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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
Where we can share possibilities of events and destinations...
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
"Nobody knows how the ponies ended up on Assateague Island, although the most fanciful tale -- repeated in Henry's book -- has it that the ponies were castaways from a 16th century Spanish galleon that wrecked offshore. The more plausible theory is that early settlers hid them off the mainland as a tax dodge."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5205-2003Jul30.html (free registration required) |
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Armchair Traveler |
That's right, try to spoil the childhood fantasy for me.
Next you'll say there is no Santa Clause.  |
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
There is a sanity clause in my contract.
(And since you mentioned it, Santa Claus was from Turkey. Really!) |
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Armchair Traveler |
Turkish coffee and St. Nick, two good reasons to vist Turkey! After all any place you can get wired on caffiene and toss presents into the homes of poor children has to been cool
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
"The Edinburgh Castle is snugly tucked away on Geary Street on the fringe of the Tenderloin. Isn't most of the Tenderloin the fringe of the Tenderloin? What with gentrification and all."
"And it is cozy inside. I'm not sure it really is all that much warmer when you cross the threshold (the Scots aren't known for their central heating) but it certainly feels that way. Perhaps that's the illusion after one or two drams from the selection of malts lined up behind the bar." "And there is a selection, too." The Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco |
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Armchair Traveler |
I have a beef to pick with you, you keep steering me to all these great places!
lmao "..lined up in our newest taffeta strapless dress just asking for trouble.." a whole different kind of scottish jug..err..jig |
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Armchair Traveler |
I'd never really wanted to visit Mexico, then I saw a special on the Vanilla festival they hold. Intrigued I checked for when and where and stumbled across this:
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/recipes/puebla/kgfoodcalendar.html Now Mexico sounds like an interesting idea, I'd love follow the festival trail, including of course... "June 18 Papantla, Veracruz, Festival de Vainilla, Vanilla Festival. Built on a hill overlooking the bright green plains of northern Veracruz, Papantla is the center of the Totonac culture and one of the world's largest vanilla producing zones. The festival hosts indigenous dancers from all over the area performing the dances of the Quetzales, Negritos, and Voladores, the last one being done from a 50-foot pole in the church atrium. There are booths with regional food and beverages, small animal figures and baskets woven from vanilla bean pods, sachets and vanilla essence. Only 6 miles from the prehispanic ruin site of El Tajin, with its famous pyramid of 365 windows, Papantla is an ideal place to stay if visiting the site and museum." |
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
"A tourist looks through a glass tunnel at large Grey Nurse sharks in the Sydney Aquarium, August 5, 2003. The open ocean aquarium is Sydney's most popular paid tourist venue, with over 1.15 million visitors last year. Photo by David Gray/Reuters"
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
An excited Japanese military buff is rifling through a neat row of U.S. Army field shirts. "From the Vietnam War," he enthuses, wide-eyed over the frayed and faded garments. "All genuine." The market-stall's proprietor, however, is more guarded than giddy. Dabbing his face with a handkerchief, a flustered Mr. Udom isn't keen on strangers asking about his traffic in military surplus. He's delighted to talk prices (700 baht, which is $17, for said field shirts; 1,000 baht for a U.S. Air Force flight suit), but where he gets all the merchandise from, that's strictly confidential.
Link to TIME Asia |
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory (Louisville, Kentucky). Lathes turn wood into baseball bats in seconds. There's also an impressive museum of baseball history. The 90-minute tour runs Monday through Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm, and Sundays, noon to 5 pm, April through November. Tours leave every 20 minutes. No Sunday tours in winter. No bat production on Sundays or winter Saturdays. Admission is $6 for adults... $5 for seniors... $3.50 for children ages six to 12. Includes a miniature baseball bat.
