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Filed under: Style in the News CURATING YOUR OWN VINTAGE WARDROBE VIA THE WEB Have you been scouring the web for a vintage Christian Dior 1950′s dress, Emma Watson’s Ossie Clark or even a Civil War era piece?
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Breaking News – Kate Moss’ Robot Replacement, Hugo Boss’ Shocking History and More Skinny Jean Dangers
Cheryl Ratcliff AJ LaGasse Cecil Irving Sue Deutscher Justin Clayton Scott Hammond Kevin Webster Karla Nolan Mark Webster Cheryl Pass Nicole Leigh Smith Nancy Rhodes Harper Barbara Haviland Andrew Orr Joan Marie Giampa Walter Lynn Mosley Janice Warriner Greg Storer To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Amritsar, Punjab, India The Golden Temple in Amritsar, for me one, is of the most beautiful temple complex where one can sit down for hours and indulge in contemplating state. Yes, lots of people there at times but that doesn’t really interrupt the flow of peace and silence. Well, it didn’t for me:) The atmosphere inside this huge complex is is genuinely spiritual
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The Golden & Silver Temple, Amritsar – Amritsar, Punjab, India
Jump to the full entry & travel map Chengdu, Sichuan, China Today we will leave for Xi’an on a late night flight. However, we have to check out by 11 and have several things to do today. First, after breakfast of course, Ryan, Jill and I go to visit a public school in Chengdu. We took a taxi all by ourselves. As we got closer to the school, the driver asked us something said “all I know is that it is number 18″. He immediately drove us to the front gate (all schools are gated with guards). When we stopped, he said “So you are teachers”, and my remarks was “and you speak English”. It is surprising how many people here understand and speak some English but are timid about conversing with you. I can understand that – I can only imagine how I would be if I knew any Chinese. Anyway, the school was very nice and the English teacher and the Headmaster are very anxious to work with us for an exchange program. We need to work out the details after several more visits to other schools. The teacher took us to a museum which is an excavation site from several hundred years ago. As it turns out, our group was at the same museum. We (the three of us) were supplied with an English guide which was arranged by the school. How lucky was that? After lunch, we visited a foot massage parlor. Yes,some of us had a 2 hours foot, leg, back, neck, hand and arm massage for 78RMB (about $12 US). We thought we had gone to heaven. I can’t wait to share this information with Donna Bilek
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Off to Xi’an – Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Aurora, Colorado, United States Hello everyone! Today was a wonderful day! After a morning of blocking and staging (and some awesome yoga!) the cast went on a field trip to the Denver Environmental Protection Agency. However, before we could arrive, we had to go on a scavenger hunt around Denver! We were given a list of questions to answers and certain pictures to take. Our team was literally done in 30 minutes because most of the team had the internet on their phones and…that’s how we answered our questions.
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Denver Scavenger Hunt Winners 
– Aurora, Colorado, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece Apparently, Nero took the first ceremonial spade full of dirt out and then abandoned the project and it wasnt taken up until 1881 and finally completed 1893. The best part of traveling through — the total silence of the passengers.
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deep ditch – Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece
Jump to the full entry & travel map Santorini, Cyclades, Greece I’m sure most people have lovely memories of their visit to Santorini but this island can make me depressed for days. It was the last place Judith & I were together on our European vacation, & years later the place I found out my roommate had relocated all my belongings to outside our house in Austin, causing me to fly home early with 2 younger siblings, begging British Air to take pity on poor standby children. Last time I was here, I didnt even get off the boat, that’s how lame I am
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Saddest volcanic crater on the planet – Santorini, Cyclades, Greece
Jump to the full entry & travel map Lésbos, Northeast Aegean Islands, Greece No surprise the men in the group got a kick out of visiting this island just b/c they got to try out every lesbian joke they’ve ever heard, and perhaps a few gay ones for good measure. The boy scouts appear to have built a trail up to the castle ruins, where the christians-muslims-pagans all spent quality time conquering the previous inhabitants. Hot
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hee hee she said lesbian – Lésbos, Northeast Aegean Islands, Greece
Jump to the full entry & travel map Bryce Canyon, Utah, United States Ula i ja wstalismy dzisiaj wczesnie ranu (6:30 czasu miejscowego) i jeszcze przed sniadaniem wybralismy sie na mala wedrowke dnem wawozu. Zeszlismy na dol sciezka Navajo z punktu widokowego Sunset (Sunset Point), przeszlismy kolo mlota Thora (Thors Hammer), potem przez ogrody krolowej (Queens Garden) i wspielismy sie na gore do punktu Sunrise (Sunrise Point). W ciagu dwoch i pol godziny bylismy z powrotem w hotelu, gdzie Ola i Agatka jeszcze spaly.
