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Rarely available... 173 Feet of water frontage in Kings Point! This unique contemporary is unsurpassed in scope, luxury and privacy. Located in a prime estate enclave just 27 minutes from Manhattan, this community is dedicated to meeting the needs of today's diverse population and that of future generations. Luxurious appointments begin with the expansive margble entry which gives way to a dramatic two-story living room with soaring ceilings, an intimate sitting room, formal dining room and a chef quality kitchen. The fabulous Master Suite with unobstructed water views has his and hers bathrooms and a circular stairway leading to a private hot tub spa. Three additional bedrooms are located on this main level in a private wing. Designed for the consummate entertainer, the walk-out lower level boasts a separate apartment with a kitchen for guests or extended families in addition to many gathering areas, billiard room, hot tub spa, steam shower and sauna. Bond membership is included in the sale of this luxury home, which will entitle the new owner to the exclusive Shelter Bay Yacht Club, offering docking facilities, tennis courts and swimming pool. In addition to having a private police force, Kings Point offers easy access to exclusving shops, retaurants and cultural activities.

Hotel Best Western Prima Varna The Best Western Prima is a three star hotel situated in the centre of Varna, in a quiet street. Nearby are the Marina Gardens, the Aquarium, the beach, the Festival and Congress Centre and the Opera House. The Airport is 8 kilometres away and the train station, 1 kilometre. The guestrooms are equipped with cable and satellite TV, coffee and tea making facilities, a refrigerator, hair-dryer, iron and board, a mini bar, an in-room safe and 24 hour room service is available. There are 4 out of 10 non smoking rooms. Pets are allowed in the hotel. Within the hotel is a meeting room, which seats up to 70 persons, a cocktail lounge, a lift, steam bath car rental service and secretarial services. There is a concierge service, and airport courtesy shuttle, free parking and a gift shop. Staff are multilingual. The lounge bar serves snacks and drinks 24 hours a day. There is an Italian restaurant within walking distance. Hotel Grand Hotel London Varna Grand Hotel Musala Palace is located in the very heart of Varna - the sea capital of Bulgaria. All administrative buildings and various places of interest and local attractions are within walking distance from the hotel. The hotel is 10 km away from Varna International Airport. The Grand Hotel Musala Palace is housed in an historic building dating back to 1912. The hotel was extensively refurbished in 2004 and follows the traditions of the best classic style hotels. Grand Hotel Musala Palace hotel offers 8 standard rooms, 4 deluxe rooms, 8 studios, 4 junior suites. Accommodation facilities include air-conditioning, safety box, sat TV, direct phone, audio system, internet access and mini bar. The hotel offers a bar and a gourmet restaurant and also has a Finish sauna, massage, Jacuzzi and fitness centre. Hotel facilities also include meeting rooms, wireless Internet access and air conditioning throughout the building. Hotel Divesta Varna The Divesta Hotel lies in the centre of the city of Varna, right beside the cathedral. Numerous shops as well as cultural venues and links to the public transport network are to be found within a short distance of the hotel. It is approximately 15 minutes walk to the nearest public beach. The hotel operates all year round and offers 2 apartments, 4 studios, 16 double rooms and 5 single rooms. All accommodations are air-conditioned and feature all modern amenities, such as an en suite bathroom with shower cabin, a direct dial telephone, free internet access, satellite TV, mini-bar and a safety deposit boxes. Hotel facilities include a spacious lobby with 24-hour reception desk, lounge area and lobby bar, as well as à la carte restaurant and panoramic bar on the top floor of the hotel. Further amenities include a safe, a currency exchange desk, room service and lifts in addition to free wireless and LAN internet access, a newspaper stand and a jewellery shop. Business guests may make use of the modern equipped conference room. Car parking facilities are to be found outside the hotel. Hotel Panorama Varna Panorama Hotel is located close to the city center of Varna, on the seaside Primorski Boulevard, offering a view over the Primorski Park and the Varna bay. The hotel is right next to the beach and within easy walking distance to the main business and shopping area of Varna. The hotel offers accommodation in 48 double, 5 business rooms and 4 suites. All rooms are equipped with central heating/air conditioning, cable TV, free LAN Internet, telephone, minibar, bathroom with bath tub and hairdryer. The restaurant of the Panorama Hotel has a capacity of 52 seats and offers Bulgarian and European cuisine. There is also a lobby bar in the hotel. Panorama Hotel also offers a conference room with capacity up to 25 people Hotel amenities include room service, underground parking, currency exchange, safe at the reception, laundry, dry cleaning. Car rental can be arranged. For your well being there is the HYPOXI Studio, a sauna and massage treatments.

Balneario Camboriu or, so called, Brazilian Las Vegas nowadays is one of the most popular tourist destination among South Americans. The cite on the area of 52 km² includes beautiful beaches, monuments, big choice of clubs and restaurants, nice climate, business and etc. It is located 10 km (6.2 mi) south of Itajaí and 80 km north of the state capital, Florianópolis, and has a population of approximately 110 000 people, which increase to over one million in the summer. The main ocean boulevard is called Avenida Atlântica (Atlantic Avenue) with restaurants and shopping on the one side and beach on the other. Among other reasons why to visit Balneario Camboriu, we would like to mention the status of gay friendly city with range of gay clubs, saunas, gay-friendly hotels and etc. Balneario Camboriu is famous with its pleasant soft climate: no horribly hot weather that makes you melt, neither chilling days during winter. In summer temperature varies from 25°C to 33°C; during the winter average temperature is around 14°C, but usually it feels much colder because of cold wind. The hottest months are January and February. The temperature of water in the ocean varies from 16°C (winter) to 24 °C (summer). Gay friendly city Balneario Camboriu was marked as growing gay friendly destination. In August 2012 was organized 1st Week of Diversity by Association of Parade of Diversity of Balneario Camboriu and tourist agency INBC Tour. During five days in the city were set cultural and sport events, parties and, of course, Parade of Diversity on Sunday afternoon. The opening ceremony took place in Sibara Flat Hotel around 19 h; after this guests could know each other better on cocktail party and enjoy cultural presentation. On Thursday as a traditional part of Week of Diversity everyone could take part in Games of Diversity – sport event for non-professional sportsmen. Friday was marked with educational seminar that started around 20 h about the harm of homophobia and in Slaviero Hotel was organized art exhibition with works of local artists. On Saturday everyone, who desired, spent a day in Beto Carrero World – the biggest amusement park in South America. Besides cultural events the week was full of gay parties in D. Led, Infinity blue with Djs from Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Florianopolis. The principal event of the week, the Parade, took place on Sunday. Around 16 h people stated to get together in Almirante Tamandare square; beer and Dj made a perfect atmosphere for warm up party on the beach. Parade started around 17:30 from Barra Norte to Infinity Blue resort, where all who wanted could continue celebration. Besides The Week of Diversity, BC has various options of LGBT parties, gay friendly restaurants, beaches and hotels. The park was inaugurated in 1999 and occupies the territory within 85 000 m² ; we recommend you to dedicate one day for this park to enjoy the nature and tourist activities offered on its territory; we also suggest you to wear comfortable sport cloth cause you’ll walk a lot, and take your camera because the park has a lot of view point with amazing landscapes. Arriving at the park, the first thing you will notice is cableway; the park is located on the hills, and 47 cable cars (bondinhos) connect south part of Balneario Camboriu to Laranjeiras beach. The ticket price is R$30, 00. The park has 500 m² of rainforest with treks to enjoy the nature and rest of big cities. Along tracks there are a lot of view points on the high of 240 m to take panoramic pictures of BC on one side and Laranjeiras beach on the other side. Another activity in Unipraias is ecotourism in separated well-equipped zone with 140 m of treks and 12 different activities; the duration is approximately 40 minutes and you will receive the equipment. One more new tourist attraction in this park is Youhooo! a sledge train for 2 people that with the speed of 60 km/h pass through the rainforest part of the park. Individual ticket: R$ 15,00. Plus to all there is a small restaurant to have a snack and relax, also there is a chocolate house with special options for Easter or Christmas. To get to the park it’s quite easy, just take a bondinho (small bus) on the main avenue, it will take you directly to the park. The monument was inaugurate in October 1997 and became one of the main tourist attractions of BC. Being 33 m tall, this monument is considered the 2nd tallest in Brasil. The monument is located in complex Cristo Luz; the entrance cost is R$ 10, before 19h, and R$ 20, after 19h. It consists of food area with few restaurants, souvenir shops, museum with pictures showing the history of the city and the process of monument construction. The best option is to enter around 17-18h to take panoramic pictures of Balneario Camboriu in the daylight and to see the monument illuminated with 7 different colors symbolizing peace, light, nature, soul, love and etc after sunset. Established in 1981, the park consist of various sectors on 39 000 m², and its quite easy to find, just take the principal highway BR-101, the park is located on km 137. To get there by bus, take a line 103. As well as in Unipraias, be ready to spend here one day; this big territory includes: Mundo das Aves– birds sector where you can see parrots, tucans, 4 lakes with swans and flamingos and etc. Mammals sector with monkeys, lions, tigers, alligators and etc. Terrarium with various species of snakes, spiders and etc. Aquarium with around 50 species of fishes from fresh waters. Archeological Museum, where you can observe fossils preserved from Indian Civilization. Oceanographic Museum, where you can enjoy big collection of rare species of fishes, corals, mollusks and etc. The only one in the state Handy crafts Museum of Santa Catarina with around 700 works to take a look, made of leather, ceramics and other materials. The last but not the least, Fishing Museum with exhibition about the art of fishing, which includes canoes, nets and etc. The entrance price is R$ 8,00. Beto Carrero World In Balneario Camboriu is located the biggest amusement park in Latin America. If you like adrenalin and roller-coasters you definitely need to spend a day there. The park is located in the municipality of Penha, Santa Catarina state and it has a total area of 14 square km². Beto Carrero World is divided on: Nation’s Avenue, Animal World with zoo, aviary and etc, German Village, Old West, Pirate’s Island, Radical Adventure with Big Tower - the highest attraction of the park, with 100 meters of free fall that reaches speeds of 120 km / h, Fantasyland and Automotive Complex. Talking about beaches in Balneario Camboriu you have 10 options to choose, and 3 of them are considered gay friendly. Priaia do Buraco – a small beach in the North part of the city; Praia Taquarinhas - usually more animated during high season and has a good structure. But if you want to feel yourself 100% free and, maybe, meet someone – go to Praia do Pinho. The beach is divided in 2 parts with line of stones, one part is popular among naturist and other is considered gay, so feel free to relax on the sand with your partner. If you want to have sand, sea, shopping and bars all together then go straight to Central beach along Atlantic avenue. BC is a paradise for each gourmet: sea food, fast food, bars with draft beer, Italian restaurants and much more. It’s not a secret, any city on the ocean coast usually has big variety of restaurants offering high quality of seafood. Fresh shrimps, oysters, mullet and much more. If you don’t know what to eat just come to main Atlantic avenue or Brazil avenue and choose what you want; it’s full of bar and restaurants, like Didge with interesting design in Australian style, Guacamole with atmosphere of Mexico and tasty nachos. If you desire a glass of really god draft beer go straight to Chaplin Bar. Among sea food restaurants, we can underline Batuque Na Cozinha, a restaurant with a sea view, which main dish is grilled mullet covered with a sauce of capers, served with shrimps, rice, salad and beans. With a wide range of nightclubs and bars, BC is considered a party destination in Santa Catarina. It offeres you a choice of stylish GLS clubs with parties for all tastes. Levion club is famous with its variety of music styles, like, house, electro, axe, pagode, rock, reggae and etc., depending on a schedule. Besides dance floor, there you can find a bar with cocktails, beer, soft drinks and dark room. If you are looking for a place that combines both: place to talk and dance floor, go to London Night Club. It includes a bar with sofas and tables to have a drink and talk and a dance floor to dance till sunrise. One more awesome place to go out is D. Led club with its luxury design, 3 VIP areas and high quality sound system. If the day is sunny, there is an opportunity to combine both party and beach atmosphere in Vitali Beach Lounge – new gay beach club in Balneario Camboriu that is opened from Wednesday to Sunday from 9h to 21h and is located in Estaleirinho Beach. If you are tired of parties and want to ralax, BC can offer you two gay saunas: Sauna Clube and Sauna Batel with massage, swimming pool, dark room and saunas.

We have seafood. Specifically, shellfish. Last year was steamers (Ipswitch clams) and lobsters flown in from Maine. No, we're not loaded - we save up all year for this one night. We had corn, chouricco (pronounced shehdeese), potatoes, and salad as well. I am sure there was a desert but that was a year ago and I can't remember what it was. We did our feast in January. This year, we had to reschedule a couple of times, but finally found a date that would work for us all - tonight. The order was placed last month with The Fisherman's Catch Seafood Market in Damarascotta (type that in a hurry!) Maine. They ship the critters live in a big old box with ice packs to keep them comfy. Clams weren't available, so we just did lobsters. Oh, no, not just lobsters. Cancel the whole thing. Hah! Here's the box: It's big, huh? Here's what was inside: Mmm, tastey, a styrofoam container! Inside that? Let's have a look:What? Newspaper?? We were robbed!! Wait...it was twitching. Hmm. Dig deeper. Why lookie here, it's burried treasure! Arrrr, mateys, bonanza! We had to make sure they all survived the trip - it's vital that you not cook a dead lobster. They must be live before steaming or you'll get sick. Montelobstahs revenge in the worst way. Truly. No, not kidding. Really. Ickiness will commence. We check vitality by placing them on the (clean for once, thank the gods) floor and letting them stretch out a bit. Hey, it was a long flight! They were thoroughly inspected by myself and Mum: Huckabee: I'll take you with my claws shut!! And Maya, one of my cats: Just after I snapped that picture, the rightmost lobstah flexed his tail, making a scraping/clicking noise, and Maya shot two feet into the air and headed for higher ground. The other two cats didn't even bother making an appearance, smart beasts. The we let Bird have a look: Boy meets dinner. Shake hands, dinner. Bird told the lobsters he loved them. Yes, he did. He wasn't really thrilled to learn that having lobster for dinner meant cooking them, although I was clear about that from the start. He said he didn't want them for dinner, he wanted them to be his friends. At that point, T distracted him and they went off to play and leave us wimmin folk in the kitchen to do the dirty work. No problem. We like our lobsters a little less lively when we dunk them in butter.Hillary to Ron Paul(yes, we name our lobsters - in an election year, they're named after the candidates running for office. Nice, huh?): Is it me, or is the sauna getting crowded? The blue pot must be economy class...there's much more claw room in the silver one! Isn't the corn lovely? We covered them and let 'em get cozy - wouldn't want them catching a chill! Don't look at the next picure if you're soft hearted. But oh, my goodness, was it tasty!! All that remained: Bird ate his share without a qualm. Maybe it helped that I told him that what we eat becomes a part of us forever. More likely it was that lobstahs are tasty, and he's smart enough to know he didn't want to miss out on this. We call the bowl the "boneyard", and it's nothing but empty shells, now. Replete with our lobstahs, corn, and cheddar-dill biscuits, we sat back and breather a happy sigh. And a few burps. Scuse us. Then it was time to clear the table and do some damage to the ridiculous cake that Mum brought. It was nice of her to do, because I was going to make key lime pie and maybe buy a French silk pie, because I love me some French silk pie and I draw the line at baking my own dang birthday cake. I'll do without. But I didn't have to. Look at this insanely, ridiculously cute cake:Kiki is my nickname. Shut up. I can't believe I had to cut this up. I managed. It was tasty, too. You can always tell how good it is by how much gets on the kid's face. The more he wears, the better it is. Oh, yeah, I had strawberries, too - they were on sale and they were pretty and dang were they yummy with that cake. The fact that our annual get together coincided with my birthday was just serendipity, but I'll take it. Wouldn't you? We played a rousing round of our newest board game "You Might Be a Redneck If..." after. The cats tried to convince us they needed leftover lobstah, or at least lobstah buttah, to live. We weren't moved. They survived. There you have it...our entire night of crazed birthday debauchery. If every birthday was this nice, I wouldn't mind them so much. G'night, y'all - I need to go sleep it off, now.

Existing home ready for renovation - IT'S ALL ABOUT THE VIEW! 150 Glenbrook Avenue is a fully functional existing, structurally sound, open floor plan contemporary 4BR/5BA single family home of approximately 5000+ sq ft at the peak of Clarendon Heights with garage and walk out rear garden. It is now offered for sale fully entitled and permit ready with complete architectural and engineering plans to renovate the interior to approximately 8000 sq ft and redesign the exterior, all with a minimum of structural work. This is a rare opportunity to have your own custom view home with a minimum of effort. The design can accommodate modifications to the interior floor plans and finishes, but has all specifications in place in a current design by popular & successful modern architect John Maniscalco. He can assist with modifications and/or the renovation construction management. Both the current house and the envisioned home have breathtaking Golden Gate, North Bay, downtown San Francisco and East Bay views, from the Marin headlands to Mt Diablo. Plans available. Shown by appointment. • Dramatic double height entry with floating stair system • 32' open living and dining space with floor to ceiling glass, panoramic unobstructed views, fireplace, and balconies. • Exterior entertaining view space accessible from all principal rooms • Huge kitchen with 18' island, BBQ deck, walk-in pantry and unobstructed Golden Gate views • 2 car side-by-side garage and abundant street parking • Huge Master Suite with panoramic views • 3 en-suite guest bedrooms on same level • Guest or staff studio with separate entrance • Entertainment level with media and billiards room, large deck with spa overlooking downtown, steam room, sauna, dramatic glass wine storage room • Lowest level features large gym, flex studio space, and sports garage • Large well-thought-out storage space, two laundry rooms • 3000 sf of Garden space • Roof deck option • Adjacent San Francisco open spaces In the central part of San Francisco, north of Twin Peaks and east of Mount Sutro, lies Clarendon Heights. Boasting incredible views of both the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, Clarendon Heights is also home to a wide spectrum of architecture. Tudors and villas blend comfortably with sleek modern homes in a neighborhood that's very well kept. Some of San Francisco's famous hills also reside here; no need for a health club membership. Just take a brisk walk around the neighborhood, use some of the convenient hillside stairs, and enjoy the views. Primarily a residential community, its hills presented a challenge to builders, but the opportunities for views inspired them to persevere. Many of the original dwellings still remain, giving the area an eclectic feel.

In a crowded field of lightweight one-person single wall tents, the Big Sky Revolution 1P's distinction is that it is the lightest freestanding breathable fabric tent available. Notice the adjectives. There are lighter and roomier solo tents available, but they are not made of breathable fabric. - The Mandatory Gear Puppy Pile tent at 25.1 ounces is the lightest freestanding solo tent (actually adventure racers like to cram the whole four member team into one tent!), has loads of floor area (36.7 square feet), but it is made of non-breathable silnylon and is a sauna with its minimal ventilation. - The Tarptent Virga 2 weighs a couple ounces less, has 77% more floor area, is well ventilated, but is not free standing - The Lightitude Award winning Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo provides 57% more floor area and weighs a scant 23 ounces, but it is also made of silnylon and is not freestanding - The new Rainbow by Tarptent is neck and neck for the title - a prototype silnylon version weighs 32 ounces, but production versions are promised to weigh 24 ounces, and an Epic version of this free-standing tent is likely. So, what are the notable features of the Big Sky Revolution 1P that might persuade you to choose it over the others? Read on. - Lightest freestanding breathable fabric solo tent - Fibraplex carbon fiber poles are very strong for their weight - Fast setup with clips attached to external poles - Epic fabric and vestibule vent provide good breathability in warm weather - Vestibule offers space for a small pack and boots plus good access to entry door - Vestibule is easily accessed from outside or inside the tent - Large zippered mesh inside door - Large mesh gear storage pockets - Adequate length and headroom for taller people - Good wind stability if you use four angled guylines What’s Not So Good - Zipper on vestibule easily snags on the storm flap, especially when zipping from inside - High condensation at cool and cold temperatures - Dark blue color makes it dark inside (but color will change to granite gray) |Big Sky International| |2005 Revolution 1P| |Three-season, single wall, freestanding, breathable fabric, one-person tent with floor and entry vestibule| |Tent shell is Epic by Nextec, fabric weight is proprietary; entry wall is mesh, tent floor is 30d 1.3 oz/yd2 (44 g/m2) silnylon| |Two Fibraplex carbon fiber 143.5 in (3.64 m) long, 7.8 oz (221 g) per pair. Easton aluminum poles weighing 12.8 oz (363 g) are available as a less expensive option| |Epic breathable fabric, carbon fiber poles, titanium stakes, vestibule, side entry through zippered vestibule door, large mesh entry door, large vent on vestibule, large mesh stow pocket at head end, large mesh “clothes hamper” at foot end, window, compression stuff sack| Weight Full Package |2 lb 4.3 oz (1.03 kg) measured weight; manufacturer’s specification 2 lb (0.91 kg| Weight Manufacturer Minimum |2 lb 2.9 oz (0.99 kg) measured weight| Weight Backpacking Light Minimum |2 lb 2.8 oz (0.99 kg) measured weight| |17.5 ft2 (1.63 m2), vestibule area 9.0 ft2 (0.84 m2)| Area to Backpacking Light Minimum Weight Ratio |Length 84 in (213 cm), width at head end 36 in (91 cm), width at foot end 24 in (61 cm), peak height 39 in (99 cm)| |$300 with Fibraplex carbon fiber poles, $225 with Easton aluminum poles| Single Wall Tents and Condensation Condensation or frost on the inside of a single wall tent is a fact of life and completely agrees with the laws of physics. For an in-depth explanation of condensation processes, read Mariah Walton's article on Night Time Condensation on Tarp and Tent Fabrics. Condensation occurs when the temperature of the tent fabric drops below the dew point of the surrounding air. For a breathable fabric tent, the process is as follows: - As the air cools at night, the amount of water vapor it can hold decreases - Because of nighttime infrared radiation, the tent walls typically cool below the air temperature at night, creating a cold surface - Campers inside the tent generate lots of water vapor from exhalations - At warmer temperatures (above about 50 F, as long as the outside air is above the dew point), the inside air will hold significantly more water vapor and moisture can be adequately exhausted via tent ventilation and passage through the tent fabric - But at cool/cold air temperatures (a situation where the outside air is near or below the dew point), people’s activity inside the tent my provide enough energy to drive moisture through the tent fabric, but after the activity stops and the temperature drops further there is not enough energy (temperature/vapor pressure gradient) to drive moisture vapor through the fabric - As warm/moist air reaches the cold tent wall, the dew point is exceeded in the air near the wall, and condensation results - When the temperature is below freezing, the result is frost on the inside of the tent The principle is similar to condensation or frost forming on the inside of your car window, or condensation on a glass of ice water. Breathable fabric helps, but tent ventilation is the primary mechanism to exhaust moisture from a single wall tent, especially at low temperatures. A tent made of non-breathable fabric (silnylon) is totally dependent on ventilation to exhaust moisture, so serious condensation can occur when ventilation is inadequate and temperatures drop below the dew point. As explained above, at low temperatures, a breathable fabric tent performs about the same as a non-breathable fabric tent, i.e., they both have abundant condensation (depending on the amount of ventilation). In the case of a double wall tent, the inner tent fabric is usually very porous, so moisture laden air is more likely to pass through rather than condense. If ventilation within the fly is good, the moisture will be whisked away, but if ventilation is restricted, condensation or frost is likely to occur on the inner surface of the tent fly. The Big Sky Revolution 1P shelter is designed to be light. The shell is lightweight Epic water-resistant/breathable fabric by Nextec. The bathtub floor is silnylon. The entry wall is mesh. Provided stakes are titanium, and the tent is available with either Easton aluminum poles or Fibraplex carbon fiber poles. The complete package with carbon fiber poles weighs 36.3 ounces (my measurement) and provides 17.5 square feet of floor area plus an entry vestibule with 9 square feet. Several views of the Big Sky Revolution 1P tent. The entry side (top left) has a zippered vestibule door and vent, the back (top right) is solid and nearly vertical, the foot end (bottom left) is narrower than the head end and has a window, and the top view (bottom right) shows the use of four angled guylines for a wind-secure pitch. Setup is quick and easy. The Revolution 1P has two external poles that slip into grommets at the four corners of the tent to create an asymmetrical “X” frame. The tent body attaches to the frame with clips and then is staked at the four corners plus two loops on the vestibule. Although the Revolution 1P's 17.5 square feet of floor area is a bit small compared to other solo tents, it has a very large zippered mesh entry door that ties off to one side. This functionally adds the vestibule’s 9 square feet to the tent’s usable space, making the tent seem a lot roomier. The doors in both the vestibule and mesh wall are tall and wide for easy entry and exit. Inside the tent all of the space is usable because of the tent’s steep walls, 84 inches of length, and 39 inches of headroom. I left the mesh door open most of the time, which increased interior roominess and allowed easy access to items in the vestibule. The Revolution 1P comes with Fibraplex carbon fiber poles and titanium stakes (top left); less expensive Easton aluminum poles are available. The tent attaches to the external poles with clips (top right). Corners are held taut with "Teton Tensioners" (Center photo). The tent packs small in a provided compressor stuff sack (bottom left). There is one large high vent on the vestibule (bottom right). One annoyance I encountered was the vestibule zipper's tendency to snag on the storm flap. It happened most often when I was unzipping from the inside, and caused consternation a couple of times when it snagged in the middle of the night when I was trying to get outside for bladder relief. The tent I reviewed was a dark blue color, which made it pretty dark inside. However the production tents by the time you read this review will be a light gray and much brighter inside. The newer fabric will be slightly heavier (adding about 1 ounce to tent weight), but it is about 25% stronger. The tent has an eye-shaped window at the foot end, which provides a fair amount of light. Interior accompaniments include a 20-inch by 6-inch mesh stow pocket at the head end and a large triangular "clothes hamper" in a corner at the foot end. The ceiling has four loops for a clothes line or suspending a tent light. The vestibule is roomy enough to hold a medium sized pack and boots without interfering with entry (left). View to the foot of the tent (right top), showing the window and large clothes hamper pocket. View to the head of the tent (bottom right), showing the bathtub floor and ample mesh gear pocket. The mesh entry door is open in all of the photos. For a wind-stable pitch (which I consider a necessity to protect your investment), the tent should be tautly anchored with six perimeter stakes plus four guylines at 45 degree angles to the corners. Eight 6-inch titanium stakes and two guylines are provided with the tent, but 10 stakes and four guylines are required for a secure pitch. With proper staking, I found the Revolution 1P with carbon fiber poles to be surprisingly stable in a 30 mph wind, and had no problems with the clip attachments. If you anticipate frequent exposure to strong winds, I advise getting the stiffer Easton aluminum poles for more wind stability. I added the section on single wall tent condensation to this review for a reason. During my testing, mostly in cool and cold weather, I found that the Revolution 1P accumulates a lot of condensation or frost inside. The condensation was enough to form larger droplets and run down the sides of the tent (see photos). Unless there was a good nighttime breeze, I found the condensation hard to avoid at cool and cold temperatures (as explained in the section on condensation). A big contributor to the condensation problem is the Revolution's ineffective high-low ventilation. There is a large vent at the top of the vestibule, but the only provision for ground-level air entry is a small gap at the bottom of the vestibule. The entire ventilation system is on the vestibule, and the bottom of the vestibule stakes nearly to the ground, which limits air entry. There is no provision for ventilation in the main tent, other than fabric breathability. The Revolution 1P was very prone to inside condensation and frost on cool or cold nights (left photos). One annoyance was the zipper on the vestibule entry door (right photo) had a tendency to snag on the storm flap. The condensation issue is not unique to the Revolution 1P; when I slept in a borrowed Black Diamond Lighthouse tent (also made of Epic fabric) on a 12 °F night I had abundant frost on the inside tent walls - the same situation as the Revolution 1P. So, my point is that condensation and frost on inside tent walls is a fact of life in single wall tents (including breathable fabric tents at cool/cold temperatures), and the only factors that seem to make much difference are abundant tent ventilation and a good breeze. In warmer weather, the Epic-shelled Revolution 1P worked with aplomb. On several nights with temperatures in the 50’s and 60’s I had no inside condensation at all. For three-season use in predominantly warm weather conditions, the Revolution 1P will provide very user-friendly shelter with a minimum of condensation issues. When you do get condensation in extended rainy weather, a good solution is to wipe down the inside tent walls with a towel. I weathered both rain and snow storms in the 1P and found it to be plenty storm worthy. Although the Epic fabric is only water-repellent, it sheds rain very well because of the 1P’s steep walls and tautness. I found that it would eventually wet through in prolonged rain, causing weeping on the inside, which exacerbated the condensation problem. Snow typically stuck to the outside of the tent and required slapping the tent walls to get it to slide off. Although the Revolution 1P will handle a light snow, I don’t recommend it for snow camping. The Big Sky Evolution 1P or 1P EX with aluminum poles would be a better choice. Their double wall construction with silnylon fly will shed snow much better than the Epic fabric single wall Revolution tent. I don’t recommend the Revolution 1P for any more than a light snow. The snow does not readily slide off and it flattens the vestibule, so repeated slapping of the tent walls is required during the night to prevent a collapse. Further, the snow seals the bottom of the vestibule, so the tent has no effective high-low ventilation when it is covered with snow. Overall, I found the Revolution 1P to be very well designed, very user friendly, and very storm worthy and wind stable. It’s also a great value compared to the competition. The Big Sky Revolution 1P is the lightest freestanding breathable fabric one-person tent on the market, and that includes a vestibule. Recommendations for Improvement The Revolution 1P is well designed, is very user friendly, and provides most of the features a lightweight backpacker would want. Some suggestions: - The single vent on the vestibule is not enough to lessen condensation in cool/cold/wet conditions. Some serious high/low vents are needed to increase tent ventilation and exhaust moisture - Redesign the zipper and storm flap on the vestibule door so it can be easily zipped and unzipped from the inside

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|Minimum Stay||2 - 5 nights| When everyone switched to CDs, you said “No, thanks!” ‘cause that’s just how you roll...old school. Tahoe Chalet is dripping in classic ski retreat charm: plush leather couches, a stone fireplace, an outdoor hot tub, game room, and even a private sauna. And like any great ski retreat, it’s only a few blocks from the lifts at Heavenly. Be careful though, your old school cred may be jeopardized by the flatscreen TV and surround sound. Vacation homes allow families to stay...together. At InvitedHome, we think that's pretty important, so we do everything in our power to make your vacation totally epic. Not only do we choose the best homes in the best destinations, but we make the experience effortless so you can really enjoy yourself. Let us connect you with the best options in town for babysitting, equipment rental, transportation, catering, day trips, shopping, dining, and even stocking your fridge with groceries! We’ll do everything in our power to make sure you have the Best. Vacation. Ever. Convenient location with close proximately to the California side of Heavenly Ski resort. Google maps is a little deceiving in its illustration of the street. There is a significant incline from nearby to Ski Run Road up to the property, so in winter weather consider a 4 wheel drive. Inside the property is very well maintained. Furniture is a little older, however in good condition and everyone was pleased. Well stocked kitchen with plenty of accessories. We did not use the hot tub or the sauna as there was other nearby activities and skiing took up our time. I would recommend this rental to others. Good value! I rented this house for a ski weekend with some friends. The house is beautiful, clean, and the kitchen has all the tools you need to make dinner. I also loved the hot tub out back and the large family room to watch movies and play wii. It was really convenient for a ski weekend at Heavenly. The owner was very responsive to my email inquiries before I rented the property. Everything about the experience was really great and I definitely recommend this property. I planned to take a group of 12 with me to go snowboarding at Heavenly Ski resort. Stressed out about where we were going to stay, I came across this cabin and without thinking furthermore I booked it on the spot. I was overwhelmed that this place was good for the price and how it suited us the most. In my opinion this cabin is suited for ages 18-50+. It set the mood with a nice backyard and the house itself, WAS BEAUTIFUL. My group and I were really amazed on how it gave us a "home" feeling. From the rooms, kitchen, living room, and to the forest-ish backyard this was a great experience. Thank you very much This rental was excellent. Everything was very clean and nice. Perfect for a romantic getaway for 2 or for a snow trip for 10. The hot tub was so relaxing and it is in the middle of everything. They even have a ping pong table downstairs. The dvd collection and tv set up was perfect for the house. I couldn't have asked for more and will be sure to rent this same place when we come back. Me and my NEW fiance rented out this wonderful cabin for valentines day weekend. The ride up was beautiful with all the white snow on the mountains. The cabin was beautiful as well. Very clean and well kept...the hot tub was awesome and very romantic. Although it was just me and my fiance and my cousin and her boyfriend...there was plenty of room for about 6 others. The cabin had all the amentities that you need. Its located in the middle of everything, 5 minutes from the casino's, shopping, and skiing. Over all our stay was great and hope to return back soon. We recently stayed for a long weekend in August (2009) and it was a wonderful experience. The description of the property was right on, the sleeping accomodations were perfect, and all the amenities necessary were provided. The house is close enough to enjoy all the action of the the Heavenly shops and gondola area as well as the casinos, but just far enough away to escape all the hustle and bustle and if that's what you're looking for. We had a wonderful experience and would definitely stay here again if our future travels bring us back to Tahoe. We couldn't have asked for more. Thanks for everything!! *Plus compulsory or optional charges based on actual occupancy or consumption. The payment has to be made in the currency offered by the property manager (EUR), before use of conversion tool. Payments in other currencies have to be negotiated beforehand with the property manager. The currency conversion tool is provided for your convenience only and is non-binding.

During the past financial year 2007/2008 Doppelmayr completed 144 ropeway projects around the globe and the number of employees worldwide increased by five percent to 2,605. In addition to Austria as the strongest single market, the European Alpine countries, North America and the emerging markets of Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe were key to this very good result. Projects were completed from Portland in the west of the USA to Kamchatka in the far east of Russia. Doppelmayr also completed further ‘world firsts' to add to its long list. These include the first gondola lifts with seat heating in Ischgl and Zell am See, and the first gondola lift with sauna cabin in Finland. A company statement concluded, "Despite the persistently high costs of raw materials, the continuing difficulties with the availability of bought-out parts and the fact that price and competitive pressure remains intense, Doppelmayr again expects to see satisfactory business development in the current financial year, even though the impact of the worldwide financial crisis on the real economy and the willingness to invest is difficult to predict."

Heading into the U.S.A.'s Round of 16 World Cup match against Belgium at 4 p.m. Eastern, only one thing is certain: Americans need to find more creative ways to be jingoistic. Waffle House, the restaurant chain visible from interstate highways across the southern U.S., tweeted Monday that it "doesn't believe in Belgian waffles" and called for a boycott, reminiscent of the cries to re-brand French toast as Freedom toast during the second Iraq War. Surely we can whip up a rivalry using something more enraging than breakfast food. Remember, Dr. Evil was Belgian. As for the action on the pitch, injuries to top players on both teams means neither side can claim a major advantage heading into the match. And while the Belgian side has more proven talent, this Americas-centric World Cup has already shown that what’s proven doesn’t count for much. The Red Devils, as Belgium's squad is known, don't have the soccer pedigree of many of their European neighbors. They last made the World Cup quarterfinals in 1986 (eventually finishing fourth) and failed to qualify for the tournament in both 2006 and 2010. But coach Marc Wilmots has built a world-class team around stud goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, defensive stalwart Vincent Kompany, and a host of young attacking midfielders and forwards. Belgium breezed through World Cup qualifying in 2013 and played so impressively in the run-up to the tournament that the team entered as the fifth betting favorites. Though Belgium was one of only three teams to win all three games in the opening round, it helped that they were the seeded team in a powder-puff group: Securing victories against Russia, Algeria, and South Korea is not as impressive as the U.S.'s win-draw-close loss performance in the Group of Death. What is impressive is how the Red Devils wore down each opponent over time, using their depth at midfield and forward to bring on fresh substitutes who overwhelmed their tired foes. In their 2-1 win over Algeria (the other team to advance from Group H) Belgium got late goals from Marouane Fellaini and Dries Mertens, both of whom came on as second-half subs. The Belgians' deep roster should worry the U.S., who literally traveled further than any other team during the group stage and had to play in the sauna-like atmosphere of Manaus. The U.S. conceded a second-half goal in all three matches, including the heartbreaking stoppage-time equalizer by Portugal in the final 30 seconds. The pressure will fall on the U.S. defense, especially newly inserted starter Omar Gonzalez and ageless left back DaMarcus Beasley, to maintain their discipline throughout the game and keep the pressure off goalie Tim Howard. The U.S. back line especially needs to mark Belgium's attacking midfielder Eden Hazard, a 5'7", 125-pound, 23-year-old dynamo who can run for days and excels at setting up his teammates. The Americans' offensive game plan will depend on the left hamstring of striker Jozy Altidore, who came up lame in the first half against Ghana and hasn't played since. If Altidore is healthy, U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann will likely return to the aggressive 4-3-2-1 formation he deployed against Ghana, with Jozy at the front looking to create scoring chances. If not, the U.S. will probably stick with a 4-2-3-1 setup, where five midfielders support real-life action hero Clint Dempsey playing out of position as striker. Or it could be a bit of both—Klinsmann said Monday that Altidore is available to play, but likely not for the entire game. No matter what formation Klinsmann chooses, the squad needs midfielder Michael Bradley to play like the man who guided the U.S. on a 12-match winning streak last year. Bradley, playing more forward on the field than he's accustomed to with Altidore injured, has looked overmatched and infamously committed the turnover that led to Portugal's tying goal. It's not that Bradley has been incompetent out there, but he has seemed to be a step too late or too early, and many of his passes have been a shade too far or too short. That's all it takes to render a playmaking midfielder ineffective. The accumulation of minor mistakes had gotten into Bradley's head by the end of the group stage, and he played a tentative style against Germany that was completely useless. The U.S. can still beat Belgium if Bradley has another bad day, but it will be a much tougher task. Belgium has been as stingy as any team in the World Cup, conceding just one goal (on a penalty kick) in the group stage. But its defense is hampered by injuries. Kompany is nursing a groin injury and will play somewhat hobbled if he plays at all. Fellow defender Thomas Vermaelen strained his hamstring against Russia, and backup defender Anthony Vanden Borre is out for the rest of tournament with a fractured leg. The best case scenario for the U.S. is if Kompany or Vermaelen—or both—is unable to play, which would leave the Belgium defense extremely vulnerable to runs by Dempsey or Altidore and creative attacking from Bradley, Jermaine Jones, or Graham Zusi. Analysis aside, the key battle in Tuesday's match will occur in the heads of each of the 22 men on the field. Both the U.S. and Belgium have looked ragged for large stretches of the World Cup, and neither team has played at its best for a full 90 minutes. If the Americans can reprise their effort and effectiveness from the second half against Portugal, they can keep the Belgians unbalanced and thereby control the run of play. Similarly, if the Red Devils can conjure their second-half performance against Algeria, they may be able to control possession, outmaneuver the U.S. defense, and force Howard to play the game of his life just to keep it close. U.S. fans looking for a little extra hope before the match should take heart from the performance of Mexico and Costa Rica in their Round of 16 matches on Sunday. The Costa Ricans shrugged off the pressure against Greece, dominated the first 65 minutes of play, and found a way to win despite going a man down in the 66th minute and conceding a tying goal to the Greeks in second-half stoppage time. And though the Mexicans fell short against the Dutch (or got Arjen Robbed, depending on which country's newspapers you read), they were the better team until they went into a defensive shell to protect a 1-0 lead and handed the momentum back to the Netherlands. A win would give CONCACAF (the North and Central American soccer federation) two teams in the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time ever. It would also equal the Americans' best showing at a World Cup since the first tournament way back in 1930. But those are hypothetical discussions during a hypothetical victory party Tuesday night. If the U.S. wants to make soccer history, it has to put the pressure aside for one afternoon, capitalize on the weaknesses and injuries of the Belgians, get contributions from Bradley, Dempsey, and potentially Altidore, and play its best all-around game of the World Cup. Do that, and some higher-grade jingoism might be in order. This article available online at:

We expect Wahanda citizens to be polite and well mannered so if anything you see on this site causes you offence (profanities, unauthorised advertising, slanderous comments), please let us know and we'll look into right away. Before you submit your report, have a read of our Community Guidelines to make sure the content of this review breaches them in any way. If this is your business, see also our. I had read the excellent reviews and I have to say, the experience still surpassed my expectations. I never realized my nose hairs could be eliminated so quickly. My back had some errant hairs, but Greg sugared them off before my spray tan. The end result exceeded my expectation. I could tell by the way Greg carries himself, he's a well seasoned professional. His comfort with every element of the service made me more comfortable. Excellent services, professionalism and environment. I will recommend all of my local friends, and even non-locals, because the results are worth it. Next time, I need to remember to have enough time to utilize the sauna, steam and jacuzzi. Great facility, Thank you.

- "Booked a suite . Very happy with the size of the from although the furniture are a bit old. Breakfast is always the same throughout my 4 days..." - "Good hotel" - "Good hotel" - "well situated. willing and helpful staff. breakfast not good at all, in fact best avoided" - "It's a good hotel" WEE, PHILLIP SEOW MEI 3.9 / 5 Loading Hotel Rates... Please wait... Reasons to Book with Asiatravel Best Online Travel Agent 2013 & 2014 Voted by TTG Travel Awards Choice of over 200,000 hotels worldwide Best Price Guarantee Guaranteed Best Price on all our hotels Multi Departure Points and 500 Airlines to choose from All inclusive Flight + Hotel + Tour packages worldwide with instant confirmation Offices in 13 cities throughout Asia, China and Middle East Cassells Al Barsha Hotel has a great location midway between Downtown Dubai and Dubai Marina with the Metro Station Sharaf DG just 50 metres away! In its prime location it is just a 10 minute walk to Mall of the Emirates and Dubai Ski. Short taxi rides will take you to the beach and Palm for more fun during the day. The lobby has a range of guest travel desks for booking excursions and transport to make your stay in Dubai truly memorable. Featuring among the largest bedrooms in Dubai this four star hotel has 90 Suites and 222 Bedrooms with free car parking below. The suites are arranged with 1, 2 and 3 bedroom options many with balconies with all round views toward the Burj Khalifa and Palm from the higher floors. As well as the expected amenities all rooms feature guest safes, bathrobes and slippers and flat screen televisions. In terms of catering international breakfast is served in two locations with buffets offering a wide range of choices – both healthy and otherwise! Lunch and dinner is served in the Emirati Restaurant and features traditional Arabic cuisine alongside popular international dishes. Themed nights are a regular feature of the dining in the evening with a seasonal programme of feature menu’s on offer. Recently an all-day café operation in the lobby based on camel products has opened to rave reviews. In addition the hotel has an extensive 24 hour room service menu and poolside drinks and snacks. The recently launched Five Continents Leisure Centre features a state of the art gym along with instructors. The sauna and steam rooms are separate for men and women. The highlight of the hotels recreation is the magnificent rooftop pool, Jacuzzi and children’s fun pool – complete with sun loungers it is definitely the place to relax. Hotel Policy: Cassells Al Barsha Hotel are preferred for Families, to respect the same we accommodate couples who are married. Single bachelors are also welcome but due to security reasons they cannot have any visitors in their room/s except parents, brothers & sisters if sufficient photo ID documents are provided and all other visitors are also welcome, but they can visit the guests only in the lobby. Very Important Note: Effective 12th March 2013, Internet usage in all guests rooms and lobby area will be charged as follows; * AED 30.00 = One (1) Day 24 hrs in all guest rooms. * AED 10.00 = One (1) Hour only in all guest rooms. * Wi – FI Available in lobby area at Free of Charge. • Check In : 14:00 • Check Out : 12:00 • GMT Time : +04:00 - Abu Dhabi, Muscat This hotel is located in Dubai (Al-Barsha - Tecom), close to Ski Dubai, Mall of the Emirates, and Wild Wadi Water Park. Also nearby are Dubai College and Souk Madinat Jumeirah. • Ski Dubai (0.8 Km / 10 min walk) • Mall of Emirates (1.1 Km / 14 min walk) • Wild Wadi Waterpark (2.9 Km) • Aquaventure Water Park (5.3 Km) - Audio Visual Equipment - Banquet room - Beauty salon - Business center - Cafe/coffee shop - Children swimming pool - Dry cleaning service - Fitness center - Front desk - Gift/sundry shop - Hair salon - Handicapped access - In-room Internet access - Indoor swimming pool - Internet access - Internet access (Wi-Fi) in public - Massage treatment - Meeting room - Outdoor swimming pool - Playground/play area - Room service - Safe deposit box - Self parking - Steam room - Tour desk - Tourist spots shuttle - Valet laundry - Valet parking Value for Money4.0 Hear it directly from our travelers 3.9 / 5 See more customer reviews for this hotel

Our guided Sandos San Blas Environmental Reserve tours take you through the amazing natural and cultural landscapes of this unique and stunning destination. Two world-class golf courses offering a combined 45 holes, each course with its own challenges and beautiful scenery. An oasis within the resort, our Sandos San Blas Spa cares for your body and overall wellness in a calm, private setting where you can leave it all behind. The luxurious Tenerife Spa Sandos offers personalized services in massages, body treatments and overall wellness in an atmosphere designed to help you feel calm and peaceful during your Sandos San Blas Tenerife HoTel vacation getaway. Magek spa, spirit, mind & body wellness centre is an oasis within the Sandos San Blas Nature Resort & Golf, dedicated to bodycare and inner well-being. This healing refuge, set in a private and intimate atmosphere, offers a water circuit, sensual showers and sauna. Highly recommended are their treatments based on discovering the potential of the five senses, for achieving equilibrium, physical health, a relaxed mind and to enhance beauty with natural and ecological products, such as Nutri Cellular Oxygenation, combining the regenerative power of ozone, the nutrition of essential oils and the hydration properties of bamboo. Also available is personal training and consultancy. In Magek spa you are the protagonist of your dreams, and for that reason you’ll feel like you’re at home. Open every day from 11am to 7 pm. We also offer Haidresser & Cosmetic services. It’s our pleasure to assist you choosing the best service suited to your needs. Open from 11 am to 7pm, closed on Sunday. Gym, enjoy our fully equipped gym with heart and strength machines which allow you to stay fit while you are on holiday. Or if you prefer to burn calories you can join our energetic pilates classes in the activity room, also we offer two weekly classes of yoga for beginners. The gym is open 24 hours and can be found on the 3rd floor of the main building. You can access this with your room card. Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

By Jesse Marx By Chris Parker By Jake Rossen By Jesse Marx By Michelle LeBow By Alleen Brown By Maggie LaMaack By CP Staff Number 10: Tore up from the floor up When the Dome hosted the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 1989, officials were eager to make a good impression in the hopes of landing the Final Four within the next few years. Instead, it was a near disaster. On the morning before the game was to begin, NCAA reps were having a look-see on the condition of the temporary court installed for the tourney. What they saw wasn't good. "The varnish on the court was coming up all over the place, peeling like an onion," says Lester. "We mopped it with just about any substance we could find. I don't think it helped much." The games went on—with nary a mention of the floor problem—but NCAA officials were reportedly disappointed with the way the Dome and the U of M handled the event. In the end, though, the ill will dissipated, and the Final Four indeed came to the Metrodome three years later. Number 9: The Sweatrodome In a moment of true Scando-Minnesota frugality, the Dome opened without air conditioning. While attendance was already nose-diving during the pathetic 1982 Twins season, the notion that fans would have to sit in what amounted to a Teflon sauna didn't help ticket sales. By July 1983, air conditioning came into use, leading to an endless supply of conspiracy theories that the staff flips a switch to benefit the home team: blowers on when the opposing team bats, blowers off when the Twins are at the plate. "There have been these theories and studies to show that we help the Twins," says Dennis Alfton, who has served as the Dome's director of operations since day one. "That was not the case. We wouldn't ever be able to get to that point of trying to change the outcome of a game." Number 8: Burning Man During its second year of operation, the Dome was already holding monster-truck rallies and tractor pulls, but nothing quite like the Motocross event that saw a man catch fire. "There was this kid from Argentina who was going to do a major jump over something, off a ramp," Lester says. "They were going to light him on fire and send him through the air." Unfortunately, crews had built a safety wall out of cardboard boxes and hay. "So he goes to the top of the ramp, gets lit, makes the jump, crashes right into the boxes, which catch on fire, everything's on fire," Lester says. "They put it out, and he was fine, but they were going to have him speak to the crowd afterward, and all he could really do was wave a little bit and say, 'I gotta go.'" Number 7: Gophers' less than golden moments With the exception of some Wisconsin and Iowa rivalry games, Gopher football at the Dome has nearly always been a losing proposition—both on the scoreboard and in the stands. But one moment during the disastrous second season stands out. The Number one-rated Nebraska Cornhuskers came to the Hump and squeaked by our Goofers by the razor-thin margin of 84-13. Nearly 20 years later, the 2003 squad started the season 6-0, giving fans a reason to believe that the chronically underperforming Gopher football program was finally on the rebound. Then Michigan came to town. Initially, the Gophers were on the march, building a 21-point lead going into the fourth quarter. But in the biggest gridiron meltdown in Dome history, the Gopher defense gave up 31 fourth-quarter points, eventually ceding victory to the Wolverines 38-35. The Gophers dropped two more crucial games and ended the season 10-3, leading no less a Gopher apologist than Sid Hartman to concede that the staggering loss prevented "the Gophers from creating the interest needed to fill the Metrodome and stop fan apathy." Number 6: Dylan and the Dead It had all the makings of a historic show: Two of the biggest names in 1960s rock, pairing up and coming to the Dome for the venue's inaugural concert in 1986. To top it off, Dylan was backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Problem was, nobody thought much about the acoustics of the stadium. As it turned out, unless you were on the field directly in front of the stage, all you could hear was screeching, gelatinous noise. "Oh God, after the complaints about the acoustics, we didn't think we would ever have a show here again," Lester recalls. The venue, of course, has gone on to host some of the biggest names in rock, including the Rolling Stones, the Who, Pink Floyd, U2, Van Halen, and Metallica—all with varying degrees of sonic success. Number 5: Vikings stink up the field, Dome stinks up the stands The debut of Coach Brad Childress came to an anticlimactic halt at the end of the 2006 season with a loss to the St. Louis Rams. Then the Dome registered its displeasure: The toilets in one men's room backed up. "Not only did our team complete the season with 8 out of 10 losses in an uninspiring pounding by the Rams," says Lester Bagley, the Vikings' vice president for public affairs and stadium development, "but there was a flood in the concourse where water was running into and down the steps of the press box, and into the suites on the east side of the Metrodome, including the owners' suite."