502-588-7228, www.sluggermuseum.org Jelly Belly (Fairfield, California). Forty-minute tour of the jelly bean production process. See bright mosaic jelly bean portraits of American presidents. Free small bag of jelly beans. Tours leave every 15 minutes from 9 am to 5 pm daily. Closed on major holidays and during annual plant maintenance in June. Free. 800-953-5592,www.jellybelly.com Toyota (Georgetown, Kentucky). See robots and team members build Avalons and Camrys. The free, 90-minute tours, which leave at 10 am, noon and 2 pm on weekdays, are conducted from a tram. Reservations required. 800-866-4485 www.toyotageorgetown.com Eli's Cheesecake (Chicago). Watch up to 3,000 cheesecakes shuttle into the giant ovens. The 30-minute tour departs every weekday at noon. Includes a slice of cheesecake. Rubber-soled, low-heeled shoes are required. Infants not allowed on portions of the tour. $3 for adults... $2 for children ages 12 and under. Combination tour/lunch packages also are available. 800-999-8300, www.elischeesecake.com E-One (Ocala, Florida). Watch as fire trucks are built and tested. The 90-minute tour of three buildings involves considerable walking. Sandals are not allowed, and high-heeled shoes are discouraged. Tours leave at 9 am, 11 am and 1 pm on weekdays, weather permitting. Closed on major holidays and December 25 through January 1. Admission is $6 for adults... $4 for seniors and children under age 12. Kids must be at least age six to take the tour. 352-237-1122, www.e-one.com Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream (Waterbury, Vermont). Learn how ice cream is made during this popular 30-minute tour, which features a seven-minute movie on the company's history. Includes an ice cream sample. Tours depart every 15 to 30 minutes between 9 am and 5 pm daily. Evening tours available in July and August. $2 for adults... $1.75 for seniors... free for children ages 12 and under. 866-258-6877 www.benjerry.com Dreyer's and Edy's Grand Ice Cream (Union City, California). Hour-long tours at 9:15 am, 11:15 am and 2 pm weekdays. Reservations required. Summer tours fill up months in advance. Admission is $2. Includes a double scoop of ice cream. 800-655-3904, ext. 7 www.icecream.com Herr's Snack Factory Tour (Nottingham, Pennsylvania). Taste warm potato chips right off the line. Sixty-minute tour runs Monday through Thursday from 9 am to 3 pm... Fridays 9 am to 11 am. Reservations suggested. Free. 800-637-6225 www.herrs.com Basic Brown Bear Factory (San Francisco). Watch teddy bears being made during this 30-minute tour. You even can stuff your own -- the cost ranges from $12 to hundreds of dollars, depending on the size. Tours begin on the hour between 10 am and 4 pm daily. Free. 800-554-1910 www.basicbrownbear.com Vermont Teddy Bear Company (Shelburne). Thirty-minute tours generally run every half-hour from 9:30 am to 5 pm, Monday through Saturday... 10:30 am to 4 pm on Sundays. Adults $2... kids under age 12 free. A coupon for family admission is available on the Web site. 802-985-3001, ext. 1800 www.vermontteddybear.com |
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Armchair Traveler |
Stonyfield Farm
Ten Burton Drive Londonderry, NH 03053 (603) 437-4040 Stonyfield Farm isn't your average yogurt and Stonyfield Farm isn't your average company. We're 215 people in a small New Hampshire town who are committed to producing the best-tasting, healthiest yogurts, frozen yogurts and ice cream possible, and trying to do some good in the world while we're at it. Our Visitors' Center features Yogurt Works tours, free samples of our Soft Serve Frozen Yogurt, and a gift shop filled with cow paraphernalia and made-in-New Hampshire country crafts. http://www.stonyfield.com/AboutUs/YogurtWorks.shtml |
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
A young woman walks past padlocks locked to a wrought iron fence in Pecs, Hungary, August 15, 2003. The city of Pecs is fighting a losing battle against padlocks which lovers are secretly clamping on statues and gates all over the city center as symbols of their enduring affection. (Reuters)
See the photo here |
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
The home of the Lake Harriet Elf, housed in the base of a hollowed out ash tree, is shown July 29, 2003. It has enchanted Twin Citians ever since the 6-inch wooden door appeared eight years ago just off a walking path around the popular lake in Minneapolis. It's occupant, Mr. Little Guy, receives letters, pens, flowers, notes and coins, to name a few things, which children leave him.
See the photo here |
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
IN the back of a dingy strip mall in Hollywood, between a discount cigarette store, a coin-op laundry and a 7-11, sits one of Los Angeles's most revered restaurants: Zankou Chicken. Its walls are plywood, its tables are orange Formica, the floors are sticky, and the fluorescent lights are unflattering. The menu consists of a plastic-laminated poster with faded photographs of some suspiciously pink-hued meat on a rotating spit.