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Wawoz robi wrazenie – Bryce Canyon, Utah, United States
Pandas at China center Most of the pandas at the Wolong Nature Reserve, tucked in the lush mountains of Sichuan province , had already been moved following the powerful May 12 quake that rattled Sichuan province and killed nearly 70,000 people. The quake killed at least one panda and left the Wolong center vulnerable to aftershocks and landslides. http://travelagentchina.blogspot.com/ The 13 giant pandas arrived at the Bifengxia Giant Panda Base in the Sichuan province town of Ya’an on Monday night, said Li Desheng, research director at Wolong
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Pandas at China center
Jump to the full entry & travel map Gloucester, England, United Kingdom I arrived on the Sunday afternoon, after being subjugated to hours of boring people and their conversations on a National Express Coach when coming into Gloucester . I was dropped off at pretty much the city centre, and given that it was isn’t a particularly big place at all it’s easy just to walk from one side of the town to the other in a matter of minutes
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Gloucester – from Football to Preachers – Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Jump to the full entry & travel map Montreal, Quebec, Canada Hey Everybody, Now only a few hours away from taking off to Africa and I’m all set!!! Over the next two months I will be traveling East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania) for a month and then going to South Africa for the second month. Some of the activities I will doing are: – Safari in Masai Mara Reserve (part of the Serengeti) where I will see the largest migration of animals in the world
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Sooo long Montréal – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jump to the full entry & travel map Praia da Pipa, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Dear Friends, Having got up early to say goodbye to Erin and then getting yet another local bus to the metro station in Recife (and nearly taking out an old woman on the bus with my backpack in the process), I managed to negotiate my way to get off the long distance bus at Goianinhas, before Natal and then got a Kombi van (a quasi private minibus sometimes filled to the gunnels with people) going from Goianinhas on the highway to Praia da Pipa on the coast. Pipa bills itself as a ´global village´where foreigners are two-a-penny, and there is a ‘chilled-out vibe with stunning beaches’. I am always slightly wary of such monikers as I feel that such places could often be anywhere, pleasant though they are, and I was here to discover Brazilian culture, not global traveller culture. I tried to put my doubts to one side however as I arrived (without a reservation). It certainly seemed very quaint – with a nice highstreet filled with restaurants all plying for business, endless surf shops and shops selling Havaianas (Brazil´s ridiculously successful flip-flop company – most Brazilians seem to own at least one pair). I happened upon a man who agreed to help me find somewhere to stay. Usually I try to rely on the guide book but I thought I would try to rely on the kindness of strangers for once. He did find me somewhere cheap, but it was a bit dingy and he was looking for me to buy him lunch in return (as well as asking me if I wanted any marijuana – another key ingredient in global traveller culture – I said no btw!) so I gave him a couple of Reals for his troubles (around 80p) and he seemed fairly satisfied with that. The next day, I decided, cheap as it was, I needed somewhere a bit cleaner (I was scared to look at the mattress and the place seemed overrun with ants) – luckily there was a brand new youth hostel with a bed so I moved there
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Take a Peep – a – Praia da Pipa, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Jump to the full entry & travel map Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia After glancing at my dashboard my blog has registered over 1000 visitors to it. Whether you’re a regular reader or stumbled by accident when looking for something else thanks for reading! Originally intended to be my high tech record of my trip I had no idea many people would actually care what I wrote and this is a welcome surprise. Thanks for reading and tolerating my, at times, dodgy grammar, copious bracket use and sentences that kind of run off on a tangent with themselves and rest assured there will be many more entries to come! Kind regards, Alastair
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1000 Visitors – Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia
Jump to the full entry & travel map Paris, Île-de-France, France Perhaps waiting 7 years later to do a blog for this trip is a bit late…so I probably won’t able to capture where my senses were then. Thank goodness for a handwritten journal I kept….so this trip will probably just have various quotes from those entries. This trip took place after my high school graduation-and the beginning of my Santa Clara journey….I remembered it being bittersweet. The ending of something so familiar, and the beginning of so many unknowns. At the same time, my sister and A. Luong had just graduated from Cal Poly–perhaps being four years apart is perfect. They are perfect-my rock then and now
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charming and delightful cityscape – Paris, Île-de-France, France
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hartford, Connecticut, United States We left New England and drove to Stafford Springs just north of Hartford. Fearing horrendous radio stations we left Great Britain well equipped with over 12,000 tracks kindly loaded onto our i-pod by our AV guru Cliff and his son Bradley (who were at our house until 5.30am the day we left to ensure that all our AV/IT equipment was working correctly) but believe it or not the i-phone has remained in the rucksack as we have settled into the great sounds of various stations – Radio B101 took the lead and had us singing out loud or loading our air-guitars to some familiar sounds such as Genesis “I will follow you; will you follow me…” and Brucie Sledge classic “when a man loves a woman”. We arrived at Heather and Bill’s homestead late afternoon (homestead is an understatement with 20 acres) and Fynn was delighted to see William and Ian throwing a ball in the front garden.
