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Last Qingming Festival, I had a visit to the Summer Palace with one of my best friend, David Lu, who visited me from Yantan, Shandong Province.

It was really amazing experience for me because in my imagination, the Summer Place was a complex of traditional houses and I never expected that the Summer Palace was full of flower trees. It was like magic when we walked on a road carpeted with petals. The historical buildings in it were fabulous and splendid with fine carving. The guide Linda from chin

Some Greek islands suffer from the effects of ‘kalimari and chips’ mass tourism. But, sometimes, you only need to take a short trip in a ferry or a kaiki to enter a different world altogether.

Let’s look at one of the lesser-known islands, Leros. There are jails and mental institutions here, and the name is similar to the Greek word for a rogue or a rascal. This put a lot of people off visiting, for all the wrong reasons, because really, it’s quite a laid-back, pleasant place.

I suspect the averag

If you would ask someone about a festival in Spain, everybody would think automatically in ‘The Running of the Bulls’ festival (San Fermin) from Pamplona or the Tomato festival. However, Spanish festivals are much more than that. Fallas (Valencia) is one of those unnoticed festivals for the majority of the foreigners but its craziness and madness doesn’t have anything to envy to the most famous ones.

This festival has its origins in the middle Ages and it marks the arrival of the spring. Initiall

Perhaps you have dreamt of visiting Bangkok city in Thailand? Well, this is a about time you make your dreams be realized. It’s no longer a wealthy men tour only. I guarantee that you could visit this city even though with a tight budget. It’s interesting that there is not any must sacrifice your delicious meals or comfort to make it with this trip. Goods fact, visiting Bangkok is really a compromise on your budget in comparison with visiting other cities like Singapore. However, the city being

The latest celebrity stars of Costa Rica are cute and lovable, with masked furry faces that seem to smile beatifically. In a country full of exotic wildlife, sloths are one of the most well-known animals, and those at the Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica are gaining fame on the popular TV show Animal Planet’s “Meet the Sloths”.

You can see these fascinating animals in person at the Sloth Sanctuary, just south of Limon Costa Rica in the small town of Penhurst on the Caribbean Coast.

The Sloth Sanct

Sunday, March 9, 2014                

CHEF DANIEL BOULUD HOSTS ANNUAL SUNDAY DINNER AT DANIEL BENEFITTING CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS. Three Michelin-Starred Chef Régis Marcon joins Chef Boulud as guest chef

Citymeals-on-Wheels Board of Directors Co-President Chef Daniel Boulud will continue his long-time support of Citymeals-on-Wheels with his famed Sunday Dinner at DANIEL. This year’s theme will be “Burgundy, Black Truffles and Blue Jeans.” This year, Boulud will be joined in the kitchen by Chef Régis M

Thursday, February 27, 2014

ProjectArt Hosts 3^rd Annual Gala at The Puck Building

 Real-Time Masterpiece Will Be Created by ProjectArt Students for Live Auction; CNN anchor Rosa Flores Will Serve as the Gala’s Master of Ceremonies

ProjectArt, an award-winning NYC-based organization providing free arts education to youth, will host its gala on Feb 27th from 7-10 pm, at the Dolce Vita showroom at The Puck Building in SoHo. In addition to a live auction, the event will feature live caricature painting

A 40-minute drive east of Puerto Plata, Cabarete’s a phenom that started blossoming as a destination in the mid-1980s, as foreign visitors discovered the water, wind conditions, and nearly four miles of beach that have given this single-street town of some 37,000 a rep as one of the world’s top meccas for windsurfing, kitesurfing, just plain ol’ surfing, and sailing. That’s not to say you can’t have fun here if you don’t do any of these sports, but it sure does help.

Today, more than 20 years la

2014 Winter Film Awards Independent Film Festival (Film Festival) Feb 27-Mar 1    

Local Independent Film Festival Winter Film Awards (WFA), now in its 3rd year, is establishing itself as a staple within the NYC arts community and a worthy stop on the US film festival circuit for out-of-state and international filmmakers alike. Opening night for the Film Festival will take place Feb 26th with a filmmaker’s Reception & Kick-off Party, and the festivities will continue Feb 27-Mar 1 with 3 days of f

“Writing and journalism cannot be separated at any stage, many journalists have become writers and have presented best of the literature to the World’ said Sandeep Marwah in his opening remarks while introducing the writer Dr. Madhukar Gangadhar.

