour’s drive away.

The city’s canal heritage, dating back to its rural-village origins in the early 12th century, is embedded in its very name (derived from delven, Dutch for “digging”), and visitors to its historic center are invariably charmed by the mix of waterways, bridges across

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