Soon after I arrived for my whirlwind tour of Louisiana Music Festivals, a Lafayette gourmet imparted this wisdom: “I love the food in New Orleans. Just don’t call it Cajun.” Lesson learned. This was, in fact, the first of many lessons I learned during my travels in Louisiana
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Lafayette, Baton Rouge and New Orleans: Great Art, Great Food, Great Music
The path leads me deeper into the jungle, where towering gum and ceiba trees block the sunlight, their limbs dripping with lianas and red bromeliads. The canopy is alive with humming insects, bird song, and howler monkeys’ eerie guttural cries.
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Mexico’s Yaxchilán Ruins: Portal to a Lost Civilization
Twilight down the shore is a feeling, and an experience that’s been a part of my family’s life for three generations. It begins at the end of a long day at the beach, where lots of swimming and sun has left you sun bleached and tanned. It transitions with an outdoor shower and a change of clothes that feel smooth on your body and a relief from your wet bathing suit
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The New Jersey Coast: Finding the Twilight Down the Shore
We started our road trip in Huntsville, the Rocket City. It got that name when German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun moved there in 1950 to work on the American space program. He eventually created the Saturn V rocket that took Americans to the moon, and Huntsville has been a central part of NASA’s space exploration ever since
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Huntsville, Alabama: The Rocket City
While thousands of people then flocked to Hami to a purpose-built viewing area, my friend Alex had organised a horse-trek in the Koktokay National Park. Our guide, Dilshat, was a young Uyghur man who, as well as five other languages used in the region, spoke excellent English
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A Chinese Eclipse of the Sun in Xinjiang
After settling into our gorgeous room overlooking the pool and splendid acres of gardens and tennis courts, we headed out to Burlington to see the Lake Champlain Waterfront Festival, at the historic Church Street Marketplace.
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Burlington, Vermont: Cruising, Bicycling, Dining and Ziplining
Normandy is known to many Americans only because of the Allied invasion on D-Day in June 1944, the most recognized piece of Normandy’s long history depicted in the Tom Hanks movie “Saving Private Ryan.” In June, 2009, I visited many of the places made famous during that historic time as well as landmarks made famous by much earlier battles, like Bayeaux. We began our trip in the city of Rouen, and then motored out to the coast.
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Visiting Normandy: Ancient Cities, Fine Food and Friendly People
Surprise Valley, located in the northeast corner of California, is a prehistoric lake bordered by the Warner Mountains, on the west and by the Hayes Range on the east. The frontier town of Cedarville has an elevation of 4,648 feet and approximately 800 residents
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Cowgirls & Mustangs: Riding the High Desert in Surprise Valley
Leech Lake is the third largest lake in Minnesota, covering nearly 112,000 acres. Even though I had never been there, by virtue of my being a Minnesotan and the lake’s unusual shape, I could quickly point it out on a map. It isn’t just a round blue blob
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Fishing Minnesota’s Leech Lake: Finding My Inner Fisherwoman
The Cache La Poudre (pronounced kash la POOH-dur) is Colorado’s only National Wild and Scenic river, and it begins at the peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park, flowing north and east along the Roosevelt National Forest, and eventually passes through Fort Collins. The river, which owes its name to French-Canadian trappers who hid gunpowder in the river-valley during the raging blizzards of the early 1800s, is an absolutely prime candidate for travelers looking to go rafting on vacation.
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Fort Collins, Colorado: Rafting The Poudre
I had so much fun on my trip to the Texas Gulf Coast, it’s hard to know where to begin. As associate editor of GoNOMAD, I’ve become something of an expert on fun, and the Gulf Coast has it all, especially for families: wildlife, outdoor recreation, the best fishing in the world, environmental education, history, architecture, drama, music..
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Family Fun on the Texas Gulf Coast
Islands are a strong pull for me, a strong enough pull to fly to the other side of the world from my home in the Hudson River Valley of New York. The fabled Great Barrier Reef was a part of my decision but the chance to sample some of Queensland’s Islands sealed the deal. I discovered three islands that were totally different from each other in every way but for the sheer delight they offer.
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Three Queensland Islands
India is one of Asia’s most complex and alluring destinations, modern yet traditional, industrialized nation, with an artistic and historical legacy that few other countries can rival. It may be tempting to cut ties and wander just like India’s holy men, but contact is often part of that journey – either to keep those ties back home warm, or only for safety’s sake.
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India cell phone rental
Now you can not only see which tariff is best for you, but where you can get it for the cheapest price. This is possible because we now compare tariffs and handsets from Phones4U and Mobiles.co.uk, bringing the latest release of our mobile price comparison site up to an incredible 6.8 million mobile deals. These stores often offer free gifts with tariffs, and we’ve included those too.
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Find the Best Tariff With the Cheapest Price With Deals From Phones4U and Mobiles.co.uk!
The trend of using prepaid calling cards , or global / world calling cards, while travelling is catching on. While buying the local SIM after reaching the destination may seem to be the ideal option, global calling cards could have an edge as you needn’t have to wait to get your card activated. Telecom companies claim such cards could help users save 80-90% over international roaming But, there are certain points that you need to keep in mind
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Do you carry calling cards while travelling?
