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Whats on! â�� Easter Parade, New York â�� April 4th

A popular Easter tradition which takes place each Easter Sunday. New Yorkers flock to the area around Fifth Avenue from 49th to 57th Streets to see the wonderful displays of Easter bonnets and costumes. Beginning around 1000 in the morning, the streets throng with colour and excitement as participants parade with their elaborate bonnets [...]

Surfing the World Wide Couch

NEIL MEDEL’S Manhattan domicile is certainly homey, but it is by no means spacious. Just 7 feet by 10 feet, with its one window overlooking St. Marks Place, it is a living room in miniature, a mere haiku of a place. Mr. Medel, who is 33 and works for an importing company, sleeps on a [...]

Splash out: Make waves in the worldâ��s most stylish dive resorts

Whether you plan to dive, snorkel or just relax, these extracts from the new edition of ‘Dive in Style’ by Tim Simond reveal some of the best places on the planet to enjoy life above and below the ocean waves Fiji: Wakaya Club The private island of Wakaya, 40 minutes’ flight from Fiji’s main airport at [...]

Off the Brochure Travel Guide: Providence, Rhode Island

Self-professed foodie David Latt reports on some of his favorite off the brochure finds in Providence, Rhode Island and beyond. There’s been an incredible transformation in Rhode Island’s food scene, largely due to a community of chefs who get together to share secrets, go out foraging for mushrooms, etc. These guys are totally into food in [...]

Great movies that inspire you to travel

Great article found from CNN travel by A. Pawlowski, CNN One of the most popular tourist photo-ops in Rome, Italy, has visitors lining up at an old church and pretending their hand may soon be devoured by a giant marble face. Ask them why they have come to risk their digits inside the Bocca della Verità, [...]

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Our Return To Melbourne
After a great night out in Melbourne to celebrate our return from the Great Ocean Road, we booked to do a tour of Ramsey Street, the famous set of Neighbours. We saw the famous street, which isn’t actually called Ramsey Street and is home to actual residents. We also saw the school [...]

Kuang Si Waterfall

Laos is becoming an increasingly popular place to travel in Southeast Asia and many travellers who want to see the country in a short time frame are choosing to travel Laos by entering the country from Northern Thailand by catching a ferry from Chiang Khong and entering Huay Xai in Laos. They then can catch [...]

The Luge

In a country famed for adventure sports much of travellers attention is focused on things like bungee jumping or sky diving. And while these things certainly are thrilling they also come at a price, upwards of NZ$200 in most cases. And for the traveller on a budget these activities can burn a hole in your [...]

Band Wagon Blog on Route 66…

Am sat in a Public Library in Memphis Tennessee waiting for the rest of my travelling compadres to get their ass into gear so i can see Graceland so thought – as i have time to kill – I’ll do a bit of blog writing myself.
As previously mentioned by the other guy, I’m one [...]

Go Slow! Belize!

After a crazy ride from the Belizean border to Belize City, I decided to move straigth to Caye Caulker when I realized that was nothing to do in Belize City! So I got the ferry to Caye Caulker and arrived in the evening. It is a really laid-back island, everybody is relaxed and all the [...]

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