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A 55+ CommunityDishwasher, Disposal, Microwave, Stove Listing Courtesy of: RE/MAX Classic | MLS ID#: 215000190 BEAUTIFUL TOWN HOME - LOW MAINTENANCE,COMFORTABLE LIVING,IN HIGHLY DESIRABLE LINKS OF PHEASANT RUN!! STAINLESS STEEL APPLIANCES, GRANITE COUNTER-TOPS,MAPLE CABINETRY,BUTLERS PANTRY, & SPACIOUS DINING ROOM. TRAY CEILING IN 14 X 14 MASTER BEDROOM. FINISHED LOWER LEVEL WITH LIVING AREA AND LARGE SPARE ROOM W/WALK IN CLOSET, RELAXING REAR DECK, 2 STORY LIVING ROOM W/GAS FIREPLACE.LOCATED NEAR PHEASANT RUN GOLF COURSE, CANTON'S SUMMIT REC. CENTER, HERITAGE PARK, WALKING TRAILS, COMMUNITY CLUBHOUSE AND POOL!Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: RE/MAX On The Trail | MLS ID#: 215033108 3 BEDROOM, 3 1/2 BATH LUXURY CONDO IN TOTAL MOVE-IN CONDITION IN COVETED LINKS-WEST OF PHEASANT RUN. SPACIOUS KITCHEN & NOOK HAS BREAKFAST BAR, DESK AND INCLUDED UPGRADED NEWER APPLIANCES. HUGE LIVING ROOM FEATURES GAS FIREPLACE & DOORWALL TO GORGEOUS CEDAR DECK. VAULTED MASTER SUITE HAS TWO CALIFORNIA CLOSETS, A 5-PIECE BATH AND A JACUZZI JETTED TUB. NICELY FINISHED DAYLIGHT BASEMENT HAS LARGE REC ROOM, 3RD BEDROOM, FULL BATH, POSSIBLE 4TH BEDROOM/OFFICE AND STORAGE ROOM. CONVENIENT MAIN-FLOOR LAUNDRY HAS CABINETS, TUB & INCLUDED WASHER & DRYER. ADDITIONAL UPGRADES INCLUDE CENTRAL AIR-CONDITIONING, WHOLE HOUSE STEREO SOUND SYSTEM WITH RECEIVER AND A CENTRAL VAC SYSTEM. UNIT HAS ATTACHED 2-CAR GARAGE WITH OPENERS. THIS IS JUST THE LUXURY CONDO YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR - WITH IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY!Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Berkshire Hathaway HWWB | MLS ID#: 215035116 WELCOME HOME! TO THIS COMPLETELY REMODELED 3 BEDROOM 2.5 BATH COLONIAL STYLE CONDO IN THE PRESTIGIOUS LINKS OF PHEASANT RUN SUB OF CANTON. BEAUTIFUL SOUTHERN EXPOSURE. FABULOUS NEW MAPLE HARD HARDWOOD FLOORING ON THE MAIN LEVEL. BRAND NEW KITCHEN WITH CERAMIC FLOOR, GRANITE COUNTERTOPS, AND STAINLESS STEEL FRIDGE. BRAND NEW CARPET FOR STAIRS AND THREE UPSTAIRS BEDROOMS. MASTER SUITE WITH WALK IN CLOSET AND UPDATED CERAMIC FLOOR AND SOAKING TUB. TWO STORY FOYER AND FAMILY ROOM WITH NATURAL FIREPLACE AND SLIDING DOOR TO WOOD DECK. FINISHED BASEMENT WITH BERBER CARPET, ACTIVITY ROOM, EXTRA BEDROOM, AND TONS OF STORAGE. TWO CAR ATTACHED GARAGE. SWIMMING POOL IN SUB. AWARD WINNING PLYMOUTH CANTON SCHOOLS AND DODSON ELEMENTARY. ALL APPLIANCES STAY. MAKE AN APPT TODAY!Dishwasher, Disposal, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Keller Williams Rlty-Plym Market Center | MLS ID#: 215034061 Welcome to this fabulous and meticulously maintained free standing condo in an exclusive subdivision. Open floor concept with master bedroom on the first floor. Beautiful island style kitchen with updated appliances included. Nice sized loft overlooks vaulted Great room. Updated ceramic flooring & fresh carpet throughout. Schedule your showing today!Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Keller Williams Rlty-Plym Market Center | MLS ID#: 215023969 Designer unit with first floor master. Soothing neutral colors throughout with granite kitchen and hardwood floors. Elegant crown pillars introduce entertaining space. Remote control room darkening 2-story blinds, gas fireplace with marble surround. Sleek shelving built in for electronic storage. Master bath with tiled tub surround and shower. Private patio backs to woods.Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Coldwell Banker Weir Manuel-Plymouth | MLS ID#: 215034646 Why wait....Beautiful Arlington IV first floor master suite in popular Woodbridge Estates! Three bedrooms with three full bathrooms and ceilings fans! Second bedroom is also on main floor and very large closet! The third bedroom also has its own private bathroom and a large library area too, overlooking the great room! Kitchen has hardwood floors with stainless steel appliances, 2 lazy susans and granite counter tops. A finished basement compliments this condo greatly. Basement is plumbed for additional bath. There is a portable fire place and an egress window. Bar, stools and a pool table to stay. Neutral tones through out. Sky lights in great room. Premium lot in center of community and spacious deck with view of pond. The bathrooms all have ceramic floors and timed exhaust fans. Condo is well maintained. Association fee includes water. Club house and pool is an added bonus! End unit!Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: RE/MAX Classic | MLS ID#: 215001386 WOW!!! -ONE SHOWING WILL SELL THIS ATTRACTIVE UNIT - First floor offers 9' ceilings - Attractive Kitchen with Loads Of Cabinets, Granite Countertops, Kit sink has water purifer, laminated flooring. Open concept to Breakfast area & Great room - Great room with soaring 18' ceiling, recessed lighting, gas fireplace with thermostat (heats entire condo) - laminated floors. Spacious First Floor Master bedroom with double full wall closets. Master Bath with double vanity/double sink - Spacious walk-in shower plus tub. Attractive open staircase to a 17x11 loft. Two large bedrooms up with their own private full bath. One bedrooms has a vaulted ceiling - both have walk-in closets. Nicely finished 29x11 plus 8x6 'L'-shaped recreation room-carpeted.Separate laundry /furnace room with good additional storage.Note: Mud room off garage was originally 1st flr laundry - plumbing still there could be converted to 1st floor laundry. EXTERIOR Features - 2 car att garage/door opener -deck off great rm.Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Century 21 Curran & Christie | MLS ID#: 215030228 ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS, 3 BEDROOM, END UNIT CONDO! THIS BEAUTIFUL, MOVE IN READY CONDO FEATURES A 2-STORY GREAT ROOM WITH A LOVELY GAS FIREPLACE SURROUNDED BY GRANITE AS WELL AS A SPACIOUS FIRST FLOOR MASTER SUITE WITH A BAY WINDOW, A FULL MASTER BATHROOM AND A LARGE WALK-IN CLOSET! THE GOURMET KITCHEN OFFERS A LARGE SKYLIGHT, A DOORWALL LEADING TO A PRIVATE DECK/BACKYARD AND ALL THE APPLIANCES WILL STAY. YOU WILL ALSO FIND NEUTRAL DECOR THROUGH-OUT, AN UPSTAIRS LOFT AREA (18X11) WHICH FEATURES 2 SKYLIGHTS AND A FABULOUS FINISHED BASEMENT WITH A WET BAR AND A HALF BATH. ENJOY THE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUNDS SERVICES WHICH INCLUDE LANDSCAPING & SNOW REMOVAL! THIS CONDO ALSO FEATURES A GREAT CENTRAL LOCATION; CLOSE TO FREEWAYS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SHOPPING!Bar Fridge, Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Remerica Hometown III | MLS ID#: 215035054 You'll love this charming former builders model home. This 2 bedroom, 3 bath and garage offers dramatic 1st floor with 2-story great room, dining area and library. Gourmet kitchen with granite countertops and custom cabinets. Hardwood flooring through out the house. 1st floor laundry includes washer-dryer. Huge open loft overlooks great room and two bed rooms up. 1.5 car garage. Full basement w/egress window plumbed for extra bath. Tennis courts, reflection pool, open green space. Situated in a friendly community with an award-winning Canton school system, just minutes from major Hi-ways.Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Freezer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Springview Realty | MLS ID#: 215008648 Lovely And Peaceful Setting Condo Has So Much To Offer. Open First Floor Covers With Hardwood Floors. Granite Counters In Kitchen With Cherry Cabinets. Airy And Serene Living Room With View Of Water. 3 Good Size Bedrooms With Walk In Closets. Mater Bed Offers Gas Fire Place For Those Romantic Nights. Gorgeous Upgraded Mater Bath Has Granite Counters With Double Sinks. Full Basement Is Professionally Finished With Upgraded Full Bath. Lots Of Storage Areas. Newer Paintings. Club House With Fitness Center. Tennis Courts. Best Location. Walk To Shopping And Restaurants. Minutes To Detroit And Ann Arbor. Water, Snow Removal, Lawn Care Are Included In Association Fee..Refrigerator, Range/Oven, Dishwasher, Disposal, Washer, Dryer Listing Courtesy of: Keller Williams Ann Arbor -- Listing Broker Address: 2144 S. State Street | MLS ID#: 3212275 One of a kind home in Cherry Hill Village. This fantastic end unit over looks the common area and has two balcony's to sit out and relax on along with a large patio to enjoy those summer nights. Once inside you won't find a larger unit, with close to 2200 square feet of living space this home is great for any size family. It has three bedroom two of which could be master bedrooms each with there own bathroom. Very open floor plan with a family room with a gas fireplace. Nice size kitchen and nook overlooking the large deck. Separate stair case going to the two car garage and basement. The basement is currently unfinished but adds lots of storage along with great possibilities to finish. Don't wait this wonderful home is sure to sell fast.Disposal, Stove Listing Courtesy of: Keller Williams Rlty Northville Mkt Ctr | MLS ID#: 215017167 What An Amazing Condo To Call Home! This Condo Offers Large Square Footage With 4 Bedrooms 1 Bedroom Is On The Lower Level. Option Of Upper Level Master Suite Or Entry Level, 4 Full Bathrooms, Entry Level Master Bedroom Has Private Bath Which Is Handicapped Equipped. Upper Level Master Suite Has Large Bath And Walk In Closet. The Great Room Has Vaulted Ceilings With Gas Fireplace And New Carpet. Door Wall Off Of Dining And Leads To A Private Deck That Overlooks A Pond. Full Finished Basement With Full Bathroom And Bedroom Daylight Windows. A Must See!Refrigerator, Range/Oven, Dishwasher, Microwave Listing Courtesy of: Real Estate One -- Listing Broker Address: 1365 E. Michigan Ave. | MLS ID#: 3229684 IT'S EXTRA MILES OF STYLE IN THIS ORIGINAL OWNER WOODBRIDGE CONDO. TWO BEDROOMS, FEATURING FIRST FLOOR MASTER BEDROOM WITH LARGE MASTER BATH, UPPER BEDROOM WITH ADDITIONAL PRIVATE BATH PLUS UPPER LIBRARY-STUDY. THIS CONDO IS LOADED WITH UPGRADES INCLUDING CUSTOM KITCHEN WITH UPPER GLASS CABINETS AND DECORATOR HANGING STAINED GLASS LIGHT, GAS FIREPLACE, GREAT ROOM WITH SKYLIGHTS AND WALKOUT TO AN ENTERTAINMENT DECK ON MANICURED GROUNDS. HIGH EFFICIENCY 90+ FURNACE, LARGE BASEMENT WITH EGRESS WINDOW, 2 CAR ATTACHED GARAGE AND MORE. A MUST SEE TO APPRECIATE.Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: RE/MAX Crossroads III | MLS ID#: 214045884 Arlington II end unit, Lots of large windows for natural light to enhance the rooms. Large beautiful master bedroom complete with cathedral ceiling, large master bath and large walk in closet, Granite counters on the upgraded maple cabinets. Pergo wood floor in Kitchen and Dining area. Gas fireplace in the large great room to enjoy the entire family. Main bathrooms have upgraded ceramics and pedestal sinks. Loft space upstairs to make your office, library or kids play space. Unfinished basement for you to do with what you want.Dishwasher, Disposal Listing Courtesy of: RE/MAX Classic | MLS ID#: 215024572 Three-bedroom townhouse style condo, basement, attached two-car garage. Decorated nicely - the entry level is open and bright. Stainless steel appliances in the kitchen, granite countertops, hardwood flooring and first floor laundry off of garage entrance. Master bedroom with cathedral ceiling, walk-in closet, fireplace and of course master bath with separate shower and bathtub. Association dues include access to the clubhouse with weight room, locker room, racquetball court, tennis courts, hot tub and swimming pool. The grounds have a sprinkler system and your lawn maintenance, snow and garbage are all covered in your monthly dues. Plymouth-Canton School District, close to shopping and I-275.Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Benchmark Real Estate Services | MLS ID#: 215019641 OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN DESIRABLE CHERRY HILL VILLAGE! WALK TO PARKS AND THEATERS, 2 BED 2 FULL BATHS W/ BASEMENT AND 2 CAR GARAGE. UPDATED KITCHEN WITH GRANITE COUNTERS. 9 FOOT CEILINGS. BRIGHT AND & AIRY FLOOR PLAN WITH GREAT NATURAL LIGHT. PRIVATE PATIO &ALL APPLIANCES. MUST SEEDishwasher, Disposal, Refrigerator, Stove Listing Courtesy of: Clients First, REALTORS | MLS ID#: 215023156 HERE IS THE DETACHED CONDO YOU HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR.READY TO MOVE INTO. NICE OPEN FLOOR PLAN, KITCHEN WITH ALL APPLIANCES OPEN TO FAMILY ROOM WITH FIREPLACE. 3 BEDROOMS 2.1 BATH MASTER BEDROOM W/HUGE WIC AND CATHEDRAL CEILING, 9 FT CEILING IN FULL BASEMENT,NEWER CARPET INSTALLED TO THE FIRST FLOOR AND STEPS. GROUNDS MAINTENANCE INCLUDED.CLUB HOUSE AND POOL. ALSO AVAILABLE FOR LEASE TENANT OCCUPIED FEW HOURS NOTICE TO SHOW IF POSSIBLE PLEASE.Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: RE/MAX Classic | MLS ID#: 215031686 ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS 2 BED, 2 BATH CONDO LOCATED IN THE TRADITIONS OF CAMBRIDGE. THIS BEAUTIFUL, MOVE IN READY CONDO IS LOCATED ON THE POND AND FEATURES A GRANITE KITCHEN WITH HARDWOOD FLOORING WHICH OPENS UP INTO DINING ROOM/LIVING ROOM AREAS! THE SPACIOUS LIVING ROOM OFFERS A SOARING CEILING, A COZY, GAS FIREPLACE AND A DOORWALL WHICH LEADS TO THE PRIVATE BALCONY. YOU WILL ALSO FIND NEUTRAL DECOR THROUGH-OUT, GORGEOUS CUSTOM CERAMIC FLOORING IN BOTH BATHROOMS, A FABULOUS FINISHED BASEMENT AND A LUXURIOUS MASTER SUITE WITH A WALK-IN CLOSET AND A LARGE MASTER BATH! ENJOY THE CONVENIENCE OF A GREAT LOCATION AND GROUNDS SERVICES WHICH INCLUDE LANDSCAPING & SNOW REMOVAL! THE CLUBHOUSE IS LOADED WITH AMENITIES; SPEND YOUR FREE TIME ENJOYING THE EXERCISE CENTER, THE GAME ROOM, THE COMMON POOL, THE VOLLEYBALL COURT AND THE TENNIS COURTS. DON'T MISS OUT; THIS CONDO IS A MUST SEE!Dishwasher, Disposal, Microwave Listing Courtesy of: Remerica Hometown III | MLS ID#: 215024651 Meticulously maintained 3-story, end unit condo in charming Cherry Orchard. Gleaming hardwood floors throughout and unique custom concrete floors in the 2 full baths. Lots of natural light flowing in through huge picture window in staircase. Large loft area upstairs is perfect for office or tv room. The upstairs has 2 large bedrooms with California closets and the lower level is a potential 3rd bedroom. The finished walk-out lower level has a large laundry room and doorwall out to private backyard on a corner lot. Enjoy the treelined streets and family friendly neighborhood! Just minutes away from Canton shopping and expressways. Call us today to schedule a showing.Dishwasher, Disposal, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove Listing Courtesy of: RE/MAX Classic | MLS ID#: 215029859 Awesome Condo In Plymouth-canton Schools! This Condo Has Everything You Are Looking For, From A Finished Basement To A Master Suite With Dual Sinks, And There's Even A Fireplace. Living Room Is Open And Light-filled, Kitchen Has Plenty Of Counterspace And Cupboards. The 2nd And 3rd Bedrooms Have A Full Jack And Jill Bath And A Walk-in Closet. There's An Attached 2 Car Garage, First Floor Laundry, And All Appliances Included. Not To Mention The Association Has A Wonderful Clubhouse With A Gym, Hot Tub, Swimming Pool, Locker Room, Racquetball Court And Tennis Courts All For Under $300/month. Clean, Priced To Sell, And Close To Everything This Is A Must See!!Refrigerator, Range/Oven, Dishwasher, Disposal, Microwave, Washer, Dryer Listing Courtesy of: Re/max Platinum -- Listing Broker Address: 325 W. Eisenhower, Suite 200 | MLS ID#: 3229062 Fabulous condo in Canton. Three Bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths, New Carpeting and Laminate Flooring. First floor Master Bedroom and Laundry Room. All appliances included. Door Wall to Deck. Great Community Complex, Close to 275 and Shopping.Dishwasher, Disposal, Freezer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove Listing Courtesy of: Keller Williams Rlty Cm Market Center | MLS ID#: 215019696 Welcome to this amazing private large condo with wooded view! Finished Walk Out lower level! 2 Bedrooms, 2 full baths and 1 powder room! 2 car attached garage! Plymouth-Canton School! This condo is immaculate with many updates. New roof in 2013, new garage door opener & remote in 2014! Open floor plan! Grand 2 ST in great room has gas fireplace and/ or natural wood! Large chef kitchen with snack bar area. Formal dining room with doorwall to oversize deck. Cathedral ceiling in Master suite with master full bath (shower and Jacuzzi tub) & WIC. Large princess room/ 2nd bedroom with full private bath. 1st floor laundry! The bonus entertainment area & wet bar in the finished walk out lower level is a plus! Many parking space for your guests. This condo unit gives you all of the must-haves for comfort & indulgent delights to fit any life style living with complete privacy but yet in town! A Must See!Dishwasher, Disposal, Microwave, Stove Listing Courtesy of: Real Estate One-Plymouth | MLS ID#: 215011580 WOW.THIS IS WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING,BEAUTIFUL END UNIT CONDO AND MAINTENANCE FREE.REMODELED IN 2011 ,HARDWOOD FLOOR IN LIVING AREA .NEWER KITCHEN CABINETS AND CERAMIC TILE IN THE KITCHEN. NICE CONDO AND QUITE AREA.CLOSER WITH SHOPINGDishwasher, Disposal, Microwave Listing Courtesy of: Eagle Real Estate Inc | MLS ID#: 215033595 Attractive 2 Br, 2.1 Bath Condo Located In Canton's Popular Chelsea Square. Highly Sought After End Unit Offers Additional Windows To Assure Lots Of Natural Light & Also Provides More Privacy. Condo Features A Very Appealing Floor Plan With Many Custom Upgrades Throughout. Gorgeous Hardwood Flooring Throughout 1st Floor, Powder Room, Gourmet Kitchen W/ Granite Counters, Maple Cabinets, Sleek Black Appliances, Huge Pantry, Recessed Lighting, Breakfast Bar & Adjoining Dining Nook. There Is A Back Door And Front Formal Guest Entry That Leads Out To The Covered Porch & Patio Overlooking The Common Area For Relaxing & Outdoor Grilling. 2nd Level Features An Open Loft Area Which Could Be Used As A Media/game Room/study, Convenient Laundry Room, Spacious 2nd Br W/ Walk-in Closet & 2nd Bath. Lg Master Suite W/ Vaunted Ceiling, Has Luxury Bath W/ Double Sinks, Separate Shower & Spa Tub. Ll Is Part Finished W/ Wood Floor & Egress Window.great Location.Refrigerator, Range/Oven, Dishwasher, Disposal, Washer, Dryer Listing Courtesy of: Real Estate One -- Listing Broker Address: 555 Briarwood Circle Ste. 200 | MLS ID#: 3228692 This spacious and tastefully decorated condo has it all. Conveniently located to shopping, schools and freeways. A 2 story foyer, new granite counter tops and a new deck. 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, outside lighting, grounds maintenance and an attached 2 car garage. Roof is only 2 years old and basement is very clean and has a open layout. Condo sold as is. Please schedule 3 hours before showing and not before 10 am.Dishwasher, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Century 21 Dynamic Realty | MLS ID#: 214117628 Upper level in The Links at Fellows Creek! Located near to the Golf course and Freeways. Community has Club House including Party Hall, Gym and outdoor swimming pool. Great Canton School district. Attached two car garage allows direct access to ground entry with main floor one story up presenting large, open floor plan. Spacious living room features vaulted ceilings. Listing Courtesy of: Century 21 Premier | MLS ID#: 215031028 Perfect in every way! Former Model. Beautiful 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath condo located on a premium lot across from pond & walking distance to clubhouse, fitness center & pool. Great kitchen with breakfast bar, upgraded cabinets, appliances and granite. Hardwood floors in kitchen, nook & powder room. Master Bedroom and 2nd bedroom have large walk- in closets and private baths with granite countertops. Other upgrades include carpet & pad, paint, window treatments & lighting. Priced to sell!Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Howard Hanna Birmingham | MLS ID#: 215033739 Live in sought after Canton Forest. Come home to this well maintained bright comfortable unit. Open living room dining room with gas fireplace, newer door wall to spacious deck facing woodlands. Beautiful crown molding throughout. Custom window treatments.First Floor Laundry. All appliances remain. Abundant storage in full Basement. Attached secure direct entry 2 car garage. Barchester Park is accessed just across Lily road.10 acre park offers soccer field, in line skating, loop walking trails and play space. Convenient to the I -275 corridor, wonderful Ford Road shops and dining . Minutes to Metro airport. Outstanding value for location and space. Move in at close and be ready to enjoy the new season.Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: Keller Williams Northville Business Center | MLS ID#: 215025148 'HIGHEST AND BEST' DUE SUNDAY, APRIL 19TH 12:00NOON. NEUTRAL AND MOVE IN READY! CLOSE TO SHOPPING, RESTAURATANTS, FREEWAY! HARDWOOD FLOORS THROUGHOUT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL. LARGE MASTER BATH WITH DUAL SINKS AND BOTH SHOWER AND TUB. BACKS TO RESIDENTIAL HOMES! FINISHED BASEMENT AREAS. 2 CAR ATTACHED GARAGE.Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine Listing Courtesy of: RE/MAX On The Trail | MLS ID#: 215032867 A treasure awaits in this unique pond-view 2 bedroom condo in Cantons Chatterton Village subdivision! Entertain in your updated open kitchen & family room with gas fireplace & marble surround with Oak mantle. Walk into your cozy Master Suite with vaulted ceiling, GIANT walk-in closet, private master bath & fantastic pond view. Dont forget the gleaming hardwood flooring in entrance, kitchen & powder room. Let the good times & memories begin!Dishwasher, Disposal Listing Courtesy of: RE/MAX Classic | MLS ID#: 215036437 Properties 1 to 35 of 61 Provided through MiRealSource. © 2015 MiRealSource. shareholders. Northern Michigan MLS, Inc © All rights reserved. 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Sundance Bear Lodge is a worthy example of 2-star hotels in Mancos offering individual guestrooms overlooking Mesa Verde National Park. The hotel was built in 1985 and renovated in 1998. All of the rooms have a panoramic view over the mountain. A full breakfast is served and charges are applicable. Business facilities at Sundance Bear Lodge include fax/photocopying services, a business center. Guests will enjoy a hot tub, a sauna on-site. Wireless internet is available in public areas and is free of charge Free Public hotel parking is possible on site. Major Mancos attractions, such as Rimrock Outfitters, Majestic Dude Ranch and Mesa Verde National Park are located nearby. A 50-minute drive to Farmington. Montezuma County airport is 35 minutes' drive from the hotel. - City Center - 100 m - Airport Montezuma County - 30.3km from 3 pm until 10 am |Children and extra beds|| Pets are not allowed Sundance Bear Lodge Location - Current hotel - Hotels nearby - Underground Railway Stations - Train Stations - Attractions for Tourists - Convention Centers - Food and meals Hover above the icons to see hotel photo and details. Click the hotel to go to the main hotel page. Majestic Dude Ranch6.6km42688 County Road North, Mancos Rimrock Outfitters9.2km12175 C.R. 44, Mancos Ute Mountain Tribal Park18.5kmHighway 666, Towaoc Why book with us? - Low prices - Enjoy our best price guarantee and special offers. - Free cancellations - Usually cancellations can be made without charge close to your arrival date (check policies). - Guaranteed room - You get instant confirmation directly from the hotel's reservation database.

Today we begin our annual tour through Apocalyptic literature. Both Daniel and Mark describe the end times, the final reckoning time when the Lord God and His Son Jesus will triumph over sin and death. The apocalyptic writings are charged with poetry, metaphor, fantasy. We must not make the mistake some of the fundamentalists do and interpret these passages literally. However, we must not make the opposite mistake of dismissing them as “nothing but” poetry. Metaphor tells us truth more fully and more adequately than does plain prose. The truth is Heaven and Earth may indeed pass away, but not before the Final Resolution in which good triumphs over evil an life over death. We don’t know when or how that will happen. Those issues really don’t matter. What does matter is that Jesus and his true followers will finally win. Fr. Greeley's Last Book: Once upon a time a TV commentator (on PBS) delivered a pessimistic editorial on a Friday evening broadcast (taped earlier in the day). The world was in grim shape, he told the camera. Global warming was worse than anyone had thought it was. The population of the world would double again in the next twenty year. It was likely that an asteroid would hit earth before the end of the next century. Rage was increasing the third world countries against our wealth. The races were polarizing in America. The crime had turned up again. Our schools were total failures and would not, could not get any better. There was a drug and alcohol epidemic in white suburban high schools. Divorce rates were increasing. Abortions were at an all time high. A wave of bad news was sweeping the earth and thee was nothing anyone could do about it. When the taping was over, he got into his Mercedes and drove rapidly into the country to escape the Friday night traffic rush. At his house on the shore of the lake, he relaxed in the sauna, sipping from a large glass of Barolo wine, swam in the pool, wrapped himself in a robe, and sat on the deck as the sun set. He poured himself a second glass of wine and, as the sky turned red and then purple that life was very good indeed. 5 The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; thou holdest my lot. Father Greeley's blog - Read and comment on new articles directly? Catholics and the Struggle with Their Church The survey of the archdiocese, which Father Greeley describes as "a very complicated place" demographically, asks some difficult questions, and finds some interesting truths. Father Andrew M. Greeley © 1995-2012 All Rights Reserved - Questions & Comments: Webmaster

Occupying a prime central location just moments away from the base station is a new addition to our portfolio, the signinahotel. It is renowned for its excellent service and fine cuisine and offers great leisure facilities. Be sure to indulge in the superb signina wellness area which boasts an indoor pool, sauna, steam room, whirlpool, gym and magnificent mountain views. Personal service in a modern, functional, yet stylish and lively environment greet you at the signinahotel. The rooms are tastefully decorated and elegantly furnished and come with north or south facing views in the main building or in the adjacent ‘Bundner House’. You will enjoy excellent food at the hotel’s modern à la carte restaurant and with the restaurants and bars of the rocksresort just on your doorstep you’ll be sure to find an option that suits you. The signinahotel is home to a waterpark, several saunas and a whirlpool with waterfall. You can also enjoy a traditional or aromatherapy massage or a foot reflexology massage. "Although not skiing I was very well looked after and included in everything. Everyone was very friendly and helpful." "The ski guides were great ambassadors for Powder Byrne. Very helpful and informative and went well beyond what we would have expected." "We were very impressed with our first PB experience. We were particularly impressed with the detailed and accurate comments the Yeti ski instructors made about our children. The boys want to come back for half term!" "The PB team- resort/guiding/childcare were excellent. Very helpful and enjoyable company!" "Excellent resort and very good service from the Powder Byrne team!" Prices start from £1,509 per person sharing a north facing double room on half board for a 7 night stay. Children from 2-5 years on an extra bed in their parent's room from £675 on B&B.. Ski weekends from £975 per person for a 3 night stay on half board. These prices include return scheduled flights, private transfers and Powder Byrne resort service. Call us on 020 8246 5300 for a personalised quotation matched to your precise requirements. Hover over the options below to find out more and click to make an enquiry. Back to Laax Call us on 020 8246 5300 or click here to enquire about this hotel by email. A quiet weekend away or to enjoy the fantastic apres that Laax has on offer? Laax is the ideal resort for a weekend away skiing. 3 night weekends start from £975 per adult staying in the Signina Hotel in a north double room on a Half Board basis, including flights, transfers and full PB Service. Perfectly located right next to the Laax base station, the signing hotel can't be beaten for easy of access, food and leisure facilities. Prices for February Half Term start from £2,709 per adult staying in a north double room including flights, transfers and full PB service. Enjoy the Easter sun at one of the many mountain restaurants while the kids join a PB ski programme. Prices start from £1,755 per adult during the week commencing 5th April staying in the Signina Hotel. Includes flights, private transfers and PB Service.

‘About what though?’ Ah, that’s a trenchant question. Anything but sales perhaps, since if you didn’t really give a s*** then you wouldn’t be shouting about it from the rooftops, would you? ‘On behalf of BrewDog PLC and its 14,691 individual shareholders, I would like to issue a formal apology to the Portman Group for not giving a shit about today’s ruling.’ That’s a BrewDog April 2014 blog post following the Portman Group said packaging for the Aberdeenshire-based brewer’s Dead Pony Club 3.8% ale, after the body objected to phrases including ‘Drink Fast, Live Fast’, which it said encouraged anti-social behavior and rapid drinking. The ban seems fair enough to me, despite the fact that it's not the kind of brew that will attracted hardened alcoholics. Alcohol abuse costs Scotland £3.56bn ($5.97bn)/year and untold human misery. But BrewDog doesn't need to own anything but a selective social conscience, does it? Brilliant burlesque send-up of Putin Easier targets or social attitudes win you wider critical acclaim among your ‘punk’ fanbase about, notably Vladimir Putin, and I admit to enjoying BrewDog’s brilliant burlesque send up of everyone’s least favourite pop-eyed pugilist and botox bully…the injections smooth out those wrinkles, and a few national borders to boot. And whatever its politics, BrewDog has keyed into the Caldedonian independence zeitgeist – I think it’s less easy to be an English rebel nowadays, incidentally, in the current political environment – successfully positioning itself as outré, rebel without a cause... There is always a cause though, isn’t there, in business? And BrewDog’s is flogging beer. Perhaps I’m too old at 33, but I find the brewery as irritating as a hair shirt in a sauna, not that I’ve had the pleasure. I dislike BrewDog’s selective ethics, their support for freedom of speech undercut by the close attention they clearly pay to micro-managing their message, the tiresome release of hot air that accompanies each attempt to paint themselves as outside an establishment they’re part of, like some insufferable gang of spotty adolescents, only tolerated because they crack the occasional good joke. Taking ethics alone, Putin was one thing. Their 2010 stuffing of animals with beer bottles (see photo below) quite another – a move condemned by Advocates for Animals but praised by the brewer (grooming its own pelt) as an “audacious blend of eccentricity, artistry and rebellion”. How old is Brewdog front man James Watt now? 32, mid-30s max? Most people manage to work through the adolescent rebellion phase by the age of 20, but he seems determined to cling on with all the attitude of some superannuated Scottish James Dean. Want an interview? Forget it! Together with business partner Martin Dickie…they're the beer world’s answer to Beavis & Butthead. More intelligent though. Much more... Then there’s the freedom of speech trumpet – one Brewdog is forever making itself apoplectically red-faced trying to blow. For a company that prides itself on its openness – and beer is inherently sociable, brewers tend to be affable people – BrewDog’s execs are hard to track, out of the media ken. No doubt, for a company of BrewDog’s stature, a trade site like BeverageDaily.com doesn’t count, since it’s not a case here of press suspicion full stop. I mean, why speak to your peers when you can speakeasy with the establishment you claim to despise and cosy up to the English millennial middle class? I allude, in this context, to interviews Watt has conducted with, for instance, The Sunday Telegraph, also known as ‘The Sunday Torygraph’ in the UK for its Conservative politics. No offense there, I’m center right in my politics anyway, but it seems a strange sort of soap box for BrewDog to stand on, if indeed they are so (sharp intake of breath) subversive. But then they play the clean-faced iconoclast card very cleverly indeed in pursuit of sales and profit. When the Portman Group news broke, I asked BrewDog PLC director James Watt (I’ll use his formal title here to annoy BrewDog) questions several times on Twitter. Neither he nor BrewDog bothered responding. That’s strange for a supposedly media-savvy, plucky craft brand. I’ve given up phoning the brewer – have tried to do since 2011 – as no-one is ever available to speak. Perhaps if I worked for The Mail or The Sun? “Tell ‘im to send an email” – I heard a dour voice say in the background when I rang a couple of years ago to request an interview. I never got one. A plucky underdog with $18m+ sales Don’t take this for an uncalled for attack on a plucky underdog – in the past I’ve given big boys including Diageo some stick . Brewdog is already a sizeable business, the latest company accounts for 2012 show a turnover of £10.65m and pre-tax profits just shy of £500,000. No doubt the business is considerably larger now. With greater size comes scrutiny, and this size in large part due to clever marketing – by positioning themselves as The Bad Religion of beer, the folks at Brewdog enjoin a lemming-like adoration from their followers. Continuing the punk analogy, I have no problem if you like music, but you don’t have to swallow the musicians’ every opinion. Similarly, it’s a shame you can’t enjoy BrewDog’s beer (it’s good) without having to listen to the strains of its Beavis & Butthead-inspired soundtrack. Ben Bouckley is Editor of BeverageDaily.com (Both inline photos, BrewDog.com)

On 31 January, the series "Meet the world" took us to Iceland, accompanied by two interesting guests. Þorkell Gislason, an Icelander who now has been living in Estonia for two years, started off the evening with a short and enthralling Icelandic history lesson. We learned that it was the first Vikings who gave Reykjavik its name and that it was, in fact, Word War II that fuelled the economic growth of Iceland and eventually propelled Iceland into an independent state. We also got to know that Iceland boasts the world's oldest parliamentary democracy and is a bastion of free speech and press freedom. Next up was Mihkel Järveoja, who shared with us his stories from his time in Iceland, where he studied geology in 2009/2010 as an exchange student for a year. He even had a chance to witness live the notorious volcano eruption. He visited six different regions of Iceland and thoroughly enjoyed the variable and magnificent Icelandic nature. You can find his slide show here. Mihkel recounted many amusing occasions during his stay, for example, blissfully enjoying a lengthy swim in the dangerous Viti geothermal lake, next to Askja volcano. He also told us about the 50 km ski marathon he attended – and the (literally) uphill, and in hindsight, hilarious battle to finish it. We also discovered that the perception of volcanic activities in Iceland greatly differs from the Western viewpoint. Volcanic eruptions are to be expected in Iceland. During the first days of the Eyjafjallajökull’s eruption, while the world media was reporting of a disastrous eruption, Icelanders were looking for a place to rent a car and go see the live “action”. It was more of a family amusement, than a natural disaster scene. Granted, later on as the volcanic activity increased even Icelanders chose to rather watch it on TV. Volcanoes and the French Revolution While talking about volcanoes, Þorkell also told us about the legendary Laki eruption, which took place in 1783. “Icelanders believe that the eruption caused the French Revolution” surely brought out gales of laughter, but they did not last long. As it would appear, the eruption brought upon a devastating effect not only on Iceland, but in whole Europe, and even in North America. The Laki eruption resulted in several years of extreme weather, destruction of crops and livestock and eventually widespread famine and poverty – all of which triggered the French Revolution in 1789. After Mihkel and Þorkell were through with their talk, came the time for questions and answers. With help from Þorkell, we all learned how to correctly pronounce “Eyjafjallajökull”, though it took some tries to really get a hang of that. When talking about Icelandic food and drinks, McDonalds seemed to reign supreme until recently, when all McDonalds stores were closed, and Icelanders (mainly young ones) bought extra burgers and fries before the close up. We learned that the most popular alcoholic drinks are beer and vodka, and of course we heard about the notorious Icelandic fish and meat gourmet dishes. Apparently, after eating some of the traditional fish and meat dinners, the Icelandic vodka (branded “black death” by the locals, a reference to the disastrous consequences of overconsumption, as well as the “delicate” taste) tastes like mere Coca-Cola! We also got to know that Iceland has a relatively poor fauna and flora (arctic fox being the only common indigenous wild animal), but some polar bears wander off to Iceland every now and then. Þorkell had brought along a traditional Icelandic sweater, which has recently gained popularity especially among the young Icelanders. Mihkel described the Icelander through the eyes of a foreigner, and concluded that they were rather similar to Estonians – relatively introvert and quiet, but when you finally get to know them, great friends! In the end, we got a better understanding of Iceland, both through the eyes of an Icelander and through the eyes of an Estonian. We discovered we have many similarities – from the sauna and hot pot analogy, to religion’s low prominence in both countries – we do have a lot in common! After the formal talk was over, everyone got to taste Icelandic fish dishes that Þorkell had prepared for us, as well as freely talk to the performers and each other. The fish dishes, as it turns out, were in fact delicious! Text by Dan Prits Yesterday, Tartu citizens celebrated the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Dragon with fire artists and the unveiling of an ice sculpture. The unusual sculpture (created by artist Aivar Simson alias Simson Seaküla) unites two events – the year of the dragon and the celebration of 100th anniversary of Estonian film. The sculpture shows the first Estonian movie maker Johannes Pääsuke together with a dragon. By the way – if you stay in our apartment No 5 or 6, you have a view from the window straight onto the sculpture! Foto: Sille Annuk Last week, the Domus staff partook in a special theatre experience – we were invited to watch the dress rehearsal of the musical „Mary which is staged in Vanemuine Grand Building. As the director of the musical, Mr. Georg Malvius from Sweden, was staying in one of our guest apartments for two months during the rehearsal period, we were especially eager to see the results of his work. Probably every child has heard about Mary Poppins, the nanny with magical powers, who gets the children into most incredible adventures. But the performance is by far not only meant for children – the heartwarming story also carries off grown-ups into Mary Poppins’ fantasy world. When we were coming back to work after the inspiring performance, the work went almost by itself – just as Mary Poppins is singing in the Estonian version of „A Spoonful of Sugar“: „Igas töös leidub alati üks suhkrutükk, mis teeb pipratera magusaks.“ („In every work you will find a piece of sugar that makes even pepper taste sweet.“) So if you are still wavering about a visit of the musical – don’t miss it, we highly recommend it! Foto: Theatre Vanemuine. Already for the 15th time movie lovers can enjoy a variety of high-class films in theatres all over Estonia. In Tartu, PÖFF takes places from 18 to 30 November in movie theatre Cinamon and As Domus is supporting the understanding of different cultures, we would like to especially recommend the Panorama programme, which introduces different (film) cultures from all over the world. You find the Panorama programme here: http://2011.poff.ee/eng/films/programmid.c/panorama and the whole PÖFF programme here: http://2011.poff.ee/eng PS! Do you need a place to rest after long movie nights? Come and stay in our guest apartments in the center of town, easy to reach from both movie theatres! *Birds? No, motorbikes! :) Motoexotika 2011 is undoubtedly no. 1 motorcycle exhibition in Estonia! While waiting impatiently for my first Cat. A lesson to start, I found out that in March there is a reason for everybody, who are interested in motorcycles, to meet and take part in the finest springtime fair and exhibition in Tartu – already for the 8th time – the Motoexotika! "Motoexotika has found its steady place in everyone’s calendar thanks to the variety of newest motorcycle models, unique custom bikes, favorites from the past, first-class security equipment, casual wear, accessories and off-course you can meet with most active motorcycle clubs. Also different demonstrations, competitions and tattoo shows are being held." Hotels: Where to stay in Tartu, while having a good time in Motoexotika? Since the event is quite famous amongst the foreign cyclists as much as Estonians and therefore most of hotels nearby may be full, the Domus Dorpatensis guest apartments would be glad to have you here from 19th to 20th Date: March 18-20, 2011 Venue: Tartu Fairs Centre, Estonia More information: http://www.tartunaitused.ee/motoexotika/2011/ Okeiko is an artist, observer, creator and illusionist. The very first thing that comes to my mind is Cuprock – pictures made by using plastic cups attached to a fence. No matter how or what we call her – the magic of her works will meet us in Tartu this Thursday, 17th of March at 6 p.m. :) More about Okeiko and her works: http://okeiko.planet.ee/kosmos/Photo+Drawing.html

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Book your room at Days Inn Effingham Standard Room, 1 Queen BedMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children) Standard Room, 2 Queen Beds, SmokingMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children) Standard Room, 2 Queen BedsMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children) Standard Room, 1 King Bed, SmokingMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children) Standard Room, 1 King BedMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children) Hotel in Effingham with free breakfast and fitness center Collect 200 points Simply enter your Nectar card number when prompted. Your points will be credited 30 days after you return from your trip.*Offers may apply Situated in Effingham, this hotel is 0.6 mi (1 km) from Effingham Performance Center and within 3 mi (5 km) of Effingham County Courthouse and Bliss Park. Village Square Mall is 2.5 mi (4.1 km) away. Along with a fitness center, this hotel has a sauna and a meeting room. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, laundry facilities and free breakfast are onsite. All 39 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and microwaves, plus free WiFi and cable TV. Other amenities available to guests include coffee makers, free weekday newspapers, and free local calls.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! Days Inn Effingham features a sauna and a fitness center. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Onsite self parking is complimentary. - Free RV, bus, truck parking - One meeting room - Free WiFi - Fitness facilities - Total number of rooms - 39 - Number of floors - 2 - Number of buildings/towers - 1 - Laundry facilities - Free breakfast - Free self parking Available in all rooms: Free WiFi Available in some public areas: Free WiFi Free self parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking - Free WiFi - Connecting/adjoining rooms available - Free cribs/infant beds - Coffee/tea maker - Free local calls - Private bathroom - Free toiletries - Hair dryer - Iron/ironing board - In-room safe - Air conditioning - Climate control - Free weekday newspaper - Rollaway/extra beds available - Cable TV service Where to Eat Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast each morning. Nearby Things to Do Recreational amenities at the hotel include a sauna and a fitness center. Check-in time starts at 1 PM Check-out time is 11 AM Pets allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 2 You need to know Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy. - Pet fee: USD 10 per pet, per night - Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night We should mention Children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.

