Small, Humid, but still a nice hotel. — Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India
Jump to the full entry & travel map Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India At 1.30 PM local time in London we began our journey towards to the mysterious land of India. The flight took 9 and halv hours which gave us plenty of time to start on out books. For me it was the thoughts and experiences of Gandhi while Jan started on “care for the soul”
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Small, Humid, but still a nice hotel. — Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India
Jump to the full entry & travel map Sapa, Vietnam Since I had some time to spend while waiting for my Indian visa, I booked a tour to Sapa, which is a small town in the mountains. It is apparently a very popular place to visit, as all travel agents in Hanoi organize tours there. My tour includes overnight trains there and back, 1 night hotel,1 night home stay and all the meals.
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Mountains and countryside but… — Sapa, Vietnam
Jump to the full entry & travel map Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany Today, we took a train up north outside the Berlin city limits to visit the Sachenhausen concentration camp, about 35km north. To begin with, the train ride itself was momentous for two reasons. First, as it began in East Berlin, went through West Berlin, and ended up in East Germany, the trip itself would’ve been impossible twenty years ago
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Arbeit Macht Frei — Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany
Jump to the full entry & travel map Warsaw, Central Poland, Poland 12 hrs on the bus and I was completely shattered. I slept, but not soundly. The seats didn’t recline and I was on the aisle so couldn’t wedge myself into the corner
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Why do people think backpacking is fun? — Warsaw, Central Poland, Poland
Jump to the full entry & travel map Noosa, Queensland, Australia I have 2 days in Noosa on my own until I meet up with Darragh again in Brisbane. Noosa is a lovely little sea-side town with 2 gorgeous beaches. My hostel is a bit away from the centre of town but it is right beside Sunshine Beach, and the hostel run a courtesy bus into town regular enough during the day.
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Noosa — Noosa, Queensland, Australia
Jump to the full entry & travel map Daqing, Heilongjiang, China I haven’t updated in ages. I’d like to say that my excuse is that it’s been “summer intensive” period at EF, so I’ve only had one day off a week, but “one day off” still means I have hours every day where I don’t have to do anything and I easily could have updated.
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Incredibly specific — Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China We took out first flight in China from Kunming to Lijiang. We’d been really enjoying the trains, but now we are at higher altitude, there aren’t any trains and we had a choice of 40 pounds for a 40 minute flight or 10 pounds for 10 hours on a bus, so this was an easy decision
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Lijiang — Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Binalonan, Ilocos, Philippines A few weeks ago we were invited to a house blessing for Josie’s cousin. Their home was being built just behind our apartment and we got a early morning wakeup call all during construction. We were as excited about their house being finished as they were.
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Showers — Binalonan, Ilocos, Philippines
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ella, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka We had three temple visits in and around Ella—two cave temples just outside of Ella and the local Ella temple that we simply had to visit after going to sleep and waking up to daily chanting. The first was on an eleven kilometre bus return from Bandarawela (six cents return each) where we had gone to access the nearest ATM and I ended up buying my first dhoti (simply called a sarong in Sri Lanka) that most men wear for work or leisure
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Temples In and Around Ella — Ella, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ubud, Bali, Indonesia Halo semua orang, I find it nearly impossible to believe, but our amazing adventure is rapidly coming to an end. We are leaving Bali today for 5 days in Tokyo and then 5 days in Sydney. We’ll get the unique experience of celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Japan and observing Yom Kippur in Sydney (probably not as unique as Japan)
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Bali High — Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Jump to the full entry & travel map Camarillo, Washington, United States Covenant Mortgage Website Depending on the size of the loan and the prevailing practice in the country the term may be short (10 years) or long (50 years plus). In the UK and U.S., 25 to 30 years is the usual maximum term (although shorter periods, such as 15-year mortgage loans, are common).
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Covenant Mortgage — Camarillo, Washington, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Gaya Island, Sabah, Malaysia Day 30 of Andy and Suez’s Great Adventure We awoke to a gloriously sunny day and so we decided to spend the day on our own private deck and go snorkelling. The tide was in and was quite high up on the steps and after a wee pick into the water we discovered it was full of wee jellyfish
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Day 30 of Andy & Suez’s Big Avdventure — Gaya Island, Sabah, Malaysia
Caty from Do Ah Diddy guest blogs over at Prudent Baby with a tutorial showing how to make this super sweet nursery rhyme flip doll. The face of the dolls flips down to reveal another face behind, which flips down to reveal another face behind, and so on and so on like pages in a book. …
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Tutorial: Nursery rhyme softie flip doll
Tere from Pony Tails and Fish Scales shows how to make these fun bendy fashion accessories. They’re actually pipe cleaners covered with bright fabrics. What a cool idea!! She shows them worn as hair accessories, bracelets, and even leashes or collars for stuffed animals. The possibilities are endless! Go to the tutorial . [photo from
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Tutorial: Fabric covered bendy fashion accessories
Filed under: Fashion , News , Fashion Week (Left to right) Lincoln Center Chair Katherine Farley, IMG Chairman and CEO Ted Forstmann, Mayor Bloomberg and designer Diane von Furstenberg stand next to the the 1 subway train line, recently renamed “The Fashion Line.” Photo: Getty Images New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t take a private car or a cab to the official kick-off to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. “I just took the Fashion Line,” the mayor said. In honor of Fashion Week’s new digs at Lincoln Center ( take a tour of the space here ), the city has officially renamed the 1-line subway the Fashion Line.
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NYC Mayor Kicks Off Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Filed under: Celebrity , News , Celebrity Style http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=854746&pid=854745&uts=1283984965 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf Michelle Obama Style Evolution Michelle Obama became a style icon from the moment she first hit TV screens. Here, we take a look back at some of her most notable fashion moments
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Michelle Obama Wears Leopard and Lace to Host White House Dance Series
Filed under: Fragrance , Fashion , News , Celebrity Beauty , Designers & Brands , Celebrity Style Co-stars Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel. Photos: Charles Eshelman, FilmMagic | Dimitrios Kambouris, WireImage To hear Katie Holmes tell it, you’d think J.Crew deserves top billing in her new movie ” The Romantics .” “It was really part of the design of the movie,” Holmes, who appears in the film and acted as executive producer, told StyleList at a press conference at New York City’s Gansevoort Park Avenue.
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‘The Romantics’ Stars Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel Talk J.Crew and Fergie’s Fragrance
Filed under: Beauty , Celebrity , News , Celebrity Beauty Jane Fonda’s fresh face. Photo: Getty Images Actress Jane Fonda has had so many operations lately that she’s destined to be “bionic,” she jokes in a new tell-all interview about her face-changing plastic surgery. Fonda may not be the $6 million-dollar woman quite yet, but the 72-year-old tells Entertainment Tonight there was a reason she decided to splurge on eye and chin jobs this year after famously swearing off cosmetic procedures a decade ago
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Jane Fonda Reveals Why She Recently Had Plastic Surgery, Jokes She’ll Soon Be ‘Bionic’
Filed under: Fashion , Celebrity , Denim , Designers & Brands , Fashion Week Jessica Simpson and her real women models at her Spring 2011 jeanswear presentation.
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Jessica Simpson’s Celebrates Her Spring 2011 Denim Line; Talks About Butts
Filed under: Celebrity , News Tyra Banks with Andre Leon Talley. Photo: Getty Images for CW StyleList always suspected that if Tyra Banks had her supermodel way, Vogue pal Andre Leon Talley would have graced the ” America’s Next Top Model ” judges’ panel seasons ago.
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Tyra Banks and Andre Leon Talley Talk ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Cycle 15 and Vogue Italia