Dr. Madhukar Gangadhar is a well known writer who has given more than 25 books to the field of literature. He has retired from Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India after 35 years of his services and lately served as Additional Dire

Never before this kind of screening of films has taken place in any of the festivals I have been, this is unique and different, I admire the innovative ideas have been added to the 2nd Global Festival of Journalism” said A. A. Adekoya inaugurating festival of ENG films at Noida Film City.
“The films are not more than 5 minutes but saying a lot to the audience, well they are fulfilling the purpose of cinema” added Prem Bhatia renowned talent promoter and singer.
“We have more than 500 films which

It's apple harvest time, and it's another crisp Saturday night on Calle Gascona (below right) in downtown Oviedo, an old university city that's the genteel, postcard-pretty capital of emerald-green Asturias in north Spain, with happy-faced students and snazzy locals of all ages roaming the sloping three-block stretch and jamming the café and eatery terraces.

Looking closer, you realize this isn't just another restaurant row in yet another Spanish college town. I spot waiter after waiter execut

Don't Expect This!

 

A Few Things to Know about Hotel Rooms in Europe

I learned about the basic American hotel room from Howard Johnson in the 1960’s.  Two double beds with back boards bolted to the wall, two fake oil paintings above said backboards, a stand in between the beds with a lamp and phone, a standard bathroom, and a TV.   The last time I checked, little has changed. When you book a room in the USA you know exactly what you are getting.

This is not the case overseas. Europe has a 1-5 star

Bolzano is the capital of the province of Alto Adige (South Tyrol or Sudtirol) in Italy. Originally a Roman settlement, after the fall of the Roman Empire, immigrants arrived from Barvaria to the north, and it has been settled by German populations since then. Before World War 1, Bolzano was part of the Austro-Hungarian county of Tyrol, and became part of Italy at the end of this war. This cultural heritage is still prevalent throughout the region, from its bilingual street signs and town names,

In the heart of San Jose, Costa Rica, the National Theatre (Teatro Nacional) remains one of the capital city’s most popular tourist attractions. 

The ornate Neo-Classical theatre is considered the finest historic building in San Jose, and is known for its exquisite interior decorated with lavish furnishings and beautiful murals.

One of the theatre’s main ceiling murals, in fact, was just named one of “10 great ceilings around the world,” according to an article in USA Today. The famous painting is

The waves were big, and so were the national surfers who came to Playa Guiones at Nosara Costa Rica last weekend for the third competition in the 2014 Olympus National Surfing Circuit.

Costa Rican pros like Gilberth Brown, Jair Perez, Jason Torres, Carlos Munoz, Lisbeth Vindas and Nataly Bernold descended on the top Costa Rica surfing beach for the tournament, held Feb. 8-9. Munoz was just returning from Oahu, Hawaii, where he made it to the fourth round of the Volcom Pipe Pro 2014 international

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Una de las primeras cosas que nos cuentan en el colegio cuando empezamos a estudiar geometría (geometría plana en realidad, pues esta es sólo una de muchas) es que la distancia más corta entre dos puntos en un plano la marca siempre una línea recta.

Años después, esto es algo que seguimos recordando, aunque a esas alturas ya hemos olvidado aquello de «en un plano», que es una parte importante del asunto, ya que por ejemplo sobre la superficie de una esfera, donde se aplica la geometría esférica

by Denise Pulis

Beautiful Zurich, Switzerland always ranks high in Mercer’s cost-of-living surveys, but does it really have to be one of Europe’s most expensive cities for the visitor? Not necessarily, if you follow my insider’s tips to Zurich on a budget.

Hotels that Are Always Good Deals

 Finding inexpensive accommodations in  Zurich is no easy feat, but it can be done. For rock-bottom prices, consider camping at Camping Seebucht (July to early October), just 2½ miles (4 km) from downtown,