Book your room at Best Western Plus Aldhem Hotel 4-star hotel with free breakfast and indoor pool Collect 200 points Simply enter your Nectar card number when prompted. Your points will be credited 30 days after you return from your trip.*Offers may apply Situated in Grobbendonk, this hotel is within 9 mi (15 km) of St Waldetrudis Church, Witbos Golf Club, and Bobbejaanland. Tongerlo Abbey and Lier Zimmer Tower are also within 12 mi (20 km). An indoor pool, a bar/lounge, and a spa tub are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a sauna, dry cleaning, and a 24-hour front desk. All 68 rooms offer free WiFi, minibars, and TVs with cable channels. Hair dryers, safes, and phones are among the other amenities that guests will find.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! In addition to an indoor pool, Best Western Plus Aldhem Hotel provides a spa tub and a sauna. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. Event facilities measure 9480 square feet (881 square meters). This Grobbendonk hotel also offers a terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and a garden. Complimentary self parking is available on site. Best Western Plus Aldhem Hotel is a smoke-free property. - 24-hour front desk - Total number of rooms - 68 - Free breakfast - Dry cleaning/laundry service - Tours/ticket assistance - Free WiFi - Safe-deposit box at front desk - Conference space size (feet) - 9480 - Conference space size (meters) - 881 - Number of meeting rooms - 10 - Tennis on site - Free self parking - Smoke-free property - Spa tub - Indoor pool Available in all rooms: Free WiFi Available in some public areas: Free WiFi Free self parking - Daily housekeeping - Private bathroom - Hair dryer - Shower/tub combination - In-room safe - Cable TV service - Free WiFi Where to Eat A complimentary breakfast is served between 7 AM and 10 AM. Orangerie - This restaurant specializes in French cuisine. Eisterlee - This buffet restaurant serves breakfast and brunch. Nearby Things to Do An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna. The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply. - Playground on site Check-in time starts at 2 PM Check-in time ends at midnight Check-out time is 10 AM You need to know Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy. Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same hotel / stay dates). No pets or service animals allowed - Rollaway bed fee: EUR 30 per night We should mention One child 3 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.

Book a room In need of a little lift? Escape to The Vineyard in rural Berkshire, just off the M4 corridor and experience 5 star luxury like never before. Renowned for its award winning restaurant, exceptional spa and beautiful bedrooms, The Vineyard is the perfect retreat for a midweek break. Because at The Vineyard, we believe that everyone deserves a little pampering every now and again, we’ve put together a selection of midweek break packages designed to refresh the mind and revive the body. Our ‘Eat, Sleep and Drink Wine’ midweek break is an indulgent two night stay with us and includes our 7 course Judgement tasting menu, with two matching wines per course. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. You can also enjoy a five course meal in our restaurant and full access to our "5 bubbles” spa. Our ‘Grapetherapy’ two night midweek break has been specifically designed to rebalance the mind, body and soul over two nights of pure indulgence. With nearby excursions including the Lambourne Downs and the historic town of Hungerford, famous for its exquisite antiques, The Vineyard is perfect for the historically curious and nature-lovers alike. Why not explore the grounds of closeby Highclere Castle, the real-life Downton Abbey. Can’t spare three days to pamper yourself? Why not opt for one of our one night midweek breaks and get that all important pick-me-up. Treat yourself to our ‘Taste of The Vineyard’ and ‘Taste of Spa’ midweek breaks; two idyllic packages which have been carefully developed to indulge the palate and refresh the spirit. For something special as the nights start to draw in, treat yourself to our ‘Autumn Harvest’ midweek break. Relax and unwind at The Vineyard in one of our stunning suites and take advantage of our boutique spa facilities including a pool, sauna, steam room and jacuzzi. Not to mention the private treatment rooms if you fancy a luxurious and bespoke spa therapy. To round off your perfect evening, enjoy dinner in our contemporary French restaurant. Our Executive chef, Daniel Galmiche, has been described as "the master of classic cooking with a contemporary twist”; a taster of what to expect during your stay with us.

I met her on the net. She was Asian and absolutely beautiful. Long black hair that hung down just below her knees... I had never seen hair that long before. A perfect body...34 28 32. A nice tidy little arse that really showed itself when she wore her tight jeans. Her manner was quite exquisite. Traditional Chinese, she wanted to make me happy... in all areas of life! At first, I thought it was a bit over the top but on thinking about it a bit more, I decided, that, yes... after 48 years of hard slog...it was my time to have fun and relax. After all, hadn’t I dreamed of this? Yes...and how many of us have. When she had first arrived in the country, and we had talked of various life issues...she just came straight out and said, ''I have come here for you and only you. You are my man, my master. I am yours. I give myself to you in mind and body. My spirit is mine but it agrees with my mind and body.'' I thought for a minute that this was an Asian thing, so I said, ''That’s really nice, Rong, and I am yours, too. We will be...'' Before I finished she cut in and said, ''No, no..You no understand. I give myself to YOU. You do as you please with me; I am your slave, you my master. I look after you, cook, clean, you use me; my body belongs to you, now. You understand? I your slave in all areas of life. I only ask you not to make marks on body like scars.'' Well...this shook me to the core...but as I say...its my time. I said to her, ''Rong, I’m sorry, I understand, now. Yes, I will look after my slave. I will not beat you but I will be rough at times, and I will discipline you when I think you need it. You will always dress in nice dresses but you may not wear any bras or panties ever again...is that understood?'' "Yes my master", she answered sweetly. I was going to dispense with the "My master" thing but decided to think on that one, just for the time being. I decided to take her out and buy her some really nice dresses, some really sexy ones and a few toys. As much as I enjoy a naked woman, like every other man...I happen to really enjoy the sight of a beautiful woman dressed up, in high heels and ready for fun. I was going to transform this little lady of mine into a high-class slut. My mind was working overtime already!!! In total, I think I spent something like $32,000. A lot, I know but I was going to enjoy myself, and she was going to learn to enjoy herself and be a well looked after litter slut slave. There were some beautiful gowns, and real slutty type dresses...but all pretty high-class threads. My home is a large place. It has six bedrooms, a huge double lounge, a dinning room that could seat 60 easy, a games room with the full size pool table, a sauna, a swimming pool and spa. I’m not sure why it was built so big, but I liked it. It was certainly going to be getting good use now. We arrived back from our shopping excursion, and I told Rong to put the clothes away, and to get dressed in one of the cream gowns. This gown fit like a glove, with small spaghetti type straps and a low cut in front and a lower cut at the back, going right down to the beginning of her arse crack. She had put on the white lace up stilettos and topped the whole ensemble off with a pearl necklace and teardrop earrings. Her hair hung down over her shoulders and down her back and she had put little flowers all through it. Her sweet little arse looked a pretty picture as it moved under that gown. It took a lot of effort not to fuck her there and then. She looked like a high-class bride ready to be thrown on the banquet table and fucked hard. And she walked like a proud little bride, not knowing what was in store for her. But I was going to eat her first!!! Rong came up to me and asked me if I wanted her to make anything for tea. Well...my mind was racing. I had to think hard...and as hard as my cock. . I had always fantasized of messy sex and here was my first and greatest opportunity. I asked her, ''Can you prepare a salad, with salad dressing in a bowl, include some tomatoes, avocado, cucumber and don’t peel or cut the cucumber, grate some carrot, and also peel two whole carrots and put them on a plate on there own. Also, add some pea sprouts mixed in the salad. I will get some chicken and some prawns from town, I wont be long.'' ''Yes my master, would you like me to prepare some drinks?'' ''Yes, Rong, just get a bottle or two of the red in the lounge. I'll open it when we’re ready to eat.’’ I answered. So, I jumped in the car and raced to the supermarket, bought a precooked chook, some prawns... and then decided to think about dessert. I added some runny chocolate sauce, treacle, strawberries, grapes and watermelon. This was going to be fun. On arriving back home, Rong had set the table and added a couple of candles to set the scene. Looking at Rong, I decided to have her change into something shorter and slightly sluttier. ''Rong, go and change into the gold satin dress with the bow in front.'' ''Yes, my master'', and off she went. This dress was a cocktail dress, strapless with the top riding low barely covering her tits. It came down just to within a couple of inches below her cunt. The bow was wrapped under the bust line, with the rest of the satin hanging loose down to the length of the dress. An important addition as you will soon discover. Well, down she came, gliding smoothly down the stairs. And looking quite the beautiful Asian slut. Added to the ensemble she had added a satin bow to her hair, which made her look innocent. I loved it. ''Rong, you look perfect. Have a seat and I will cut the chicken.'' After serving the food, I opened the wine and poured her a drink. She had arranged the seats to be opposite each other, but I grabbed a chair and sat next to her. She was a little surprised but said nothing. ''I have organized a bit of dessert, Rong, I think you will like it, in fact I know you will.’’ I said to her I must have caught her by surprise, as she was taking a mouthful of salad. A drop of salad dressing dropped from her mouth and onto the gap between her tits. She moved quickly to pick up her napkin to wipe it off but I stopped her. ''No Rong, allow me.'' I suggested. And with that I got up end licked it off her, taking my time and making sure my tongue covered more than it should have. At first I felt Rong stiffen but within seconds she relaxed and I could hear her breath become shorter, more excited. My tongue ran over her tits, up and down her neck and finally ended with a passionate kiss. Our tongues explored each other’s mouths. Rong was responding and I could hear her warming to this beginning. Just as suddenly, I broke off the kiss, sat down and carried on eating. I could see the question in her eyes. I ignored her. It took her about 3 minutes to recover and then, slowly began to chew on a bit of salad again. I looked at her and asked, ''How did you like that, Rong?'' ''Mmmm...I like if you like, master'', she replied. ''Good'', I answered, ''Are you wet, are you feeling horny, my sweet little slut? She was looking a bit confused...but she replied, ''Y-yes master, I am wet and if you want more, I here for you.'' "God, what an angel.'' I thought. I pick up a chicken drumstick and started to chew on it and suddenly had a thought... Looking at Rong, I handed her the drumstick and said, “Rong, I want taste your cunt juices on this chicken. Do me the honor of rubbing this all over your cunt, will you?'' Without a second glance she took the drumstick, pulled up her dress and started to rub it all over her cunt. She pulled her cunt lips apart and shoved that lucky piece of meat up against them, making sure it got a good coating. But I wasn’t happy with it so I decided to help. I walked around behind her and put my arms around her taking the chicken from her and making her stretch her cunt lips wide. With that, I buried the drumstick as hard as I could, into her cunt. She gave a gasp of surprise but moved in her chair to accommodate the intrusion. Slowly, I moved that drumstick in and out of her. Rong started to moan in pleasure. Her head lay back against my shoulder, her hair falling down the back of the chair. Her hips began to move in rhythm to my ministrations. The drumstick would disappear up to my fingers and then out again. I did this a number of times then pulled it out and went back to my seat. I put the sodden drumstick on my plate and looked at Rong. ''Thanks, Rong, would you like some on your chicken?'' Rong looked at me, through glazed eyes. She was as randy as anything and the fact that I had just stopped the action frustrated her. ''Yes master, I would like that. With lots of my cunt juices on it.'' So once again, I took a drumstick off her plate and while she held herself, I fucked her tight little cunt with it. She was right into it. She moved further down the chair to make more room for me. So to reward her, I moved that piece of chook harder and faster into her. She started to rub her clit and moved to the rhythm. I moved my other hand to her tits and found a hard erect nipple waiting for me. I rolled it between my fingers, squeezing it and teasing it hard. I could hear Rong breathing deeper and heavier, so I pulled on her nipple, knowing that the pressure I was exerting was going to hurt her intensely. Sure enough she gave out a quiet squeal of pain and she moved to try to release her tit from my grasp, but I had a tight hold and she couldn’t get away. She was caught between pleasure and pain Just as suddenly as before, I retrieved the chicken, released her tit, placed the chicken on her plate and started to devour my morsel. She looked at me with frustration, and I said to her, "Eat up Rong, this is just the beginning of the meal. Wait till you see what I have for dessert.'' She was still breathing hard but with as much dignity as she could, she started on her cunt-covered drumstick. I watched her while she nibbled at it and said, ''You make this chicken taste great Rong. I must find some more that you can do for us.'' She answered, somewhat hesitantly, ''Y-yes m-master, it is my pleasure to do this for you. My body is yours.'' ''Good, and next time we will make sure you will come so we can taste that too.'' I said "Yes, master, it will be good'' I took a large bite from my chicken, chewed to a pulp and went to Rong. I covered her mouth with mine to kiss her and pushed the pulped chicken into her mouth. While doing this my hand went down to her cunt, where I inserted two fingers and started pumping. My mouth left hers and wandered down her neck, leaving a mess of chicken bits on its way. Finally I got to her tits and started to suck, bite and tease them. Rong was again beginning to moan and shift in her seat. She was wet!!!! I inserted another finger into her cunt and allowed them to search the depths of her cunt. I looked at Rong as I did this and her head was now hung back and her eyes closed tight, her mouth open and tongue licking her lips. “Aaaarrrrrr, fuck me master, please, I want you to put your cock in my cunt and fuck me hard. Hurt me, please. I want to be abused. Please abuse me master…do as you please…. I want you please.” She moaned I pulled my fingers out of her cunt and went and sat down again. I looked over at her and said, “Rong, did I hear you say you want me to abuse you?” She answered, “Yes master…this is my service to you and I like to be abused. I want you to use and abuse me whenever you wish. I am so hot now. I want to cum and I want you to cum inside me. Fill me with your cum…” “Rong, do you want me to fuck your arse?” I asked “Oh yes master.” She answered, “Fill my arse with you, cum into my arse and fill me.” I could see she was having a bit of trouble composing herself just after the last effort, so I went to the freezer and got a glass of ice. I took it to her and was going to fill it with water when she took hold of a piece of ice and rubbed it all over her tits and neck. I could see the affect it was having on her and wanted to fuck her hard right then, but I had more for her before that was going to happen. And I still hadn’t finished my meal yet! “Rong.” I said, “I want you to put that piece of ice into your cunt and let it melt while you are sitting there. I feel you need cooling down a bit.” Yes master” she answered. She obediently inserted the ice into her cunt and leaned back into the chair to relax a bit. I didn’t have a problem with this. It was a turn on looking at her cunt and watching water mixed with her juices oozing out of her cunt. While this was happening I decided to make things a little bit messier for my little slut slave. Reaching over to her hair I took off the bow and undid the knot. The satin material was about 4 feet long so it was plenty for what I had in mind. I stood up and told Rong to put her hands behind her, as I wanted to tie her up. She obediently did this and I made an excellent job of trussing up her hands so she couldn’t use them. I looked down and saw she was still oozing out of her cunt. I told her to stand up. She did this and I removed the chair from under her. “Rong, you are to eat the rest of your dinner standing up. You can’t use your hands so you have to use your mouth only. You are making a mess on the chair and I don’t want that.” “Yes master, I am sorry for the mess, I will clean it up if you desire,” she answered. “No Rong, just do as I say, now!” I reiterated sternly So she bent over her dinner and started to eat what she could get into her mouth. It was obviously difficult but fun watching. Her tits hung tantalizingly onto the table still encased in the dress, the dress hung out from her legs and rose up at the back. Her arse was now nearly visible. I pondered fucking her arse as she had asked… but I decided against this just yet. On the table were the two carrots that she had pealed and washed beforehand. So I took one of these and dipped it into some salad dressing making it slimy and slippery. Then I took the bowl of salad dressing and carefully dribbled it onto her arse, I watched it as it dribbled down her arse crack and down her legs. I could see her stiffen as I was doing this. I looked at her again and saw how much of a mess she was becoming. Her face was becoming covered in salad dressing and her hair was mixing in with her food. Every now and again she would hold her head up to swallow and the dressing would dribble down her front covering her tits and top of the dress. What a sight. I rubbed my hand over her sweet little arse and smooth some of the salad dressing into her crack, then inserted my finger into her arse. She grunted and spread her legs a bit further. I took that carrot and started to push it into her arse. Her legs stiffened to take up the pressure and I pushed more of it inside her. Moving it in and out, I could sense she was getting even more turned on by this. I pushed hard and watched a 7-inch carrot almost disappear up her arse. I stood back to appraise my handiwork and decided to leave it there a while. My hands were a bit messy so I dried them off on her hair. I went back to my dinner and started to eat again. Turning to her I asked, “Rong, are you feeling ok? Do you like what I have done to you so far? “Yes my master, I like. I like more.” She answered. “Good Rong, I will abuse you however I like and you will like it. I want you to turn around and sit on the table.” I demanded “Yes master” she obeyed She turned around and tried to sit on the table and I could see it was difficult for her as the carrot was posing a definite problem. I got up and helped her to adjust to the situation. I stood back and viewed my little Asian slut. Food covered her face, her hair and the top half of her beautiful dress. She was a mess. I walked to her, grabbed her hair and forcefully kissed her. Licking her face and neck, going down to her tits and biting her nipples. I ran my hands over her body, lifting her dress and rubbing her cunt. She was moving to this with considerable agility and seemed to be wanting more…so I inserted two fingers into her cunt and started to finger fuck her. She was obviously getting off on this treatment so I put another finger inside and eventually another. She was beginning to go wild shaking her hair and body, moaning she said, “Fuck me master, fuck me hard. Put your hand inside me. Feel me from the inside. Pleeeeeeeze” Who was I to argue? So I balled up my hand and started to work my whole fist into her. “Arrrrrgghh…. It hurt” she complained, but she was too late to argue. I figured she wanted it before…she’s gonna get it now, so I pushed even harder. I covered her mouth with mine allowing my tongue to take a tour of her mouth. Our tongues danced together. We slurped at each other’s saliva. She was going wild. I pushed my hand further and she moved her body to allow the invasion of my fist. I pushed with a fair amount of energy and suddenly in it went. Rong grunted and let out a sigh of pain. I could feel her muscles enveloping my hand and wondered if I would ever get it out. I started to pump my hand in and out, slowly at first and then began to pick up speed. Rong was throwing herself into this trying to push more of me into her. I grabbed a handful of hair and pulled her head back roughly; this made her stop moving partially and it pushed her cunt out more. I spread my fingers in her cunt and encountered the walls of her cunt. Moving my hand around I could get to feel more inside her. Rong was going absolutely wild At the top of her voice she yelled “Fuck me Fuck me…harder. Hurt me. Huuuuuurt me!!!” I pushed my other hand in behind her arse and started to manipulate the carrot in and out of her arse so she was being fucked in both holes by reasonably foreign objects. This was turning me on so much I knew that if I didn’t stop soon I was going to explode. I removed the carrot and started to remove my hand fro m her cunt. Rong started to complain, saying “Master, please don’t stop. I want fuck I need cum…. please don’t stop” She tried to stop me from removing my hand. I took a handful of her hair again and pulled hard making her lean right back and compliant with my wishes. She was going to regret this. Once we had disengaged, her with her hands either side of her steadying herself on the table and me standing back looking at her, I said to her “Rong, you didn’t do as I wanted and you are going to be disciplined for this. I will do as I please and I will not allow you to tell me what you will or will not do. Bend over the table now!!!” “ I sorry master,” she cried, “I no do again. I forget my place….” “Yeh…you forgot alright…now bend over bitch,” I yelled She bent over the table her hair mixing in with some of the food that was on it and her face close to the prawns mixed in tar tare sauce. ”How ironic,” I thought, “She wants cum and her face is almost in fish cum sauce” I grabbed her hair and forced her face into the bowl of prawns and really rubbed it in hard. Then I grabbed her dress and lifted it up from behind. I smeared her arse with a liberal covering of oil then got the crop I bought this afternoon. I gave her arse a whack with the crop. Not hard but just hard enough to sting her arse. She squealed in pain but I got the general idea that she enjoyed it so I gave her another harder one. She squealed louder and began to cry. I rubbed the crop over her sloppy cunt and gave it a flick, which in turn smacked against her clit. Again she squealed in pain. I rubbed the crop over her cunt again, rubbing a bit harder so to stimulate her clit and I could, once again, see that she was getting turned on by this. Determined to settle this I gave her arse another two whacks with my full force. The welts came up almost straight away, a pleasant sight but not for her. She was crying into the prawn bowl and really making a mess of things. I put the crop away and pulled her up. I said to her, “Rong, have you learnt your lesson? I don’t want to have to do this again.” “Yes master,” she replied, “I will not argue with you. I remind myself that my body is yours and you can do as you please. But, master, I needed to cum. Forgive me for I was impatient.” “Rong, I forgive you, but don’t do this again.” I told her Then I grabbed her and gave her a deep kiss on the mouth. I took hold of the bow on the front of her dress and tied her hands up again, so that they were behind her but up high on her back. It cant have been comfortable but I didn’t care. Then I pushed her back against the table again, reached down and spread her legs as far apart as they would go. I went down and started to kiss her cunt. Running my tongue around her cunt lips, sucking them and biting lightly. Once they had had attention I started to suck and bite her clit. She was beginning to rock again. Her breath was getting shorter and I could hear little noises coming from her throat. I ran my hands up her arse and inserted a finger into her arse. Working it around and making it go deeper. Her hips started to rock and move to my finger. Again my mouth started its onslaught , and my tongue buried itself into her cunt. Trying my best to lick the insides of her…but never quite reaching the objective, but I was in my element having fun. I shoved my thumb into her cunt and started pinching my finger up her arse and my thumb together. She squirmed and squealed loudly and I know she was going to climax soon. I didnt want her to yet, so I stood up and removed my hand from her legs. She just looked at me with amazement and disappointment in her eyes. “Rong’” I said, “I am not going to let you cum yet. I’m really enjoying this and we still haven’t had dessert so just sit down and relax. I promise you, when you cum, the ground will shake and I will be fucking you so fuckin’ hard you will think you are splitting in two, ok?”

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Welcome to the jungle. Here we are back in The Big Smoke. The city is full of giant concrete structures and asphalt pavements that have sucked in the all heat from the weekend, when it hit 30 degrees and are now slowly releasing warmth into the cooler, moist air like a giant urban sauna. Yesterday I walked two blocks in Central London and ended up feeling like Michael Douglas’ character Bill Foster in Falling Down. It’s a far cry from the sundrenched Kildalton shoreline, but in order to afford time on Islay drinking great whisky and buying rare, festival only bottles for consumption at a later date, you’ve gotta put the work in and earn the cash. So here we are, back in our concrete jungle. Back at work. Getting home to the goodies purchased on the island (and one bottle picked up at Loch Fyne Whiskies en route home- see above) and sitting back with a large dram of the Caol Ila Festival Bottling, we thought we’d put together a summary of the interesting bottlings that we’re released in 2010 and, with the festival not yet over, some exclusives of the ones that are yet to come... Let’s start with day one, which was the Lagavulin Open Day. Here we picked up two bottles, the single cask Festival Bottling, selected by the amazing Iain “Pinkie” McArthur. Released at £74.99 and limited to around 525 bottles (we can’t remember the exact figure) distilled in 1994 and bottled in 2010 the cask (number 3210) is an ex European oak. Their Distillery Only bottling is a cask strength, double matured, no age statement whisky which retails at £69. I heard someone from the distillery mention that there were only 1,000 cases of this (6,000 bottles) but I don’t know how true that is. You can read our notes on this bottling here. The Festival Bottling sold out before the end of the day, the first time I’ve seen this with their Feis Ile release. Usually the release is available for a couple of days after their open day but this year it seemed to fly off the shelves. Maybe people have been reading notes on how good these bottlings are. You can read our previous notes on 2008 here and last year's here. Or maybe they've been looking here. It was a similar story over at Caol Ila, with their cask strength Distillery Only bottling (bottled in 2007) This was the second year that they’d released a festival-only bottling and, much like Lagavulin, it was similar to last years release (both European oak ex- sherry casks) but the 2009 edition was distilled in December 1996 and this years was from August 1999, so just a couple of years younger and it was retailing at £74.99. Up the bay from Caol Ila is Bunnahabhain who pioneered the whole festival bottling idea under the stewardship of ex-manager John MacLellan, who is now up at Kilchoman. The previous couple of years has seen the price of their festival bottling rocket, but this year they’re releasing a single cask 18yo Pedro Ximinez Finish, 384 bottles at £85. Back on course with something interesting and well priced. The bottle went on sale at the start of the week, but it has been so popular that they’ve stopped selling it to hold some back for their open day tomorrow (bottles available from 10am). A doff of the cap to the chaps at Bunnahabhain. Apologies for the lack of bottle shot here. As mentioned John MacLellan is now up at Kilchoman and they’re doing their first ever festival bottling this year, a single cask at £55. Distilled in 2007 the bottling will be at 62.2%, drawn from a Bourbon cask (no: 11307) and limited to 258 bottles. A good price but it will be young, of course! We hope to bring you some tasting notes of this shortly (as well as a bottle shot!!) Heading down the road to Bruichladdich, they knocked out two bottles this year. The first was the excellent (or not so excellent, depending on which blog you read!) Islay Barley 2004 Valinch. Another fill-your-own bottling from the chaps at ‘Laddich, this 6 year old retailed at £55 for 50cl. Last year was a 1993 single cask for the same money (except there was a buy two for £100 deal which legally they’re no longer allowed to do. Something to do with the government’s anti-binge drinking policy. The phrase “cracking a walnut with a sledgehammer” comes to mind!) They also snuck out another very limited bottling which was only available to people with a ticket for the Renegade Rum Masterclass. This was a 20 Year Old Rum Finish single cask of just 105 bottles at 55.5%. Around the bay to Bowmore and they’ve wrestled the prize for “most expensive festival bottling” away from Bunnahabhain (but only just! More on that later...) by putting out a 25 Year Old at £325. To be fair, there is only 100 bottles of this and they have offered another bottling, batch 2 of their excellent Tempest (batch one review here) which will run to just 500 bottles and comes with a signed certificate, all for just £45. Nice. Jura aren't doing a specific FI bottling but have elected to release Prophecy, a heavily peated batch and also the Boutique range, which will be part of their on-going range in the future. Onward to the two Kildalton distilleries we’ve not yet covered; Laphroaig and Ardbeg. Laphroaig have settled nicely into a consistent release schedule for the Feis Ile, again shifting out a bottle of Càirdéas, this time their Master Edition for £45. Bottled at 57.3%, the whiskies in this edition range from 11 to 19 years in age, as opposed to last year's definitive 12 yo version. No info on how many bottles, but it will be available through the Friends of Laphroaig online shop after the Feis Ile. We'll have some further notes on this bottling shortly. Finally, we finish at Ardbeg who have their open day on Saturday. This effectively brings the festival to a close, along with the final fling and with the 10th Anniversary of the Committee, the buzz of excitement is enormous. Earlier in the year all Committee Members were sent an official invitation to the Open Day with tear-out tickets inside for rides on the day. What will be there? Rollercoasters? Helterskelters? Skittles? Wack The Rat? Who knows! But it sounds like it’ll be a lot of fun. Whilst we were on Islay, we managed to try a sample of a Distillery-Only 10yo release, which had just sold out when we arrived on Saturday (RRP £180) No doubt there will be other releases like this in the future. Notes below: Ardbeg - 'Distillery Only' Single Cask - Refill Sherry Hogshead - Cask 2763 - distilled 14th September 1998 - Bottled 5th November 2009- 55.6% vol - 70cl A note on the colour: much darker than the standard issue 10 year old Nose: An immediate dusty nature with the nose, hints of sandalwood and cedar. Then the smoke hits in a soft and delicate way - hidden behind the smoke some fruity notes emerge, predominantly over ripe bananas and apricot. Palate: The first full scale flavour is the fruit, the apricot coming at you head on, using smoke as its engine. Then it starts to heat up, with notes of red chilli and cracked black pepper. With water, the fruits are enhanced and hints of soil and earth appear. Finish: The smoke really takes hold now and it becomes quite firey on the finish. A last minute delivery of salt hits the mouth at the death. Lots of salt and perhaps a touch of the fruit again right at the end. With water, the saltiness is slightly reduced, creating a better balance overall. Overall: A pretty solid single cask release from Ardbeg. Our personal preference is for refill bourbon over sherry casked Ardbeg, but this is decent. More like the Corryvreckan and less like the standard Ten, if we were to compare with the standard releases. One thing we do know about is Ardbeg's Festival Bottling for 2010. (see a sneak preview of the bottle above) Last year they released a Feis Ile pair of 2 single casks, 1189 and 1190, both ten years old (from 1998) and in toasted oak which went out at £130 a bottle. This year's release is another single cask bottling. Whoop! Cask 2761 from 1995, a refill bourbon cask. As it happens, we were lucky enough to try this at last year's festival at the Twisted Tasting during the Open Day. Back then it was called The Warehouseman’s Special and here are our notes- Perhaps it will taste even better now it's bottled. Ardbeg - Warehouseman's Special - 1995 refill bourbon - 53.7% - cask 2761 (now Ardbeg Feis Ile Bottling 2010 and bottled at 53.3%) Nose: Superb vanilla + fudge ice cream over flambéed bananas, coffee revels fresh orange juice, pepper. Fresh chopped mix herbs. Palate: Heather infused fudge, caramels (hints of burnt sugar?), soft peat, effortlessly sweet notes, into bitterness. Malty cereals. The peat takes time to appear but breaks through to be fairly delicate and well balanced. Finish: Classic soft Ardbeg fudge, smoke and light elegant peat. Juice from tinned pineapples / a hint of citrus. Overall: Another sensational dram fresh from the warehouse. We have a soft spot for refill bourbon cask Ardbegs which gives excellent vanilla, citrus and tobacco notes to the peaty spirit. They’ve squeezed out 228 bottles from the cask and this will be retailing at £220. Okay...here's the issue. This is a MASSIVE price rise on last year's releases- especially when you consider that you could have got 2 single casks for virtually the price of just this one! As most of you already know, the team at the distillery are truly wonderful hosts and from what we've heard, they've worked tirelessly to make this year's open day, also the 10th Anniversary of the committee, the most spectacular yet. I think it is a shame to couple all their hard work and efforts with a bottling that, from our point of view, doesn't offer value for money, especially considering its age and the Feis Ile bottlings released by the other distilleries. Come on LVMH! Sort it out for next year!! Don't let price ruin such a wonderful event. Take a leaf out of everyone else's book and provide something which is easier on the pocket and a true reward for those partaking in what is always such a wonderful open day. **UPDATE** We're hearing reports that the Ardbeg festival bottling was actually re-priced at the last minute to £125. Fair play here, a much more reasonable price and something for the real fans. Apparently there was a few folks waiting in line from the night before. That's dedication for you! Anyway, we're not there. We're stuck here, away from all the undoubted merriment. Whisky always tastes that little bit better at the distillery so to everyone who is visiting the island over the next few days, leave all your troubles on the mainland and have a wonderful relaxing time. Good luck to all the distilleries who have open days still to run (Jura, Bunnahabhain and of course, Ardbeg and we'll see you all again in 2011!

Kiefer Sutherland's Former NYC Home is Back on the Market The beautiful Greenwich Village townhouse is on the market for $22 million. Sutherland gut-renovated the home when he sold it two years ago. Sutherland originally bought the townhouse for $8.2 million back in 2008. He then hired designer Steven Gambrel to do a gut renovation, turning it into the cozy yet elegant home that we see today. The house has five bedrooms, 5.5 baths and 4,750 square feet spread across six stories. There's a roof deck, sauna and elevator, and the rooms are appointed with lovely arched doors and crown moldings. Unlike some celebrity homes, which are designed to the point of "look but don't touch," every room in this townhouse looks inviting. We credit the ambiance to the rustic wood floors and the working fireplaces, of which there are plenty. To see for yourself, check out our gallery below.

Frances Morgan - Sight and Sound "A stunning new British documentary” Jasper Sharp - Writer and film curator, Midnight Eye "A mysterious and compelling meditation on sound, song, story, ritual, performance, nature, tradition and Japanese Buddhism." Gaetano Kazuo Maida - Executive Director, Buddhist Film Foundation, Inc. DVD available in North America from the International Buddhist Film Foundation We are delighted to announce that an NTSC DVD of KanZeOn is now available in North America from Festival Media, the distribution arm of the International Buddhist Film Foundation. We are very happy to join their wonderful catalogue of Buddhist-related films and look forward to continuing to take part in their touring festivals. This edition of the DVD includes a newly created conversation between the Directors, containing unreleased footage from our shoots in Japan, as well as amoeba.av’s audio-visual remix of the film. KanZeOn (and Neil) goes to Vilnius – and news of an award… We are very grateful to have had the opportunity to present KanZeOn this last weekend as part of the NowJapan Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was an interesting new experience to be part of a festival not only consisting of films, and the diversity of Japanese-related arts on offer was fantastic to behold. Perhaps the most unexpected experience of the festival was Sako Kojima‘s performance “The Reason Why I Become A Hamster”, which was both mesmerizing and moving, at the same time as perhaps also serving as an inspiration for everyone involved in the festival – she was working so hard all day nibbling and scratching that I felt guilty whenever I walked past about being a bit tired. Image: Kazimiero Šešelgio c/o NowJapan A continual fascination for me throughout the weekend was seeing how Lithuanian culture met Japanese culture, and I got to appreciate this to the fullest in the performance of Gediminas Sederevičius and Raimondas Binkauskas. Gediminas’ shakuhachi playing was wonderfully subtle and sensitive in its texture, with occasional beautiful bursts of more European melodies, whilst Raimondas skillfully created endlessly changing landscapes of vibration moving around a collection of bells and gongs and other percussion not too dissimilar to what we used on the KanZeOn soundtrack – here’s a little video that they feature in. The final evening’s performance by Kaori Ito created a suitably emotional pinnacle to the festival, using what felt like some kind of psychological kung-fu combining dance and music with humour and poetry to leave me close to tears – a feeling apparently shared by other members of the audience as they ran onto the stage to hug and kiss her in thanks before she left. And this was all despite losing half her luggage in transit containing essential elements of the show, so as well as paying tribute to her artistry in the face of adversity this triumphant finale was also testament to the grand organisational achievements of the whole NowJapan team, especially having seen close-up the logistical nightmares they were facing in the run-up to this final show. Image: Kazimieras Šešelgis c/o NowJapan Many many thanks to so many new friends – Sergej, Indre and the rest of the NowJapan team and volunteers, especially Jonas; Aine, for being such a kind and generous host, and Ineza for making such a good choice of where I should stay; special mention has to go to Alexey – The King of the Sauna – for such a wonderful experience, in the course of which it was also a delight to be able to meet Aus and Cuushe and close a little mutual friend circle demonstrated by this video from Kidkanevil. And then in the midst of tiredness upon returning home, it was an invigorating delight to see that The Creeping Garden had received the award for Best Documentary Feature Director at Fantastic Fest – Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp, Award-Winning Directors! The Creeping Garden – a new film by Tim Grabham / cinema iloobia and Jasper Sharp About to enjoy its world premiere as part of the Fantasia Film Festival, The Creeping Garden is a new film directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp, with an original soundtrack by Jim O’Rourke, depicting the world of myxomycetes, or plasmodial slime moulds, and the diverse array of research currently being conducted around them. Kidkanevil – Shunkanido Video by iloobia Kidkanevil, who provided us with a remix for our ReIndications project, recently asked for a video for the track Shunkanido from his new album, My Little Ghost, so delving into the archive of unused KanZeOn footage, iloobia put together these abstracted views from Shinkansen journeys that he captured while shooting the film… Tatsumi: Travel Through Worlds Please see below for news and music from Tatsumi – the beatboxing monk who features in KanZeOn. From Monastery To BandCamp Via Hospital Bed: Meet Tatsumi The Skateboarding Monk Making Brilliant Electronic Music Here is an interview taken from the article linked above Can you remember when you first felt the urge to make music? Since I was in the womb, my mother used to hold speakers up against her stomach so that I could hear music. Because my mother was working for Yamaha, my experience of music was chosen with a certain care when I was young – for example listening to classical music and learning to play an electric organ. So from that time I could play whatever melody popped into my head, or make my own arrangement of classical music, and that gave me a playful understanding of making music. Then from the third year of elementary school (age 9/10), I started seeing hip-hop music on TV and began listening to club music after that. That experience had a big impact on me wanting to make music, and also the way that I do it. When I make a track, I don’t decide the style beforehand. It’s more that when I’m making the track on my computer, I try to compose something that reflects an image and enjoy how the music comes into my mind. There are many styles for making tracks, and so rather than just deciding on one genre, I want to make whatever comes to me, all genres. At what age did you become a monk? I became a monk at the age of 15. I also started DJing from the age of 15. Have your temple been supportive of you making / performing music? I am definitely supported. People sometimes say I am a monk and a musician. But in my own temple, there aren’t many musical events. For example, listening to J-pop and club music is popular with people who are 20-30 years old. Listening to J-pop or The Beatles or Western music is more popular with people who are 40-50. For people who are 60, 70 or 80, they listen to Japanese folk music or Buddhist music or classical music and so sometimes we have classical or folk song concerts at the temple because of the age of most of the people who come there. In the KanZeOn film we see you beatboxing in the forest, on the mountain etc – is this making music with nature something that you do very often? I am not thinking about it every day when I am creating music, but when I get inspiration or an idea from being in nature then I will make something. When I want a more natural mood, I will go to be in nature to do some production, when I want to do production in the studio I’ll go to the studio, when I want to go to my house or my friend’s house, then I’ll go there to make music. Neil tells me you are involved with skating, DJing etc in the city of Kumamoto – how often have you been able to get away from the temple to be involved with these things? Yes, I am involved with street culture in Kumamoto, especially skating. I have been asked to make tracks for various skate shops or teams, or fashion shops or free magazines. I am a monk in the temple from morning til night, but then I use the free time at night for musical activities. But then I have to be back at the temple in time to start early in the morning. How many tracks have you made now as a producer? I don’t know, because I am making new tracks all the time! Why did you not think of releasing the tracks to the wider world before now? I had wanted to release the music before, and even though there was no shame when people listened to it, it is only now that I feel like my level of skill went up enough to want everyone around the world to hear it. What do you hope listeners to get from listening to your tracks? First of all, I want you to hear it in your ear, and then hear it in your head and your heart and try to imagine the image of the music. I want you to feel like you can almost watch the music. Most of all, I want people around the world to take some comfort from the music and to enjoy it. Summer Screenings and more… Much to our delight, screenings of the film have been continuing to happen all over the world…One that we were able to attend was a very special event at the Asylum Chapel as part of the Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival. Many thanks to all involved, especially Jasper Sharp for instigating the event, and also to Thames Taiko for their magnificent performance. And you might like to head on over to a new website for The Creeping Garden, which is currently in production… KanZeOn Restrukture performed by Amoeba AV March 17th saw the new incarnation of Amoeba AV’s Restrukture and reinterpretation of KanZeOn presented in East London by the Live Cinema Foundation. Completely re-imagining the film and integrating live mixing, animated text and all manner of other Amoeba alchemy, this was a true feast for eyes, ears and brain. It has already evolved from the version available on the KanZeOn DVD release and the real joy in all this is how Amoeba continues to rework the film and make it his own while still maintaining the essence of the original 86 minute incarnation. Many thanks to all who worked to make this happen and for more of Amoeba’s work, take a trip to http://www.theestateovcreation.co.uk KanZeOn (and Neil) goes to San Francisco… At the invitation of the International Buddhist Film Festival, I was very grateful to be able to travel to San Francisco to present two screenings of KanZeOn as part of this latest installment of their peripatetic festival – KanZeOn had previously been included in their programme for London and Bangkok. No sooner had I arrived than I was off to the first screening at the Smith Rafael Film Center. The film was very warmly received, with lots of highly knowledgeable questions afterwards attesting to the large population of Buddhist practitioners in the Bay area. My week in the city was then dovetailed by another screening at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. On both occasions it was an honour for KanZeOn to be presented alongside Naomi Kawase’s incredibly beautiful and moving film Mogari no Mori (The Mourning Forest). Just before I left San Francisco I was delighted to come across the following write-up of the film that had come out in conjunction with the screenings – many thanks to Joe Bendel for these words, and also of course to Tano and Ayelet from IBFF for all of their efforts with the screenings. IBFF Showcase ’13 (SF Bay Area): KanZeOn He might sound like a character from Mad TV, but the hip hop Buddhist priest is a perfect example of how the traditional and the modern peacefully coexist in Japan. He will be one of our guides in Tim Grabham & Neil Cantwell’s KanZeOn, a ruminative documentary-essay exploration of the relationship between Buddhism and music in Japanese culture, which screens during the 2013 International Buddhist Film Festival Showcase in the Bay Area. KanZeOn is another word for the Buddhist embodiment of compassion. It is often written in a way that evokes sound and visual beauty. There are many enchanting sounds in KanZeOn, such as Eri Fujii’s shō. At least in small doses, the pipe instrument has an eerie splendor and of course it has an origin based in legend. Just as Fujii often plays to the accompaniment of nature’s ambient noise, Akinobu Tatsumi also beatboxes to the sounds of the great outdoors. Buddhism and music are his family traditions. He has his share of stories too, such as how his temple’s ancient bell was saved from the scrap metal drive during WWII. Watching him give a hip hop presentation to a ladies society is quite a sight to behold, but it clearly appeals to Grabham and Cantwell’s sensibilities. Without Buddhism there could be no Noh theater explains kotsuzumi drummer Akihiro Iitomi, KanZeOn’s third POV figure. There is a marked austerity to the music he plays for his company’s productions, yet he is a regular visitor to the Dolphy Jazz Bar, where the music swings pretty hard from what we hear. Again, tradition and modernity meet. KanZeOn is surprisingly avant-garde in its conception, but strikingly elegant in its execution. In fact, it compares quite favorably to Castaing-Taylor and Paravel’s deliberately obscure Leviathan opening today in New York. Frankly, there are times when it is impossible to tell whether their camera is above or below the ocean. Whereas that over-hyped commercial fishing doc is all about how they problematize the viewing experience, KanZeOn will work with audiences willing to meet it halfway. Much like Tatsumi, Grabham and Cantwell demonstrate a hip hop tendency to sample and juxtapose. Yet, the music, stories, and lush natural scenery always give viewers plenty to hold onto. Indeed, those scenes of light rain falling on Shinto shrines look wonderfully inviting after a long day of urban bustle. More importantly, for the spiritually inclined or questioning, there are plenty of take-aways to be found sprinkled throughout the film in unlikely places. Defying easy categorization, KanZeOn has an impressionistic you-are-there sense of Japan and the rituals it observes. It might not be a broadly-based destination film at the IBFF Showcase (such as Mindfulness and Murder, The Great Pilgrim, and Digital Dharma), but those interested in the festival’s themes will likely get quite a bit out of it. Recommended accordingly, KanZeOn screens this Sunday (3/3) at the Smith Rafael Film Center and next Saturday (3/9) at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Visit locations from KanZeOn We have recently put together a list of locations from the film for the London website of the Japan National Tourism Organisation, with links to an accompanying map. You can find the full details of all the locations listed here. ‘End of Year Review’ We are very grateful to Joe Muggs for writing a very kind review of the KanZeOn DVD/CD release for The Arts Desk website, which you can read here. The article includes two exclusive music tracks to freely download featuring the sho playing of Eri Fujii, which were recorded as part of the preparatory research for the film. Joe writes in many different places, but his own website veryverymuch.com is something of a treasure trove for more extended reads, and if you happen to visit there then the El-B Mundo Musica Cumbia Mix is absolutely essential… Joe Muggs writes: “KanZeOn is one of my favourite films – not just music films, but in any genre – of the past year. Not quite documentary, not quite art film, not quite music video, it’s a slow, abstract audiovisual love poem to Japan and its relationship to sound and music. For the most part it shows three main characters (see the description by co-director Neil Cantwell below), playing music and narrating their understanding of that music – but in so doing, it tells us a vast amount about Japanese culture, psychology and spirituality, as well as showing some of the most stunning sacred places and areas of natural beauty I’ve ever seen on film. “I was lucky enough to see a very early showing of the film at the ICA right at the end of 2011, together with talks from the directors Cantwell and Tim Grabham and performances by Akinobu Tatsumi the “hip hop monk” who appears in the film (all pictured at the ICA, right). I was completely enchanted not just by the film but by the amount of love and knowledge the filmmakers had for their subject, and the sense of community they had built up among an extended family of musicians and collaborators, including the Leeds electronica/hiphop DJ/producer Gerard Roberts aka Kidkanevil who (along with Laurent Fintoni of Original Cultures) had alerted me to the project in the first place and who contributes to the remixes and reinterpretations on the CD which comes with the film’s DVD. “Since then, I have watched the DVD near weekly and never tired of it, always finding it as rewarding as the first time. It’s not faultless by any means: there is clearly a lot of improvisation going on in the filmmaking process, and though the experiments often work brilliantly the electronic processing of sound and image can on occasion get in the way of appreciating the musical moment. This is, though, never enough to break the overall atmosphere of the film, which is utterly absorbing, and takes you into a world of evolving tonality where human-created sound is at one with its environment, and so dramatically removed from our conceptions of melody and rhythm that it sometimes feels like hearing music for the first time. I’m extremely happy, then, that Cantwell offered us these two tracks from his early research work in Japan, which each capture just a little of that feeling.” “Immanent” – Shinekosei & Eri Fujii + Koichi Yuasa: keyboard, Neil Cantwell: beats & samples, Eri Fujii: sho “Minor” (field recording) – Dissolvingpath & Eri Fujii + Neil Cantwell: guitar, Eri Fujii: sho Neil Cantwell’s commentary: “All of the three main characters in KanZeOn come from musical connections that I made while living in Japan in the course of doing research about the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage and Japanese Religion more generally. Akihirio Iitomi was my teacher when I spent six months studying the Kotsuzumi drum with him. I met Akinobu Tatsumi through making tracks and playing shows with him via our mutual friend Koichi Yuasa (Ko), who I was making music with as Shinekosei. It was performing with Ko that also led me to meet Eri Fujii – we played a concert at a venue in Fukuoka called art space tetra and Eri also happened to be on the bill playing the sho, a rare and ancient Chinese bamboo wind instrument. “Having been completely blown away by her performance, I approached her to ask about the possibility of working on some music together and not long after Ko and I went to stay with her for a few days. These tracks are the results of that time we spent together, although we actually spent very little time playing music and now those days are more memorable to me for the incredible religious sites she took me to, including the cave that ended up in the film. Both Ko and myself were incredibly affected by the overpowering religious atmosphere of where she lives, in a beautiful little house next to a huge lake formed by a dam – the first track is the three of us together, and then Ko was having a little sleep when Eri and I played the second track, during which a huge thunderstorm began, which was completely awe-inspiring, sat there with the doors open onto the lake as Eri somehow distilled the atmosphere into her sho, and I tried to keep up…”