Zankou, an Armenian restaurant, could not be farther culturally or aesthetically from the trendy eating places just down Sunset Boulevard. And yet it is a legend in Hollywood, packed at any hour by Armenian families and industry up-and-comers willing to drive a half-hour to eat its $4.29 signature dish, chicken made with roasted garlic. "Zankou is the greatest chicken ever," declared Andrew Miano, 29, a film company executive. "I'd probably eat it out of the garbage can." Zankou, memorialized in the Beck song "Debra," is Exhibit A in a curious dining phenomenon found mainly in Los Angeles: strip-mall cuisine. Little-known hole in the walls, lurking on just about every major intersection in town, are the antidote to everything flashy and velvet-roped, which is why they remain so popular with Hollywood's next wave, even as trendy boîtes come and go. "It's fun to eat without pretensions in a city that has so many," Jeffrey Lieber, 34, a screenwriter said. "It's a relief: no valet parking, no dress code," adding, "and a Slurpee 15 steps away." Link to the NY Times story (free registration required) |
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
NEW YORK (AP) -- The peeling, crumbling tenements that once housed beatniks, hippies, musicians and artists are being taken over by young professionals eager to renovate not only the buildings but the neighborhood itself.
Once a center of counterculture, where artists like Allen Ginsberg and Patti Smith helped define the angst of their generations, the East Village appears to be turning slowly into yet another enclave of high-priced condos and co-ops. But before another artist decamps for Brooklyn or Queens, a group of East Villagers is hoping to rekindle the neighborhood's defiant spirit with a weeklong festival of poetry, theater, performance art, parades, film screenings and exhibitions. The HOWL! festival will feature 260 eclectic events at spots throughout the East Village, and will give participants the chance to celebrate 50 years of history and, the organizers hope, to breathe life into the local art scene. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/08/16/wkd.howlfestival.ap/ |
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
"Andy Dux watches the Robert Fire burn a Glacier National Park mountainside as he cools off in Lake McDonald. "
See the photo!!!! |
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
Outdoor Cinema - Berkeley Alehouse
Final Movie of the Series - This is Spinal Tap September 6, 2003 - Berkeley CA Join us at the Berkeley Alehouse for the annual Outdoor Cinema Film Series! Live music, BBQ, Classic Cult Films, and a Beer Garden where all proceeds benefit a local charity. Don't forget to BYO Seating. Entrance opens at 7:00PM Live Music begins at 7:30PM Movie Begins at DUSK Live Music by (TBD) Final Movie of the Series - This is Spinal Tap Location: Berkeley Alehouse Parking Lot Time(s): 7:00 PM - Entrance Opens Admission: $5 suggested donation Phone: 510.528.9880 |
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
A tourist watches the Greek Presidential guards (Evzones) on duty outside the Greek Parliament in central Athens.
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Curmudgeon (Moderator) |
It's 5am. I'm jumping up and down in the midst of 5,000 people with my hands in the air, screaming "yeah, yeah, yeah!" and it feels great. I don't want to stop. I haven't ingested anything more chemical than my hay fever tablets and yet I still feel as if I could dance till November.
I've flown to Ibiza at the beginning of the clubbing season to experience the world's dance-music Mecca for the first time. I am not alone. From June until mid-September a million clubbers will seek enlightenment and oblivion in the island's seven main clubs, which boast a combined capacity of 33,000 a night. Like snowboarding in the 1990s, clubbing is developing from a subculture practised by a renegade few into a mainstream tourism sector. And the past couple of years has seen the emergence of dedicated clubbing holiday companies such as DanceXport and the holiday arm of London's Ministry of Sound nightclub, "Clubber's Guide . . . Ibiza Trips". For a first-timer such as myself there are several advantages in a ready-made clubbing package. As with most ski holidays, your "lift ticket" is included. With "Clubber's Guide . . . Ibiza Trips" you get free guest-list entry into three top clubs and half-price entry at two others (not to be sniffed as it can cost up to £40 to get in). A variety of accommodation is on offer, from reasonably priced hotels and apartments, to pocket-burning luxury villas and five-star hotels. I picked up the phone and booked a weekend in a five-star; after all, I'm 33 and need all the pampering I can get if I'm going to dance until dawn. Link from the Daily Torygraph here |
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