LONDON – March 4, 2008 – The days of making expensive international mobile phones calls are over thanks to Truphone, an innovative UK mobile company. Truphone, the “mobile operator for the Internet age,” has revealed a revolutionary new pricing structure that makes international calling more affordable than ever by eliminating international roaming charges. The company’s service routes all mobile and landline calls using Wi-Fi and the Internet. Truphone customers will be able to call countries in its “Tru Zone” at the fabulously low rates of just USD0.06 per minute to landlines and USD0.30 per minute to mobiles from almost anywhere on the planet. More importantly, a Truphone-to-Truphone mobile call is always free, no matter where in the world the two parties may be traveling
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Truphone Makes International Calling Affordable For Everyone
Firstly, there are strict guidelines to picking wild mushrooms in France, and these must be followed: French Regulations state (Article 547 Code Civil) that mushrooms belong to the owner of the land where they grow. Each commune has the right to decide whether mushroom picking is allowed, and on what days, can say what quantities can be picked, can charge a fee or can totally forbid mushroom picking in the surrounding forests
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Mushrooms in France
Some Useful Information on French Customs Shaking hands upon greeting and parting is customary in France, (a light grip and a single quick shake) and man to woman, woman to woman, and woman to man by lightly kissing on the cheeks, it can be once on the left and once on the right, this can vary upon the region of France, (like Mayenne) it is repeated so “four times” – (left to right, right to left and repeat). It is customary to say ‘Bonjour’ or ‘Bonsoir’ when entering a shop and ‘Au Revoir’ when leaving. Use the same greeting for neighbours adding Madame, Monsieur or Mademoiselle and their surname, only family and very close friends are greeted by the first name
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French Customs
Whilst on the sit on mower this morning, dealing with the long grass in the orchard and having just completed once again one of Tuesday Lobsang Rampas books “I Believe”, (and I shall cover this topic another time as I could ramble forever about this physic and author) I remembered all the controversy years ago surrounding this gentleman, and my mind wandered onto the subject of life in general. With the UK news recently highlighting the fact that they have now discovered a “fat” gene, it took me back many many years ago when I remember there was a huge outcry from experts who identified plastics that were used to contain food and drink products, having toxicological effects on the human body. Scientists concluded that eating and drinking from bottles made of plastic would over a period of time affect the genetic make up of the human body and both physical and mental aspects of sexuality would be affected, together with increase in cancer, and Alzheimer disease to name but a few
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Digressing to Life in General
Looking at our website we decided to do some more research and place another couple of pages of information on it, so I had this idea that I should list some French Cheeses on it which I thought would be interesting, so I set about researching this. Several months later, I was still researching, as I was not aware that France had over 500 cheeses, and I seemed to be living and dreaming Cheeses. Some were very difficult to research and took a lot of time, French markets helped quite a lot, but was not easy taking photographs from this source without getting some strange looks
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French Cheeses
If you passed by a broken window, you will throw a stone on it, and if someone asks you why you’re doing this, you will answer spontaneously that: It’s already broken! Well that what our folks did in a night hiking trip between Qara and Jrajir, when we passed near the ruins of an old deserted village, they left all the places and pissed on it’s walls! -nobody’s living here anymore! –one of the hikers said- I think he’s right, somehow. The village is really a perfect place for shooting a movie or being transferred into a hotel, and it’s built in the old traditional way, or what’s left of it
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Deserted Village
Me and My partner in the university Hashem were asked to continue our graduation project by going to one the Following villages: khouikhat Hasoura Mqa3bra Rastan Do you know this villages? Well due to my general culture I know about Rastan town, and due to my “hiking experience” I know a little about Mqa3brah as I hiked near by two years ago, and the other two villages we couldn’t even find them in the map. What I know about it that it’s located not very far from the Crack de Chevalier citadel to the west of Homs and in the middle of greenery there.
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A Normal Spring Trip
JablehCountrySides Originally uploaded by amrtheproud . July (2005) (Jableh countryside, Western mounts) It looks like a scene from Yemen and not from Syria, tobacco is widely planted in the northern parts of the Syrian coast and western mounts, even though I’m a non-smoker, I like the colors and the shape of that plant. What was really horrible in these villages that everyone smokes even the old women! Anyway, here’s a little advice when you visit this area and enter a shop: don’t ask for cheese, yogurt, or milk; they are all home produced! And when visiting a village as the one in the photo don’t ask for a cigarette, because they make their own!
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Don’t Ask For A Cigarette
Ok Rami, here is a new post about Al Ghoota with more photos and resources, Al Ghouta surrounded the old city from every direction, but mainly from the east and west. To get to Damascus, you had to walk through heavenly valleys and large plains all planted with olive trees, apricot and nut trees and other fruits and all kind of vegetables. Al-Ghouta wasn’t simply a large area of “farms”, it had waterfalls and great views wherever you look, and many historians believe that the first café in the world was established in Al-Ghouta in the years of 1500′s
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Al Nabek (Qalamoun Mounts) (feb/2005) well this small church inside the monastery was one of the strangest things that i have ever seen! Religious drawings wherever you look, most of the drawings are over 800 years old. i picked this one that describes the judgment day: on the right the bad fellows that crying blood, with the devil (the black on the second row) on the left the good guys… the most interesting things are the shapes and the costumes of the people (that gives a good idea of that time), and that (and it’s my own conclusion) it weren’t drawn in Mar Moussa’s life, because if he was there he wouldn’t draw the devil in black because in Ethiopia they used to draw Jesus as a black one
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The Road To Mar Moussa AlHabashi- last episode-