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Villars: Chalet "Sapin Bleu". Above Villars, in the district of La Résidence, in a quiet, sunny position, in the countryside, south facing position. In the house: lift, storage room for skis, washing machine. In Winter: please take snow chains. Public parking. Shop 2.6 km, grocery 1.3 km, restaurant 1.9 km, bakery 1.9 km, bus stop 1.9 km, railway station "Villars" 2.9 km, thermal baths "Lavey-les-bains" 19 km. Sports harbour 25 km, golf course (18 hole) 8 km, indoor tennis centre 3 km, sports centre 3 km, mountain railway 2.9 km, ski lift 2.5 km, gondola lift 1.4 km, ski bus stop 1.5 km, ski school 2.8 km, children's ski school 3 km, ice field 2.6 km, children's playground 3.2 km. Please note: car recommended. Free ski bus service to the ski region Villars. Please note: There are more similar properties for rent in this same residence. "Sapin Bleu", 2-room apartment 60 m2 on 1st floor, south facing position. Beautiful and cosy furnishings: living/dining room with 1 pull-out bed, open-hearth fireplace and satellite TV. Exit to the balcony. 1 room with 2 beds. Open kitchen (4 hot plates, oven, dishwasher, electric coffee machine). Bath/WC. Small balcony 10 m2, south facing position. Very beautiful panoramic view of the mountains. Facilities: Internet (WiFi, free). Garage space n 6, height 200 cm, width 470 cm. Maximum 1 pet/ dog allowed. Property Type: Apartment Number of Rooms: 2 60 Square Meters Interhome Quality Rating: 3 Star: Comfortable furnishings. Comfortable and tasteful. Above average standard. Ideal for guests who enjoy a nice, comfortable vacation home. * ski : 1.4 kilometers * publictransport : 1.9 kilometers * golf : 7 kilometers Property Attributes: bath, petsallowed, hikingmountains, hikingplains, nordicwalking, mountainbike, crosscountryski, icerink, skiarea, snowboard, toboggan, winterwalkingpath, golfing, riding, elevator, balcony, dishwasher, fireplace, parking, tv, washingmachine, internet, wlan, oven Additional Features: Allianz cancellation insurance Included in the price, Pet Included in the price, Wireless internet access (WIFI) Included in the price Additional Services Available for a Fee: Cot (up to 2 years) Resort: 1'250 - 2'200 m a.s.l. >>Well-known, cosy, family friendly holiday resort, in a busy, convenient position with beautiful view, 125 km from GenFve, 62 km from Lausanne, 33 km from Montreux. In the resort: shops, grocers, butchers, bakers, boutiques, post office, bank, restaurant, bar, disco, evening entertainment. Indoor pool, wellness centre, fitness centre, sauna, sun bed, massage. Besides: chemist, doctor. More possibilities. Access: motorway A9, exit number "Aigle" 14 m from Villars. Access via a winding mountain road. Access by train Bex - Gryon - Villars-Bretaye. Railway station in the resort. Bus service. For arrivals by plane: airport Geneve (GVA) 125 km. Since 1998, the resort has been known as one of the best Swiss resorts for families. Some shops offer discounts on goods and on equipment hire. To be reserved from the Interhome office prior to your arrival and delivered to your apartment:firewood, TV. Tel 024/495 14 86 Fax 024/495 76 48. On request: hire of extra beds and cots. Thermal swimming pool in Lavey (19 km). Resort in Summer: All watersports available in Villeneuve - Le Bouveret 25 - 30 km. Tennis (5 outdoor courts, 3 indoor courts), squash, golf course 18 hole 7 km. Riding. Fitness course. Summer skiing 41 km. Paragliding. 300 km walking path, mountain tours, climbing. Mountain bike tracks, bicycles and mountain bikes for hire. Children's playground, kindergarten, amusement park "Parc Aventure, Aigle" 20 km. Villars is lucky to be part of a wine region and has a unique climate. An aperitif concert is arranged by the Tourist office every Wednesday for tasting local produce. Resort in Winter: Ski region Villars-Les Diablerets. 1 mountain lift, 3 cable cabins, 8 chair lifts, 21 drag lifts. 72 ski runs, total length 225 km, snowboard piste, snow park, halfpipe. Ski school (downhill, cross country), snowboard school, childrens ski school, ski kindergarten. 44 km high altidude pistes, ski walking paths, winter walking paths. Toboggan-runs. Sports centre. Ice rink, 3 courts indoor tennis hall, squash. Ski bus (free of charge). Further skiing: Les Portes du Soleil at 40 km. In winter snow chains necessary. Ski pass special offer: 10% discount on ski passes from 6 days or more, must be booked before departure.

We spend four days at prague, the perla hotel is in the cener between Vaslav sq. And the old city, close to evreything. We had so much fun in this hotel and in prague, the hotel is very clean and have WiFi all around with free access. The breakfast is good with fresh food. - Official Description (provided by the hotel): - Centrally located boutique hotel, with unusual design, personal services. Ideal also for romantic couples and family reunions. Guests appreciate location in the historical city centre, easy access, great value for money, rich breakfast. Guest can relax in sauna or train in gym. Free WiFi in public areas and rooms. ... more less - Reservation Options: - TripAdvisor is proud to partner with Expedia, Travelocity, T4B, Hotels.com, Priceline, Despegar.com, TripOnline SA and Booking.com so you can book your Perla reservations with confidence. We help millions of travelers each month to find the perfect hotel for both vacation and business trips, always with the best discounts and special offers. - Also Known As: - Perla Hotel Prague - Hotel Perla Prague

Zander learned to ride his bike without training wheels! We went for a hike with Lincoln and Jen, it was a bit more uphill then the reviews I had read but the big kids did great and Sophia got Jen to carry her for large portions of the hike. Zach lost another tooth on our first trip with our new camper! Olivia completed her daycamp. The three big kids took their first ever swim lessons, Sophie and I watched from the side of the pool. We went to Antelope Island, it was hot and the little flies freaked Sophia out! On last trip to the aquarium before it closed to move closer to us! Back to school night paper work. Our big 1st grader. Our sassy 3rd grader. First day for all three big kids! Sophie and I spend the morning rearranging the linen closet. Camping up a local canyon, the woolly worm was a huge hit. Rob’s helpers while canning the peaches off our trees. Excursion to Yukon Territory, BC The little tourist trap we stopped at was really lame but I got to hold a puppy that will be trained for the Iditarod, so that was awesome. On our train ride back we got a glimpse of the real trail, I can’t even imagine taking it on foot… A not so great picture of a whale. Our plates from the fancy chocolate buffet night, sadly not much of it tasted that great. On our actual anniversary we went to a super yummy Teppanyaki dinner. In Victoria, BC Last night on board the ship from Victoria, to Seattle. Beautiful view of Mount Rainier as we flew into Seattle. The best Ivars (on the waterfront in Seattle). I love feeding french fries to the Ivars seagulls. My first taxi cab ride! In Ketchikan, Alaska! It was so green, plants were growing everywhere. Our day trip in Juneau was to this beautiful glacier, there were tons of these beautiful flowers. After the morning in Juneau we were back on the ship to go see another glacier, it was beautiful outside so I got some reading in while Rob hung out in the sauna. The ship wasnt able to get very close to the glacier due to the weather and little icebergs but the ride in was amazing. “Hiking” Silver Lake with Jen and Lincoln, I am sad we didn’t make it up there more this summer. “Hiking” Cascade Springs, again sad we didn’t make it there more often. We love Family Nights at Thanksgiving Point (even more when our friends join us!) I took the kids to the zoo by myself, it was our first trip without the stroller and by myself and it went great. It was one of those days I felt like I was really starting to get this whole motherhood thing. The kids went to day camps at Thanksgiving Point this summer, Zach loved his magician one. We stopped to see the Provo temple getting built, it is going to be beautiful! We threw a fun House Party the day before we flew off to Alaska. I took the kids tot the Children’s Museum once we were back from our cruise, the younger three love it there. Spring means the pelicans come back to the ponds in our neighborhood! Trip up to the Salt Lake City Temple to see the flowers. Zander can be a bit crazy! Cute preschool Mother’s Day program, Zander gave sweet answers to the questions, too! Another visit to see Great Grandpas’s goats, this was a brand new baby. The 2nd grade put on a program, it was crowded and hot but Olivia did great. Zach’s kindergarten class program, he did great as well. These two LOVED walking to the bus stop. All done with 2nd grade and Kindergarten! Before church the day after the baptism So proud of my sweet girl Trying to take a family picture after Olivia’s baptism Easter Egg “hunt” in downtown Lehi Super full bathtub Olivia and me at Disney on Ice At Farm Country So fun to have a daughter who loves American Girl doll books and clothes and LalaLoopsy dolls, she is super easy to shop for Blowing out her candles Sophie sat still long enough for me to get a ponytail in Having a mystery food dinner Warming up a bit in the smelly reptile animal house at the zoo There was still a lot of snow at the zoo but we got to see some animals moving about that are normally sleeping Enjoying the zoo on President’s Day Happy 6th Birthday to our Zachary! Super excited to get a beyblade Children’s Museum for Zach’s birthday Making hearts with reasons why we love each other for our bedroom doors

We all know about the whole ‘end of times’ scenario, we’ve seen ‘The Rapture’ not come & then go, the Mayans got it wrong too (we should have all died off seven months ago according to the dates compared with our calendar!). Well, here’s a new take on the whole idea of the end being very bloody nigh; The Revelation Chronicles. Some of you may have already read John Prescott’s Pray, if you have you’d know that it has a very vivid & prophetic feel to the book. I asked John about the idea behind the book when I bought a copy of my own as soon as it was published in 2010, he explained things so well that I had to go & read The Revelations for myself (I hadn’t read it previously being the lapsed catholic that I am!)…. Pray really followed them to a tee & to be frank, the book astounded me in the way Prescott weaved every possible element of the original prophecies into the narrative. It was easy for me to get to know the characters & begin to vie for them on their perilous journey through America. Even the ‘look’ of the characters came across well; when the picture (below) of one of the main characters Roxi was exactly as I had pictured her whilst reading. It was damn spooky! So, I asked John if he’d write a little something about the trilogy & how he came to even glimpse the idea…this is what he sent. I was fine when asked to write a blog post about my two novels, Pray and Hell, but a quick sense of intimidation spread quickly after responding with Emma when she asked: “Tell us what you write and why as well.” I’ve thought long and hard on this for the past week. What comes afterword is probably the most honest bio I’ve ever wrote. It might be lengthy, but it’s all Emma’s fault. She was the one who said, ‘Fill up the page.’ So blame her if you are stuck reading this and it takes time out of your day from your daily chores or soaks up your reading time. I’m going to write the ‘why’ first because it seems logical for me to do that. I’m the youngest of three. I and my brother, who is now deceased, are adopted. My sister is the only one who is full blood, but that doesn’t mean I love her any less. We are close, and I have no recollection of my birth parents. I was brought into my parent’s home at 3 months old so I know nothing else, nor do I care to. There is a significant age gap between us. My sister is 17 years older and my brother was 10. So after my brother went off to college I was stuck as an only child. I was spoiled no less or no more than any other ‘only’ child and we lived out in the country. We had neighbours who lived directly across the road and they had kids my age. We spent countless afternoons together playing, laughing, and doing the normal things that parents don’t need to see their children doing. But they were semi-farmers and they had lots of chores and that left me that ‘only child’ alone many times so I had to entertain myself, and now that I think about it and look back on it with an outside eye looking in I think it all stems from that. I fell in love with books at a very early age. My brothers books which were hand me downs were joyously received and I got to know the small town library very well. I don’t know exactly what age I learned to read, but I do know it was early. I grew up in the church and I read (or so I’m told) to the congregation from the Bible at age four. I also had plenty of records that were narration of the old stories, and the first one that I recall ever really attaching myself to was Puff the Magic Dragon, which I think had an etching and burning effect on my brain and caused my love for dragons and fantasy. It had a long narrated story and then the well-known popular song afterwards. I couldn’t tell you or begin to even count the times I listened to that record. This was quickly followed by Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, and my most prized, a Halloween record that had over an hour’s worth of narrated scenes from the traditional monsters and sound effects. It scared me green, but I couldn’t help but listen to it. It drew me in. I listened to that record at least as much as I did the Puff one, thus spawning my love for horror. I don’t know why and I can’t tell you where it came from either, but there has always been something driving within me that wanted more; to see other journeys those characters were taking. I call it an over abundant fountain of creativity, and so I created my own. I have four 90-minute audio cassettes that have an entire Star Wars saga that takes place after the Empire Strikes Back movie. Yes, I told them in real time with no script and on the fly, and I had both album soundtracks right by tape recorder and used them literally on my record player for theme music as I was telling the story. There are a lot of errors, blank spaces where you can hear me turning on the record player, the occasional chime of the clock, and the familiar scratching sound that only the LP’s make when you put the needle down on the record, but I love them for their honesty and memories. I also love art, so much so I went to art school. I love looking at anything created in the visual medium be it painted, sculpted, or drawn. It’s an easy guess and no brainer that I love comics. I had quite a collection but like my brother I handed them down to my nephew and moved on. I also had a heavy interest in RPG’s (role playing games). I was introduced to Dungeons and Dragons around 7th grade and there that red dragon drawn by Larry Elmore sat on the cover just beckoning me to jump into this fantastical world, and I did with both feet. I played a lot of games but that creative spark was always there and I wanted more. So I began running my own games. It was the thrill of creating something that was my own that really drove me, and to my amazement, people enjoyed it. This creative spark led to a lifelong dream that I have accomplished; I produced and published my own role-playing game with many supplements. It was well received and is still selling well in the digital realm. To this day I still get asked “When are you going to come game with us and run something?” I’ve come to realize and recognize that if I’m not creating something or if my mind isn’t thinking on something new I get in a stale mood, a mind fog, or as some would call it, a funk. It was during one of these times after the self-produced role-playing game was going strong that I needed to start something else to feed my creative impulse. I got to thinking what could I do that could encompass both the fantasy realm and the horror realm with maybe a very light touch of sci-fi thrown in. It was during a move while I was unpacking that I picked up a Bible out one of my many boxes of books. I remember I got a call and set the Bible down on the corner of the moving box and before the call was over it had fallen on the floor with its pages splayed open. I picked it up and it was opened to the book of Revelation, the very exact chapter of the verse that starts off Pray. I remember reading that verse first and instantly ideas slammed into my brain like they were fired from a Gatling gun. I would say in about an hour I had the whole trilogy laid out from start to finish. But life had other plans and I let the idea go. I started to get serious about writing very soon after that. I self-published a book of short stories first and got some of my other stories published. Then I decided I wanted to write a novel. But what should I write about? Like all good ideas that are tucked away and left to simmer the trilogy came roaring back and I set myself to the task. I did a ton of research for these novels; over 500 hours to be exact. Yes, I kept a log. But there was a problem. I couldn’t think of a way to start it. I know what had to happen, but how to get there to start it? I also needed another main character, a female one to balance out things. I found the way to start thanks to YouTube and the entire wide spread theories of conspiracy. The female character happened by chance and was like most of my ideas. It came like a bullet. I was looking at a photographer’s online portfolio when an image from it struck me. It was a woman in her early twenties, but the look and mood that photograph gave me was indescribable. She was my character. Her history and how she would play out in the story came together quickly and she looked how I wanted the character to look at the end of Pray. I added a few years to her but it’s basically her all from that one photograph. For those of you who are reading this and haven’t heard about this trilogy let me take a moment to give you the spiel. The trilogy is based within the book of Revelation in the Bible. It is true the book of Revelation is scary enough, but with the keen eye on one particular verse, I think I’ve made it even scarier. That one verse allowed me to introduce werewolves, vampires, ghosts, evil faeries, and even a dragon within the trilogy’s confines. So in a nutshell the trilogy is about a band of people trying to survive the coming of the end of the world told within the book of Revelation with some unique twists thrown in. There that’s it. That is the best way I know to describe my trilogy, The Revelation Chronicles. I do want to point out that this trilogy is a horror trilogy first and foremost, however it is told from a Christian point of view and all the theology is correct as the book of Revelation goes. I will say that was one of the hardest things (the theology) to keep straight with during the writing of the three books. I wanted to do this on purpose because I felt like it deserved it and it needed to be done that way. During the writing of the first book, Pray, a couple of things have happened. I saw that the crazed ID chip is in full swing so I mirrored that in the book; specifically the college night where you can drink for free if you volunteer an ID chip to be inserted into your body. Also when our present President was running for office the internet sprang to life calling him the Antichrist. I can’t begin to tell you all the theories I’ve read about concerning the Antichrist. One of my favourites is the JFK scenario. This stems from the passage in Revelation where one of the dragons head was wounded and then miraculously healed. Tons of people thought that John F. Kennedy was going to rise up out of his coffin on the third day after he was assassinated. This however didn’t happen because if you go by the book of Revelation other things have to happen first before this happens. The second book in the trilogy, Hell is just being released so I really can’t say that anything has happened during its writing or since it infant stage of publication. What I can say is that I’ve learned a lot of things as a writer while writing the second book. This was due to a drastic story plot change about halfway through the book at one of the climatic moments. I changed the death of one my characters and while doing this it changed the rest of the book heavily, so I had to rewrite that last quarter of the book. I found out that I’m not a plotter or an outliner of story lines or plot. It took me 4 rewrites to get it how I wanted and the best came from writing from the gut like I did the first book, and how I’m writing the last book, which is over halfway done now. I promised Emma a snippet from book 3, The End of All Things and you will have it at the end of this lengthy ramble. I guess it’s time for me to say ‘what’ I write since I’ve kept you probably way too long already. But it’s very simple; I write what pleases me and what I would like to read. That’s the honest truth. For those of you who don’t know me I’m a lover of monsters. I like the things that go bump in the night and the things that lie just outside our vision. I can’t help it that I write about these things. It’s the filter God gave me and I can’t help what gets trapped there and wants to get out through my writing. I’m not a big fan of the sociopath next door or the crazed killer who just snaps one day and goes on a killing spree, and I think that comes from the state of the world we live in. We’ve become desensitized to it or I have at least. Nothing really surprises me when I hear the news of some grizzly murderer or some dastardly crime being committed by a human to another human. Many people like that sort of stuff, my editor for one and they have their own special place in literature and film. I just choose not to write about it because it doesn’t hold my interest. I mean hey, they’re human they can be killed. Give me something that can’t be killed or you have to go out of your way with a big chunk of luck or fate to kill it. Really? How many times can Jason or Michael Myers come back? I know, evidently a lot in film eh? But I do know that the mind is probably the most dangerous monster of all. Well, I guess I’ve kept you long enough. Thanks for sticking around. I hope I haven’t bored you too much and I do hope that you want to check out the trilogy and will then want to read more from this over creative brain of mine. I do want to leave you with one last thing and then what follows is a snippet from book 3 in the trilogy. I am a lover of the fantastic. Be it fantasy, horror, or sci-fi. I don’t label stories by theme or try to trap them in some philosophical category. It’s all about the story. The story comes first. I’m not a big grammar person lawyer I can bypass some mistakes, and the passive voice doesn’t really bother me too terribly much if it moves the story along and is used sparsely, BUT I know their place in writing and the weight it carries with some. But the story for me always comes first and foremost no matter how it’s told, and I think that’s that way it should be. The End of All Things Roxi looked back at the dark cloud that covered Jerusalem and shuddered. She hadn’t been inside the city since the darkness came nor did she want to. She’d heard reports that no light could penetrate the darkness. Roxi didn’t want to test that theory. She turned back to the dirt road and put her arm around Aeris as they walked. “The days are going by quickly now.” She said. Aeris nodded, “Yes, it won’t be long before the whole world converges not too far from here.” Roxi shuddered again. She kept walking and said nothing more. They walked for hours on foot. Memories of her sojourn through the Rocky Mountains came back to her while they moved westward. She wiped sweat from her brow and wondered how much longer she could take this unbearable heat from the sun. “How long is it going to feel like a sauna turned up to eleven?” “Till the end,” Aeris said. She frowned at her husband’s answer and wanted to give a quick retort but even speaking was a chore in the blazing sun. Roxi decided to save her energy. She would need it. They had miles yet to go. She kicked a rock in disgust and kept on walking. Aeris smiled at her and stifled a laugh. They chased the sun until the ground seemed to swallow the golden ball in the distance. Aeris spotted an object, which looked like a human a few hundred feet ahead of them on the side of the road. It might be a carcass now for all they knew or it might be a traveller succumbed to the inferno of the sun that was barely hanging on. In any case they hurried their pace. Roxi started gagging when they got within twenty feet of the man. Her eyes went wide at the up close sight of this unlucky person. He was laying face down in the dirt with only tattered rags for a shirt. He stunk with a rankish odor and numerous boils covered his body. Her nurse training took over and she slid her backpack off her shoulder and unzipped the top. She felt the smooth surface of one of her water bottles after only a brief second of rummaging through her pack. She pulled it out and opened the top. Roxi knelt beside the man to see if he was still alive. Her eyes roamed over his blistered body and she found herself staring at the boils he’d received from one of God’s bowl judgments. Her eyes watered because she knew from her nurses training that this man was in utter agony from the boils and the heat only compounded his pain. She reached out a hand to check his pulse when the man jerked and then shot straight up to his feet. He turned and faced them with bared dirty teeth quicker than Roxi thought possible. Roxi held out her bottled water to the man as an offering. The man swatted at the water bottle. It flew out of Roxi’s hand and emptied onto the dry heated sand. Aeris was about to step in front of Roxi but she held him fast. The boil ridden man looked at the two of them long and hard. A snarl escaped from his lips and his eyes betrayed nothing but pure hatred. Roxi stood still not knowing what the man would do but she would be ready in case he tried to lunge at her. Instead, the man raised his fist to the sky and then craned his face skyward and uttered a bunch of sounds or words, Roxi didn’t know all she did know was that whatever it was they weren’t nice in tone. “Aeris…what…what’s he doing?” she asked just above a whisper. “He’s cursing God for his sores.” The man’s words grew in pitch and he clenched his fist and shot his arm skyward again. A wettish pop filled the air. Roxi watched in horror as a boil on the man’s forearm all but exploded. Yellowish white puss ran down his arm in rivulets emptying from the ruptured boil. His screams filled the air as the sun baked the inside of his wound. He fell to the ground and kicked and rolled in what looked like to Roxi as an epileptic’s seizure, but all the while still cursing God while gnawing his own tongue. Aeris got them moving; he’d seen enough. Roxi didn’t resist his nudging. She didn’t look back as her feet raised and lowered on the hot sands of the desert leaving the man behind with his chosen torment. The only sound between the two of them was the clanking of her two swords as they chased the setting sun into the night.

Hotel Schrofenblick offers hotel accommodation in the Zillertal area. Enjoy a spot of lunch or an evening meal at this 3 star Schwendau hotel's restaurant where you're sure to find something to suit your taste. You can find a fitness center and a sauna on site so you will be able to take some time out to relax. Free Wi-Fi is provided. The hotel has a meeting room available for hire.venere.com Express check out Non-smoking rooms available Pets allowed on request. Charges may apply. Designated smoking area Get Flight + Hotel

$80,000 chandeliers, saunas and lap pools among the features of luxurious apartments at West Lakes - From: The Advertiser - January 16, 2013 IMPORTED crystal chandeliers, saunas and 360-degree views are among the indulgent features of luxury apartments for sale in West Lakes. At least three penthouses are on the market at Infinity Waters on Brebner Drv, ranging in price from $1.1m-$3m. Klemich Beachside managing director Sam Hosking is selling a sub-penthouse for $1.75m, complete with a sauna, lap pool, wine closet and "Hollywood style" walk-in wardrobes. He says many "boutique apartment blocks" do not include the luxury features found in larger buildings, such as Infinity Waters. "When you are talking in excess of $1.5m for an apartment, you expect to see things like a bathroom for every bedroom and home theatre rooms," Mr Hosking says. Refined Real Estate agent Kleo Paing is selling Apt 66/155 Brebner Drv for under $3m, and said owner-occupied apartments often featured more "top of the range" fittings and luxury features, compared to rentals. The sub-penthouse features a $100,000 sound system, a sauna, 360-degree views and crystal chandeliers worth $80,000 imported from Florida. Owners Cheryl and Bob Hendrie, who bought off the plan four years ago, say they will miss their fifth-floor penthouse. Mrs Hendrie hand-picked the fittings, while her husband said he was "dragged by the ear" to Melbourne for chandeliers imported from America. "The view at night is just spectacular," Mrs Hendrie says. "People walk in and say 'Oh my God, it's just like a resort'. I do love it and I'll be sad to leave, but Bob wants to tinker in a shed." For more news on the Port, pick up a copy of the Portside Messenger, read our digital edition online, or become a fan of our Facebook page. Originally published as High life with $80,000 chandeliers

Van der Valk Hotel Rotterdam Blijdorp lies within walking distance of Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo; one of the Netherlands' most popular zoos. Here visitors of all ages can admire the zoo's diverse residents. Rotterdam city centre is just 3 kilometres from the hotel and boasts numerous architectural feats as well as beautiful museums such as Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. You can go shopping in the Koopgoot. The centre is easily accessible from the hotel and of course you can quickly reach other parts of the city thanks to Rotterdam's excellent public transport links. The comfortable and modernly furnished hotel rooms come with a flatscreen television, free WiFi, air conditioning, a safe, a mini-bar, tea and coffee facilities and a bathroom with a shower, a hair dryer and a toilet. Hotel guests can make use of the sauna, the swimming pool and the gym at the adjacent David Lloyd Fitness Centre; at an additional charge.

Book by: January 31, 2009 Travel by: Various dates in 2009 Call them hobbies, quirks or minor obsessions. We all have something that makes us tick. Imagine finding a hotel whose raison d’être matches your interest. You might never go home again! To that end, we’ve gathered a global threesome of unique concept properties that have either recently opened their doors or are preparing to do so in Milwaukee, Liverpool and near Quebec City. Motorcycle enthusiasts, winter lovers and diehard Beatles fans get ready. Passion-pleasing packages start at $305 a night per person. Beatles-themed package in Liverpool Been working like a dog? Perhaps a stay at the Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool, England will make you feel all right. The Cavern Quarter boutique property is — you guessed it — a Beatles-inspired endeavor. Guests will get a glimpse of the heady days of Beatlemania with specially commissioned artwork throughout — including all 110 guestrooms, specially appointed Lennon and McCartney suites and a Beatles Information Center. Aficionados can book one of two packages for a full-on Fab Four experience. The Beatles Treat package includes luxury room accommodations for two nights for two people, breakfast daily, two tickets for both the Magical Mystery Tour and Beatles Story local attractions, plus two hotel T-shirts. Total coast is £350 (about $650). Stay in Canada’s Hôtel de Glace For anyone who’s ever had the fantasy of living in an igloo — here’s your chance, if only for a night! Made of almost entirely snow and ice — from the lobby to the beds, Hôtel de Glace, or Ice Hotel, is gearing up for the season and currently taking reservations for 2009. The 36-room winter wonderland, 30 minutes from Canada’s Quebec City will be open from January 4 to March 29. Guests booking the hotel’s Enchanting Discovery package for $324.50 CAD (about U.S. $305) per person receive a complimentary welcome cocktail, served — naturally — on the rocks; an arctic sleeping bag, pillow and blanket for the night’s stay; access to the hot tubs and sauna; full breakfast buffet; a same-night reservation at the neighboring Duchesnay resort, in case the cold proves too much; and all gratuities. Biker chic in Milwaukee When was the last time you were in hog heaven? Can’t remember? We suggest you try Milwaukee’s Iron Horse Hotel. The factory/warehouse turned luxury boutique property, which opens in mid-September, was designed with motorcycle enthusiasts in mind. Guests will find amenities for the bike as well as the rider, such as covered parking with rag bins and motorcycle-washing stations, custom guestroom hooks for hanging heavy gear and benches for boots and helmets. For couples there’s Ride-in-Style special. Valid for a two-night stay for two people in a deluxe room and priced at $1000, the package includes spa treatments; in-room champagne and strawberries upon arrival; dinner for two; a packed saddle bag lunch; and complimentary motorcycle storage. Among the other freebies: skullcaps, sunscreen, lip balm and area maps. While taxes are included in the Hard Days Night package prices, they’re extra for the Iron Horse and Hôtel de Glace. See other details above. You will have to go home eventually. ShermansTravel is a guide to top travel deals and destinations. Sign up for Sherman's Top 25 e-newsletter which features the best editor-screened deals from hundreds of travel providers and is delivered to over 4 million subscribers, free, each week. ShermansTravel also publishes trip ideas and travel features to inspire, guide, and go.

We stayed at The Cottages at Tenaya Lodge. They are on the same property but a short walk from the main lodge. We enjoyed being a little further away from the hustle and bustle but you have to walk outside to get to the lodge, restaurants, swimming pool and spa keep in mind. The room was nice with a fireplace, microwave, coffee and tea and a small fridge. The housekeeping did a great job everyday and a paper was delivered to our door. *TIP: Bring a humidifier. They don't provide them and of course heat's on all the time and that just dries everything out especially your sinus' when you're asleep. RESTAURANTS/FOOD: There's several restaurants at Tenaya Lodge but it's a bit of an illusion as it all comes from the same kitchen (except for the pizza parlor) and the menus are quite similar. It's a 30-50 minute wait to get a seat at dinner and they don't take reservations except for Embers, which is the most expensive of the eateries (the only one we didn't dine at). Overall the food was good and the staff is friendly but the service is slow by good dining standards which made for a bad dinning experience twice. We got 2 breakfasts with our 4 night stay - and the buffet is really good but for $16.95 it's smart to bring some of your own food if you don't want to eat heavy every morning and spend that much money for a bowl of cereal and some coffee. *TIP: You can pick up some basic groceries at the Wawona General Store a few miles up the road if you forget to bring them. The don't have a lot but more then what Tenaya has at the "Parkside Deli". The Sleigh Ride is fun. A real sleigh with 3 big Belgium horses pulling complete with bells. The operators served hot apple cider and toasted marsh mellows around a small camp fire at the ranch house before they turn around and bring you back. If you're lucky you can sit up with the driver and chat with him. Tenaya also has a small skating rink that looked fun but we didn't have time for. BADGER PASS SKI RESORT: Badger Pass is within Yosemite National Park and you must have snow chains/cables to enter durning snow season. There's a good chance you use the chains unless you have you have 4 wheel or all-wheel drive but you still need to have them to get into the park. *TIP: Arrive early. If you're there by 8am you'll be happy! The first day we arrived at 9:30 and spent about 1 1/2 getting our lift tickets and rentals and they were out of a lot of sizes already. A real drag. **You can also rent your ski gear from a local shop at home - which is what we'll do next time. Then you can arrive anytime. The resort is family friendly, very small and a great place for kids to learn to ski or snowboard. Our two girls were up on the beginner lift by the end of their 1st day and we plan on coming back next year. - Official Description (provided by the hotel): - Nestled on 48 acres in the southern High Sierra and just 2 miles from Yosemite, the Four-Diamond Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite offers easy access to all of Yosemite’s most alluring attractions and all the amenities expected from a luxury resort property. Tenaya boasts comfortable and spacious accommodations, Ascent – a luxurious 10,000 sq.foot spa, steam room, sauna, fitness room, three pools, five dining options, all-season recreation and a full-service concierge to help you plan your getaway. ... more less - Reservation Options: - TripAdvisor is proud to partner with Booking.com, Expedia, Orbitz, getaroom.com, Hotels.com, Odigeo and Jetsetter so you can book your Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite reservations with confidence. We help millions of travelers each month to find the perfect hotel for both vacation and business trips, always with the best discounts and special offers. - Also Known As: - Tenaya Lodge At Yosemite Hotel Fish Camp - Tenaya Hotel Fish Camp - Tenaya Hotel At Yosemite - Tenaya Lodge Yosemite - Yosemite Tenaya Lodge

Adina Apartment Hotel Budapest details: Adina Apartment Hotel Budapest is 5 star hotel with 97 rooms and the facilities of Bar and Family Rooms. Adina Apartment Hotel Budapest has 4.50 mark for overall hotel rating at TripTake. (3.70 for Location, 4.30 for Rooms, 4.50 for Service, 4.70 for Value). The hotel is recommended for Older travelers This is a luxury hotel with the rates from 104 USD to 107 Adina Apartment Hotel Budapest is one of the recommended hotels from 100 USD to 200 USD , it is also not far from Margrit Hid (Margarethen Brücke) Adina Apartment Hotel Budapest is situated in the heart of Budapest/ in close proximity to the thriving business districts. Only a short stroll from the Danube River and the West End Shopping Mall/ it is surrounded by restaurants/ a fresh food marketplace and hip nightspots. The House of Parliament/ museums Margaret Island/ Opera House and other major attractions are only a short drive or a couple of stops away by underground/ bus or tram. All accommodation units feature air conditioning and a bathroom. The accommodation units each feature separate bedrooms. A safe and a minibar also feature. The kitchenette features tea and coffee making equipment. Additional amenities include a washing machine and an ironing set. Internet access, a telephone, a TV and a radio are provided for guests' convenience. In each of the bathrooms, guests will find a shower, a spa bath and a hairdryer. Adina Apartment Hotel Budapest is situated in the heart of Budapest/ in one of its fastest developing districts with large number of offices and business centers/ only a short stroll from the Danube River bank/ the West End Shopping Mall/ a fresh food marketplace/ many shops/ restaurants and night life. The Parliament House/ museums/ the Margaret Island/ the Opera House and other major attractions are only a short drive or a couple of stops away by underground/ bus or tram. Train/ coach and airport terminals are within easy Every studio and apartment contains all the equipment needed to cook individual meals, and a buffet breakfast is provided every morning. There are plenty of dining opportunities in the vicinity. The hotel occupies a modern mid-rise complex. - Budapest city centre is approximately 2 km from the hotel - A grocery market is approximately 200 metres from the hotel - Restaurants can be found approximately 100 metres from the hotel - Margaret island is approximately 1 km from the hotel - The Parliament is approximately 2 km from the hotel - The Castle District is approximately 5 km from the hotel - The Hungarian State Opera House is approximately 2 km from the hotel The hotel is adequate for disabled people and wheel chairs and there are rooms with specially adapted bathrooms. Up to 2 adults and 1 child can stay in these rooms. General: Wheelchair accessible, Bar, Elevator, 24-Hour Front Desk, Safety Deposit Box, Smoking, Newspapers, Reception, Garden, Heating, Non-Smoking Rooms, Breakfast Buffet, Air conditioning, Rooms/Facilities for Disabled, Conference Facilities, Family Rooms, Multilingual staff, Parking, Parking (fee required), Outdoor Parking, Pets Allowed, Wheel Chair Access Activities: Swimming pool, Exercise Gym, Sauna, Spa & Wellness Centre, Fitness Centre, Massage, Lounge, Steam Bath, Indoor Swimming Pool, Whirlpool Services: Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Internet Services, Internet Access – Wireless, Car Rental, Wi-Fi/Wireless LAN, Shops/Commercial Services, Airport Shuttle, Babysitting/Child Services, Doctor on Call, Laundry, Limited Hours Room Service, Shuttle Service, VIP Room Facilities, Concierge, Breakfast in the Room, High speed internet access, Room Service, Ironing Service Continental buffet breakfast is available every day from 07:00 to 10:00. The bar is open every night from 18:00 to 24:00. Room service is available from 12:00 to 22:00. The restaurants in the vicinity are open daily from 12:00 to 24:00. If cancelled up to 2 days before date of arrival, no fee will be charged. If cancelled later or in case of no-show, the first night will be charged. All children are welcome. All children under 12 years stay free of charge when using existing bedding. All children under 2 years stay free of charge for cots. All older children or adults are charged EUR 27 per night per person for extra beds. No deposit will be charged. 18 % VAT is included. Service charge is not applicable. 4 % city/tourist tax per room per night is included. Private parking is possible on site (reservation is not needed) and costs EUR 17 per day. Continental breakfast is included in the room rate. Wired internet is available in the entire hotel and costs EUR 4 per 30 minutes. Wired internet is available in the entire hotel and costs EUR 15 per 24 hours. Pets are allowed. Charges may be applicable. What Travellers Like - It's a couple of underground stops from town, but very quiet & comfortable & good value too. Local restaurants good & cheap with excellent service.. Read review Posted: Nov 21, 2006 - My family of 5 parties stayed at this apartment hotel and loved it. Nice and simple decorated bedrooms, very clean bathrooms (like new), TV , Air Condition, a kitchen, balcony, washer and dryer. Walking distance from a relatively big food market and a beautiful shopping mall.. Read review Posted: Jun 21, 2005 - My family and I stayed in a 2 bedroom apartment at the Sydney as were extremely pleased with our choice. THe apartment was spacious and clean and the full service was terrific. The staff was very hospitable and gracious and made excellent recommendations for us, and secured us tours and cabs as we needed. It is a 'business' hotel, but we found it to be quite enjoyable for recreation - my husband and kids loved the pool after a day of sightseeing. It was also great to be able to do some laundry right in our own apartment. I recently got an email saying the Sydney Apartments chain has changed its name (I am sorry, cannot remember to what). I have no doubt the accommodation and service will remain as we found it.. Read review Posted: Mar 29, 2006 - I stayed in a two bedroom apartment at the Sydney Apartment Hotel with three girlfriends - we're quite fussy and we were all impressed with our room. The first room we were offered was quite basic, but we managed to get a free upgrade to a much more modern and better equipped (though smaller) apartment, which is exactly as shown in the trendier shots on the website (go for deluxe - its definitely worth it). The apartment was plenty big enough for the four of us with all the facilities you could need (three TV's, dishwasher, washing machine, microwave, & two very nice bathrooms). We didn't get to enjoy the gardens as it was snowy, but the jacuzzi, sauna and pool were lovely. Reception were also very helpful and spoke very good English.. Read review Posted: Apr 10, 2006 - My BF and I originally booked 3 nights with the NH Budapest, but NH was overbooked the first night so they put us at the Sydney Apartment Hotel. When we arrived at Sydney, we were stunned with its modern, sleek decor in the lobby and hall way. Some of the furniture were by Phillippe Starck. They gave us a 1-bedroom apartment, with a balcony, full-equiped kitchen, and a washer/dryer machine.. Read review Posted: Jul 09, 2005 Posted: Fri, May 23 2008 The rest of the space was large and functional with two toilets, a seperate bathroom, two dining spaces, work desk, tv area and respectable furniture. The reception staff were very helpful and pleasant.... Read entire review Posted: Sat, Feb 16 2008 Rooms are spacious and clean and do have, an in room small kitchinette build in a dressing. TV, fridge, lights, etc were working fine.... Read entire review Posted: Sun, Dec 23 2007 The hotel is nice, but quite far from the centre - its a 4-5 stop ride in on the underground. We booked a room with a balcony, £50 supplement charged by the lovely (NOT) lastminute, which we didn't receive. The hotel was fully booked, although all of a sudden we were found a room with balcony, an hour...... Read entire review Posted: Mon, Nov 23 2009 Full kitchen (even had a washer-dryer) and a good sized bathroom with fantastic shower! The staff were extremely helpful and efficient - and the pool and fitness suite were a real bonus! Good location - on a quiet side street but only a short walk to the metro which easily gets you round Budapest! Plenty...... Read entire review Posted: Thu, Apr 17 2008 Posted: Thu, Apr 17 2008 I've just returned from Budapest and would highly recommend this hotel for its facilities and it's staff. It's only a couple of hunded metres from a Metro station (underground,) so all parts of the city can be accessed easy through this connection.... Read entire review Posted: Wed, Apr 16 2008 Even though the hotel is slightly off the beaten track, I'd definitely recommend it as the quality of the rooms, the service and the spa facilities definitely make up for having to walk around 15mins into the centre or having to take a taxi (which is around? The staff is extremely friendly and helpful...... Read entire review Posted: Thu, Apr 03 2008 We booked a 2 bedroom apartment for 3 nights (3rd night free through Booked. Breakfast fine, although had to wait 15 minutes for a table one day.... Read entire review Not the right hotel for you? Let us help you find hotel in Budapest

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Summer is here and with it come days at the beach, hiking, vacations, outdoor festivals and parties, pool parties, concerts, barbecues, and carne asadas. The POWER Program has some helpful tips to make your summer sane, safe and memorable: In terms of your skin, overexposure to the sun may cause some pretty undesirable effects. UV rays damage elastic fibers and cells in your skin, and can cause freckles, age spots and skin cancer. Wear sunscreen lotion (not to be confused with sun-tanning lotion which, like the name implies, helps your skin tan) if you're going to be out in the sun for extended periods. The rule of thumb is the more sensitive to the sun you are, the higher Sun Protection Factor (SPF) sunscreen you should use. Unless you want to sport name brand sunscreen, you can get generic sunscreen for a couple of bucks. A word of caution: When taking certain medications, particularly antibiotics, long-term exposure to the sun is not recommended. Ask the pharmacist or your medical provider if this should concern you. Likewise, if you are on medication, try to keep it away from heat, since it can render it ineffective. What about the highly advertised self-tanning products? These lotions work like make-up. Avoid regular usage since they can plug up your pores. Also, they might induce an allergic reaction or skin patching. Using them occasionally is best if you want to look fabulous for that summer party. If you are going on vacation or extended trips, make sure you do not forget your meds. If possible, touch base with your care provider a few weeks before making your trip. Your doctor may be able to write you an extended prescription and/or recommend something for sickness associated with travel. If you do not want to travel with pill bottles, find a couple of empty film canisters in which to place your pills. Make sure to label each container if you have trouble knowing which medication is which. You may also want to ask your local pharmacist, physician or treatment advocate for pillboxes or pagers to help you remember when to take your medication. Note that the same schedule for taking your medication should be followed even with time zone changes. For example, say that you are taking a particular medication every eight hours with food and are used to taking it at breakfast and at dinner time but there is an eight-hour time difference where you are going. This may mean setting up your alarm clock and waking up in the middle of the night or very early morning, taking your medication and having a snack that you have set by your bedside. Always plan ahead. Summer flings do happen. You are in a crowded room. Your eyes lock, and, well, you can fill in the rest. It is always good to plan ahead. Sex and sexuality are beautiful expressions of who we are, and as such we should enjoy them safely. The risk of catching a sexually transmitted disease or transmitting the virus to someone else, especially when alcohol and drugs come into the picture, may not make for too good of a vacation souvenir. Don't take your chances, bring plenty of condoms and lube and communicate with your sexual partner(s), if possible, what you are willing and not willing to do sexually. Use your imagination: there are flavored condoms, flavored lube, dildos, hot wax, feathers, oils, fresh tropical fruit, ice, etc., use your imagination. If you are going to a bathhouse, sauna, park or restroom, be prepared. Take a cruising kit: lube, condoms, hand wipes, some tissue and if all possible, water. You may find that some of our better vacations are those in which we have fulfilling sexual experiences. Enjoy. Alcohol and drug use have potentially damaging effects on the immune system, as well as being often contraindicated for use with medications, including HAART regimens. Your doctor can give you specific advice on your personal situation. But, in general excessive alcohol and drug use have been shown to have undesirable effects on medication efficacy and adherence. Here are some tips for avoiding the summer substance use quicksand: You do, that's who! Adequate sleep is one of the most important components in anyone's wellness plan. That goes double for those of us living with HIV/AIDS. Don't let the excitement of summer activities keep you from getting enough rest. Whether it's staying up late talking to friends and drinking mint juleps (not too many) on the veranda, dancing under the stars, enjoying a midnight bonfire at the beach (check local ordinances first), or just painting the town red until the wee hours, be sure not to push it too far. Lack of sleep is hard on the immune system, and we don't want to challenge ours any more than necessary. The following might be good tips to remember: If you're on vacation, this can be challenging, so whether you're driving long distances or dealing with jet lag, schedule some downtime for rest and sleep into your schedule. Unfortunately, what this translates into is not hydrating our bodies enough. Remember to drink water. At the risk of sounding like your mother, don't forget to eat and drink properly and safely during all that summer madness! Here are some things to remember: When you are busy having fun, it's easy enough to forget to drink water. And adding drugs/alcohol to the equation can be a recipe for dangerous dehydration. By the time your mouth starts to feel dry and/or you begin to feel dizzy or nauseous, you may be well on the way to serious dehydration, so head it off at the pass and drink plenty of water along with the party goods. You might have to seek out a restroom more often, but that's better than the emergency room. Remember that alcohol and caffeine-loaded beverages have a diuretic affect. If you drink them to the partial or total exclusion of other beverages, you may increase the risk of dehydration. Plain old water and juices are preferred. If you're planning on traveling to a foreign country, beware of the water quality. Picking up anything from Cryptosporidium to a range of parasites can cramp your vacation style and, in extreme cases, can be life-threatening. Your best bet is to stick to distilled water and/or boil water before drinking it. Bottled water is probably better than tap, but may not be as safe as we're often led to believe. Eat, eat, eat! Summer heat may mean you concentrate on lighter foods like fruits, vegetables and sandwiches, but it also means you need to be extra careful about spoilage. Bacteria love warm weather and foods high in protein, so be careful to keep picnic foods refrigerated or adequately chilled. A little planning goes a long way. Whether you'll be going out of town, out of state, or out of the country this summer, think about taking some time to make sure your fun isn't hampered by medication and/or medical needs that could be avoided. Here are some tips: AIDS Project Los Angeles' Positive Wellness and Renewal (POWER) program promotes the health and wellness of people living with HIV. If you would like to be part of our program, please contact Health Promotion Specialists Angel Fabian at (213) 210-1539 or Buddy Akin at (213) 201-1515. |Buddy Akin is a Health Promotion Specialist in AIDS Project Los Angeles' POWER program. He can be reached by calling (213) 201-1515 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.org.| |Angel Fabian is a Health Promotion Specialist in AIDS Project Los Angeles' POWER program. He can be reached by calling (213) 201-1539 or by e-mail at email@example.com.|

LOS ANGELES — Viewing the country as a safe place to put their money, international home buyers preferred purchasing properties in the United States over other countries, according to the California Association of Realtors’ 2013 International Clients Survey. Thank you for reading the MtDemocrat.com digital edition. In order to continue reading this story please choose one of the following options. If you are a current subscriber and wish to obtain access to MtDemocrat.com, please select the Subscriber Verification option below. If you already have a login, please select "Login" at the lower right corner of this box. Special Introductory Offer For a short time we will be offering a discount to those who call us in order to obtain access to MtDemocrat.com and start your print subscription. Our customer support team will be standing by Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm to assist you. If you are not a current subscriber and wish not to take advantage of our special introductory offer, please select the $12 monthly option below to obtain access to MtDemocrat.com and start your online subscription The vast majority (85 percent) of international buyers said they only considered purchasing a home in the U.S., citing that the stable government and financial system would guarantee their home investment. Fifteen percent considered investing in other countries, with Canada, Germany, Mexico, China, Singapore, Sweden and France cited as other countries most considered. International buyers also chose to purchase in the U.S. for its desirable location and climate (20 percent), to be closer to family and friends (20 percent), investment opportunities (9 percent), changes in work and employment (9 percent), educational opportunities (6 percent), and affordable prices (4 percent). International buyers purchased a property in the U.S. primarily for investment purposes or tax advantages (18 percent) or to rent out (14 percent), contrary to traditional home buyers, who purchased primarily because they were tired of renting (23 percent). Looking at California specifically, Los Angeles County was the top location where international buyers purchased properties (35 percent). International buyers also purchased homes in Orange (22 percent), San Diego (20 percent), Riverside (14 percent), Contra Costa (7 percent) and Santa Clara (7 percent) counties. Additional findings from CAR’s 2013 International Clients Survey include: • Sixty-nine percent of international buyers paid all cash for their properties, compared to 27 percent of traditional buyers who paid all cash. • Thirty-two percent of international buyers purchased the home as a primary residence, compared to 75 percent for traditional buyers, and 33 percent purchased the home as an investment or a rental property, compared to 19 percent of traditional buyers. • While the primary language of many international buyers was Chinese (36 percent), 70 percent communicated in English, illustrating a highly educated international clientele. • International buyers typically spent five weeks looking for properties, compared to 10 weeks for traditional buyers. • Forty-four percent of international homebuyers purchased homes with designer kitchens, 26 percent purchased homes with a wine cellar, and 9 percent purchased homes with a sauna. Other home amenities that international buyers wanted include private beach, putting green, heated floors, and outdoor kitchens.