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Virginia’s cousins – Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Cochabamba, Cochabamba, Bolivia The children at the orphanage are adorable but it was v shocking to see the conditions they live in but then i had prepared myself for that. i started working there today and the children all wanted my attention and get quite upset if u talk or colour with one of the others;they r v sensitive! im in the guarderia with children who are about 4 or 5 and we are meant to teach them and play games in the morning.
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First day at orphanage – Cochabamba, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Jump to the full entry & travel map Crossakeel, County Meath, Ireland Went to Loughcrew Cairns in County Meath, Ireland for the day with some friends. (The map pin is slightly out, couldn’t get it exact, so used a town called ‘Crossakeel’ for the pinpoint, which is close to it, but it’s slightly more to the north-west than that) Loughcrew is home to some ancient passage graves, from around 3000BC. They haven’t been excavated, and are a bit more ‘off the beaten track’ than other similar (and excavated) sites, for example, Newgrange, which I’ve yet to go to. There are over 30 cairns in total, and they are named according to the alphabet – obviously only 26 letters in the alphabet, so there are some letters with numbers too to compensate, e.g. ‘cairn R1′ etc There is a guided tour at Cairn T, one of the larger cairns, it’s free, and the lady was so knowledgeable. She showed us the inside of the cairn, the art decoration patterns that look to be sun symbols, and explained how the sunlight would shine in, illuminating the different images at different times of the day. Really fascinating. Now the folklore! Legend has it, that the Loughcrew Hills, are known as ‘The Hill of the Witch’! The witch is said to have jumped from one hill to the other, dropping stones from her apron along the way – hence forming the cairns. It is then said, when she jumped on the third hill, she had to jump to a fourth to achieve the highest power level…attempted….and fell to her death There is a set of stones at cairn T that represent a chair shape, and is known as the ‘witch’s chair’ – it is customary to sit on this and make a wish 
The witch is known to have sat on that in her lifetime, smoking a pipe…! Unfortunately I have no photos, because my camera broke AGAIN!! (Not amused – it’s gone for repair – AGAIN!) However, my friend Jillian has kindly given me a link to the photos she took that day, so you will be able to see them by clicking the link below…. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27877&id=1017049766&l=2740a93d07
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Loughcrew Cairns – Crossakeel, County Meath, Ireland
Jump to the full entry & travel map Disneyland Paris, Picardie, France “A whole new world a dazzling place I never knew…” The words from Aladin ring in my head as I sit down to collect my thoughts about our 2 day trip to Disneyland Paris to celebrate Hannah’s birthday. On Sunday, we left the house at 6am so we could check our bags into the hotel and get ourselves organized for the 2 hours reserved for hotel guests to enjoy a few rides in the park before it is open to all guests. We were pumped
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A Whole New World – Disneyland Paris, Picardie, France
Jump to the full entry & travel map Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States Today was one of the hotel manager’s 22nd birthday so we all pack into shuttle vans and partied at Panorama (I would say until the sun came up, but that is hard here). What a blast! I think Panorama Pizza has to be one of my favorite places here. The people that work there are fun, the people I go with are awesome! Not to even mention the food
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Birthday bash – Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States