The 2nd set was just one big 'ole goo-fest, starting with the never-ending Chalk Dust Torture (nothing torturous 'bout it, simply some straight-up metallic shredding from the four guys combined onstage), then cumming again in a Light where they were rode the stallion hard, shot a musical load again then re-upped for a blistering 46 Days where the entire audience saddled in for another money shot. Then the sex moved into the sauna room courtesy of Steam, how appropriate considering how wet and sticky I felt from all the lack of foreplay proper, LOL! Trey and Company was even kind enough to insert a cigarette break, courtesy of Free (cartharic in nature) and Joy (where I finally released my tears of joy) before reloading for the final pushes (the perfect segue into 2001, the unexpected turning over for them during Tweezer) and a final yet loving time in the musical sack with my Birthday present all wrapped up as they reminded me that I had not gotten a year older during Number Line, only a year better... ...as I traveled back On The Road (of Life) Again, another serious Phish bust-out that had me seriously laughing in disbelief that they could out-top the previous night's Easy To Slip. Then, amazingly yet climatically-speaking, the final triumphant splash of the Reprise cinematically splashing the rest of the musical goo all over the musical screen. Then it was time for THE cigarette break as 23 or so thousand or so shuffled out of Dicks...:-evil grin...hopefully to wash away the physical evidence of another musical hosing that could only be delivered by Trey and company. To tell you that I had the 2nd greatest birthday party of my life would be to shortchange the night. To tell you that I am blessed to spew this hyperbole in print out this morning would be doing inadequate justice to the moment for the 2nd year in a row. 8/31. Another year younger if you count Backwards. 8/31. So much better having Phish and my Phamily of Phriends in my life. Because I know that when all is said and done that they just want me to be Happy. Happy Birthday to me.

|The Greek Islands| |Lesbos Real Estate| |Lesbos Car Rental| |Lesbos Picture Page| |Polichnitos Hot Springs| |Skala Neon Kydonion| |The island of Lesbos or Lesvos in Greece| Lesvos is the largest island in the eastern Aegean Sea and one of the largest islands of Greece as a whole. Lesbos is not overwhelmed by the mass-tourism and outside the tourist centers such as Molyvos, one can find wonderful peaceful and quiet places. Even in Molyvos it was very quiet out of high season and we found the main beach as good as empty. The island of Lesbos is characterized by its architecture, its beautiful bays and clean beaches. There is a very diverse nature and on Lesbos you can spot very special birds. The petrified forest in Sigri is unique in the world and definitely worth a visit, just like the coastal villages of Petra and Molyvos. Lesbos has some fascinating museums, that you definitely should not skip, such as the archaeological museum with finds from the prehistoric period. Art lovers should visit Teriade Museum of Modern Art, where work can be seen by Picasso, Matisse and Miro. In many places on the island of Lesbos you can also find remnants of the ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods. In short: for lovers of nature, art, culture and nature and for lovers of beautiful beaches there is plenty to do and enjoy. Lesbos is big enough to visit for a few weeks and tour around to see the various sights, museums, villages and beaches. If you visit the island is almost impossible to see everything in 1 time, so a good reason to return again to discover new places and revisit old ones. The villages are all different, have a beautiful architecture and have something for everyone. if you want to shop you go to the main town of Mytilene, and for the beaches you go to the west and south of the island. The west of the island and around the bays of Gera and Kalloni the nature is very green and in the west around Skala Eressos the landscape is rather intimidating and mountainous, but certainly no less beautiful. On Lesbos there are many different and unusual birds and many turtles walk through the landscape, but also swim in the lakes and rivers. |Villa La Skala (former Villa La Passione) - Skala Eressos| One of my favorite villages is Skala Eressos in the west, situated in a dramatic and the most beautiful bay of the island, and with a gorgeous beach (on one part nudism is allowed). In this village you can totally and completely relax, because it is far away from all the noise that you find in thet tourist centers. The streets of the town of Skala Eressos which border the beach are closed to all cars, making it quiet and safe to walk. More importantly you do not have to worry about the safety of your children. The town ends at the beach road but cafes and restaurants have built bamboo covered decks that extend out on to the sand so you can sit in the shade and watch your kids playing in the Aegean and not be more than a few feet away. we stayed with the always good spiritted and helpful Nikolaos, who rents out a house on a very quiet location in the village, close to the beach. In this house there are three large apartments, each with a minimum of two bedrooms, and they all have a a very cozy veranda. All you really need to bring is your toothbrush, because the apartments come with all the luxury and style imaginable: not just airconditioning and satelite tv, but also a toaster, a coffee machine and a completely utelized kitchen. Nikolaos doesn't care if you come alone, as a couple or with a whole group, and the prices are so good, there is no need to go anywhere else, because starting at 65 euro (in 2007) you already have a complete house that can accommodate 5 people. Go there!! Tel: +30 6945 876765, +30 6944 602080, Villa's Tel: +30 22530 52100 Fax: +30 210 6042450 |Lesbos Island - Hotel Gera's Olive Grove holiday houses| The Gulf of Gera is one of the most quiet and unspoilt parts of the island of Lesbos and it is a bit off the beaten track. On it's shores you will find small beaches surrounded by pine tree forests, sometimes with a primitive taverna or a small old church. This part of the island is s good destination for people that want to avoid large hotels and tourism and escape to a place where there is peace and quiet. Within a beautiful landscape of olive groves, this traditional guest house offers beautifully appointed accommodation with its own farm and animals, a private fishing boat and fresh produce from its own land. Gera's Olive Grove has3 self-catering lodges that combine rustic charm with modern luxuries. Enjoy spacious rooms with marble and wooden furnishings. There are plenty of outdoor dining areas at Gera's Olive Grove, perfect for enjoying the fresh food made with the farm's own produce by local housewives. Enjoy the natural surroundings of the herb gardens and daily farm life. The family at Gera's Olive Grove is happy to help organize tours of Gera and Lesvos Island and also have a private fishing boat, which is used as transport as well as for fishing trips. Children will love spending time around the farm and helping with the animals. The environment is safe for them to play in and enjoy the fresh country air. They can also enjoy learning about growing herbs and making their own food from fresh and natural products. Hire a car from Gera's Olive Groveand further explore the unspoilt area of Gera. The guesthouse also offers free private parking. Check availabilities and prices & book Gera's Olive Grove - click here. |Lesbos Island - Vatera Beach| Vatera is a village in the south of Lesbos Island, a little over 50 kilometers from the main town Mytilini. The village has about 8 kilometers of uninterrupted sandy beach. This is one beach that seems to extend forever and kilometers of it are as good as deserted, so it also offers something good for those of us that prefer a little privacy. This is by far the best beach that I have seen on the entire island! Because the village is in the south, it is protected from the northern winds that usually come in August and September. Vatera Beach has been awarded the Blue Flag for its clean waters. The area around Vatera invites you for making walks through its beautiful surroundings, to enjoy the nature and several archeological sights. The town of Vatera itself stretches a couple kilometers and is made up of some really nice tavernas, some Italian restaurants, several small bars, and a few shops. It's a place perfect for families, for relaxation and a perfect place for watching sunsets while enjoying a coffee or an early ouzo. The best way to get to Vatera is to take the road to Polychnitou that begins on the main Mytilini road near the gulf of Yera, or if you are coming from Eressos or Molyvos take the road that begins in the eastern part of the gulf of Kaloni. This is a beautiful trip along the gulf and through forests, olive groves, villages and farms. |Vatera Beach on Lesbos - Madonna Studios and Apartments| Madonna Studios and Apartments is centrally located, 150 meters from Vatera beach at its most central point, the signs junction. From Madonna it will take you 2 min. to walk to the beach and 5 min. to walk to the shops, tavernas and bars, lining the esplanade. Travelling on the main road from Vrisa to Vatera and just before you reach the beach, there is a small crossroads. You turn left and the property rises before you, holding a vantage point over the bay of Vatera. It is sign posted with a large reflector sign at the right side of the cross roads, with a red arrow pointing to your left, clearly visible as you approach the last 100 m to the beach, and smaller signs at the border and gate of the property. You just cannot miss it now, even at night! This attractive complex opened in 1990 and is run as a family business. In the beginning it operated as self-catering accommodation for independent Greek and International holidaymakers. In the late 90?s it experienced a very successful three-year period with a well-known UK Tour Operator, but for the last five years a conscious choice was made to revert to its old client group of Independent Holidaymakers and it has done so very successfully. The property has been constantly improved over the years, to keep up with modern trends and requirements. As from late 2004 it has the facilities to provide the Hotel type services of reception, breakfast room, licensed bar, Internet Caf?sale of tobacco, guides, maps, postcards, stamps safety boxes in the rooms and as always nothing is too much trouble for the obliging English speaking owners, Dimitra and Vaios. Prices for the studio's and apartments are cheap and breakfast can be included for 5 euro a day per person (2006). Tel +30-252-61120/121, Fax + 30 22520 61821 - Send an e-mail to Madonna Studios |Vatera Beach - Aphrodite Hotel - directly at the sandy beach of Vatera in Lesbos| Aphrodite Vatera hotel is among the most attractive, modern and contemporary hotels of Lesvos.It is built on the beach on the seafront of Vatera, the most majestic beach of Lesvos and over 10 km long.The hotel rooms are very well furnished, including air-conditioning, with sea or mountain view.The hotel's restaurant serves delicious, traditional cuisine.The hotel also has a delightfully outdoor taverna on the seafront making it a favorite spot for the pleasure-seeker Check availabilities and prices & book the Aphrodite Hotel on Lesbos - click here. |Anaxos Beach - Anessis Studios - Anaxos Beach, Lesbos| This charming, family-run complex is centrally located on the main street of Anaxos that connects the villages of Petra and Skoutaros. The beautiful sandy beach can be accessed via a small path, and the pleasant stroll takes about 10 minutes. Close to the beach you will find a selection of tavernas, cafes and supermarkets. The bus stop is just 50 metres away from Anessis Studios, and from here you can take a trip to Petra, Molyvos or Eftalou. Feel free to ask the friendly staff about any excursion you wish to take. Highly recommended is a visit to the village of Lafiona at the mountain. A stay in this quiet location will revitalise you. Dip in the divine waters of the blue flag beach and feel your cares drift away. The village of Anaxos is on the north part of Lesvos island, approximately 70 km away from the capital of the island called Mytilene, where the port and the airport of the island are. Daily the connection of the island is held on from the port through ferries to Pireaus and through the airport to Athens (the capital city of Greece) or Thessaloniki (the second biggest city in Greece) or other European cities with charter flights that are on the everyday program, especially the period of April-October which is the summer period. Anaxos is easy and low cost for somebody to reach while he can use the daily scheduled time table of bus services from Mytilene to Anaxos or during his vacations he can visit the nearest villages to Anaxos which are Petra and Mithimna with the local bus services or by using a taxi. Anaxos village is the ideal destination for visitors that they really want to enjoy their vacations because is a place that is not effected from mass tourism and is counted as PURE place. Provides tranquility, stillness and rest. The fantastic clean water of the sea and the sandy beach (which is the best of the area) 1 km long, will make you restless on watching the sunset or during the day the joy of the reflections from the sunbeams on the beach will make you love being here. The blue flag that this beach possess is a proof of these been mentioned before. As far as food and beverages are concerned the variety of taverns (with fine fish) and cafes will fulfill your gastronomic anxieties, always with low cost. Check availabilities and prices & book Anessis Studios - click here. |The town of Molyvos or Mithymna on the island of Lesbos in Greece| Mithymna, or Molyvos as it is also called, in the north of the island of Lesbos is a very special and beautiful town and the first view of it is overwhelming. The town has about 1500 inhabitants and is situated 53 kilometers north of the capital Mitilini. Molyvos is situated on a small mountain topped by a dramatic medieval castle from the Byzantine period. Under the rule of Genua it was later extended and renovated. The original castle which this one replaced, was conquered by none other then Achilles during the Trojan war. There are still ancient ruins scattered around the town including impressive walls and a few giant holes where archaeologists have begun their slow work. The town of Molyvos itself is built against a steep hill and consists of stone houses with red tiled roofs, and shops which surround the castle and follow the coast to one of the most beautiful harbors in Greece. Molyvos attracts more tourists than anywhere else on the island, but it's still relatively quiet compared to certain other destinations in the Cyclades, Crete or Rhodes. The busy and cozy port of Molyvos is its most appealing feature, with sailboats and fishingboats in all shapes, sizes and colours. The main street of Molyvos that goes up the hill to the castle is made of cobbled stones and shaded with vines. It will lead you to the museums, shops, supermarkets, restaurants and some galleries before you reach the castle of Molyvos. In the heart of Molyvos you can find a nice pebble beach, that received an EU Blue Flag, and there are several other great beaches nearby, like Eftalou Beach (3km), Psiriara Beach, a long sandbeach next to the Molyvos main beach (with an option for naturists at the end of the beach), and Petra Beach (5km). |Nassos Guesthouse in Molyvos on Lesbos| The Nassos Guest House is situated on the beautiful island of Lesvos. As third largest islands of all the Greek islands, Lesvos offers much scope for exploration and is very welcoming and friendly to visitors. The Nassos Guest House is situated in the middle of picturesque Molivos (Mythimna) village, half way down from the castle (on top of the hills) and offers stunning views across the village rooftops and across the bay towards the sea. This is a good option for people that would like to stay in a small scaled place instead of one of the bigger hotels in Molyvos. The house was built around 1900 and the first owner was a Turkish doctor. In the sixties it was established as the first Guest House serving the northern part of the island. Since then many enduring friendships have begun at the Nassos Guest House. The house is not only perfect for individuals or couples but, can also cater for larger families or groups. We can take exclusively bookings for up to eighteen people. The Guest House offers eight rooms in total, two of which are spacious enough to accommodate three people comfortably. Nassos Guesthouse is open all year around. Tel +30 6942046279 Fax +302253071641 - Send an e-mail to Nassos Guesthouse |Molyvos - Pension The Schoolmistress with the Golden Eyes - very cheap accommodation| Situated close to Mithymna's market, this great-value pension is named after the lover of famous Greek writer Stratis Myrivilis and offers magnificent panoramic views of the Aegean Sea. The Schoolmistress with the Golden Eyes is a family-run pension, in the heart of Mithymna, in Lesvos Island. It shares its name with the title of Stratis Myrivili's popular book and was once the home of its main character, Myrivili's lover Stella. It's location at the top end of Mithymna's cobbled street allows you to enjoy stunning panoramic views of the Aegean Sea, Molivos Bay and the port from your balcony. You are also close to Mithymna's vibrant market. Spend the day exploring the charming cobbled streets and visiting the local shops and taverns. In the evening, head back to The School Mistress with the Golden Eyes and relax with a drink on your balcony and enjoy your stunning scenery. Check availabilities and prices & book Pension The Schoolmistress with the Golden Eyes - click here. |Lesbos Hotels - Imerti Resort Hotel in Skala Kallonis| Enjoying a peaceful location in Kalloni, Imerti Resort Hotel is set amidst beautiful gardens and offers spacious accommodation and excellent entertainment facilities, including arcade games and scuba diving lessons. Every room is designed and appointed with your comfort in mind. Prepare meals in your fully equipped kitchenette and enjoy views of Kalloni from your private balcony. Imerti Resort also provides free wireless internet access so you can check your emails. You can also use the free internet corner. Enjoy a great start to the day with a tasty buffet breakfast. Relax around Imerti's lush gardens and enjoy a swim in the large outdoor pool. There are arcade games available for entertaining the whole family. If you prefer to burn off energy, Imerti Resort can arrange for you to take scuba diving lessons. Afterwards, treat yourself to a soothing massage. Imerti Resort Hotel is close to Kalloni's large modern market. One of the most important nature reserves of Lesvos also surrounds Kalloni, making it an ideal base for outdoor adventures. Check availabilities and prices & book the Imerti Resort Hotel - click here. |Pyrgi Thermi - Thermi, Lesvos Inn Resort - Spa Hotel| Situated in Thermi, close to the thermal baths and St Raphael's convent, this beautiful resort offers comfortable accommodation with excellent spa facilities and benefits including free wireless internet and parking. Lesvos Inn enjoys a scenic location surrounded by the beautiful olive groves of Thermi. Enjoy spacious and well-presented rooms with modern amenities and lovely views to the sea or olive groves. Benefit from free wireless internet access throughout the hotel. Enjoy a great start to the day with a tasty breakfast. Spend the day exploring your magnificent surroundings and visit the historic thermal baths, dated back to 1200 BC. Soak up the sun around the swimming pool or pamper yourself with a professional treatment at Lesvos Inn's serene spa area. After a relaxing massage, treat mind and body to a soothing Jacuzzi or time in the sauna. The port of Mytilene is just 5 minutes away from Lesvos Inn Resort and the airport is 15 minutes away, making it a convenient and picturesque location. Free transfer is available from the hotel to the city and from city to the hotel. Check availabilities and prices & book the Lesvos Inn Resort - click here. |Lesbos Hotels - Sellados Villas, luxury accommodation in Plomari Lesbos| Sellados Villas are three luxurious traditional new built stone villas near the coast with swimming-pool, at the quiet side of St. Isidoros, the most cosmopolitan beach of Lesvos Island. Old ages will be brought back in mind, but at the same time even the most demanding customers will be satisfied, due to their conveniences and comforts of modern life. They are the ideal place for family holidays, surrounded by olive trees and they allocate splendid view over the Aegean Sea. They offer privacy and luxury comforts as an amazing swimming pool, a modern fully equipped kitchen-dining room, a living-room with fireplace and sprawl-able couch, two wonderful bedrooms in different floors, cradle, three luxurious bathrooms e.g. You can enjoy your breakfast at your comfortable furnished verandas, under the pergolas enjoying the view of the immense light blue and you can have a cool bath in the swimming pool or the sea. There is a garden in a beautifully shaped outer space and a comfortable car-park. Check availabilities and prices & book Sellados Villas click here. |Ikies Small Elegant Houses, Neapoly, Lesbos| Ikies Small Elegant Houses is ideally located on the coastline of Neapoly, Mytinini, very close to MJT - Mytilene Airport. The complex consists of standard rooms, villas with jakuzzi and a suite with private outdoor pool. All rooms include plasma TVs and a balcony with a view to the pool, to thesurrounding village and the sea. Breakfast is served in the rooms. Guests can enyoy beverages by the pool, have free Wi-FI internet throughout the property and make use of free parking facilities. Check availabilities and prices & book Ikies Small Elegant Houses - click here. |Toula Apartments in Petra - good reviews, cheap and directly at the beach| Offering fantastic views of the sea and beautiful sunsets, these apartments are situated in the enchanting area of Petra, close to the town centre. Toula offers modern facilities with a family atmosphere. Also, 50 metres away there is a swimming pool where guests can take a refreshing dip. The high standards combined with the pleasant and friendly environment make it the ideal accommodation for couples and families longing for a pleasant escape. Friendly personnel are at your disposal 24 hours a day. The architecture of the Apartment Toula is in complete harmony with the history and natural beauty of the region. Petra is one of the most beautiful (and famous for its long sandy beach) towns of Lesvos (Lesbos) island. Check availabilities and prices & book Toula Apartments on Lesbos - click here. |Kyparisis Beach Houses in Mystegna on Lesbos island| Few places in Greece, the Aegean, or even Lesvos, have this kind of view, the tiny picturesque fishing harbour to the left, and then across the straits of Toukmakia to the purple hills of Asia Minor. Just open the door and walk straight out on to the beach at magical Skala Mystegna. And what a beach it is - the beautiful white pebbles, truly crystal blue waters of the Aegean, without the crowds. The Kyparissis Beach houses (two to choose from) offer a special kind of seclusion - it's as if the beach is your own. These stylish new two storey villa-apartments have a touch of luxury and have been decorated with care. The properties are accessed directly from the unspoilt pebble beach. Their main entrances lead into a spacious open plan living/dinning area, tastefully decorated in a simplistic Hellenic style with a smooth cool stone floor. Double balcony doors open onto a terrace, giving direct access onto the beach. The fireplaces take care of any early/late/out of season chills and air conditioning cools the summer heat. Television/ music system are provided. Adjoining is the kitchen where all 21st Century kitchen conveniences (oven, microwave, etc.) are carefully placed so as not to detract from the overall traditional simplicity of the design. They have everything you require for self-catering and more, and that wonderful view of the Aegean just beyond the window sill. Each house has two stylish designed bedrooms with en suite bathrooms and their own air conditioning units. One bedroom has a spacious double bed and the other has twin beds that can be pushed together if needed. All bedrooms have their own balcony doors from which one can view that fabulous fabulous view. Bed linen, bath towels and beach towels are all provided. Tel +30 6944121297 - Send an e-mail to Kyparisis Beach Houses

A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 14, Bampton Hundred (Part Two). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2004. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved. Curbridge, a largely rural township occupying the south and south-west of Witney parish, was centred on Curbridge village, 1½ miles (2.4 km) south-west of the town; (fn. 1) for much of its history it also included parts of the town which lay outside the original borough, notably the west end of Corn Street, the area north-west of the borough around Woodford (later Witney) Mills, and, on the south, Witney's manor house, church, and rectory house. (fn. 2) In the south-west of the township Caswell House, a moated manor house surrounded by anciently inclosed fields, marks the site of a former hamlet; Caswell lay mostly in Witney parish and, after the hamlet's depopulation in the Middle Ages, the inclosed estate attached to Caswell House was treated as part of Curbridge township. (fn. 3) After the creation of Witney borough around 1200 Curbridge's open fields probably absorbed the earlier fields of Witney: certainly the bishop of Winchester's manorial demesne, presumably once part of Witney's fields, lay almost wholly in Curbridge in the Middle Ages. (fn. 4) Also within the township was the bishop's park, created in the mid 13th century. (fn. 5) By the 18th century the amalgamated demesne and Witney park had become large inclosed farms occupying most of Curbridge's east side, but open fields survived in the centre of the township until the mid 19th century. Curbridge had its own officers by the 16th century and was responsible for its own poor-relief. From the mid 19th century it was a separate civil parish, but although it had its own church from 1836, for ecclesiastical purposes it remained part of Witney parish. (fn. 6) In 1877 it comprised 2,983 a.; (fn. 7) smaller acreages recorded earlier in the century were clearly inaccurate, since the boundaries were almost identical. (fn. 8) Successive boundary changes from the later 19th century reflected Witney's suburban expansion. Around 116 a. transferred from Curbridge to Witney in 1898 included, south of the town, the church and rectory house, Mount House (the former manor house), the railway station, Church Leys, and the Crofts, and on its north-west side the Witney Mills area. (fn. 9) In 1932 a broad swathe (488 a.) on the township's east side, from the river Windrush to the Ducklington boundary south-east of Burwell Farm, was also lost to Witney, whilst 193 a. south of the town, including a large tongue of river meadow by then almost detached from the rest of Curbridge, was transferred to Ducklington. In 1963 48 a. (19.5 ha.) designated for new housing immediately north-east of Burwell Farm was transferred to Witney, followed in 1985 by 39 ha. in the south-west part of the Burwell estate, reducing Curbridge to 827 ha. (2,043 a.). (fn. 10) The loss to Witney of industrial sites adjoining Downs Road in 2001 left Curbridge with 633 ha. (1,564 a.). (fn. 11) The boundaries on the south-east, south, and west were those of Witney parish and remained largely unchanged from those described in grants of the Witney estate in 969 and 1044 (see Fig. 68). (fn. 12) Part of the boundary in the south-east remained effectively undefined until the 19th century, since Curbridge meadow was shared with Ducklington until the open fields of both were inclosed, and the meadow was included in Curbridge. (fn. 13) There were minor 19th-century realignments of Curbridge's boundary with Brize Norton at Black Moat, south of Caswell House, and on the western boundary northwest of Caswell House. (fn. 14) By the mid 10th century Curbridge was part of a 30-hide Witney estate, but earlier seems to have formed, at least temporarily, a distinct 17-hide estate. (fn. 15) Its original north and east boundaries, like those on the west and south, were probably dictated largely by natural features, the river Windrush presumably dividing it from Hailey. The short boundary with Crawley, giving Crawley a foothold south of the Windrush, was probably the result of a deliberate, perhaps later, allocation of river meadow. Curbridge's original eastern boundary may have been the roughly north-south section of Colwell brook, before the line was shifted eastwards when Witney's fields were reorganised on the creation of the borough: thereafter all land south and west of the Windrush which was not in the borough was deemed to lie in Curbridge. The borough's original west boundary, probably running behind the burgage plots on High Street, was later, perhaps in the 16th or 17th century, moved west to Emma's dyke to include the west end of Corn Street which was built up in that period. The extension into Curbridge formed a large bulge, its irregular north and south edges suggesting that it respected existing furlong boundaries and therefore pre-dated the inclosure of that area, apparently achieved before 1662. (fn. 16) A single house and garden on the north side of Corn Street (No. 166) survived as a detached part of Curbridge until it was absorbed into the urban district after 1898: it was linked to a holding of former demesne just outside the borough north of Corn Street (Clay piece and Quarry ground), but no explanation has been found for its enduring link with Curbridge. (fn. 17) Despite the frequent movement of Curbridge's eastern boundary to keep pace with Witney's western expansion (fn. 18) some industrial estates and large areas of new housing, notably the Deer Park estate, remained in Curbridge until the end of the 20th century. They were finally taken into Witney in 2001 when the town was extended as far west as Downs Road, removing from Curbridge an area bounded on the north by Burford Road and on the south by the Witney bypass. The township's northern, western, and south-western boundaries remained those of the ancient parish of Witney. (fn. 19) Landscape and Geology The landscape is fairly flat, rising gently from low-lying southern parts near Lew heath and Caswell (75–80m.) to some 110m. on Curbridge down and along the ridge followed by the Witney—Burford road, before descending into the Windrush valley on the north. Springs on the higher ground feed several small streams which run south and south-eastwards through the township, the most substantial being Colwell brook. (fn. 20) Much of the northern part of Curbridge lies on cornbrash, but the former Witney park occupied an area of Kellaways sand and clay. Forest Marble borders some of the streams, and there is a patch of gravel beneath part of Curbridge village around Manor and Charity Farms. The southern part of the township, including Caswell, lies mostly on Oxford Clay, with alluvium along the brooks and around Caswell House. (fn. 21) There was plentiful meadow land along the river Windrush and some of the smaller streams. Opinions on the farming qualities of the cornbrash and clay varied greatly. In the early 20th century the cornbrash was regarded as excellent for sheep and barley, (fn. 22) but earlier was noted to be frequently thin, while the 'cold clay' was evidently difficult to work before the introduction of modern ploughs. Much of the grass was poor unless properly drained, and areas such as Curbridge heath were left as rough pasture until the 19th century. (fn. 23) The 13th-century Witney park may have been established in an area of ancient woodland, and certainly oaks and elms were regularly felled there in the Middle Ages. (fn. 24) By the later 16th century, however, park timber was yielding only 6s. 8d. a year, and by the 18th century the only surviving woodland in that area seems to have been a small coppice south of the former park. (fn. 25) There was woodland at Caswell in the 13th century, (fn. 26) and coppicing was practised there on some scale in the 18th century. (fn. 27) By the early 19th century the only woodland in Curbridge was on the Caswell estate, where there were only 16 a. in scattered copses. (fn. 28) Elm disease in the 1980s severely depleted the formerly well-timbered fields around Caswell House. Until the Witney bypass was built just north of Curbridge village in the 1970s the principal road through the township was the Witney-Burford road, an ancient east-west ridgeway which in the mid 13th century dictated the northern limit of the newly created Witney park (see Figs. 3 and 68). (fn. 29) It formed part of the great road from London to Gloucester and was turnpiked in 1751 and disturnpiked in 1870; (fn. 30) when Curbridge was inclosed in 1845 a toll house was added at the turnpike's junction with the new Downs Road. (fn. 31) Further east the road continued into Witney along Mill Lane, and branched south-eastwards to enter the town along Corn Street; before the 13th century the Corn Street branch may have followed valley contours across the later park, but certainly thereafter followed its modern course along Tower Hill to form the park's eastern boundary. (fn. 32) In modern times the branch road was variously called Union Hill, from the workhouse of 1836, Razor Hill, from stone-cutting machinery in the adjacent quarries, (fn. 33) and finally Tower Hill, from the water tower built at its north end in 1903. (fn. 34) On the west the ancient Wood Lane, which formed Witney's Saxon boundary with Minster Lovell, (fn. 35) became part of an alternative route on the turnpike: it was known as Back Pike and Minster Pike, and had a toll gate near Curbridge's western boundary. (fn. 36) Part of the township's southern boundary with Lew followed another ancient and largely abandoned route, Abingdon Lane. (fn. 37) A road southwards from Witney towards Ducklington, Standlake, and the important Thames crossing at Newbridge (fn. 38) passed through the township's east side. Just east of Curbridge village was the Witney— Bampton road, turnpiked in 1771 and disturnpiked in 1874. (fn. 39) There was a toll gate on Curbridge heath, just within Lew parish, and another was added ½ mile north-east of the village in the early 19th century. (fn. 40) It seems likely that the Witney—Bampton road once entered rather than bypassed Curbridge village, its line perhaps preserved in the lane running from Manor Farm to the village street, and continuing southwards as a footpath (now blocked by a house) to rejoin the Bampton road. By the 17th century the road followed its present line; (fn. 41) its staggered junction with the road from Ducklington, south-east of Charity Farm, was moved slightly further eastwards in the mid 20th century when the Witney—Bampton road was straightened and given priority. (fn. 42) The village's main street lies on an east—west road from Ducklington to Brize Norton, whose western section is the only survivor of several roads which connected Curbridge with settlements to the west and north. Of those the chief was an evidently ancient lane which ran west from Curbridge on the line of the surviving track past Peashell Farm, forming the southern boundary of Minster Lovell parish before joining the Witney—Northleach ridgeway near Asthall barrow. In Curbridge it was called Burford road, (fn. 43) and its continuation along the Minster Lovell boundary was part of the turnpike loop called Back Pike mentioned above. East of Curbridge the road connected in later times only with Ducklington, but there are signs that its main, probably pre-Saxon, line passed south-west of Ducklington village, perhaps connecting with a ford on the river Windrush south of Ducklington Mill. (fn. 44) It seems likely that this ancient south-easterly route influenced the siting and layout of Curbridge village. A probably ancient lane connecting Enstone and Bampton crossed the river Windrush at Crawley, ran south down Dry Lane, formed the western boundary of Witney park, and as Crawley Way continued south to enter Curbridge along a lane known in the 1840s as Hollow Way; it then followed Well Lane southwards to join the Bampton road. Another ancient lane ran westwards from Corn Street in Witney, formed the southern boundary of the medieval park, crossed the Crawley road north-west of the village at a junction called in 1814 Gib's cross, and continued south-westwards to Brize Norton on the line of the surviving road. (fn. 45) The lane's eastern end was perhaps the 'gallow way' implied by the field name Galloway (later Galley) Hill field, the site of Witney cemetery, raising the possibility that Gib's cross preserved the memory of a gibbet. (fn. 46) In the 18th century another road, whose precise line is uncertain, ran north-westwards across Curbridge down towards Minster Lovell, joining the Witney—Burford road at the township's western boundary. (fn. 47) At inclosure in 1845 both turnpikes, the Witney— Standlake road, the roads from Curbridge to Brize Norton and Ducklington, the Dry Lane section of the Crawley road, and Abingdon Lane across Curbridge Heath were all retained as public roads. Other ancient lanes in the township were abandoned or reduced to footways, and a new straight public road (Downs Road) was laid out from the Brize Norton road west of the village to the Witney—Burford turnpike. (fn. 48) The junction of Downs Road and the Brize Norton road was altered in the 1970s when the Witney bypass was built. (fn. 49) A flint axe of c. 3000 BC was found in Curbridge near Emma's dyke, the relict stream south-west of Witney. (fn. 50) There are signs of low-density Neolithic and early Bronze-Age occupation north of Curbridge village near Downs Road and on both sides of Colwell brook. (fn. 51) Another area of prehistoric occupation may be indicated by crop marks on the former Curbridge heath on the township's southern edge. (fn. 52) An Iron-Age 'banjo' enclosure is the principal feature of fairly extensive crop marks west of the village, near the lane to Peashell Farm. (fn. 53) A small Iron-Age farmstead, including a round-house, and probably occupied between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC, was found near the centre of the former Witney park. (fn. 54) Construction of Witney bypass in 1975 revealed part of a substantial Romano-British settlement ¼ mile north-east of Curbridge, between Colwell brook on the south-east, a tributary stream on the south, and Curbridge road on the north-west: the site, occupied from the 1st or early 2nd century and probably abandoned in the 4th, included a cemetery in which some of the burials may indicate a transition from pagan to Christian rituals. (fn. 55) The choice of site was probably influenced by the subsoil which, in contrast to the Oxford Clay east of Colwell brook, was a mixture of sandy clay and pebbles. The excavated site, in a former open-field furlong called Long Miskin (dunghill), lay immediately south of a field called in the 13th century Old Field, perhaps in recognition of a pre-Saxon origin. (fn. 56) When Curbridge was first mentioned in 956 it was the centre of a substantial estate. (fn. 57) The place name, combining the Anglo-Saxon personal name Creoda with 'bridge', (fn. 58) implies that a river-crossing was a major feature of the early settlement. The small, unnamed brook traversing Curbridge near the junction of the village street and Well Lane seems an unlikely site for a significant early bridge: only a mile downstream, however, the brook in the 10th century not only formed the boundary of an important estate centred on Ducklington but was also substantial enough to have acquired a stone ford or bridge. (fn. 59) Another possible site for Creoda's bridge was just north-east of the village, where the probably ancient Witney-Bampton road crossed Colwell brook and a tributary stream, near the Romano-British settlement mentioned above. While such an apparently important early bridge might be expected to be on the much larger river Windrush, it seems unlikely that the township took its name from a bridge on its boundary rather than one in or near the centre of settlement. By the early 13th century there were 26 villein tenants of Witney manor at Curbridge, and at least three freeholders may have been resident in Curbridge or Caswell. (fn. 60) By 1279 there were 4 freeholders, 32 villeins, and 2 cottars at Curbridge, and 4 tenants at Caswell. (fn. 61) In 1327 there were 32 Curbridge taxpayers, including at least two at Caswell, and probably most were resident householders. (fn. 62) Mid 14th-century plagues had a long-term effect at Curbridge, where in 1377 poll tax was paid by only 55 adults. (fn. 63) Evidence of amalgamated holdings confirms that the reduction of population was permanent: the 30 villein yardlands held at the Black Death by 19 Curbridge tenants were held by only 11 in 1470. (fn. 64) There were also a few resident freeholders, demesne lessees, and millers, but from the later Middle Ages heavy emphasis on sheep-farming and the consequent inclosure of land probably restrained population growth: in the mid 16th century there were only 17 taxpayers in Curbridge, of whom 7 were of the Wenman and Brice families, prominent inclosing landlords. (fn. 65) For hearth tax in 1662 only 33 Curbridge householders were assessed. (fn. 66) An estimate in 1738 that there were only 24 inhabited houses in Curbridge perhaps related only to the village: certainly there were 44 named tenants of Curbridge manorial land in 1716, although only 25 Curbridge males were named in what seem to be lists of suitors to mid 18th-century courts. (fn. 67) By 1801 there were 65 families in 65 houses, a total population of 353, and there was little change by 1841 when, excluding the inmates of the Union workhouse, 387 people occupied 71 houses. (fn. 68) By 1871, partly because of building on the western fringes of Witney, the population had risen to 453. Presumably because of the agricultural depression it then fell to 393 in 1881, recovering by 1891 to 492. (fn. 69) The transfer to Witney of much of the township's 'urban' part in 1898 reduced the population by 1901 to only 339 in 77 families. By 1931 Witney's continued expansion had increased the number of houses in Curbridge to 189 and the population to 807, but after further transfers of land to Witney in 1932 and 1963 the population in 1971 was only 485 in 160 houses. Thereafter, despite another major transfer of built-up areas to Witney in 1985, dense residential development in the Deer Park area brought the population in 1991 to 1,489 in 635 households, reduced by further transfers to Witney in 2001. (fn. 70) Growth of Settlement The village was established along the east-west road from Ducklington to Brize Norton (Main Road), with a second distinct nucleus ¼ mile to the south on the Bampton road. Houses along Well Lane, now providing an unbroken link between the two centres, were not built until the 20th century, and the connecting stretch of the Bampton road was never built up. (fn. 71) The early nucleus of the settlement was perhaps towards the east end of the surviving main street, where, as suggested above, (fn. 72) the Witney—Bampton road may have run further west to a crossroads near Charity Farm. No medieval church or chapel is recorded at Curbridge, but a house and land at that suggested central site (now Stanhope Cottage) belonged anciently to the rector of Witney's glebe, and was probably the house and pasture let separately from the rest of the glebe in the 17th century: (fn. 73) possibly it was an early chapel site. The southern part of the village, south of the convergence of the ancient Bampton road and Well Lane, may also have been settled early: the surname 'at heath', borne by several early medieval Curbridge landholders, (fn. 74) suggests a distinct settlement in that area, which bordered Curbridge heath, and one of the principal farms there retains a medieval barn. (fn. 75) There was early settlement in outlying areas of the township at Caswell, on the mill sites, in the parts of the town technically in Curbridge, and in the park, where there was a medieval lodge on the site of the later Witney Park Farm. (fn. 76) Curbridge's open fields were worked from Witney manor house and from farmhouses in the village. The large inclosed farm created in the east of the township when the demesne was taken out of the open fields was worked chiefly from the manor house until the 18th century, after which the former demesne was worked from Witney Park Farm and Burwell Farm. (fn. 77) After the depopulation of Curbridge in the later Middle Ages some larger farms were built up, (fn. 78) and their farmsteads dominated the small village until the later 20th century. In the 1660s, however, the largest houses in the township stood outside the village: Caswell House (assessed for tax on 22 hearths), Witney rectory and manor house (11 and 9 hearths), and Park Farm (8 hearths). Other substantial houses included one of 6 hearths, three of 5, five of 4, and two of 3 hearths; apart from Woodford Mill (5 hearths) they were probably all in the village. A further 18 of the 33 households assessed had only one or two hearths. (fn. 79) In 1814 there were only some 30 house sites in the village, divided fairly evenly between the northern nucleus along the main street and the southern group on the Bampton road; outside the village were Caswell House, Witney Park Farm, Burwell Farm, Woodford Mills and associated cottages, a few houses on the western fringes of the borough, and the small group at Witney's southern end. (fn. 80) Some of the Curbridge houses were evidently occupied by more than one household, since there were over 65 occupied houses in the township. (fn. 81) In the village the houses were widely spaced, the larger sites occupied by farms established in the 17th century or earlier. On a short lane running north from the main street were those known later as Manor and Charity Farms, and on the south side of the main street Curbridge Farm; the farmstead of the smaller Dog farm was on the corner of Well Lane. In the village's southern part the chief sites were the farmhouse later called Dutton's, the Herd of Swine (later the Lord Kitchener) inn, and a farmstead attached to the glebe estate, later Parsonage Barn. In the angle between Well Lane and the Bampton road was the farmstead of a long-lived smaller farm, held by the Wright family from the 17th century until the late 19th; called Garston farm in the 19th century it ceased as a working farm in the early 20th, and the site remains derelict. (fn. 82) A high proportion of the houses mapped in 1814–1816 survived, much altered, into the 21st century. The predominant building materials were stone and stone slate, but thatch survives on a small, 1½-storey cottage of c. 1700 on Main Road. The oldest identifiable building is a probably 15th-century barn, part of Dutton's farm, on the Bampton road; it is of 5 bays, with raised crucks and medieval buttresses flanking a doorway with a stopchamfered timber lintel. Curbridge Farm, dating from the 16th century or earlier, is treated below. (fn. 83) Charity Farm, so called from its association with Witney's Holloway charity from 1724 to 1907, was earlier the farmhouse of a 6-yardland estate held by the Newman family. (fn. 84) The 2½-storey house, of two units with a central doorway, is probably of the early 17th century, and retains stone-mullioned windows with labels; the doorway and some windows are of the mid and later 19th century. The associated farm buildings are of high quality, and include a stable and granary block, and a 5-bay barn of the early 19th century. The adjacent Manor Farm, not manorial but anciently part of the largest copyhold estate in the township, was held by the non-resident Hacker family from the early 17th century until the 1830s. (fn. 85) The large L-shaped house of 2½ storeys has a symmetrical three-window front with gabled roof dormers and a central doorway and stone bracketed hood, probably all of the early 19th century; behind is a two-storey wing of the late 17th or early 18th century. Manor Farm's extensive 18th- and 19th-century farm buildings were rebuilt as houses in the late 20th and early 21st century. Farm buildings in the angle of Main Road and Well Lane, similarly converted and rebuilt c. 2000 as Packhorse Barn, were earlier attached to Dog Farm, which ceased as a working farm in the earlier 20th century. In the 17th century the farm was a 2-yardland estate attached to a house called the Black Dog, presumably an inn, and later became a 3-yardland farm. (fn. 86) The farmhouse survives as Packhorse Cottage, a 1½-storey building of coursed rubble, probably 18th-century in origin. Another farmhouse typical of a smaller estate is Willow Cottage, on the south side of Main Road, a coursed rubble 2-storey late 17th-century house retaining chamfered lintels and beams. (fn. 87) Malthouse Farm, on the north side of Main Road, is named from a malthouse, mentioned in 1699, attached to a farm held by the Dalton family from the 16th century to the 19th. (fn. 88) In 1814 the malthouse seems to have been on the site of the surviving farmhouse. (fn. 89) It was held in the later 19th century by the Smith family, poulterers, (fn. 90) and the house, built or rebuilt in the 1880s probably by John Smith, (fn. 91) may incorporate the earlier malthouse. At the west end of the village the former Merry Horn public house, probably built as a farmhouse, dates from the early and mid 18th century; it is a 2½-storey building of coursed rubble and stone slate, altered and extended in the 19th century but retaining early 18th-century beams and roof timbers. The Lord Kitchener on the Bampton road, probably an inn by the earlier 18th century, may have been rebuilt or extended soon after the road was turnpiked, and by 1814 was similar in size and shape to the surviving building; it is of stone and stone slate, with a central 2½-storey block flanked by two-storey ranges. (fn. 92) Park Farm, houses at Caswell and at Witney's southern end, and the mills, are all treated below. The only other surviving early house outside the village is Burwell Farm, which from the 18th century until the later 20th was the farmhouse for one of largest farms in the township, at times comprising some 350a. of former manorial demesne, held usually on long leases. (fn. 93) It is a substantial house of coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, notably the angle quoins which have a vertical roll-moulding. The main block, which has a symmetrical classical south façade but at the back only a single cellar window, is a single-pile five-bayed house of two storeys with dormers to garrets. Attached on the east is an east-facing service block of two storeys, with a hipped roof and a basement under the north end. The surviving house is evidently the 'newly built' farmhouse mentioned in 1756, when Burwell farm was first leased by the duke of Marlborough after he became lessee of Witney manor in 1751, (fn. 94) although the house seems to have been built in the first quarter of the 18th century and incorporates earlier windows in the cellar and service wing: the latter has 3-light windows with mullions which are ovolo-moulded internally but chamfered externally, both their placement and treatment suggesting re-use. Since there was apparently no house or other building on the Burwell site in 1662 such early windows were presumably imported, perhaps from Witney manor house, which was probably derelict before its demolition in the 1750s. (fn. 95) The main block of Burwell Farm, as first built, had two heated rooms on each floor; the south front was remodelled in the early 19th century, and a central staircase hall was created: the staircase incorporates earlier 18th-century newel posts. Most of the extensive farm buildings were demolished after Burwell ceased as a working farm, but a timber and stone-slated granary of c. 1800, rebuilt in 2002, survives. The lease of 1756 included a 'little dwelling house' or 'cottage for servants', probably identifiable as the stone-rubble core of a much extended farm cottage (later Witneylea cottage) on the south-east edge of the farmstead site. (fn. 96) Between 1814 and the 1840s, when Curbridge's open fields were finally inclosed, there were few changes, reflecting the lack of population growth. (fn. 97) No additional house sites were established in the village, but in 1835–6 a church with attached schoolroom was built near the parish pound on the north side of Main Road; it stood some 40 yards south of the present church, by which it was replaced in 1906. (fn. 98) In the township's eastern part the Union workhouse was built in 1835–6 on the later Tower Hill, (fn. 99) and Rock House, a substantial early 19th-century villa residence, stone with a stuccoed symmetrical front and pillared portico, was built by Henry Salmon, wool stapler, in the angle of Mill Street and Puck Lane. (fn. 100) At inclosure the principal farmers acquired contiguous fields which could be worked from existing farmhouses, but one new outlying farmhouse, Downs Farm, was built around 1840 on the Burford road at the township's western edge; it is a typical purpose-built farmstead of the period, with large stone barns and cattle sheds arranged around a central yard (Fig. 46). Dutton's Farm on the Bampton road, bought in 1836 by a Witney draper, William Dutton, was rebuilt shortly afterwards as a villa residence in Georgian style; for a time in the mid 19th century it was called Curbridge Hall. (fn. 101) It is a two-storeyed, double-depth house of coursed and squared stone with ashlar dressings, a Welsh slate roof, and a symmetrical front with trellised porch. An outlying farm cottage, presumably built to serve a detached part of Dutton's farm, was on the site of Peashill or Peashell Farm by the 1860s, but did not develop as a separate, and eventually substantial, farm until the early 20th century. (fn. 102) In the mid 19th century several cottage rows were built in the village, notably Church Row and Batts Row on Main Road. (fn. 103) A new schoolhouse (now Laureston Cottage) was built on the south side of Main Road in 1871 and a small, wooden, Primitive Methodist chapel opened in the 1870s on the west side of the Bampton road, south of the junction with Main Road; it was replaced by the surviving chapel on Main Road in 1902 and later demolished. (fn. 104) In the east of the township mid 19th-century cottage rows were built at Razor Hill (in patterned brick) and north-west of Dark Lane (in stone and Welsh slate), and in 1857 Witney's cemetery with two chapels was laid out in the angle between Tower Hill and the Curbridge road. (fn. 105) A few more stone cottages were built on Cemetery Hill and on the Curbridge road in the later 19th century, notably, in 1887, a pair of cottages built by the Blenheim estate for Burwell farm, with tall chimneys, gables, and barge boards. On the west side of Tower Hill a pair of stone cottages with brick dressings and stacks were also built by the Blenheim estate in 1887; they were for Park Farm and stand at the end of its former entrance driveway. (fn. 106) By the 1890s there were more than a dozen cottages on or near the Witney Mills site; most were transferred to the urban district in 1898, together with five cottages built in Pound (later Station) Lane in the 1850s, and twelve built in the Crofts in the 1880s. (fn. 107) In 1873 the railway line from Witney to Fairford (Glos.) was built across the township, passing south of Curbridge village; the line was closed in 1962. (fn. 108) In the early 20th century suburban expansion into Curbridge was at first minimal: a pair of villas was built at the north end of Dark Lane in 1902 and a few others near the cemetery about 1900, while houses, mostly detached, began to be built on the south side of the Burford road east of Tower Hill. Later, however, the airfield established during the First World War on Curbridge down, and increasing motor transport along the Burford road, encouraged development in that area. In the 1920s and 1930s the north end of Tower Hill was built up, chiefly with detached houses in brick and pebbledash, and more were built on the south side of the Burford road. A council estate (Moor Avenue) was inserted between that road and Dark Lane, and another begun at Mirfield Road west of the cemetery. A few detached houses were built on Ducklington Lane and along the Curbridge road, notably an isolated house at Coral Spring built for the Barrell family of Witney in the 1930s. (fn. 109) In the village itself the only substantial addition before the Second World War was a group of eight council houses at the north end of Well Lane. (fn. 110) The village had mains water and electricity by the late 1930s, although the outlying Park Farm was not connected to the electricity supply in 1948. (fn. 111) The rapid spread of Witney into the east side of Curbridge in the second half of the 20th century is treated elsewhere. (fn. 112) One result was that two of the largest farms in the township, Witney Park and Burwell, were entirely covered by housing, their farmhouses surrounded by densely packed estates. The extent and rapidity of the loss of agricultural land was unforeseen, since as late as 1960 a new farmhouse was built at New Leys on the Curbridge road, to work surviving fields in the Burwell area: it is a large stone house in traditional style, with mullions and dripmoulds. (fn. 113) By the 1990s, however, New Leys farm, too, was given over to housing, its farmhouse surrounded. Other outlying parts of Curbridge, though remaining technically outside Witney's boundary, became effectively part of the urban area in the late 20th century. The airfield, which became an industrial site and later an industrial and commercial estate, is treated elsewhere, as are the public and private recreational and leisure facilities developed in the north west of Curbridge by the end of the century. (fn. 114) Chief among them was a golf course constructed on 130 a. of former farmland near Downs Road in 1993, developed over the next few years into an extensive leisure complex including an hotel, business centre, sauna, and swimming pools. (fn. 115) From the 1950s the village was transformed by the insertion of new houses, mostly for commuters: in 1960, for example, the rural district council approved the building of 17 bungalows on Main Road and Well Lane. (fn. 116) By the 1970s Well Lane was lined throughout its length with a mixture of private and public housing, and most available sites along Main Road had been filled by detached houses and bungalows. A few detached houses and a garage had been built at the southern end of the village. At the west end a large complex of concrete agricultural buildings to serve Curbridge farm was erected in 1968. (fn. 117) In the late 20th century infilling continued, and most of the old houses were altered and extended, their barns converted into houses; no large estates were established, but housing density increased as plots behind street frontages began to be developed. Building materials included brick, concrete, reconstituted stone, and a wide variety of concrete tiles. Caswell, a deserted medieval settlement, became the centre of an inclosed estate occupying the south-west corner of Witney parish and of Curbridge township. In 1824 the part of the estate within Witney parish comprised some 365 a.; (fn. 118) probably its extent had changed little from the Middle Ages, since it was surrounded by Curbridge's open fields. Part of the adjoining east side of Brize Norton parish was also called Caswell, and was similarly inclosed early, but followed a different descent until merged with the Witney estate from the 16th century: (fn. 119) in 1824 the Brize Norton part comprised another 180 a. (fn. 120) The early boundaries of the Witney estate were probably, on the west, the brook dividing Witney from Brize Norton (Norton ditch), on the north the ancient lane from Curbridge to Burford (past Peashell Farm), and, on the south, Curbridge heath. The medieval eastern boundary probably followed a brook which ran from the Burford lane southwards along the edge of Curbridge's open fields to Curbridge heath, then turned westwards to join Norton ditch. (fn. 121) The medieval settlement stood south of the surviving Caswell House Farm, next to Norton ditch and on a small tributary stream rising ¼ mile to the north, perhaps the 'cress stream' to which the name Caswell is thought to refer. (fn. 122) In 1279, when surveyed as a separate component of Witney manor, Caswell comprised 12 freehold yardlands with at least 5 tenants. (fn. 123) In 1327, when Caswell was taxed with Curbridge, one of its two identifiable taxpayers, Richard of Standlake, was notably wealthy, and it may be that Caswell's depopulation and transformation into a single estate had already begun. (fn. 124) In the later Middle Ages Caswell was held by a succession of men involved in the wool and cloth trades, among them Thomas Fermor or Ricards (d. 1485), who certainly lived there. (fn. 125) His stepson Richard Wenman, merchant of the Staple, was indicted in 1500 for inclosing activities at Caswell, but probably the estate had long since been turned into an inclosed sheep farm, and the Brize Norton Caswell estate was already inclosed when it, too, was acquired by the Wenmans in 1554. (fn. 126) The Curbridge part of Caswell, called a manor by the early 16th century, was thereafter worked or let as a single farm centred on Caswell House, while the Brize Norton part was worked from Lower Caswell Farm, ¼ mile to the south. (fn. 127) Of the medieval settlement only Caswell House remains (Figs. 66–7). (fn. 128) In a field immediately south of its grounds are signs of hollow ways and possible house-platforms, (fn. 129) and an irregular three-sided moat or ditch where a cottage stood until the mid 20th century. (fn. 130) Close by to the south, on the boundary brook, is the small, rectangular Black Moat, (fn. 131) possibly the site of a medieval house attached to the Brize Norton Caswell estate. Lower Caswell Farm in Brize Norton, a substantial house of unknown date, stood immediately west of Black Moat, and was demolished in the early 20th century. (fn. 132) In the mid 13th century the bishop of Winchester created a park west of the borough in Curbridge township; in 1279 he was found to have a free park for which no warrant was known. (fn. 133) A park was mentioned in the late 1240s, (fn. 134) but the work of laying it out seems to have been undertaken mainly in 1251 when some £48 was spent on digging a perimeter ditch (8ft. wide and 6 ft. deep) and putting up stake fencing. (fn. 135) The following year the park was stocked with deer from Wychwood forest provided by the king, and from 1253 a keeper was employed and the park fishponds stocked. (fn. 136) There is no indication that any cultivated land was lost to the park, which was on clay soil in an otherwise cornbrash area and may already have been wooded. (fn. 137) It comprised some 180 a., bounded on the north by the ancient ridgeway towards Burford, and on the west by an ancient lane from Enstone and Bampton; the eastern boundary was the later Tower Hill, perhaps diverted at the park's creation, or perhaps a pre-existing road. (fn. 138) There may have been some park wall by 1274, (fn. 139) and in 1285 the whole north side (231 perches) was walled in stone. (fn. 140) In 1286 large quantities of oak and elm were cut to improve park fencing against thieves. (fn. 141) A hall or hunting lodge, probably on the site of the later Park Farm, was mentioned in 1254, (fn. 142) and the park 'mansion' or 'keeper's lodge' was repaired regularly thereafter. (fn. 143) There were great and little park gates, the main entrance probably, as later, on the Burford road near the centre of the northern boundary. (fn. 144) The fishponds were on Colwell brook in the south-west corner. (fn. 145) Deer were kept in the park until the 16th century; in 1346 the king and other donors augmented the bishop's stock with 36 does, and most park expenditure in the later Middle Ages was on fodder or the maintenance of walls and deer leaps. (fn. 146) Horses were bred in the park into the 14th century, and throughout the Middle Ages timber for demesne buildings was felled there. (fn. 147) In the 13th century pasture rights in the park were let regularly; income from agistments later ceased because of the 'wild beasts', but frequent references to granges, a byre, and a sheephouse in the park indicate continued agricultural use. (fn. 148) A tithe modus of 10s., agreed at an unknown but probably late-medieval date, was later acknowleged to apply only to the deer park proper (c. 140 a.), (fn. 149) and to exclude Park Piece (some 38 a. within the walled area east of Park Farm) (fn. 150) which was presumably under cultivation when the modus was agreed. In the 15th century the park pasture was sometimes let and sometimes kept in hand for the bishop's flocks. (fn. 151) In 1488 the manorial steward, Thomas Mayow, was paying 10s. a year for agistment in the park, and before 1500 he acquired a life-lease or farm of the park for £3 6s. 8d. a year. (fn. 152) He was succeeded before 1508 by another steward, Peter Hunsden, and in 1520 the park lease was granted for 98 years to Richard Wenman of Caswell. (fn. 153) In 1593 local witnesses agreed that the park had ceased to be a deer park some 20 or 30 years earlier. (fn. 154) The land became part of a large inclosed farm centred on the former lodge, and although it was still partly wooded in the early 17th century when there was concern over excessive felling of timber there, (fn. 155) by the early 19th century it contained no woodland. (fn. 156) Thomas Wenman claimed in 1574 that he stocked the park with only a small herd of cows and a few fattening sheep, (fn. 157) though in 1591 a neighbouring farmer was grazing 100 ewes there. (fn. 158) Stephen Brice, the Wenmans' subtenant in the park from c. 1583, bought the lease from Thomas Fisher and his wife Jane (formerly Wenman) in 1585. (fn. 159) On its expiry in 1618 the lease was renewed to the Brice family for 80 years, still at the traditional rent of £3 6s. 8d. (fn. 160) Stephen (d. 1620) and his son Stephen (d. 1643) lived at the house in the park, (fn. 161) while other Brices, notably Thomas, son of Stephen (d. 1620), and Robert, probably Thomas's son, occupied Witney manor house. (fn. 162) When the bishop of Winchester's Witney manor was sold by the Parliamentary Commissioners in 1649 the unexpired park lease was held by Martha Brice, widow of Stephen (d. 1643), but it was not mentioned after the bishops of Winchester recovered their estates at the Restoration. (fn. 163) The Brices' connection with the park was broken permanently when Martha's son, Capt. Stephen Brice, a Royalist compounder, moved to Eynsham in 1654. (fn. 164) After the Restoration a Capt. Robert Wharton briefly occupied the house, (fn. 165) but later both house and park formed the core of one of Curbridge's principal farms, held by the long-established farming families the Hornes, the Bushes, and the Staleys. (fn. 166) In the mid 19th century parts of the former park boundary were clearly visible. Sections of 'massive and lofty' wall associated with a 'deep and wide' ditch were noted, and a 'fosse' on the Burford road, marking the northern park boundary, survived into modern times. (fn. 167) In the 1960s a dry ditch there was some 6 ft. deep in places, but was later filled in. (fn. 168) Slight signs of a bank and ditch in the south-west, and of walling related to a field barn (formerly Pryor's barn) on the southern boundary, were visible in the 1980s, and remains of the medieval fishponds survive on Colwell brook. (fn. 169) By the late 20th century Park Farm, entirely surrounded by housing, was derelict; (fn. 170) after its conversion into three houses not much more than the shell of the old building remained. The house and its extensive farm buildings had changed little in plan between the early 19th century and the later 20th. (fn. 171) By 1988 the L-shaped house, of coursed rubble with an ashlar front, had a mixture of concrete tile and Welsh slate roofs, with brick end stacks. (fn. 172) The symmetrical 2½-storey south front, 3-windowed with a central doorway, was probably built in the late 18th century for the prosperous Bush family; a lower service wing on the east was of similar date. Parts of a rear range and a north—south extension date from the early and later 17th century, retaining 2- and 3-light stone mullioned windows with dripmoulds. Despite intensive modern building-work at the house and in its grounds no remains of the medieval park lodge have been recorded. (fn. 173) In the 1870s Curbridge feast, held on or near 25 September, included a cricket match and races; (fn. 174) whether or not the celebration was traditional is unknown. Earlier the township was closely concerned in Witney feast (beginning the first Sunday after 8 September), which in the 18th century included horse races on Curbridge down on the Monday and Tuesday. (fn. 175) The races ceased in 1840 when the down was inclosed. (fn. 176) A Curbridge Friendly Society and Savings Club existed in 1842, (fn. 177) and in the later 19th century there was a village choir. (fn. 178) Most social life centred on the church, the chapel, and the inns. There was no village hall, but in the 1960s and 1970s the parish council and a Good Companions club met in the Methodist chapel. (fn. 179) In 1978, when it closed as a chapel, villagers observed that it was their only public meeting room; (fn. 180) it was acquired by the parish council and used for meetings, social events, and by the village band and other groups. Curbridge's only surviving inn, the Lord Kitchener, was so named from the first decade of the 20th century; (fn. 181) earlier it was the Herd of Swine. (fn. 182) In the 18th century, known familiarly as the Hogs, (fn. 183) it was Curbridge's principal inn; its licensee from 1753 until 1797, Mary Andrews, was probably the successor of Leonard Andrews, innholder, recorded at Curbridge in 1717, (fn. 184) and the Andrews family still owned but let the inn in 1814. (fn. 185) Later, and for much of the 19th century, it was held by another long-established family, the Lords. (fn. 186) Other early inns included a 17th-century Black Dog, (fn. 187) and in the later 18th century a Coach and Horses, a Bell and Ball, and a Ball, but by the early 19th century only the Herd of Swine was licensed. (fn. 188) By 1840 and until the 1880s the Merry Horn at the village's west end was run by the Busby family as an alehouse combined with a butcher's shop, (fn. 189) and the Ayris family were publicans there from the 1880s until the 1930s. (fn. 190) The Merry Horn closed in the 1990s. (fn. 191) The pill manufacturer and founder of a firm which became a major pharmaceutical company was born in Curbridge in 1820: (fn. 192) his father Joseph, a farm labourer, was tenant of a cottage at the south end of the village, later rebuilt as Beecham Cottage. (fn. 193) In 1841 his mother Sarah, who had remarried after Joseph's death in 1839, was living there with five of her seven Beecham children, (fn. 194) but Thomas, her eldest, had long since left Curbridge. After working as a shepherd in Cropredy and a gardener in Kidlington he made and sold pills in Witney and Bampton, moving in 1847 to Lancashire where he made his fortune. (fn. 195)

Book your room at Hotel Balneario Parque de Cazorla Standard Double RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant) Double Room Single UseMax Occupancy: 1 guest Superior Double RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant) Triple RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 2 infants) Quadruple RoomMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant) Double Room (SPA access)Max Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant) 4-star hotel with 3 outdoor pools and 3 indoor pools Collect 200 points Simply enter your Nectar card number when prompted. Your points will be credited 30 days after you return from your trip.*Offers may apply Situated in a regional park, this spa hotel is 6.2 mi (10 km) from Parque Natural de Cazorla and within 16 mi (25 km) of Castle Bujaraiza and Plaza de la Constitucion. Plaza de la Corredera and Plaza Santa Maria are also within 16 mi (25 km). 3 indoor pools, 3 outdoor pools, and a full-service spa are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a restaurant, a nightclub, and a fitness center are onsite. All 67 rooms boast fireplaces and jetted tubs, plus free WiFi and LCD TVs with satellite channels. Other amenities available to guests include wired Internet, minibars, and premium bedding.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! Hotel Balneario Parque de Cazorla features a full-service spa, 3 outdoor swimming pools, and 3 indoor swimming pools along with a waterslide and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. 2 meeting rooms are available. This La Iruela hotel also offers a children's pool, a seasonal outdoor pool, and a nightclub. Complimentary self parking is available on site. Hotel Balneario Parque de Cazorla is a smoke-free property. - 24-hour front desk - Total number of rooms - 67 - Number of floors - 3 - Breakfast available (surcharge) - Concierge services - Dry cleaning/laundry service - Fitness facilities - Full-service spa - Turkish bath/Hammam - Computer station - Number of indoor pools - 3 - Number of outdoor pools - 3 - Tours/ticket assistance - Free WiFi - Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge - Laundry facilities - Meeting rooms - Luggage storage - Safe-deposit box at front desk - Number of meeting rooms - 2 - Year Built 2007 - Free self parking - Self parking (surcharge) - Smoke-free property - Spa services on site - Children's pool - Outdoor seasonal pool - Television in lobby Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Wired internet access ( 10 EUR per stay ) Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Wired high-speed internet ( 10 EUR per stay ) Free self parking, Self parking (surcharge) - Premium TV channels - Premium bedding - Air conditioning - Daily housekeeping - Private bathroom - Free toiletries - Hair dryer - Jetted bathtub - Bathtub or shower - Iron/ironing board (on request) - In-room safe - Blackout drapes/curtains - Satellite TV service - Free WiFi - Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge) - LCD TV - Cribs/infant beds (surcharge) Where to Eat Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 8 AM and 11 AM. Onsite venue - This buffet restaurant specializes in regional cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Nearby Things to Do 3 outdoor swimming pools and 3 indoor swimming pools are on site. In addition to a seasonal outdoor pool, other recreational amenities include a waterslide, a fitness center, and a children's pool. The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply. - Hiking/biking trails nearby - Bicycle rentals nearby Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa. Services include massages, facials, and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, a steam room, and Turkish bath/hammam. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including hydrotherapy. - Steam room in spa - Hydrotherapy treatments - Sauna in spa - Spa tub in spa - Body treatments - Facial treatments To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the “Special or Accessibility Requests" section of “Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel. - Accessible bathroom - Accessible path of travel - Accessible parking - In-room accessibility Check-in time starts at 1:00 PM Minimum check-in age is 18 Check-in time ends at Midnight Check-out time is Noon You need to know Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy. Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges. Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed. No rollaway/extra beds available No pets or service animals allowed - New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 60.00 - Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 8.00 for adults and EUR 4 for children (approximately) - Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): EUR 10 per stay (rates may vary) - Fee for high-speed Internet (wired) in public areas: EUR 10 per stay (rates may vary) - Self parking fee: EUR 8.00 per day - Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 6.00 per night - Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee We should mention Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property. Spa Access Offer Book a stay in any Double Room (SPA access) rate category and enjoy a 90-minute spa circuit per person per stay, including use of the indoor swimming pool with jets, 2 spa tubs, Finnish sauna, Hammam and Scottish shower. Must book the Double Room (SPA access) room type to receive benefits. Spa reservation may be required; taxes and gratuities may not be included. Valid anytime, subject to availability. Other restrictions may apply.

Visit our well-equipped gym and enjoy a leisurely dip in the well-appointed pool which is located on the 26th floor above the ground and offers breathtaking views over the city. Relax in the sauna or a steam room. allow yourself to be soothed and pampered with the help of our attentive, professional staff. Choose among our wide range of luxury massages and beauty treatments to complete your Spa experience. The package includes: - Accommodation in Superior Double with Prague View - Delicious Full Buffet Breakfast in Let´s Eat Restaurant - Access to 25th and 26th Floor Spa (Pool, Gym, Saunas, Steam Rooms, Relax Areas) - Early Check In and Late Check Out* - Free Wifi available throughout the hotel - VAT and City Tax * upon availability

Located in Brno, Grandhotel Brno is minutes from Brno National Theatre and Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Masaryk University and Spilberk Castle. Make yourself at home in one of the 105 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming provides entertainment. Bathrooms have shower/tub combinations and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks. Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Try your luck at the casino and enjoy other recreational amenities including a sauna and a fitness center. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access and shopping on site. Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, which features a bar, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. A complimentary breakfast is included. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include express check-in, express check-out, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Expedia Affiliate Network 24 hour front desk Currency exchange on-site Express check out Pets allowed on request. Charges may apply. Designated smoking area Get Flight + Hotel

Sep 14, 2014 until Sep 19, 2014 Info and Registration or call Kripalu Registration at 1-800-741-7353 Connect with yourself. Put a smile on your face. Join Jennifer for five days of nurturing Five Element Yoga and lots of deep, restorative relaxation with Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra. Immerse yourself in this 5-day retreat at Kripalu Center, with like-minded souls, great food, whirlpool, sauna, additional yoga classes, massage treatments, private beach on Stockbridge Bowl, surrounded by the brilliant September beauty of the Berkshires. Experience deeper levels of inner freedom than you ever imagined possible, giving yourself permission to rest, balance, restore, and tap into new sources of energy. This nourishing retreat is the perfect combination of revitalizing yoga postures, breathing, hand mudras, and the profound healing rest of Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra. Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra is the antidote for modern life. This inspired practice awakens your senses, allowing you to enjoy life fully. Nothing is required but to lie down and listen. In this workshop, you will: – Feel whole again – Reclaim your inner radiance – Alleviate not only muscular tension, but also mental and emotional stress – Learn to stimulate your body’s natural healing response – Awaken through uplifting yoga practices – Take home easy techniques to foster wellness in daily life.

Welcome to our campsite in beautiful natural surroundings, right by Lake Burträsket, with its abundance of zander. You can sunbathe and swim here, relax and take it easy with a fishing trip in one of our boats. The campsite has pitches with or without electricity and cottages. If you want to get some exercise, there is a very picturesque path you can walk along, or you can play a game of boules, minigolf etc. Close by there is also a sauna and boats for rent. Once more, we wish you a warm welcome!

Pet-Friendly Dogs cottages in UK Looking for a pet-friendly holiday cottage where your beloved dog will be as welcome as you? Country Cottages Online offers a great choice of holiday cottages where dogs are welcome. Please take a look at our dogs allowed cottages pages by country below A pet-friendly UK break is very popular with dog owning couples and indeed it can be more difficult to get away unless booking a pet-friendly cottage holiday for two. There are plenty of holiday cottages with fully enclosed gardens and some with optional kennels that make every self-catering break relaxing with dogs. If you have more than 1 dog, see these pet-friendly pages for: Cottages that welcome 2 dogs, 3 dogs, 4 dogs and pet friendly cottages for up to 5 dogs for those who really love dogs. Pets welcome log cabin breaks that allow up to two dogs per lodge Log cabin holidays and pine lodge breaks are extremely popular. They are comfortable and well suited to doggy paws. Take a look at log cabins to rent where up to two dogs are permitted per cabin. Many people prefer to take their dogs on holiday and pet friendly country cottages are in high demand. Dog owners hate the idea of leaving pets behind or at the kennels. Some pets, especially dogs, will grieve for the entire holiday and often sulk for days following your return - and who can blame them! The idea of being able to take your dog with you to a dog friendly holiday home is an attractive option. A dog friendly self-catering cottage where you can trust that your pets will be made welcome can be a weight off your mind. Dogs by and large are used to travelling with you in your car and can be taken on holiday really quite easily. There are lots of pet friendly cottages to rent, some even have swimming pools, hot tubs, saunas and tennis courts. Sizes vary from one bedroom cottages for couple, family sized pet friendly cottages that sleep 6, all the way up to pet friendly mansions. Do your research and find the right quality cottage for you. The lists below are there to help you find a dogs welcome cottage. For specific searches do use our search assistant on the right. For country cottages where you can take your horse, click here Self-catering holiday cottages - all year round - that accept more than one dog The following list of self-catering cottages that welcome pets is useful for those people who have more than one doggy friend to take on holiday with them. It can be challenging to find somewhere suitable if you have more than one dog. To make it easy for you, take a look at the following cottages which will accept two or more pets. Please call the cottage owners to confirm how many dogs they will accept because it can depend on the breed of dog. Where self catering cottages are award winning this is specified on the ad. Click here for cottages where up to 5 dogs are allowed - Some cottages are very pet friendly and allow you to bring a number of dogs on holiday with you. Do check with the owner though for your own peace of mind and security before booking as most cottages are dog friendly by arrangement. Ideally, most dog owners also require a pet friendly cottage with an enclosed garden so that their dog does not stray during the holiday or at least cottages with a dog run where a dog may be left alone for a short period. A small number of cottages have a dog bed provided. Another most useful facility for people going on holiday and taking their dog is a cottage with an outdoor kennel where the dog may be left for a short time, perhaps whilst holiday-makers go out for a meal or the theatre. List of dog-friendly cottages in the UK pet friendly cottages in South Hams, Devon - a really popular dog walking beautiful part of south Devon for dog friendly holidays . People who own 4 dogs sometimes steuggle to find holiday accommodation that will accept this many. Try looking at Devon cottages where 4 dogs are allowed. . Families with a dog may like to rent a cottage with a swimming pool in the West Country - a pool always adds that extra fun and activity to any self-catering break. Pet-friendly cottages with facilities for people with walking disabilites Pet friendly cottages by number of bedrooms Pet-friendly self-catering cottages in Scotland It's a pet's life at Melfort Pier and Harbour (on the west coast of Scotland in Highlands and Islands) - view comfortable pet-friendly 5 Star holiday homes by the water which sleep up 2-6 people, with a sauna and jacuzzi for guests. The setting of the houses is scenic, surrounded by hills. There is a private beach suitable for walks with dogs and the chance for a doggy paddle. The pet-friendly holiday homes have underfloor heating - very nice under paws! Several small well-behaved dogs accompanied by their owners are very welcome. Do please phone before booking to discuss arrangements and we can also let you knmow more about our part of west Scotland. Dog friendly holiday cottages, west coast of Scotland Also, in Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland, Lochead Cottage (sleeps 6) is one of several in this beautiful peaceful coastal area, where you can find total and utter peace and relaxation. This is the ultimate getaway for stressed city folk to a special remote location. Relax and refresh yourself with wonderful country walks with your dogs by the sea and enjoy some tranquillity in this traditional Scottish cottage. Click on the photograph for more information about these comfortable holiday cottages where you can stay with your pooch. Dog-friendly self-catering in England If you're thinking of taking a self catering holiday in Cornwall, click for Dog friendly self catering cottages in Cornwall. Kennacott Court in Cornwall is a complex of 18 luxury cottages located in an amazing 18 acres of grounds (some cottages have been awarded 5 stars, others have been rated 4 stars). There are excellent shared leisure facilities including a swimming pool. Some of these quality cottages are pet-friendly. Fido and children welcome in most cottages. Be polite and check out the canine accommodation details before you make that booking. If you are interested in taking your dog on holiday to luxury accommodation, take a look at our listing of pet friendly luxury cottages throughout the UK and Ireland. Additional pet friendly holiday cottages in Somerset..... Glebe Farm Cottages (4 star rated) in Barnsley, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire have five extremely attractive pets welcome cottages with exposed beams, wood stoves, country-style kitchens, antique pine furniture, and all the comforts of home. They are surrounded by lovely Cotswold countryside for doggy walks galore. These will keep Rover or Flea-bag immensely happy sniffing our new scents for a few days. Dog-friendly accommodation in the West Country Woodcombe Lodges and Cottages (sleep 2-5) near Minehead in Somerset are set in three acres of manicured gardens in the countryside looking towards Exmoor but only 1.5 miles distant from Minehead seafront with all its attractions. There is lots of space to exercise your dog and wonderful local walks for man and beast. More dogs permitted cottages in the West Country here. The Wst Country is considered by many one of the most welcoming holiday destinations for holidaymakers accompanied by their pets. Whilst in the West Country, take a look at pet friendly holiday cottages in Devon ..... the neighbouring county. Dog-friendly cottages and self-catering in the Lake District Find pet friendly holiday cottages in the Lake District magnificent views of the Lake District fells and mountains - lots of potential walks and dog-friendly pubs. Woodend House, cottage and bothy - for versatile pet-friendly self-catering accommodation Located in a remote location high up on Birker Fell, in between Eskdale and Ulpha in the Lake District, the House and Cottage can be opened up to form one large house offering spacious and comfortable self catering accommodation for up to twelve people. One feature of this accommodation is the exposed beams and wonderful views towards Scafell Pike from many of the rooms. This hous and cottage have been furnished and equipped with care and and thought. Please click on the cottage photo for further details of our pet-friendly Cumbrian holiday cottages and we welcome you and your dog to the Lakes. Very pet-friendly cottages in East Anglia All pets are welcome at Grove Cottages in Edwardstone near Lavenham, Suffolk. Bring your well-behaved dog, cat or duck - all will be made welcome. The owners of this collection of adorable country cottages have their own menagerie and adore animals. Telephone Mark on 01787 211 115 for bookings and availability. Availability and more details can also be found on The Grove Cottages own website. Dog friendly self-catering cottages in Wales Brackenbury, a historic, Grade II listed cottage is dog friendly. This cottage is located in a pretty village with views of the green and River Glaslyn. What's more, this cottage is in the Snowdonia National park in north Wales. Nearby and around the cottage you will find beautiful mountain scenery. The village, Beddgelert has pretty much everything you should need: a shop, pubs, restaurants and a post office. The cottage – sleeps 4 in comfort and 6 at a push– offers a home from home environment and has many antique pieces. Inside the cottage there is a conservatory – great in the summer, a dining kitchen, shower room, generous living room with open fire, digital TV and hi-fi, and 2 bedrooms (1 of which is a double with en-suite facilities and 1 twin bedroom). The price includes heating and electricity. Please bring own bed linen, towels and tea towels. Parking is available for 2 cars. Please click on photograph for more information and interior images of this pet-friendly cottage in wales. Dog bed provided. Pet-friendly pine lodge breaks in Wales There are some amazing pine lodges to rent in Wales that have a hot tub or jacuzzi and are extremely pet-friendly. That log cabin atmosphere is always welcoming and sets the tone for a really good holiday. Take a chance on a pet-friendly log cabin break in Wales - this self-catering accommodation offers outstanding value. Pet-friendly holiday homes in Ireland Ireland is a good location for a pet friendly self catering holiday, especially if you live there because travel to your cottage will only necessitate a drive. Visitors from the Uk to Ireland have to also take the ferry, however, many people do the journey accompanied by their dogs. County Cork in south west Ireland is a grand place for a dog friendly cottage holiday in Ireland, the rugged coastline with cliff walks, dog friendly beaches and acres of countryside are a good pet freindly destination. Related pet-friendly web sites: Pets and travel : There's a lot more to pet travel than popping Rex in the boot of the car or onto a plane. This site offers all the advice you'll need to take your pet anywhere. - » Dog friendly cottages in Wales with a hot tub or spa bath - » Pet friendly cottages to sleep 8 people in the north of England - » Cottages where dogs are welcome in the north of England - » Pet-friendly cottages in Snowdonia Wales - » Pet-friendly cottages and holiday accommodation in Wales - » Dog friendly and pets-welcome holiday cottages in Wales - » Dog friendly self catering holiday homes in Ireland - » English Country Cottages where dogs are welcome - » Dogs welcome cottages in County Cork Ireland - » Dog friendly cottages for 2 or a couple in Ireland - » Pine Lodge holidays in north Scotland - dogs welcome - » Dog friendly log cabin and lodge holidays in Wales - » Dogs welcome self-catering cottage for couples - » Self-catering cottages where two dogs are welcome - » 3 dogs welcome holiday cottages in Yorkshire - » Pet-friendly cottages to rent where a dog sitting service is available - » Pet-friendly cottages - » Pet-friendly self-catering country cottages and holidays in the UK and Ireland

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Still dark clouds covering Las Vegas but not sure what it feels like outside. Checking my email today I received my voting ballot. How exciting, our first election with online voting. Fill out your ballot and send it back. Now everyone in the society will be able to vote since you have from today (which is actually yesterday) thru 31 May 2013, VOTE NOW but only once, .......and back to the conference. WOW another great day of classes and luncheon.......... "Cloud Genealogy" with Shamele Jordon This is a new speaker for me. What a good speaker, great sense of humor, I was very impressed. As you may or may not know with Cloud Computing you can access your data anywhere, anytime. It is simple, it is storage of your data but not on your computer. Applications and data are available on the internet (the cloud) instead of on your computer. When we as researchers travel to different locations, the cloud offers an easy assess to your data - includes family trees, research documents, photograghs and more. Did you realize if you use Google you have a whole suite of applications at your disposal books, like email, picassa, maps, reader, books drive(docs) and more. And then there is Evernote. You can download it on your computer and also the APP to your tablet or smartphones co. Using cloud computing whatever you add to one devise is added to the other devise. What a great idea. I learned about a new website called DIIGO (online social bookmarking with tags. You can share them, highlight them, and add notes. Very cool. Storage was discussed Dropbox (2gb Free), SkyDrive (7gb Free), GoogleDrive (5gb Free) all support PC and MAC. AND the all important Back-up. Back Blaze (new, introduced at RootsTech), Carbonite, Crash Plan, iDrive, JustCloud, Mozy, SugarSync, Zip Cloud and many others. Cost ranges from as little as $5 up to $10 a month. Some give unlimited space and others regulate the space available. You need to do the research and make the decision for yourself. "How to Find Your Relative on the Internet Without Really Trying" with Daniel Horowitz.. David spoke about how MyHeritage works and how it will help you in your research. They encourage you to upload a gedcom of your family tree or a branch. They do comparisons with other trees and with the trees of Geni.com. If there is something that matches you both will be notified and then you have a choice of accepting, or ignoring. It is a good thing to put your tree up in several different places. Think about it. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Luncheon with speaker Terry Koch-Bostic "Read All About It! Finding Spicy Stories of New York Ancestors in Newspapers Online" Lunch itself was excellent. Speaker was very good. Terry says that New York State is rich with historical newspapers, many newly digitized and now online. (who knew?) She gave her presentation in a story fashion through newspaper articles she her family. Great for her. She gave us a lot of good references. So I will try looking at newspapers again. "Online Tools for Genealogists" with Barbara Ann Renick. She divided the online tools into 7 categories: Language and Handwriting; Timelines and Calendars; Geographic and Map; History and Background; Help and Educational; Social; Locators and then each category was discussed. I will refer you to her website. click on notes and then links. I have not had time to study all the links she has on her website but it looks very promising. Good Luck! "How to Create an Exciting, Interactive Family History Tour of Google Earth" with Lisa Louise Cooke owner of Genealogy Gems It is always a fun time with Lisa but a learning time too and this session was not the exception. Oh my this is going to be gooooooooood!! Lisa created an interactive video using Google Earth. I am not going to be able to explain how to do it, I will need to do it first. This is something that will excite the young and the non-family/friend genealogist. Had dinner with a new friend Debbie from Pittsburgh, PA and Kim Parker at the buffet in the hotel. Oh my goodness it was expensive, good but way over priced. If I want coffee that they provide in my room it costs $4 a cup - just crazy. I find that my boarding pass to get home will cost $2.50 - yes to print out one piece of paper. Unbelievable. No free wifi in rooms or lobby area. The conference has partnered with other organizations to have a WIFI Hot spot just outside the Exhibit Area so that participants can offset the cost of the hotel wifi. Nice but there are no plugs to charge while you are using your devices. smoke free does not mean smoking on this side of the room and no smoking on the other side. Hard to take that clean deep breath. cough, cough, cough, weeeze!!! OK OK I am off my soapbox and back ..... I am having a good time, I am. ...........back from the sauna. Another Full Day Tomorrow - Time for bed. NITE! Shop and Support Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society

Where to Go: Listvyanka Settlement on Baikal Lake Listvyanka is the most popular place on Baikal lake. Perhaps, every traveler visits it, because it's the easiest way to reach Baikal. Listvyanka is located 60 km south-east from Irkutsk, and it takes about 1 hour to get there by car. There is a wide range of accommodation (from luxury hotels for $100 / room to budget, but clean, dorm rooms for $5 a night, and bed and breakfast accommodations with locals). Baikal lake is just across the road. However, popular is not always the best, so is Listvyanka. It seems a bit dirty, and overcrowded in Summer, but if you walk about 2-3 kilometers away (there are some paths along the lake up north), you'll be able to enjoy Baikal lake in all its beauty. Map, Location & How to Get There & Back: What to Do & See in Listvyanka: Listvyanka is a comfortable place to stay. Many hotels offer good meals, Russian steam-sauna (banya), day-trips. In Summer, you can walk along the shore of Baikal (to the north), there's a path through the hills, and it is very nice. Alternatively, you can rent a Listvyanka, Baikal lake mountain bike ($18 per day), make a day tour ($35), rent horses for the whole day ($35), or go for a rafting trip (from $30). In Winter, you can rent a snowmobile ($32 per hour), go skiing, or try dog sledging ($15 for an introductory 1.5 hour trip). Steam-sauna is a must in Winter (imagine, heating yourself up and then jumping in the snow!), and you can get it for about $25 (for up to 6 people, so $4 for a person). All these activities should better be booked in advance (there are many tourists in Summer), so we recommend you to book it through the Activities / Budget Tours section on our site. The standard must-sees are Limnological Museum (or Museum of Baikal), where you can learn about flora and fauna of the lake and see some unique species in aquarium (located 5 km down the road (south) from bus station. Entrance: $3, $2 for students, open: 9.00-19.00. On the road to Listvyanka there's Shaman-rock, sneaking out of Angara river, it is considered to be a sacred stone. About 15 km from Listvyanka on the road to Irkutsk (20 mins by car), there's an interesting Taltsy Museum of Wooden Architecture. Samples of old wooden houses were brought here from all over Siberia, so it may be quite interesting. There's also a bad cafe, and nice The market next to bus stop in Lisvyanka traditional souvenirs (open hours: 10.00 to 17.00 (in winter to 16.00), entrance: $2). If you take a bus from Listvyanka, there will be a bus in 1 hour passing back to Listvyanka from Irkutsk, so it's convenient. Finally, we recommend you to visit a market on the main square of Listvyanka (next to the bus station). Local people sell all kind of souvenirs there and nice fish made in different ways (salted, smoked, baked). You can also get delicious home-made food there. A fish usually costs about $1, and a dinner can be bought for $1-$2. Accommodation: Hotels in Listvyanka There is a wide range of accommodation options available in Listvyanka. Some people even prefer to stay there, instead of Irkutsk, because you can really save a lot on accommodation, to be able to afford a daily trip to Irkutsk and back for about $6 return. Baikalskie Terema Hotel The hotel is situated in the center of Listvyanka village, about 5 minutes walking from the bus station. It is a small, cozy hotel overlooking the lake Baikal and snow-topped Baikal Terema hotel peaks of the Khamar-Daban on the lake's opposite side. There's nice, authentic, and relaxed atmosphere and good restaurant. The rooms are built of pine wood and overlook Baikal lake. Staff is quite friendly, but doesn't speak English very well. There are 17 rooms in all. A double costs 2700R ($90), and a single costs 2550R ($85). There is no phone. Fridge and TV in every room, breakfast included in the price. You can also rent a bike, or make a day horseback riding or trekking tour. The hotel has its own Russian steam-bath. Owned and managed by GreenExpress company. To reserve, please, send a message to email@example.com or contact the operator directly - click here. A double room: $30, additional $10 for a breakfast and $30 for a dinner. Quite overpriced, but ok. Steam-sauna $5 per hour, only one shower in the whole hotel. Address: Gudina ulitsa., 7/11, Tel.: 395-2-250468 Quite nice and inexpensive hotel offering dorm, double, and single accommodation from 200 R ($7) per night for a bed, to 600 R ($20) per night for a single room. There is shower, common toilets, ugly concrete building. Staff doesn't speak English. The rooms are quite clean, and there's no bad odour. Address: Gorkogo str., 101 (100 m north from the bus station) Hotel Pribaikalskiy Natsionlany Park Bed in a dorm for 240 R ($7), no shower, steam-sauna, staff doesn't speak English. The rooms are quite stuffy and small. Address: Ostrovityanova str., 39, Tel.: 112-520 Locals usually charge $15-$20 per night. There is not a specific bed and breakfast organization through which you can book a homestay for yourself. So, most travelers arrange accommodation through travel agencies. If you're interested, please, send a message to firstname.lastname@example.org and we'll refer your request to GreenExpress company, who can arrange homestay in Listvyanka for you. Listvyanka is actually located on one long Gorkogo street that goes along Baikal shore, so it's easy to make your way around — all the main spots and places are located on this street. There is no internet cafe in Listvyanka, but you can send a post or make an international phone call from the post office at Gorkogo St., #49 (open hours: 8.30-17.30, closed 13.00-15.00, on Saturday opened: 8.30-12.00). All the shops are located next to the bus stop, and there's also a great market where you can buy food. If you want to eat in a cafe, there are plenty around the bus stop as well. If you would like to go to the Circum-Baikal railway, you should A Morning in Listvyanka get to Port Baikal first. The ferry circulates daily, starting from 6.30 until 20.00 (about 6 a day), and departs from the bus station. It takes about 15-20 minutes, costs 20 R ($0.7) one way. From Port baikal the ferry goes back to Listvyanka. If the Circum Baikal train from Slyudyanka to Port Baikal arrives after 20.00 the ferry will either wait or there’s a big probability that there’ll be somebody taking the train’s passengers to Listvyanka. The boat tickets in Irktusk can be bought at the River Terminal or at the Central Ferry Office on Chkalova street, 37. The River Terminal is located in the end of Baikalskaya Street, you can get there by taking any shuttle - marshrutka from the Central Market that goes to “Rechnoi Vokzal” (river terminal in Russian). It’s better to buy the tickets for all destinations beforehand, because many people like to travel by boat. The ticket sales offices are opened from 10.00 to 18.00 daily. If you want to take the boat that departs on the same day, you can only buy the ticket 1 hour before its departure. Come as early as you can to be the first in the queue. River transport information phonelines (in Irkutsk): 29-75-70 or 29-75-44 (long-distance boats), 35-88-60 or 29-74-67 (short-distance boats). There's a diving center opened at Nikola settlement, by the hotel "Nikola". An hour of diving costs 2000 R (~ $70). Comments, Questions, Feedback?

Centrally located budget hotel Urban Budget Hotel From USD $100 Hong Kong, The New Territories, China 1608 Bedrooms, sleeps 2 From USD $100 Many area attractions can be reached from the L’Hotel Nina et Convention Center. These attractions include Disneyland, Tsuen Wan Park, Town Hall, Mongkok, Yuen Yuen Institute, Tsuen Wan Shopping Center, and the Tsimshatsui shopping area.Centrally located budget hotel L’hotel Nina et Convention Centre, with its twin towers, provides more than 1608 contemporary hotel rooms of different type to suite for all travellers. The all-inclusive choices range from rooms to suites of 28-47 m2, standard to executive, and sea view to mountain and city view according to their own preference. Rooms specially designed for the disabled and rooms with balconies are also available. Over half of the rooms offer sea views over Rambler Channel, some even reaching further to the famous Ting Kau Bridge and Tsing Yi Island. Other rooms feature a bustling city view combined with rolling hills. A cozy and comfortable environment is provided by combining modern facilities like 32” LCD panel screen TV with well-designed furniture and office desk. The bathtub is separated with a glass screen to allow a breathtaking view while you are enjoying yourself in the pool of water. Choice of King and queen-queen bed. Viewing the bustling city combined with rolling hills through the large windows definitely proves to be an enjoyment. Superior rooms also feature a bath room with a glass screen to ensure the stunning view can be captured at every moment. The sizable working area is specially designed to ensure a comfortable working environment is provided to increase efficiency. The Café Circles on the hotel 9th floor is an all-day interactive venue which offers breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. This hotel restaurant offers service every day from 6.30am to 11.30 pm. Western and Oriental cuisines will be served from time to time under a causal and warm atmosphere. Currently, hotel buffet breakfast, buffet lunch and hotel buffet dinner in American style is being served. Fitness Room/Gym, Swimming pool, Tour Desk, Tennis Courts, Medical Assistance Available, Sauna, Bath / Hot Tub, Excursions, Salon, Fitness Facilities, Jacuzzi, Solarium, Beauty Salon, Child Pool, Pool Indoor, Pool Outdoor. "That's a great place for staying. Actually I just stayed for 3 days, but I loved the place. Near the train station, and near the shopping mall. I recommend for everyone! One of the most beautiful that I have ever been before! :)" Elton Fedel, Timbo, South Carolina "First I would like to clarify a common mistake in some of the previous reviews. It's important to note this mistake if you haven't to Hong Kong because each island there offers a different experience. This hotel is located in The New Territories, which is not Kowloon. While Kowloon offers more of the upscale hotels with the best views of the Hong Kong skyline in Central, you'd be hard pressed to find a better hotel anywhere at this price. I was located on the 56th floor with spectacular views of the harbor and the Tsing Ma Bridge for around 75 USD per night! The CityWalk mall that was connected to the hotel provided fantastic shopping and excellent food. Plus it was only about a 5 minute walk from my room. This area also provides a more local feel, so it was a fun experience staying there considering this was my first visit to Asia. Some of the locals speak very good English despite the fact there is not many tourists in the area, those who don't try their best to accommodate you in English. Service in the hotel was prompt and friendly. The buffet in the hotel was the best I've ever had and it only set me back about 18 USD. I can't wait to stay here again when I am lucky enough to revisit Hong Kong. Be very wary of any 2 or 3 star reviews of this Hotel when the reviews claim that the room and service was excellent, and the surrounding restaurants were good. These people seem to be incredibly hard to please." Rudy Luevano, California, USA If you get a last minute deal you might pay as little as USD $75 per night and rates will range all the way up to about USD $300 per night. It’s worth checking with them for last minute offers.

This holiday home has a prime location for long walks on the beach and by good weather enjoy sunbathing on the beach, and hiking through the Woods. Sport activities: paragliding in Zoutelande, golf course in Domburg, Vlissingen, horseback riding and tennis courts in Dishoek, bicycle rent 100 meters, swimming, surfing, windsurfing, kite surfing, squash, kite flying, rides, miniature golf, karting, bowling, fishing, hang-gliding, boat trips, horse-drawn carriage rides, horseback riding, donkey anything is possible. Amusement Park: Neeltje Jans, Arsenal, mini Mundi to reach all within 20 km on bike, the bicycle ferry from Vlissingen to Zeeland Flanders. Spas and resorts in Vlissingen. Visit historic cities like Middelburg, Veere and Vlissingen. Many festivals and activities in the spring, summer and autumn. Specific activities on site or less than 3 miles : HORSE RIDING Zeeland Leisure activities less than 12 miles : Bathing, surfing, windsurfing, kite surfing, golf, tennis, squash, riding school, pathway/broadwalk, coastal/forest paths, hiking, kite flying, hang-gliding, boat trips, horse-drawn carriage, horse trecking, donkey rides, mini-golf, go-karting, ten-pin bowling, fishing Supervised : Riding school Attractions and relaxation : Discotheque, restaurant, movie theater, leisure park, nature reserve, exhibition center, art gallery, historical site, museum, theater, festivals, antiques & bric-a-brac, sauna, Bio farm

Holiday Inn Oxford Peartree Roundabout, Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, OX2 8JD - Recommended for: - Business travellers, Mature travellers, Stag / hen parties, Chilling out, No fuss, Relaxation Expert review of Holiday Inn Oxford Opened in 2001 the Holiday Inn is perfectly placed for anyone who doesn’t want to venture too far from the M40 (the main London to Birmingham route) or the A40 heading west to the Cotswolds and south Wales. With parking at a premium in Oxford, the unlimited free parking in this hotel is an undoubted asset. Just off the A34, Oxford’s ring road. The hotel is in a Shell service station area next to Travelodge and opposite KFC and various coffee outlets. It’s hardly the Oxford of that “dreaming spires” cliché but all human needs are catered for. There are 121 standard rooms and 33 executive rooms. All have tea and coffee-making facilities, TV, phones, desk and WiFi. Décor is standard Holiday Inn with big wooden headboards. The standard rooms are red and rooms on the executive floor blue. The other big difference is that Japanese-style wooden shutters replace curtains in the executive rooms and the mass-produced artwork is more convincing. The bright glass lobby merges seamlessly into the café/bar which claims to serve Seattle’s best coffee. The bar’s large TV monitor is tuned (of course) to Sky News. There’s a small patio area outside with aluminium tables and chairs for when the weather is good enough . The Junction is the name of the windowless restaurant off the bar that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. It’s low-lit with dark Formica tables but friendly. Colour photography of Oxfordshire runs throughout the ground floor. On the other side of the bar is the Spirit Club, a compact spa/gym/swimming pool complex open to non-residents. There’s a wide selection of reliable meals served in the cafe/bar – currys and chillis, gourmet burgers, mezze, salads, sandwiches and what the hotel calls their “favourites” (sirloin steak, lasagne, pizza and fish and chips). The Junction Restaurant expands on this range with pates, fajitas, steak and ale pie and various steaks. I was impressed by the breadth of the wine list. The Spirit Club offers a gym, modest pool, steam room and sauna. There are also two treatment rooms behind reception. Ask at reception for a list of what treatments are available. Everyone wears grey suits and seem happy enough in their work. As ever there aren’t quite enough people serving at tables though. There are 11 “Academy” rooms for conferences. This is predominantly a business hotel, although the hotel claims there’s a fair number of leisure bookings at the weekend. Very few coach parties. Breakfast costs £14.95pp extra but cheaper if booked in advance. WiFi is charged at £15 per 24 hour period and can be used throughout the hotel. Make sure that you buy WiFi in your room, not in the downstairs lounge. The downstairs server doesn’t cover the whole hotel and you’ll end up paying twice. More information on Holiday Inn Oxford: - Price from: - Peartree Roundabout, Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, OX2 8JD - Business Centre, Room Service, High-Speed Internet, Fitness Centre, Restaurant, Parking, Swimming Pool - Ring Road

LORAIN -- A hotel that once symbolized rebirth in Lorain might be rejuvenated again. The Spitzer Plaza Hotel, 301 Broadway, was in the public eye again last month as people flocked to the International Festival Bazaar at Black River Landing. Although the bazaar was crowded, the building next to the riverside landing was unoccupied. The following Monday, Lorain City Councilman Bret Schuster asked about city measures to at least shore up the structure, or possibly redevelop it or tear it down. June 30 was the deadline for owner Spitzer Great Lakes Ltd. Co. to repair building code violations that were cited as part of an inspection in September 2012. The building was inspected again this month with no obvious signs of exterior upgrades. On Tuesday, members of the Downtown Lorain Consortium, a group of merchants and Broadway backers, had a show of hands to state their preference for renovation or demolition. More members of the group wanted to see a new use for the building. Lorain County Clerk of Courts Ron Nabakowski also is a self-described amateur developer for downtown Lorain. He believes the building can revived as a boutique hotel. For now, demolition is not the answer, Nabakowski said. "Who's going to do it? Tear it down and bill Spitzer? You're going to end up in court for a very long time," he said. History of the buildingThe site of the hotel has been more or less occupied since the founding of Lorain. Conrad Reid, the first mayor, had his home there. When that structure burned, it was replaced by a building with business and City Hall offices, said Frank Sipkovsky, historian for the Charleston Village Society Inc. Those offices were flattened in the Great Tornado of 1924. Two years later the Broadway Building was constructed and for years it was the largest office complex in Lorain. For more than 40 years, the building was owned by two men, Edward Sable and George Thomas. After Thomas died and Sable was growing older, Lorain developer Jon R. Veard bought it for $300,000 in 1985. Veard recalled plans to make it a first-class office complex and he had commitments from tenants to move in. Lorain's former community development director Sanford Prudoff suggested making it a hotel; Veard said that plan wouldn't work, but if there was a buyer, he would sell it. Co-developers Alan Spitzer and Carl Gumina bought the building with plans to create a first-class hotel that would serve a casino. The casino never materialized, but in October 1989, the Lorain Renaissance Inn opened to great acclaim. The hotel had a restaurant, pool, whirlpool, sauna, small gym and a two-deck parking garage with 160 spaces. "It was a very, very nice hotel," Sipkovsky said. "Good food, a lot of activities going on in that building. It was a classy place in downtown at one time." The hotel, which later changed its name to Spitzer Plaza, housed traveling executives of Lorain's corporate citizens, such as Ford, U.S. Steel and the former Lorain Products. The $5 million estimated cost grew to $7 million invested in remodeling the building, Gumina said at the time. The hotel ended up closing in 2005, and the building has been listed for sale for $2.9 million. The Lorain County Auditor's Office values the building and land at $1.12 million. A new visionNabakowski recalled a visit to the office of Lorain Auditor Ron Mantini and the view from the sixth floor of Lorain City Hall. "Now you're looking at the lighthouse, the sailboats, the sea birds," he said. Exiting City Hall, the view of the empty hotel across the street was less encouraging, Nabakowski said. "Just the cognitive dissonance between those two pictures just drove me nuts," he said. In 2009 he proposed using the Broadway Building as the Lake Erie Adventure Inn, a new "urban dude ranch" with vacations geared to anglers aboard charter boats and guided river trips. The fishing would start in Lorain, but if they wanted to bring along the family, there would be fun amenities a half hour west in Erie County or east in greater Cleveland. "You could have a great program for the wives, you could have a great program for the fishermen, you could have a great program for the kids," Nabakowski said. He didn't stop with just a concept. He and Bob McDonald, a member of the Downtown Lorain Consortium, spoke to a lawyer about forming an investor-owned company, possibly named the New Lorain Corp. or Downtown Do-Over LLC, to buy the building. They also developed a business plan with detailed income and cost estimates for operating a 40-room hotel. There are potential trip ideas such as "Fishermen with Families," "Frugal Young Adventurers" and "Baseball Visitors Programs." Nabakowski and McDonald have estimated the building would need at least $2.5 million invested to renovate it. The glass atrium would come off and it would get a new groundwater heat pump for its heating and cooling. "You could put all kinds of green energy in there," McDonald said. What stops it? A lack of patient, homegrown capital from local investors, Nabakowski said. The need for investment is the one point about the hotel everyone agrees on. "It was the place to be," Sipkovsky said. "I'd like to see it turn around. I know it's going to take big bucks." "It can be saved," Veard said, "but it's going to take money." Another downtown hotel sees successIn Port Clinton, the 39-room Island House dates from 1886. It sits at 102 Madison St., not immediately off the exit of Route 2. It has two restaurants, Rosie's bar & grill and 1812 Food & Spirits. The complex has the local historical themes and has been temporary home to presidents, athletes and movie stars. "People also really love the historical factor," said General Manager Petty Slauterbeck. "They love the stories we have to tell." It operates as a 39-room "condo-tel." People buy the rooms like a condominium and most owners put them back into the rental pool of rooms, although they could move in if they wanted to, Slauterbeck said. Most of the owners are local or regional residents from Toledo to Cleveland, she said. It also is an ownership method that guests are curious about, even if they don't intend to buy one, Slauterbeck said. Condo-tel ownership might be a way to manage the Broadway Building if Lorain is ready for it. "It works for them because they have already adopted tourism as a major industry," McDonald said about the Island House and Port Clinton. "The problem here is we haven't done that. That's part of the negativity we have. "The bottom line is the mindset in Lorain has to change," he said. "We have to embrace and endear ourselves to the fact that tourism is a large industry. It employs thousands of people."

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Last night I travelled from Stavanger to Oslo to meet Sami Rintala and Dagur Eggertsson, the partners of Rintala Eggertsson Architects – and the designers responsible for the ‘Ark’ book tower which will be situated by the V&A National Art Library staircase, forming part of the ‘1:1′ exhibition. We drove for a couple of hours to reach Seljord where Sami (above, left) and Dagur (above, right) are involved in a number of projects in the local area. The images shown above and directly below are both of a project they have just finished – the ‘Smoke Sauna’, positioned right on the edge of Lake Seljord (which happens to be Norway’s equivalent to Loch Ness – complete with its own mythical lake monster!) This project, as with the two other projects I saw today, is the result of extensive, detailed, community consultation workshops which form a key part of the way Rintala Eggertsson develop their projects. Here, Sami and Dagur lead a workshop for their biggest Seljord project so far – a watchtower which provides a range of views of the surrounding lake (and the Norwegian Nessie!). …and here we see the workshop move outside, to the site itself… We also drove up into the mountains to visit their Lake Seljord Viewpoint project – a series of intimate shelters for ramblers and hikers…and we were welcomed with much-appreciated cups of coffee and a roaring fire (all provided by the owner of the shelters – one of the local Seljord community, who has been collaborating with Sami and Dagur on this project). I am told that there are amazing views of Lake Seljord from here – but the fog was far too dense unfortunately. What I find really interesting is that in addition to working with the local community, Sami and Dagur have also invited architecture students to take part in the design/building process – students from the Politecnico di Milano and Fredrikstad Scenography School contributed to building the Smoke Sauna project, for example. Sami and Dagur are hoping that they will be able to invite students to take part in the build for the ‘Ark’ book tower at the V&A in June, which will be a nice parallel to our collaboration with the RCA students on Terunobu Fujimori’s structure (‘Beetle’s House’).

Two-time defending champion Annika Sorenstam shot a bogey-free 68 to lie a stroke behind co-leaders Natalie Gulbis, big-hitting Laura Davies and Laura Diaz after the LPGA Championship opening round on Thursday. Gulbis rose to the occasion playing with Sorenstam by closing with five straight birdies, including an 18-foot putt on the ninth hole for a 5-under 67. Davies bullied the par 5s at the Bulle Rock club. Bulle Rock delivered plenty of excitement in sauna-like conditions, with a celebration for Karrie Webb as the newest member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, and a celebration of youth. Eighteen-year-old Paula Creamer birdied four straight holes for a 68. Davies could get into the Hall of Fame with a victory, although she knows the tournament doesn't really start until Sunday, and she was well aware of who was right behind her. "There's a certain Sorenstam out there that wi|l be hard to beat," Davies said. Sorenstam made it look easy, as always, giving herself ample birdie opportunities and only twice needing to save par from delicate spots from off the green. She broke her own LPGA Tour record with her 12th consecutive round in the 60s. And it was just the start she was looking for as she goes for the second leg of the Grand Slam. "Today is probably 10 percent of the whole tournament," Sorenstam said. "It's such a long way to go. I've got to be patient, If you prepare for months and months and set big goals, the last thing to do is come to a tournament and get in my own way. That would ruin it for myself. "There's two people in me -- one calm and one totally excited. The calm won today." Gulbis, the calendar girl whose next project is a reality show on TV, put some focus on her game with a terrific finish. She was a bystander for most of the day until she hit a 6-iron to 10 feet and holed the birdie putt on No. 5. She followed that with two more approach shots inside 10 feet, and hit her best shot of the round, a 5-wood that stopped 25 feet away on the par-5 eighth for a two-putt birdie. Suddenly, she walked side-by-side with Sorenstam up the ninth fairway, tied for the lead, but not for long. Gulbis hit a 9-iron?that landed a foot in front of the flag before rolling back to 18 feet, and she ended her round in style. Creamer, coming off her first LPGA Tour victory and then high school graduation, found a groove with her irons and didn't have to make a birdie putt longer than 6 feet coming in. Davies charged up the galleries with her aggressive style, especially on the par 5s. The 596-yard 11th hole is believed to be the longest ever in women's golf, and Davies pounded her tee shot beyond the 300-yard mark. She opted for another driver, probably not the smartest shot, but "I just wanted to see if I could get there." She wound up about 30 yards short on the rain-softened fairways, but pitched to 3 feet for an easy birdie. She had eagle putts on two other par 5s, hitting a 7-iron for her second shot on the 481-yard eighth hole.

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Built in 1978 and extensively refurbished during the winter of 1999, the modern Hotel Cala Galdana has a total of 204 guest rooms, including 192 standard twin rooms, 24 singles and a further 12 Suites, which are built over 6 floors and set amidst almost 20,000m2 of well kept Mediterranean style gardens and sun terraces around a large central pool area overlooking the magnificent Bay of Cala Galdana. All guest rooms at the hotel are either air conditioned or centrally heated according to the season, and come equipped with a modern "en suite" bathroom with shower and hairdryer, along with a direct dial telephone, satellite television, mini-bar, safety deposit box available for rental and either a balcony or terrace, many of which have exterior views over the pool and garden area towards the sea. In addition to the above features, a maid service is also provided, undertaking a change of towels as required and change of bed linen twice a week. The complex also offers guests the option of staying at the Villas d'Aljandar which are 43 bungalow type self catering apartments, which feature two bedrooms, a lounge, two bathrooms, kitchenette, mini-bar, balcony, digital telephone, television, safety lock, double glazing and air conditioning. In addition there are also 15 apartments with just one bedroom, one bathroom, balcony, dining-room, kitchen, mini-bar, telephone, television and air conditioning, and a further 18 luxury one bedroom apartments equipped with a hydro-massage bath, lounge, telephone, television, mini-bar, air conditioning and large balcony. 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Other leisure facilities includes a children's playground and mini club, along with both pool and table tennis tables. Guests staying at the Hotel Cala Galdana also have the opportunity to relax and unwind at the hotels' own Spa and Wellness Centre, which features a well equipped cardiovascular gymnasium with Jacuzzi, sauna and solarium, as well as offering a variety of other massage and beauty treatments. The Hotel Cala Galdana and Villas d'Aljandar also provides a seasonal programme of daytime sporting activities, organised each day by their resident animation team, featuring archery, pistol shooting and aerobics, along with evening entertainment with a children's mini disco, which is then followed by either live music, cabaret or other professional shows several times each week. 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PLEASE NOTE, Prices are per person per night in USD Opened in 2009, our hotel will enjoy personalized service and modern facilities and stylish. We are strategically located to 5 minutes from Madrid-Barajas airport and IFEMA Exhibition Centre, Congress Palace and Juan Carlos I Auditorium. For your convenience, we offer free shuttle to the airport and IFEMA. If you prefer shopping, Plenilunio Shopping centre is within 5 minutes walking distance. City centre is 15 minute drive away. Our 217 rooms, distributed among Double, Executive and Family rooms, are equipped with satellite TV, LCD 32 ', minibar, telephone, room service WiFi connection and safe free of charge, a laptop (In Executive Rooms) and a fully equipped bathroom with a large shower, make up mirror and hair dryer professional. We also have rooms for smokers, disabled and adapted to welcome your pet. The hotel facilities include a restaurant where you can enjoy our buffet breakfast, lunch or dinner, a cafeteria, a Wii room, a fitness room with sauna and Jacuzzi, a chill-out room, a business centre, a reading lounge with TV, meeting rooms to celebrate any type of event and a covered car park, for 250 cars, with security surveillance.

Why not enter some details and get an accurate price? Camping Le Val d'Authie welcomes you to the coastal hinterland. A short drive (12km) from sandy beaches and the Somme, the campsite has seven hectares of landscaped land with all you need for a relaxing quality stay. Facilities include a heated paddling pool and a large covered and heated swimming pool, food shop with fresh bread and patisserie, bike hire and tennis court, pétanque, multisport field. The campsite has a bar and restaurant overlooking the swimming pool and a free internet point. Guests have access to wifi at a small fee. The toilet blocks have a laundry room and free hot showers. Sauna and Turkish bath are available at a small fee. Tourist board rating Check availability at Camping Le Val d'Authie… It's now possible to make group bookings on Pitchup.com for up to 30 adults and 30 children. As long as the 'one unit per pitch' rule is not highlighted on the pitch type information (please check this before completing your booking), you will be able to pitch your tents together on one booking. If you are not satisfied with the results generated, try breaking your booking down for more options. For example, if you're a group of 10, enter five people for your initial search and book two pitches. Use the 'Special requests' box on the booking page to ask to be sited together when booking multiple pitches or accommodation units: the campsite or park will try to grant your request. Click the 'Make another booking like this' button on the confirmation page to take you back to your chosen campsite/park listing page so you can make your next booking straight away. Please note the same dates and party size will be used, so you'll need to change this if the number of people or child ages are different. Before booking, please check the listing page for any group restrictions. These normally appear in a section titled 'Please note'. Please also check the restrictions on unit dimensions to ensure your unit - especially for a large party - is suitable for the space you will be provided with. Max. persons: 6x Dimensions: Avg 10.0m x 10.0m (32.8ft x 32.8ft) Ground type: Grass Gazebos are not permitted on the pitch. Riviera three-bedroom holiday home Max. persons: 6x Dimensions: 4.0m x 10.8m (13.1ft x 35.4ft) Holiday home with a double room, a twin room and a room with a bunk bed. Price includes free wifi. Features 2 bathrooms, a spacious living room and a well-equipped kitchen corner. A spacious terrace is the perfect place to enjoy a cup of tea or a cold drink. |Max. persons||6 x| 4.0m x 10.8m (13.1ft x 35.4ft) |Bed linen||5 included| |Duvets and pillows||6 included| |Car parking by pitch||yes| |Gas and electricity included||yes| |Extra car (1 max)||£2.88/€4/AU$5.52/$4.29/4.13Fr per night| |Pet (1 max)||£17.99/€25/AU$34.48/$26.84/25.82Fr per 7 nights| |End-of-stay cleaning service (1 max)||£32.37/€45/AU$62.06/$48.30/46.48Fr per stay|

Czech Beef Breeders Association announce, that because the reason of present infection situation of sheep’s catarrhal fever (BT – Bluetongue) and the risk with it, cancel the 6th National exhibition of the beef cattle PRAGAAGRO , which should take place at the exhibition centre Prague – Letnany in the term October 11 – 13, 2007. We apologize for contingent problems. We hope, that this announcement released in endeavor to eliminate contingent complications related with the transport of animals, you will accept with understanding. (26.9.2007) read more >> The preparation of floor plans for FOR ARCH 2007 fair is presently in the progress, it means there is one of the last possibilities to apply for the good placing of your booth within the scope of every single section according to the professional segmentation of the fair. In case of any enquiry or your interest in the participation, please contact the mentioned managers of FOR ARCH. (31.5.2007) read more >> The 3rd Trade Fair of Investment Opportunities and Real Property is held simultaneously with the 18th International Building Trade Fair FOR ARCH 2007. The trade fair is designed for presentation of developer’s projects, investment offers of regions and cities, real estate agencies and financial institutions. The following companies have been registered, among others, as of this day: From developer’s companies: Geosan Development, Lighthouse Group (Prague Marina), Orange Real Estate, SP Group (Aquapark Čestlice), Atrium, Welfast, Canaba. From real estate agencies: AAA Byty, Maxima Reality, Ekospol, Ráj nemovitostí. From financial institutions: ČSOB, Komerční banka, Modrá pyramida stavební spořitelny, Českomoravská stavební spořitelna, Pojišťovna Slavia. (3.4.2007) read more >> company has become also the organiser of the trade fairs STROJEXPO 2007 (MACH, FINET , METAL, INTERCHEM, WAREC). According to the Contract on Trade Fair Takeover and Abstaining from Competition , which was made with Terinvest, spol. s r.o., we have bilaterally agreed to provide each other with a maximum cooperation necessary for the assurance of proper organisation of the Machinery Trade Fair at the Prague Exhibition Centre in Letňany from 11 to 13 April 2007. (29.3.2007) read more >> The role of trade fairs and exhibitions has changed during last ten years. There come new media, the communication become faster. We remind the 15th anniversary of the first computer connection to the world wide net - Internet, in these days. Above the present posture, there take a think Mr. Dušan Pavlů from AMASIA EXPO Prague - the auditing company. (16.2.2007) read more >> Between 8th and 11th March 2007 , the gates of the 4th annual event of the International professional trade fair of swimming pools, swimming pool technologies, spa, sauna, solaria and wellness SWIMMING POOLS, SAUNA, SOLARIA & WELLNESS 2007 will be opened. Within the exhibition area exceeding 8,000 m², there will be over 100 firms presenting everything that is offered by the swimming-pool and wellness markets. (16.2.2007) read more >> The FOR CITY project will be held in a new autumn term this year, namely on 13 – 15 November 2007. The concept of FOR CITY 2007 is divided into three areas: specialised exhibitions – conferences and seminars – social and cultural programme. The set of specialised exhibitions known as ECO CITY, EUROTRAFFIC and GREEN CITY will be extended with the exhibition section entitled e-public administration focussed on information and communication technologies used in the state administration sector. The application form for the FOR CITY exhibition cycle is already available to those who are interested in exhibiting their presentations at this event. (12.2.2007) read more >>

The magnificent Belz Chateau Big Sky estate is located in the serene and tranquil Big Sky, Montana area and sits within the Gallatin National Forest and is awaiting your next luxury ski vacation, or new home. This estate is like no other, boasting 17,000 square feet of living space while sitting on 3.5 acres. The Belz Chateau Big Sky has 5 luxurious bedrooms and 5 full baths. Some of the estate’s rooms include: - State of the art theater room - Recreation room outfitted with a championship pool table - An exercise area with a large steam and sauna room - And even a dog bath! The interior of the home has been designed with the latest in audio and visual components and includes the most advanced security system available. The house is furnished with a one-of-a-kind original glass collection and works of art by artists such as: Thomas Scoon, Zora Palova, Keigth Clayton, Laura de Santillana, Richard Jolley, William de Bilzan, and many others. The exterior of the property features heated patios, a fire pit, and a magnificent hot tub for blustery nights. No expense was spared in customizing this palatial estate. The Belz Chateau Big Sky was painstakingly crafted over a four year period utilizing the world’s finest materials to ensure five star elegance.

February 11th, 2013 Went to my friend Chris and Karen's a couple weeks ago for a sauna and their friend Paul Yonchek (he photographed a couple of Caprial Pence's cookbooks) made these tasty pretzel breads with mustard for everyone. So good! I have incredible friends and family and we give each other a lot of love with food and drink. I started this blog series a while back to chronicle that. Here are some of the tasty things that I’ve gotten to be involved in with friends or have been given by friends lately… Debbie gave me a big bag of delicious Green Salmon Coffee, from Yachats, to brew and fill my new mug withfor Christmas. Several weeks ago my friends Chris and Karen invited me over for dinner and we made buttternut squash and chevre raviolis. So good. What dinner looked like that night. My friend Loly made peppermint schnapps and Kahlua for the holidays and I was lucky enough to get both! My brother and sister-in-law gave me this mug with my nieces on it when I went home to Cincinnati for Christmas this year. It makes me happy. My neighbor and friend Chris made a batch of this tasty raspberry jam and I got some. And his girlfriend and my good friend Alison has been giving me eggs from her hens for years. I love my neighbors so much. My friend Michelle and her daughter Kylie and I making beet salad. My friend Emily gave me this jar of rendered pork fat from a class that she took recently at Portland Meat Collective. And just so you know that the gifting goes both ways -- here are most of the edible gifts that I gave to loved ones over the holidays. Friend Food Pt. 5 Friend Food Pt. 4 Friend Food Pt. 3 Friend Food Pt. 2 Friend Food Pt. 1

|For more options see: Advanced Options | Need Assistance by Phone?| Gran Porto Real Resort & Spa, Playa del Carmen Gran Porto Real Resort and Spa is an all-inclusive, picturesque resort, located on a protected stretch of beach right in the heart of Playa del Carmen. This active resort offers a wide array of activities for guests of all ages, including a supervised children's program, two freeform swimming pools, a host of day and nighttime activities, full-service Spa Real and fitness center, tennis courts and plenty of great dining options; perfect for those seeking a socially active, tropical vacation experience for the whole family. All-Inclusive PlanBeachfront270 Rooms3 Floors8 RestaurantsActiveCasual2 PoolsRoom Service EXPERIENCE THE DIFFERENCE The picturesque Gran Porto Real Resort & Spa is located on a protected stretch of beach right in the heart of Playa del Carmen, the trendy fishing village on the Riviera Maya. The all-inclusive Gran Porto Real offers a wide array of activities for guests of all ages, including a supervised children's program. Two freeform swimming pools, a host of day and nighttime activities, a full-service Spa Real and fitness center, tennis courts and plenty of great dining options make this a perfect choice for those looking for a socially active all-inclusive vacation experience for the whole family. Please note: Due to environmental factors and natural erosion, beach size is susceptible to constant change and may vary seasonally. See below for Current Promotions Location! Location! Location! Gran Porto Real's location is a huge plus...right in the center of Playa del Carmen near famous Fifth Avenue, a pedestrian walkway with shops, cafes, and bars at every turn. You have easy access to nearby archaeological sites and ecological parks along the Mayan coast and you're within walking distance to the ferry to Cozumel Island. Health & Fitness! The state-of-the-art health and fitness center features a spa offering treatments such as massage, seaweed wraps, paraffin treatments, hot-stone therapy and detoxifying facials. Plus you'll find a sauna and steam room, a well-equipped fitness center and a beauty salon. Just for the Kids! Parents and children alike will love the fully supervised Oki Kids Club. A staff of qualified professionals will take care of the kids for the day. Children 4 to 12 years old will enjoy a daily schedule of fun and entertaining games and activities as well as a special playground. Hours are 9:00am to 6:00pm. Lunch is included. Plus family-friendly Master Suite accommodations are available allowing up to 3 children in the same room with two adults. Exclusive All-Inclusive Club All-inclusive guests have private use of the exclusive 24-hour self-service 'all-inclusive club' lounge with unlimited snacks and drinks whenever you want them! Back To Top

JACKSON, Mississippi -- David Jordan was born on a Mississippi Delta plantation during the Great Depression, when segregation and poverty created a bleak outlook for a son of black sharecroppers. Eighty years later, Jordan is a retired science teacher, longtime Greenwood City Council member and prominent state lawmaker known for advocating public education funding and opposing measures he sees as suppressing civil rights, including a new law that takes effect this year requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. In his new memoir, "From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate," Jordan writes about growing up in the segregated South. Before graduating from high school with future Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman, Jordan picked cotton and worked at a white-owned store that sold illegal liquor. Jordan said one day in the mid-1940s, when he was 12 or 13, he had just served beer to white people sitting in a car outside the store. Then a black man, who appeared to be drunk, walked by and touched the car. The white man jumped out of the car and attacked the black man, while his wife and children stood by helplessly. "He kicked him down to the ground, just kicked him, stomped him," Jordan recalled in an interview at the Mississippi Capitol. "The whole family was hollering -- 'Don't kill him!' The children were hollering, 'Don't kill my daddy!'" The white man went inside to demand the store owner's gun. The owner refused, and the black man's family was able to move him away from the scene. Jordan writes that the attack "made me realize just how deeply entrenched was the hatred for African-Americans. I knew then that I didn't want to grow up and witness such horrible acts of racial brutality and do nothing to try to prevent them." Jordan and Freeman were classmates at Greenwood's all-black Broad Street High School, graduating in 1955. The senator writes that Freeman was an exceptionally gifted actor as a teen. During a school play, one student forgot his part, so a teacher sent Freeman onstage. "Morgan rushed to the stage and quickly developed a new character," Jordan writes. "He ended the play with an impromptu performance and the audience never knew the difference." In September 1955, when Jordan was a freshman at what was then Mississippi Valley State College, he and three other young men pooled their money, bought a tank of gasoline and drove about an hour up the road to attend the internationally reported trial of two white men accused of killing Emmett Till. The slaying of the black 14-year-old, who was visiting Mississippi from Chicago, galvanized the civil rights movement after Jet magazine published photos of his mutilated body. Jordan writes that the courtroom felt like a sauna and he could feel people staring at him and his friends. "I guess the local whites figured four young black men should be somewhere picking cotton," he writes. An all-white jury acquitted Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. Milam. Months later, in a paid interview with Look magazine, the men confessed to the kidnapping and killing. Jordan and his wife, Christine, married in their early 20s and both worked as educators while raising their four children. He earned a master's degree in chemistry at the University of Wyoming, traveling there for three consecutive summer breaks in the late 1960s while he taught science at an all-black Mississippi high school that had shabby, outdated lab equipment. Jordan writes about working to increase black voter registration and participation, particularly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned poll taxes, literacy tests and other obstacles. Mississippi now has hundreds of black elected officials, from constables to county supervisors to a congressman. Still, he sees potential new obstacles to voting rights. "I am totally against voter ID because in my opinion it's too similar to the hated poll tax," Jordan writes, echoing an argument he has made often during Senate debates since the mid-1990s. "Voter ID can also be an intimidating factor that could possibly deter voters from voting, especially black seniors who once faced various forms of threat for attempting to vote." Jordan wrote his memoir with assistance from Robert Jenkins, professor emeritus of history at Mississippi State University. It was published in March by the University Press of Mississippi.

On this first day of summer, many car owners are likely to experience the following scenario: enter your car to leave work for the day and the temperature is sweltering—much hotter than outside. The ignition, steering wheel, and seat surface are almost too hot to touch. You roll down your windows or turn on the air conditioner (or both) to get some air moving to quickly mitigate the sauna-like conditions. Cars are a classic case of the greenhouse effect: visible light is absorbed by the various surfaces within the vehicle. As those surfaces re-emit that energy as heat, glass—opaque to the long-wavelength radiation associated with infrared heat energy—traps it inside. This is more than just a nuisance on hot days. Of the oil consumed by U.S. passenger vehicles, 5.5 percent is used for air conditioning. For today’s average internal-combustion-driven vehicle, air conditioner use results in up to a 26 percent reduction in mpg. For an electric vehicle, this translates to a 36 percent reduction in range. Vehicle air conditioning systems are sized to handle worst-case temperatures such as the hottest of hot summer days, with interior temperatures well in excess of 110 F. Stringent human comfort standards require that the temperature be brought within a comfortable range—typically around 70 F—within minutes. A rarely-encountered, temporary condition thus determines the permanent capacity, size, weight, and cost of the evaporator, coolant, fans, ducts, and compressor that make up the air conditioning system. Given their mostly unused excess capacity, these systems then operate at suboptimal efficiency in moderate conditions—the majority of the time. By using approaches that harness an understanding of heat transfer, human physiology and psychology, and advanced technology, thermal comfort (not to mention fuel economy and EV range) can be improved in tomorrow’s vehicles—while making a substantial step toward U.S. oil independence. Finding the Leverage Points Imagine the possibilities if our cars took lessons from nature. For example, a parked car’s cabin temperature could be maintained closer to the outside temperature by passively drawing in outside air. Termites make use of this technique in Africa and Australia, inducing passive convection airflow to cool the interior of their mounds by up to 20 F. A 2007 study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) indicates that strategically-placed vents that induce natural convection airflow could do something similar for vehicles, reducing interior cabin temperature on hot days by 11 F, and allowing a 25 percent reduction in air conditioning compressor power and a significantly downsized air conditioning system. This zero-energy approach provides nearly equivalent benefit to forcing outside air into the cabin by running the ventilation fans at medium power while parked. If worst-case maximum cabin air temperatures could be reduced, drivers would not only save on fuel costs associated with blasting their air conditioners, but would further benefit from the increased space and reduced weight and cost of a downsized (but equally capable) air conditioning system. Best of all, drivers would experience increased comfort due to experiencing cooler temperatures upon entering the vehicle, and have to worry less about leaving their groceries or dog in the car on a moderately warm day. Expanding the Problem Passively cooling the car’s interior to reduce heat loads enables a smaller system to provide the same comfort, but passive techniques can’t get us all the way there. Vehicles still need some type of active system to provide ventilation and deliver thermal comfort to the passenger. But is the current approach of blowing air from the dashboard the best way to do it? No, suggests research from NREL and the Center for the Built Environment at University of California, Berkeley. There are several alternative techniques that could actually improve comfort with reduced energy consumption relative to today’s approaches. Humans maintain thermal comfort by achieving a heat balance. If the heat produced by the body’s metabolic processes is not dissipated at a constant rate, heat builds up in the body and we feel hot. If heat is lost faster than it is produced metabolically, we feel cold. Our own thermoregulation system has built-in means of heating us up (shivering to increase our metabolic rate), or cooling us down (sweating to provide evaporative cooling). So long as the produced and incoming heat is balanced with the outgoing heat—barring any extreme or asymmetric local temperatures from one part of the body to the next—we feel comfortable. In a car, there are several ways to achieve this balance. Blowing air from the dash is one of them, but it turns out to be among the least efficient. Because the passenger is in constant contact with the seat, cooling via direct contact becomes a reliable means of efficiently dissipating heat. Ventilated seats are not a new concept in the auto industry, but electric vehicle manufacturers are taking renewed notice of the important contribution they can make to improve range if their efficiency is considered within the thermal comfort system as a whole. The seat can also provide a delivery platform for something UC Berkeley calls “task ambient cooling” whereby small fans deliver close-proximity air flow to the face and neck, among the parts of the body that influence thermal comfort the most. This air flow can furthermore be delivered via “transient” means, providing small bursts of cooling on an intermittent basis: an approach that elevates the thermal comfort response of the passenger relative to the “steady state” airflow approach typical of today’s vehicles. RMI looks for high-leverage, high-impact ways to reduce U.S. oil dependence and move our country toward a petroleum-free U.S. transportation system by 2050. Tackling the problem of thermal comfort in vehicles could dramatically reduce oil consumption in the near term, while enhancing the value proposition of EVs by lending customers greater range, savings, security, and comfort.

The median home value in Riverside, CA is $296,200. the county median home value of $263,600. The national median home value is $170,100. The average price of homes sold in Riverside, CA is $296,200. Approximately 72.01% of Riverside homes are owned, compared to 22.87% rented, while 5.13% are vacant. Riverside real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale. Commercial properties are also available. If you see a property you’re interested in, contact a Riverside real estate agent to arrange a tour today! Learn more about Riverside Real Estate. PRICE REDUCED! Don?t miss this gorgeously remodeled 4bedroom 2.5bath Victoria Woods home. This home offers a spacious and bright floor plan including separate family/game room, dining room, and living room with gas fireplace. Gourmet kitchen with white solid wood cabinets, NEW granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, NEW flooring and convenient eat-in kitchen nook. Huge, luxurious master bedroom suite with his and hers walk-in closets, retreat with wet bar and fireplace, and spacious en-suite bath with separate shower and soaking tub. Other features of the home include central HVAC, indoor laundry room, 7 NEW dual pane windows, NEW family room sliding door, fresh paint inside and out, NEW flooring in living areas, smooth ceilings and NEW lighting fixtures. Large grassy backyard with mature landscaping and RV parking. Walking distance to Poly High School on one of the loveliest tree-lined streets in the neighborhood. Motivated Seller - This home is a must see! This two Story Victorian Gated Custom Home was built with Privacy in mind and offers 4 Acres of Privacy with Beautiful Mountain & City Views! With Master Bedroom Downstairs that offers His & Hers Walk in Closets, Vanities and Large Relaxing Tub. Office features Floor to Ceiling Cherry Wood with Fireplace. French Doors and Crown Moulding throughout the house, Leaded Glass Front Door, Wood Floors, Granite Counters and additional Fireplaces in Family and Living Rooms. Kitchen Open to Family Room with Stainless Steel Appliances. Upstairs Features 3 Bedrooms with 2 that share Jack & Jill Bathrooms and 1 with 3/4 Bathroom, Ceiling Fans and Walk In Closets in each Bedroom. Outside Features Wrap Around Covered Patio Porch, in Ground Private Pool & Spa, BBQ, Basketball Court, Putting Green for the Golfer and Fruit Trees. Additional Outside Rooms approx. 250 Sqft, offers Exercise Room and His & Hers Saunas. Low Utilities, No Mello Roos, No HOA and Low Tax Rate. Bring your Picky Buyers!! Fabulous Spanish Custom Estate. This unique bi-level home features 4 bdrms, 3 bath, 4 fireplaces. Kitchen features new Dacor cooktop, custom walk in pantry, acid resistant Kohler sink, dual oven, arched window. High vaulted ceilings throughout. Mstr bath has black jacuzzi claw tub overlooking private garden area, separate shower w/skylight, bidet and dual sinks. Mstr has ex large walk in cedar lined closet, french doors leading to private garden retreat and fireplace. 2 AC units, indoor laundry room, office, 3 car garage. The oversized family room has high beamed ceiling with lead glass french doors, fireplace and entertaining bar with 50 bottle wine rack. The Grand Formal living room also has vaulted ceilings, fireplace opens to grand fourier fit for a king with arched entrances spanish style floor leading to grand staircase. Enjoy the wing of the house with it's own bath for guests etc. Outside enjoy this entertaining yard with large fireplace, pool and jacuzzi plus a pond that is not actively operating sellers choice. House is surrounding by fruit trees, fully landscape with many trees and roses and foilage. Drive thru driveway fully gated for privacy. Just around the corner from Victoria Country Club. So much to enjoy. Must see. VIEWS!! Custom Gated Tuscan Style Estate features Beautiful City Lights&Mountain Views on 2 acres! 5 Bdrms that have 9 Ft. Ceilings each with Ceiling Fans and their own Full Baths,1 Suite located downstairs,plus 2 Half Baths downstairs.Master Bedroom has a Sitting area,Massive walk-in closet, Large Double Head Shower, Spa Tub, Sauna Room & Exercise Room. Refrigerated Wine Cellar,Butlers Pantry,If you love entertaining/Cooking this Kitchen is Perfect!Game/Play Rm, 2 Laundry Chutes,4 Fireplaces,Stone & Wood Flooring with Mosaic Inlays, Granite Counters,Alder&Cherrywood Cabinets,Arched 9' doors,8" Base Boards,Crown Moulding throughout & much more!Outside features a beautiful Salt Water Infinity Edge Pool that Cascades a Waterfall into the Kiddie Pool with a Water Slide,Huge Spa that can seat 20 adults and has its own Waterfall. Sandy Beach area w/large outdoor Fireplace to enjoy the summer evenings, large Fire Pit, Built in BBQ Bar, Mounted Patio Gas Heaters to warm up the cool evenings, 5 Car Garage & 60 'depth area for RV or Boat parking.Outdoor Landscape Lighting throughout the grounds and on every Palm Tree.This property also has a large area for Tennis Courts and a Guest House. This house has it all and then some! Definitely an Entertainers Dream Home!! Located in the middle of town, high on a very private lot with a long driveway that leads to amazing views of Riverside, this single story custom with only one owner has master bedroom on one end of the home and 4 other bedrooms on the other end. Very open floor plan with Wood Floors, Vaulted Ceilings and Wide Hallways. Kitchen with Center Island and Sub Zero Refrigerator. Fireplaces in Family Room, Living Room, and Master Bedroom, 3 A/C Units, Rock Pool and Spa with Waterfall, Fruit Trees and 4 Car Garage. This Estate Property has NO HOA's and any-other dues. Everyone come and see, you will be glad you did. This property features too many ammenties to speak on. Not including a 5 Car Garage that sits on a hill for that beautiful view of the city. Property includes our own pool w/ Heated Spa surrounded with a gate for safety. The Estate sits on a hill for a view of the city. Seller is motivated This resort style beautiful house is your dream! The total buildings are over 7,500 square foot. Main house is 5100 square foot with six bed rooms, four of them are suits, one jack & Jil, an office, two living rooms, a family room and a game room. Two suits and one living room has a separate entry, excellent for grandpa and grandma or a younger family. The garage is about 2500 square foot, it design to park a huge RV and additional six cars, you may store all your business inventory or all your toys there. Extra long drive way provide plenty of additional parking spaces for your guests. The best part is the huge resort like swimming pool and spa with slide and water falls. You can relax or party in this heaven like back yard. Enjoy the water, the BBQ, the lush landscaping, the beautiful sunset and the city light view! Unlike other newer house, the property tax is very low , no special assessment and no HOA! A cute family home located in the heart of Riverside! This property is close to great schools, shopping, entertainment, and the major freeways in the area. This property is priced to sell so don't miss out! If you are looking for a "Masterpiece of Understated Sophistication" well here it is. This 4 bedroom potential, 2 bath horse property home has pretty much what you want in a single story home. Starting with the kitchen, which rivals all the local millionaire homes, has been recently remodelled with new cabinetry, Viking appliances, granite counter tops, built-in refrig and coffee maker, warming drawer and more... Ok enough about kitchen, walk thru the double door entry to an open airy floor plan with adjacent bonus room that can be 4th bedroom if desired. Both bath rooms were also re-model with to the old world charm decor. Exterior wise the garage is a tandem 3 car space garage that has a pass thru door to rear yard. The lot is .93 acres so its big enough for horses, boats, trucks, dogs, pools, and all around stuff. Owner is leaving the 2 stall barn, shed and 2 dog kennels. Close to schools, shopping, freeways, mountain bike and horse trails. Come see you want be disappointed. The information being provided by CARETS is for the visitor's personal, noncommercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties visitor may be interested in purchasing. The data contained herein is copyrighted by CARETS, CLAW, CRISNet MLS, i-Tech MLS and/or VCRDS and is protected by all applicable copyright laws. 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When I was in college, I spent a year abroad in Sweden and, while I was there, I developed a taste for saunas. A group of us would sit in a hot sauna for 10 or 15 minutes, work up a vigorous sweat, and then run outside to cool off. I wasn’t doing this for the health benefits of a sauna; I did it because it was fun and it was a very “Scandinavian” thing to do. These days I’m still a sauna buff, but now I know that dry heat and infrared saunas confer a number of health benefits, from removing toxins to treating congestive heart failure and other cardiovascular conditions. The Details of Sweat The primary benefits of a sauna is that it induces sweating. Although most of us go to great lengths to avoid sweating, perspiration has two essential functions: It cools you down, and it rids the body of waste products. The body contains two main types of sweat glands: - Apocrine glands, located mostly in the armpits, pubic area and scalp, secrete sweat that contains fats and other organic compounds. (Bacteria on the skin interacting with these compounds is what causes body odor.) These glands, which become functional at puberty, also emit hormones and pheromones believed to attract the opposite sex. - Eccrine glands, which number more than 2 million and are scattered all over the body, are the real workhorses when it comes to sweating. Activated by heat as well as stress and emotions, these glands secrete odorless, watery sweat that cools you down as it evaporates on the skin. Sweat Toxins Out Sweat does more than regulate body temperature. Many of the tens of thousands of man-made chemicals in our environment make their way into our food, water and air. No matter how pure your diet or lifestyle, I guarantee that your body contains traces of hundreds, if not thousands, of chemicals such as pesticides, drugs, solvents and dioxins. There are ways to get rid of stored toxins, and one of them is sweating. Sweating mobilizes toxins stored in the fat and enhances their elimination. If you’ve ever been around a heavy smoker or drinker, you know they reek of nicotine or alcohol—it literally pours out of their skin in their sweat. The same is true, although less obvious, of other toxins. Here’s where a sauna comes in. On an average day, your eccrine glands put out about a quart of sweat. But when you hang out in a sauna, they pump out that much in 15 minutes. Several researchers have looked at the benefits of a sauna on the body’s toxic burden. The best-studied is the Hubbard Sauna Detoxification Program. This protocol involves daily exercise followed by sitting in a sauna for two and a half to five hours a day, with breaks for cooling down and rehydrating. Participants in this program also take niacin to stimulate circulation and fat mobilization, as well as multivitamins and polyunsaturated oils. Study of 9/11 Rescue Workers One of the most recent studies of this program is the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project. When the World Trade Center buildings collapsed on September 11, 2001, massive amounts of toxins were released, and the firemen, policemen, and other rescue and cleanup workers bore the brunt of this environmental disaster. As you might expect, acute respiratory distress was common in this group. However, over the subsequent weeks and months, a significant number of these individuals experienced a wide range of health issues, including gastrointestinal complaints, worsening pulmonary problems, depression, irritability and cognitive disorders. From September 2002 through September 2005, more than 500 of these rescue workers, the majority of them firefighters between the ages of 35 and 45, completed this sauna detox program, and the results were astounding. Before Treatment (which averaged 33 days) - They missed a median of 2.1 days of work per month, - Had 4.4 days of limited activity, - Symptom severity scores—which rated 10 systems, including skin, respiratory, emotional, cognitive and musculoskeletal—were high, - And half of the participants were taking drugs to manage their symptoms. - The number of days of missed work or limited activity fell to 0.2, - Symptom scores dropped dramatically, - And 84 percent of participants had discontinued all their drugs because their symptoms had cleared up. - They also had significant improvements in thyroid function, balance, reaction time and even IQ! Cardiovascular Benefits of a Sauna The benefits of a sauna extend beyond detoxification; it’s also good for your heart. Sitting in a sauna has effects akin to mild exercise. The heart gets a gentle workout while the heat of the sauna dilates the capillaries and improves blood flow. In a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 15 minutes in a sauna a day for 14 days improved the function of the endothelial cells lining the arteries by 40 percent. Japanese researchers have found that sitting in a sauna is particularly helpful for congestive heart failure. After taking daily saunas for four weeks, 13 of 15 patients with serious heart failure had significant decreases in blood pressure and improvements in ejection fraction (a measure of the heart’s pumping ability), exercise tolerance and oxygen uptake. Additional Benefits of a Sauna Other conditions for which sauna is proving to be helpful include: - Chronic fatigue - Mild depression - Rheumatoid arthritis - Musculoskeletal pain - Skin conditions And don’t forget this very important point: Sauna just makes you feel good. A Detox Program or a Home Sauna? After considering all of these benefits of a sauna, my wife Connie and I started a sauna detoxification regimen similar to the program used by the New York rescue workers. During our two-week program, we would go for a 30-minute slow jog to heat up and get our blood pumping. We’d then sit in the sauna at a low temperature (at least for a sauna) of about 140 degrees for two to three hours a day, broken up as needed by cool showers. We were so impressed with the benefits of a sauna, that six months later we decided to replace the large bathtub in our master bathroom with a far infrared sauna. (Far infrared is part of the spectrum of natural sunlight.) We selected this type of sauna because it’s relatively inexpensive and easy to install—it took just 30 minutes, is held together with magnets, and needs no plumbing hookup. It also uses much less electricity and only requires a five-minute warm-up period. Above all, it’s much more comfortable. Standard saunas heat the air, and the hot air coming into contact with the skin heats the body. Far infrared light directly and deeply penetrates the tissues and heats up the core body temperature. As a result, the air is much cooler, making it easier to breathe and allowing you to stay in longer and work up a better sweat. One infrared sauna I recommend is the Clearlight Infrared by Sauna Works. To order, call 800-798-1779 or visit infraredsauna.com for more information. Optimal use is 30 minutes, four to six times a week. For more information about supervised sauna detox programs, contact the International Academy of Detoxification Specialists. More Dr. Whitaker Advice on Sauna and Detoxification Heal your body with thermotherapy Thermotherapy, or heat therapy, turns up in more than 26,000 scientific papers in the National Library of Medicine, and the list of conditions treated is diverse. Read more How to detoxify your body Every day, we are exposed to many different types of pollutants, which is why it is so important to take steps to detoxify your body. Read more

not legit," he wrote in an e-mail. "Someone is going to great lengths ... I wish SF Weekly would not continue to give legs to this Download the graphs ethicstrouble sent SF Weekly in these PDF files. Indeed, SF Weekly cannot confirm ethicstrouble is the San Francisco Scientologist they claim to be. But we'll share the detailed information about the San Francisco org they gave us, and readers can decide for themselves whether it's credible or not. week, we will present our ethicstrouble interview in multiple parts. Fearful of being discovered, ethicstrouble talked with us on the condition of only being identified as a 10-to-20-year member of the church who has shelled out more than $50,000 on coursework. We'll refer to ethicstrouble with a gender-less "they" pronoun. Ethicstrouble said they called us from a telephone line they had acquired especially for this purpose, and asked us not to reveal what time we spoke. "Don't tell [President Jeff Quiros] in any way when I talked to you. If you let him know the times I was able to call you that will really narrow me down." They first sent us graphs which they said they whisked out of a garbage can at the org before the papers hit the shredder. Ethicstrouble says the graphs have proven to Quiros that they are from inside the church, and says their talking to the SF Weekly has created quite a stir within the org: "If you've seen the graphs I've sent you, they know those are real. I'm not worried about them believing I'm real. I can sense it; they feel it. My problem is proving to everyone else -- to you -- that I'm real." Here's what ethicstrouble wrote to us to explain some of the acronyms in the graphs. ACTPRO: That is the number of people auditing independently in their area. In the San Francisco area there are only two people auditing in a self-employed practice and possibly making a living out of it. That is a very small number, much smaller than years HDSCOMPS and HDACOMPS: These are the two courses that teach people how to audit Dianetics. HDSCOMPS is the basic training and HDACOMPS is the training to be a professional Dianetic auditor. So you can see there are almost no Dianetic auditors being made. TTCNBR and TTCGRAD: These are the people in the technical training corps.... They are training to be auditors or word clearers or course supervisors, and they are either training at Flag in Florida or here at the Org. So at the end of the one graph we had 13 people in and during this time frame not one had completed a course. If one was to be a auditor for example, he will have at least 12 or more courses to complete his training BIS: Bodies in the shop, how many people are in the Org doing a course. Course supervisors often call people and beg them to come in for one hour for the week so this statistic is higher. WDAHP: This is for people doing the sauna sweat program. As you can see, there is something really wrong with this graph. The standard preferred schedule for someone doing the program is four to fuve hours a day, seven days a week, with the only exceptions given to people with physical problems -- then the hours may be reduced. GDS GBS: This is the total dollar value of books sold. This includes e-meters, which sell for over $3,000, so as you can see no e-meters were sold. PSO: This is the film shown to new people who don't know anything about Scientology. CL: The state called "clear" was the whole purpose of Dianetics. You must go clear before going higher up the bridge. It costs tens of thousands of dollars to go clear. GDS PDC: This is for everything completed in the Org, from courses to extension coursed to word clearing, anything that is paid for and completed. This can be deceiving because someone can pay for two or three little things in one week, so you can get three points for one person doing a few little paid services. WDAHWO: These are how many hours of auditing were produced without the purif hours. (hours in the sauna are considered auditing, I know it's weird). Graph looks like it is trending down to me. GDS FHS: This is the number of staff who have been trained to do their job. All other staff are not fully trained. PTF: This is how much money was given to Flag for the people we have training over there. We have to pay for their food, lodging, and courses. Very expensive. They study there starting at 9 a.m. till 10 p.m. with half-day off on Sunday to do laundry. CGI: Here is the gross income for the Org, includes everything. SOLO1COMPS: This is the first course you do after becoming clear and before doing OT levels.

A down-stater was sitting at the bar in Republic and asked the bartender if he would like to hear a Finnlander joke. The bartender leaned over and said, "Do you see that guy in the corner? He is the local sheriff, and he is a Finn. The man at end of the bar works for the DNR and he is a Finn. And buddy, I myself am of Finnish descent. Now, are you sure you still want to tell a Finnlander joke?" The down-stater replied, "No, not if I have to explain it three times!" Lempi took a job with Odovero Construction to paint lines on M28. The first day he painted ten miles. The boss was very impressed. The second day he painted two miles. The boss was a little disappointed. The third day he only painted 500 feet. The boss sat him down and said," Lempi, how come you paint ten miles the first day, two miles the next day, but only 500 feet today?". Lempi replied, "Well boss, each day I get farther and farther away from the paint can". Teemu and Eino were driving their pickup truck to Michigammee. When they got to the traffic light in Negaunee, Teemu drove right through the red light. Eino cried, "Holywha, Teemu, what are you doing?" Teemu kept driving and replied, "Don't worry, my brother taught me to drive". When they got to the light in Ishpeming, Teemu drove through another red light. Eino asked, "Why do you keep running red lights?". Teemu said, "Don't worry, my brother taught me to drive". When they got to the light in West Ishpeming, Teemu slammed on the brakes and screeched to a halt at a green light. Eino asked, "Teemu, why do you drive through red lights but stop at green lights?". Teemu replied, "My brother might be coming the other way". An Italian, a Chippewa Indian and Toivo were hunting together in the Porkies and got lost. After many hours of wandering around trying to find their way back to camp, a genie appeared and said he would grant them each a wish. The Italian answered, "I wish I was back in Kingsford with my family". Poof! He was gone. The Chippewa said,"I wish I was back in Baraga with my tribe". Poof! He was gone. The genie turned to Toivo and asked him what his wish was. Toivo thought about it for a minute and said, "Boy, I really miss those guys, I wish they were back here with me". Toivo was at the bar in Channing drinking a Stroh's and watch the Packers on the television when a big tall rancher from Texas came strolling in. The Texan started drinking and bragging to Toivo about how much money he made and how many head of cattle he owned. He said to Toivo in a loud voice, "I can drive all day and never reach the end of my property!". Toivo replied, "Yah, I got a pickup like dat too, mister." Eino & Toivo was chikin (hitch hiking) down da US cement highway when Toivo says to Eino "Eh look a dose two Polacks out dare in dat subble field rowin a boat." Den Eino says "Yah hey is dat dumb or what?" Den Toivo says "Don't chu tink ve auta tell dem day can't row no boat in no stubble field." Den Eino says "Ya eh, but we got no boat to git out dare en tell dem wit." Two Yoopers brothers were putting siding on their house. The older one started on the east side, the other on the west side. After a while, the older brother walked over to the west side to watch his younger brother, (who was dumb as a house,) and see how his work was going. His younger brother would carefully look at each siding nail, and would throw away about half of them. "Why are ya trowing away all da nails?" asked the old brother. "Because da got da heads on da wrong end!" said the younger brother. "Stupid," said the older brother, "I can use dem on MY side of the house!" Two Yoopers are roofing a house, when a big wind comes along and blows down their ladder. Well, it gets dark and they still have not figured out a way down, when the first Yooper gets an idea. He says, "Hey. I got this flashlight. I'll shine it on the ground and you can climb down the beam of light, set up the ladder, and then I'll climb down." The second Yooper says, "No way. I'll get half the way down and you'll shut off the light." Two Yoopers head for the Motor City. When they get across the bridge they see a sign that reads "DETROIT LEFT." So they turn around and go home. Eino just got married and he and his wife are driving down to Saginaw for their honeymoon. As they are driving, his wife slides over next to him, and he starts rubbing her leg. She says, "Honey, now that we're married you can go a lot further than that!" So Eino drove all the way to Detroit! This French trapper came through the camp and took a lot of heat from the lumberjacks because he seemed so frail. Considering a pair of lumberjacks weighed about a quarter-ton, he was. He told us about the time he came upon a bear while checking his trap line. "I not scare! Shotgun on my arm, shell in my hand. Then she old bear come chase Jacques! I not scare, shotgun on my arm, shell in my hand. I run fast, she old bear run fast! I not scare, shotgun on my arm, shell in my hand! Bear chase Jacques up tree! I not scare, shotgun on my arm, shell in my hand! She old bear start climb up at Jacques! I not scare, shotgun on my arm, shell in my hand but I so damn mad I crap my pants!" Anio is a lumberjack, and Toivo, well he sells chain saws. One day, Toivo is in Anio's shop, and he says, "wat da heck is des here chain zaws anyways?" Anio responds, "Wat, u a lumberjack, and u ain't never used no chain zaw?" Toivo - "nope" Anio - "well, ere, take dis one out in da woods wit you tomorrow, and I guarantee u will cut tree times de amount of wood ya usually do." Well, Anio is gone all the next day, and at the end of the day, he comes strolling into Toivo's shop. "Dis ere chain zaw ain't no good! I cut and I cut and I cut, an I only got one tird de amount of wood I usually do!" Toivo says "Dere must be sumptin wrong wit it, ere let me see it" Toivo grabs the chain saw and starts it up "GZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" Anio jumps and yells, "Whats dat noise?" Toivo and Eino left Hubbell one afternoon heading for Shop-ko in Marquette. They got as far as Champion before the car broke down. They worked on the car for a while, but couldn't get it going again, by this time it was pretty late. They walked up the road a bit to the first farmhouse on the left. They asked the woman inside for help, she said she couldn't help them with the car, but they could stay the night and get help in the morning. The next day they got up thanked the woman, got their car fixed, went on to Shop-ko and went home. NINE MONTHS Later...... Toivo goes over to Eino's house.... A few years back, on the opening day of deer season, Eino and Toivo went hunting together. Sure enough, as was bound to happen with Eino and Toivo in the same swamp with guns, Eino accidently shot Toivo. Well, Eino jumps into the truck, drives down to the nearest bar and calls the ambulance. Soon, the police, game wardens, fire trucks, paramedics and the ambulance all show up at the scene of the tragedy. The paramedics work frantically on Toivo while a nervous Eino waits nearby. Finally, one of the exhausted paramedics comes over to Eino. "I'm sorry," he says, "We did everything we could. We just couldn't save him." "OH NO!" cries Eino. "My best friend! What will I do? I'm so sorry, Toivo! What could I have done to save you?" "Well," said the paramedic, with a look of disgusted anger on his face, "It would've helped if you hadn't gutted him first!" One day, Toivo and Eino were hunting in the woods. Toivo instructed Eino that if he got lost, to fire 3 shots into the air. Eino agreed and they went on their way. After a few hours, Eino had gotten lost. He aims his weapon into the air, fires 3 shots and prays, "Please God, let Toivo see my arrows." Eino & Toivo made their living working in the woods. After seeing commercials on tv they decided that the Air Force would be a perfect choice for a new career so they went to the recruiters's office to sign up. A few days later, Eino got a letter in the mail stating that he had been accepted as a pilot and was given instructions on where and when to report. Toivo heard nothing. Toivo was outraged and went back to the recruiter's office to find out why they took Eino and not him. The recruiter explained that they had openings for pilots and Eino said he was an experienced pilot, but they just didn't have any openings for a woodcutter which was the occupation Toivo had stated. "But, " in an exasperated voice, Toivo explained, "if I didn't cut the wood, Eino couldn't pile it (pilot). An out-of-stater dies and goes to Heaven. St. Peter is showing him around. Everything is glorious. There is a music hall with every kind of music, all played with angelic perfection. The dining hall offers food beyond compare. And the residences, St. Peter assures him, are comfortable beyond all imagination. On their way to the residence halls, they turn down a hall where everyone is chained to the wall. St. Peter offers no comment as they continue down the long passageway. After a few minutes the man asks St. Peter. "If this is Heaven and everything is so wonderful why are these people chained up?" St Peter answers, "Oh. Those are the downstate Michiganders, If we don't keep them chained up they try to go to their cabins in the UP on the weekends." Eino, and Tovio went fishing one sunny bright day and were catching fish like crazy. Eino said, "We better mark this spot so we can come back and catch more fish." Torvo then proceeded to mark the bottom of the boat with a large X. Eino asked him what he was doing, and Toivo told him he was marking the spot so they could come back tomorrow to catch more fish. Eino said, " You big dummy, how do you know we are going to get the same boat tomorrow?" Return to the Yooper Humor Index I promise to: 2. Eat Pasties every Tuesday. 3. Go for a "carride" & pick berries. 4. Eat "kala mojaka", "juustua", and "fiilia". 5. Women: Go shopping during deer season. Men: Go to deer camp. 6. Take a sauna every Wednesday & Saturday. Return to the Yooper Humor Index On da SECOND day, He created da partridge, da deer, da bear, da fish, and da ducks. On da THIRD day, He said "Let dere be Yoopers to roam da Upper Peninsula." On da FOURTH day, God created da udder world down below. On da FIFTH day, He said "Let dere be trolls to live in da udder world down below." On da SIXTH day, He created da bridge, so da trolls would have a way to get to heaven. Return to the Yooper Humor Index Return to the Yooper Humor Index

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865 More Steps--Who's Counting- and Major Foul-up Trip Start Apr 25, 2012 38Trip End May 12, 2012 Map your own trip! Show trip route Where I stayed Best Western Hotel De Havelet St Peter Port Read my review - 5/5 stars Read my review - 5/5 stars What I did La Gran'mere du Chimquiere Parish Church of St Martin Moulin Huet Bay Jerbourg Point Cliff Walk I was so efficient this morning - getting up at 7 am, catching an early breakfast, showering, packing up and checking out by 9:30. I left my bags in the B&B dining room. Davina, the manager, said there had never been any problem. I walked to the bus station and immediately caught a bus for St Martin, a village near the Southern coastal path. It took me a while to find the old menhir in front of the Parish Church of St Martin but my helper lady was very nice. I think I haven't really adjusted to the small map scale. I think I am over here and, no, I have managed to get way over there. But I went through some of those lanes that bring to my mind old English villages and are so lovely that I ended up taking quite a few photos. Of course, I had my little trauma here because I discovered I hadn't put the memory card back into the SLR. I got out my spares and found to my utter horror that my spare card was full so I switched the card from the fuji When I got to the Parish Church of St Martin, I found Gran'mere at the gate. A fitting place for her. The lovely stone church was closed but it was surrounded by its cemetery - in four elevated plots front, back and on one side. Of course, I had to wander around and take more photos. It is interesting that the cemeteries I have seen don't date back that far - or it may be that I just can't read the inscriptions on the stones dating back farther than the mid 1800's. This cemetery had stones in English and French. At first I thought one section was only French, but it turned out to be mixed. After I tore myself away from the cemetery, I headed for what I thought would be the coast. I was still in town, so I asked at a bakery. It is too bad I wasn't more flexible - I was thinking apple tart - and they had some beautiful looking breads, but I should have gotten a scone. The baker was very helpful and gave me precise directions and good wishes for a lovely walk as he gestured with floured arms. Of course, somehow, I got off track, but eventually made my way to the cliff walk. Today it is misty, so it is not a perfect day for the cliff walk because it is very hard to see the water and the cliffs I saw some steps leading down - a long way down to a small stoney beach - and tried to decide whether I needed to get down there. A young couple had just walked down. I probably should have given them privacy for their picnic lunch, but instead decided I should experience a closer look at the beach. I looked at the amazing variety of stones - these seemed to have particularly large-grained markings. I wanted them all! But I left them to the sea. I started back up the stairs and this is when I decided I would start counting the steps. There were 302 - I am pretty sure This was Saint Bay I think. Afterwards I followed the coast cliff way up and down and counted the steps. There were some great views along the way. I love how the sea gulls - though they may be nasty birds - glide through the sky over the cliffs. I enjoyed the fuscias, whites and yellows of the wildflowers and the fresh smell of the sea. The temperature was perfect - a little cool. The map shows a large sandy expanse for Moulin Huet Bay, but I don't remember seeing much sand - some rocks and water through the mist. I tried to capture in my photos the mist coming up the side of the cliff in fast moving whiffs. When I got to the Jerbourg Point overlook, I started quizzing the folks who had walked up more steps whether walking down to the shore was worth it. Two couples agreed that it wasn't really, but, after talking with the second couple, I found out that going down was the continuation of the path and, if I wanted to continue, that was the way I had to go. So I fortified myself with a coffee ice cream cone and headed down the steps this time. I had already climbed 535 steps at this point, but I was only counting the steps up and not the ones down. To walk out to the coast station where the fog horn blew, I had to go up steps at the end and retrace myself From Jerbourg Point on the eastern shore, the landscape was more wooded and not so dry . There were a few streams and pine trees as well as other trees with twisted-trunks - still lots of wildflowers. Here and there I also saw some clusters of foxglove. Beautiful! The blisters on my feet were beginning to bother me again. I think these old trainers need to be replaced. So I gingerly walked along trying not to roll on the blistered bits. Actually, it is much worse when I stopped and had to start again, but generally I just kept on with the short breaks created by taking photos. I had planned to head inland to find the bus stop somewhere between 3:30 and 4 pm. This plan worked out well because I got to a sign that said Calais and I knew that was on the way to the bus stop - more or less. I forgot to mention that the area between the main road and the cliff walk has some of the most gorgeous houses and gardens that I have seen yet here on Guernsey. This was definitely the sight I had been missing in my earlier Guernsey experiences. I used the compass I got at the Lost Gardens of Heligan to get me in the right direction and asked some workmen The ferry seemed miles away and when I finally got there, I was totally confused about where to go to get my ticket. This is when I again had the notion that I should have gotten the ticket in advance. I went from one office to another It was now 5 pm. I thought the ferry left at 6 pm. A man in front of me at the counter was trying to get tickets so he could be in St Malo for some conference and there weren't any except for 100's of pounds. While he kept working on all the myriad possibilities, I was getting more anxious. He let the young woman attend to me and she told me the last ferry for the day had just closed its gates. Oh, oh. This, of course, was hugely disappointing - and exasperating - since I could have/should have avoided it. Plus it was painful because of the walking around with my bags. I could have taken a taxi I guess. Now I needed to find accommodations for the extra night. I didn't want to go back to the B&B because it was too long of a walk and I didn't like it there that much. So instead I walked at least as much trying to find a place closer to the ferry that had a vacancy. Finally I got to Moore's Best Western and the young desk clerk called around a bunch of other hotels and found me a room and called me a cab to get me there The cab driver had a bad hip so he couldn't help with my bags but he was amused by my predicament. He told me that the hotels were short of rooms because so many hotels were being converted into apartments. There weren't that many tourists on Guernsey because of the bad fiscal times and there wasn't much to do unless you walked the cliffs and not everyone could do that - he said - since he had a bad hip. The young German desk clerk here at the hotel was very nice and I got my kind of rustic, wood-paneled, twin-bedded room. Nice hot shower and I felt a lot better except maybe for my feet. I was hungry and so decided I would eat at their restaurant rather than trying out their health facility with steam room and sauna. Too bad - I would have liked a sauna. My dinner was nice. I need to try to call American Express so I can use that card tomorrow am when I check out since I missed out on my double miles in St Austell because the card was denied. When I got back to the desk clerk, I asked him what people in Guernsey do for a living. I had been wondering, after all. I said it wasn't farming. He said there were farms but not that many any more. He felt that about 60% were in the banking and finance field. After getting back to the room, I took a nap - thinking I would only close my eyes for a little bit. I woke up at 1 am and didn't think I would do anything but go back to bed. Instead I am blogging. The photos will have to wait though. I am still tired. It has been a tough day - the cliff walk was tiring but fantastic. I could have done without the ferry botch-up. My Review Of The Place I Stayed

In Blevio (Italy) on the shores of Lake Como, near Milan, the historical mansion that belonged to the famous soprano Giuditta Pasta get back in its ancient splendor. This villa (at that time called Villa Roda) was bought by Giuditta Pasta and restored between 1827 and 1829 and many famous artists, singers and composers – such as Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Alessandro Manzoni, Isabella Colbran, Stendhal, Felice Romani, Adele Curti and Maria Luisa Hadfield Cosway – were hosted here. Giuditta Pasta, was the first Casta Diva in Bellini’s Norma. After a long renovation the historical Villa has been turned into the exclusive CastaDiva Resort & SPA, a prestigious location to plan holidays, meetings and events. The resort is surrounded by a huge park of 26000mq cherishing the 9 buildings, the Grand Hotel and the private villas, that are inspired to the big heroines of the past. The buildings provide a wide range of accommodation: 75 rooms (56 suites and 2 private villas). The resort offers two restaurant, the “Orangerie” and the “Giardino dei Sapori”, and an exclusive SPA with a large wellness area. Villa Roccabruna, once home of the famous soprano Giuditta Pasta, today is the heart of CastaDiva Resort. In this building there are: hall, ancient meeting rooms, concierge and american bar. Around Villa Roccabruna there are other villas: Norma, Fiordiligi, Gilda, Leonora, Dorabella, Amina, Violetta e Isotta. These buildings take their names from the female characters of various operas. The 1300 square meters’ SPA offers 4 VIP SPA devoted to the four elements: fire, earth, air and water; a relax area on a glassfloor, suspended over a 19th Century Dock; and a wellness area with fitness centre, indoor pool with Jacuzzi, drench showers, vertical Kneipp, Finnish sauna, Mediterranean bath, Turkish bath, ice fountain and salt therapy area. The outdoor floating pool, entirely surrounded by the lake waters, at night it turns into a deck, where water features, lights and music create a special show. The Resort will host themed events with young opera writers and singers, also in partnership with the Teatro Sociale of Como. The two restaurant, the “Orangerie” and the “Giardino dei Sapori”, offer an unforgettable gastronomic experience, based on a selection of the finest Italian products prepared every day with a particular focus on local traditions under the watchful eye Paolo Casagrande, who gained his experience working with top international chefs. CastaDiva, thanks to its SPA, amphitheatre for concerts and restaurants with a stunning view of the lake, is the right place to relax and live real suggestive moments. To provide an adequate number of parking spaces for all the guests, 2 big parking were made: one at the entrance area with 270 parking spaces and one underground, dug into the rock and completely hidden by the botanical garden. On the first level of the underground garage there are traditional parking spaces and on the second level there are 26 parking systems Parklift 401 that offer in total 52 car places. The removal of the cars parked on these systems, installed by IdealPark, is dependent, so the car parked below has first to be removed. These systems have two side columns and inclined platform. Parklift systems, totally hot deep galvanized, are a great solution, cheap and simple, for all those who have parking problems. These mechanical parking systems don’t require a pit, the installation takes only few hours, they operate with 220 V power supply and the power consumption is only 1.5 kW. The first level of the underground garage is reachable by a ramp and it has a clear height of 240 cm. The second level has been designed with a clear height of 3 m in order to install the parking systems. An additional characteristic of the indoor parking is that the floor has been realized with epoxy resins in different colours: grey for driving lanes and blue for parking spaces. In another garage situated under a Resort’s outbuilding, 6 Parklift 411 have been installed and allow to park 12 cars with a maximum height of 190 cm. The main difference between model Parklift 411 and Parklift 401 is the parking platform: in the first model the platform is inclined in order to use all the available height; in the second model the platform is perfectly horizontal. The realization of underground garages and the installation of IdealPark parking systems, allowed to preserve the large luxuriant botanic park with age-old trees and the harmony of this charming place where past and present, art and life are bound together.

Well appointed en suite rooms with overhead fans and Deukom TV. Built inAlpine chalet-style with German character and charm. Antique furnishings, hand woven carpets and large fireplace in the exquisite lounge area. Lovely park-like gardens. On site brewery, pool, 9-hole mashie golf course, steambath, private game drives on request, health salon. WIR SPRECHEN DEUTSCH. Wartburger Hof Amenities Caraville Private Collection Cots Available Babysitting SABC, MNET + Satellite in Room Non-Smoking Room Hairdrier available Toiletries available Fans in room Heating in room Safe in room/reception Safe open off-street parking Cover Parking Laundry Service Cocktail bar/pub Restaurant / Dining Room Special Meals on request Credit cards accepted Conference facilities Sauna Swimming pool Volleyball Area Bird Watching Wheelchair friendly Pets by arrangements Rating: Author: GORDON FAMILY Posted: Wednesday, October 15 2008, 18:27:18 I will most definitely visit again; stunning; elegant; children friendly; out of this world; Richard and Lydia Gordon residing IN NEW HANOVER took us out for the day especially to see and experience the place. Definitely will overnight; Most friendly people i ever met; Man there is a setup for every mood; next time i will stay - THIS PLACE IS A MUST TO VISIT THAT'S FOR SURE.....thks to Lydia and Richard for taking us there; treat this couple when they visit again IT IS NOW PASTOR RICHARD GORDON - if i had money an overnight stay will be theirs on the house. Wartburger Hof is located in KwaZulu Natal Wartburg. We provide accommodation, hotel information, holiday specials, packages, photos, rates and Wartburger Hof reviews. Book Wartburger Hof online and Save!

Big Horn Mountain KOA 63 Decker Rd Number of Sites: 131 Number of Sites with Electric: 40 Number of Full Hookup Sites: 49 Tents Allowed: Yes Dogs Allowed: Yes Pitch your tent or park your RV along the shady banks of Goose Creek. The High Plains unfurl to the east, while the Bighorn Mountains loom to the west. Hike, ride horseback or make the hour's drive to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. You'll find other relics of the Indian wars near Sheridan, including the Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site and the Fetterman Battlefield. Shop Sheridan's galleries for antiques and artisans' leather goods. Turn the kids loose in KOA's big playground and get your fill of fishing, biking (rentals available) and swimming. This KOA is big rig friendly. 50 Max Amp 147' Max Length Pool (May 25 to Sep 07) Hot Tub / Sauna I-90 Exit 20, right at stoplight. Then right on Hwy 338. Make a big loop in that turn. Located 1/2 mile down the road on the right. Entrance located at the large yellow KOA sign. Currently there are no reviews of this campground. Moon Montana, Wyoming Idaho Camping: Including Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier National Parks

Fountain View Recreation Center Fountain View Recreation CenterCarol Stream, IL The Fountain View Recreation Center offers residents of Carol Stream a vibrant, energized facility that provides indoor recreation opportunities for patrons of all ages. All program rooms have a clear connection to the surrounding park setting, while the center’s transparency offers interplay between program spaces. The first level features the gymnasium, natatorium and supporting locker rooms, a childcare area, a facility administration office suite, a catering kitchen, and several program/multipurpose rooms. The second level features the main fitness area with dramatic views to the pool and gymnasium below, as well as the adjacent park. A welcoming interior space combines traditional materials such as brick and stone with glass and steel. Neutral colors and patterns create a warm and inviting backdrop, while bright accents of color are used in the fitness and program rooms to enhance the occupants’ experience. Custom graphics further promote healthy living and wellness. Due to the multiuse nature of the facility, linoleum flooring made of renewable raw materials was specified to withstand the programming changes. Carpet tiles were used for ease of replacement, and ceramic tile appears in areas where cleaning ease is a top priority. The center’s exterior architecture embraces the community’s history by the traditional use of brick and stone. Project DetailsArchitect: Williams Architects; Itasca, IL Architect of Record: Williams Architects / Aquatics General Contractor: Riley Construction Company, Inc. Construction Cost: $18.98 million Square Feet: 90,846 Occupancy: September 2013 Building Systems - Skylights: Solatube Fitness Center - Cardiovascular Equipment: Cybex International Inc. Fitness Center - Climbing Walls: Everlast Climbing Fitness Center - Entertainment Systems: Atlas Speakers - Fitness Fitness Center - Flooring, Aerobics: Horner Flooring Company Fitness Center - Flooring, Fitness Center: Osst Surfaces, A King Arthur Industries Company Fitness Center - Strength Equipment: Life Fitness Gymnasium/Field House/Arena - Basketball Backboards/Supports: Porter Athletic Gymnasium/Field House/Arena - Bleachers/Grandstands: Irwin Telescopic Seating Co. Gymnasium/Field House/Arena - Divider Curtains: Porter Athletic Gymnasium/Field House/Arena - Lighting: Lithonia Lighting Gymnasium/Field House/Arena - Scoreboards/Timing Systems: Daktronics Inc. Gymnasium/Field House/Arena - Volleyball Nets and Standards: Porter Athletic Gymnasium/Field House/Arena - Wall Padding: Porter Athletic Indoor Sports Surfaces - Basketball: Horner Flooring Company Indoor Sports Surfaces - Track: OSST Surfaces, A King Arthur Industries Company Locker/Shower - Flooring: Tnemec Locker/Shower - Lockers: Bradley Lennox (Plastic) / Hollman Inc (Wood) Locker/Shower - Saunas/Whirlpools: Am-Finn Sauna Locker/Shower - Shower/Toilet Partitions: Scranton Products Locker/Shower - Swimsuit Extractors: Extractor Corp. Pools - Chemical Control Systems: Pro Minent Chemical Controller / PPG Industries Chlorinator - Small Pool Pools - Deck/Basin Surface: Pool Deck = Daltile 2x2 Tile / Shell = Agsar Plaster Pools - Dehumidifiers: Dectron Inc. Pools - Diving Boards: S.R. Smith Pools - Filtration Systems: Neptune-Benson Inc. Pools - Gutters: Paddock Pool Equipment Co. Pools - Heaters: Lochinvar Corp. Pools - Ladders/Grab Bars: Paragon Products Pools - Lane Markers: Recreation Supply Co. Inc. Pools - Lighting: Insight Lighting Pools - Sanitization Systems: Dulcodes S UV system Pools - Scoreboard/Timing Systems: Colorado Time Systems Pools - Starting Blocks: Spectrum Aquatics

Luxury motor yacht GRACE E Perini Navi’s latest beauty, the 73m yacht GRACE E was launched from their Picchiotti shipyard in La Spezia. Grace E has been designed for autonomous and energy efficient cruising in comfort and safety. Exterior spaces are divided over five decks. The Upper Deck, also called the Wellness Deck, has an area that is entirely devoted to wellness with a gym, a sauna and hydrotherapy equipment. The interiors, designed by Remi Tessier, are elegant and contemporary. GRACE E is one of the most stunning yachts in the charter market. GRACE E accommodates 12 guests in 7 staterooms. Full beam master with king bed, His & Hers en suite each w own shower & bidet.Central tub & underfloor heating. 2 safes. 2 x VIP with European king beds, en suite w shower & bidet. 2 x double cabins with European king beds,en suite w shower,bath & bidet 2 x twin cabins with 1 x Pullman berth in each. En suite w shower Grace E Rates: Low Rates: Eur 560,000/week + expenses High Rates: Eur 595,000/week + expenses |LENGTH||73m (239.6' )| |CRUISING SPEED||14.5 knots| |NUMBER OF CREW||20| |NUMBER OF GUESTS||12| |WATERSPORTS & TOYS||9.2m/30.2' Cockwells twin Jet tender 7.2m/23.6' YachtWerft Meyer single Jet tender 5m/16.4' YachtWerft Meyer single Jet tender 3.3m /10.8' Avon SportJet tender 4 x See-Doo waverunners 2 x SeaBobs 2 x Jet Surfs 2 x Stand-up Paddle Boards 6 x kayaks Assorted inflatable towables GRACE E is an approved RYA Training Centre for waverunners/jetskis 2 x scooters 4 x bicycles 2 x Life Fitness CrossTrainers 1 x Life Fitness treadmill 1 x Power Plate 2 x Trac E-Spinner Bikes 1 x Keiser weight machine

This unit is conveniently located at 430 Lewers Street at the cross street of Kuhio Avenue, just half a block from Duty-Free shopping. This corner unit on the 18th floor is newly remodeled with warm colors and laminate flooring, furnished in a beautiful tropical rattan style. It comes with a full kitchen, washer and dryer in the unit, and covered reserved parking. The bedrooms are furnished with a king bed in the master, and a queen bed in the second bedroom. The balcony is accessible through the living area as well as from the master bedroom. The living room features comfy seating and an entertainment center with television. When you're not out exploring the island, catching waves at the beach, or wandering around Waikiki, head down to the recreation deck on the seventh floor and go for a swim in the pool, relax in the sauna or whirlpool, or practice your backhand on the tennis courts. You can also grill your own catch of the day in the barbeque area. In the vicinity of the Aloha Towers, you'll find many shops and restaurants such as the International Marketplace, World-Famous Waikiki Beach, The Honolulu Zoo, The Waikiki Aquarium, and Kapiolani Park, which features tennis courts, jogging paths, and amazing views of Diamond Head. $1400 weekly rate ($200 per night) If interested in renting this beautiful unit, please contact Nick at 808-591-2373 for rates and availability.

Two City Plaza rentals are located at the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, Florida. Two City Plaza offers everything you need to experience the true South Florida lifestyle. Two City Plaza continues to be a popular downtown West Palm Beach residence. Two City Plaza has an amazingly location, spectacular amenities, and sensational views. Contact KangaRealty, your local West Palm Beach real estate experts, call 561-803-7779. Two City Plaza Rentals Interestingly all the buildings in Two City Plaza have 16 floors. There are five different kinds of apartments here. These are: City Loft (19` ceiling), 2 Story City Lofts (26` ceiling), Two City Plaza Suites (10` ceiling), Tower Suites (10` ceilings) and a Penthouse Suite (12` ceiling). The community has very tight security system with CCTV all around the buildings and 24 hour guarded lobby. Your garage will be perfectly secured and access keys to the buildings are very limited to maintain security. Amenities – Two City Plaza, West Palm Beach The amenities of Two City Plaza condos are divided into two folds. First, there is the ‘Sky Club’ which has a huge heated swimming pool on the roof that gives you a fascinating view of not just the city but also the Intracoastal Waterway, Palm Beach and the ocean. It also has a steam room with sauna facility and expansive sun decks. The other category is the ‘Plaza Club’ that includes a fitness centre with state of the art equipments, meeting rooms and catering kitchen. It has a connecting path to the ‘Plaza Garden’ that has beautifully designed and regularly maintained landscape, reflection pool, fountain, entertainment areas and space to just sit and relax. The precise location is another vital feature of condos for rent in Two City Plaza. It is located just two blocks away from City Place, three blocks from the Opera House and three blocks from Kravis Center for performing arts. The convention centre is also just a few blocks away. Palm Beach Atlantic College is just a 5 minute walk away. Palm Beach County’s ultimate shopping destination Worth Avenue is a mere 10 minute bike ride away from this place. All the upscale dining places are at the foot of the community. Contact KangaRealty for a scheduled tour in Two City Plaza. We will assist you in finding West Palm Beach Condos for rent.

Dinner and SPA Circuit in Benalmádena Costa Stay at the Hotel Riviera, in the Beach Front Premium Room, choosing the board you prefer and you can enjoy a meal in the restaurant Araucaria and one hour of SPA Circuit per person. Enjoy dinner at our A La Carte Restaurant, Araucaria, with the most popular dishes of the area, and escape from the stress and pressure of the fast-paced world. Enjoy one hour of relaxation that will refresh, beautify and clean, leaving your mind, body and soul in a state of pure tranquility. The Spa Circuit includes a dynamic pool, jacuzzi, sauna, and steam bath. Benefit from current offers · Minimum of nights: 2 · Specials valid until end of stock. Hotel Cancellation Policy

A month ago I posted June 2013 Experiments. Using a few strategies my plan was to reduce headache frequency/intensity and lose 5-7 pounds. Well I succeeded on the first goal and failed on the second and I’m clueless to explain either outcome. This month has completely stumped me. Maybe you can help me make sense out of it? Headaches Down, Sleep Quality Up I’ve been tracking headaches on a spreadsheet since March 2011. I added Sleep Quality later. Along the way I’ve tracked coffee and other variables. Heading into June I was certain that caffeine was a major trigger for headaches. More coffee equals more headaches. Now I am less certain. My plan was to reduce caffeine levels, but actually they went up. I’ve been playing with my Clever Coffee Dripper too much. My average intake was 2.73, up from 2.13. The other goal was to minimize AM coffee. There I was good. On most days I restricted myself to a single coffee before lunch. Before I get into the coffee data, I wanted to say the only grains I consumed in June were white rice and corn. No sorghum, millet and definitely not any wheat. This may have helped a little, as it did in September 2012. Pushing my last coffee back to later in the afternoon seems to be helping. It is counter intuitive as many people would have trouble getting to sleep when they drink coffee in late afternoon, but I never have a problem falling asleep. My challenge is staying asleep. I’m a morning person. If I wake up at 4 AM, it is often tough for me to return to sleep. Interestingly, I did this test in 2011 and came to a similar conclusion. Average headache intensity was 0.70, which is tied for the second best month ever. Each night I assign a headache score of 0 to 5. Zero meaning no headache and 1-5 measuring intensity should one occur. - Oct 2012: 0.58 (no coffee the entire month) - Nov 2012: 0.70 (1.13 average coffee per day) - Jun 2013: 0.70 (2.73 average coffee per day) I also only had 2 bad headaches, which was the lowest ever. Average sleep quality was 4.23 (out of 5). This was the best month ever! And I typically have worse sleep quality during the longer summer days. My sleep quality for June 2012 was 3.57. One factor I need to mention was I did daily sauna and steam room visits the first 8 days of the month. My sleep quality was 4.75 those days and 4.11 the 8 days that followed. Probably not enough data to draw a conclusion, but I thought I’d mention it. What happened? Is the key to drink coffee later in the afternoon? The only other change is I switched from unfiltered coffee (French press) to filtered coffee (Clever). Maybe it was just a string of good luck and the data isn’t statistically significant? Less Sugar + More IF = Weight Gain? As stumped as I am about the headache data, I’m really puzzled about my weight. I thought by returning to Intermittent Fasting and reducing my sugar intake that I’d lose 5 pounds. Nope. I gained 5 more. Interestingly, I actually look 5 pounds leaner in the mirror. Maybe that was from getting a little tanner? My average IF was a little on the low side (13.9 hour average), but it was still higher than the previous months. Maybe I needed to add an additional hour? Exercise levels were constant. I didn’t introduce any new foods and I would estimate my sugar consumption was 50% less than the prior month. I’m now all the way back to 210, which is where I was in early 2008 when I began my recent nutritional journey. The difference is I look a lot better now. Then I was puffy and inflamed, not anymore. Although I am happy with the way I look, I’d still like to be leaner as I feel my mobility was better at a slightly lower weight. I’m hoping to have out my July Experiments post later today or early tomorrow. If you have any theories on my June experiment results or tips for July, please leave a comment. UPDATE: I’ve decided to keep the same experiment and goals for July 2013.