Archive for September, 2009

Viruss Barcelona

One of the world’s most magnificent cities, Barcelona has been having another renaissance of late, attracting the attention of savvy world travelers looking for that perfect combination of nature and culture.  It’s auspiciously positioned on the Mediterranean coast, and carries centuries of identity as one of the world’s main ports.  This history of trade and [...]

Ma Faiza Discovers Her Own Goa

India is one of the most enchanting places on earth, and Goa is one of its most enchanting cities.  With its legendary beaches that are absolutely stunning, and also very lively, its spectacular bio-reserves that offer a hint of the enormous diversity of the place, and its rich culture in the urban center, there is [...]

A Sports Car, Shrimp and an Ex-husband

An ex-wife spent her first day packing her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases. On the second day she called the movers to come and get her things and then called a sports car for sale company to treat and enjoy herself. On the third day, she sat down on the floor in what was [...]

I have never been one to partake in home automotive repair. The engines seem complicated to me and a bit scary to be truthful, there are so many moving parts that fingers may get caught up in.  My brother in law however, is a mechanic.  He can listen to the engine of a car and [...]

My fried wants a hot tub too.

Just got out of my hot tub! What a relaxing experience, it has to be one of the best investments if not the best investment I have made. There are so many benefits to hottubs all aiding in relaxation and sleep. I have seen so much information on what they call hydrotherapy, therapy using water. [...]

Hot Tubs in History

For many of us, we think of hot tubs as being a fairly modern invention and until quite recently was something reserved for the rich and famous. Hot tubs were a luxury that only the wealthy could afford. Actually hot tubs, in one form or another have been around for centuries. History has taught us [...]

The growing popularity of social media and networking has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent times. One can hardly listen to a news story, watch a TV program or listen to the radio with out hearing about Twitter or Facebook. The explosion of this phenomena has been incredible and mind boggling. Facebook began [...]

Phuket Zoo

Phuket Thailand is full of amazing scenery and spectacular geography. It can be quite amazing for a Western tourist to experience some of the region and ecology, which may be different from what they have known. It is also beautiful and has some of the most incredible views in Thailand. One way to experience all [...]

Hot Tubs, the Healthy Option

Buoyancy and warmth, that is the main ingredient for helping with sore joints and muscles, or injuries that are caused by either strenuous activity or arthritis.  The warm water increases the flow of blood and thus, the flow of nutrients, by causing the veins and the arteries of one’s body to dilate.  Injured portions of [...]

San Antonio’s Gallistas

There’s something about San Antonio that strikes a chord in the popular imagination, with its connotations of the old West, and sometimes even a hope that the wildness here is still strong.  The truth of the matter is that there is something very old here that still runs strong, but it might not be readily [...]

Somebody’s Daughter in Melbourne

Melbourne is a city that keeps coming into its own.  It has a very active cultural scene, with innovations in live music, visual art, and theatre and performance, coming all the time.  It’s no wonder, with the water and the outback always near, providing a constant call for inspiration, and the liveliness of the city [...]

Money laundering happens.  And it is not just the big mythical sort of men like Al Capone or the Mexican Drug Cartel, it happens in small towns and cities across the United States, with people running small scams, small scams which add up to large amounts of money being laundered on a daily basis.  Anti-money [...]

Singapore trip

This was the trip I had been hoping for fun, relaxing, informative and educational. When I booked my stay at this boutique hotel in Singapore and my attendance at the conference I has no idea what a great time I was in for. A gathering of energy workers from across the world and from man [...]

New York’s Hudson Valley

The Hudson Valley of New York state extend north ward from New York City to Albany. It is defined as any area in which the waters end up in the Hudson River. This include out to Binghamton to the west and into Connecticut to the east. The Hudson Valley is lush and green in the [...]

Brisbane for the winter

The warm sun on my face that is a nice change of pace after the long cold wet weather we had been enduring back home. The pool at this Brisbane boutique hotels is the perfect place to soak up some of the suns rays and thaw out my aching bones. baking in the sun feels [...]

San Antonio River Walk

The San Antonio River Walk is truly a shinning star of urban renewal and revitalization projects. The city once only the home of the Alamo and not much else anyone could think of is now the home of an exemplary revitalization project. By spending hundreds of millions of dollars San Antonio turned its river from [...]

I have two favorite walks I like to take in Singapore, one is down the Singapore River from Read Bridge and the other is the walking tour of Little India. Both are within walking distance from any of the Singapore luxury hotels.
The Singapore River walking from the Read Bridge near Clarke Quay to the Cavanagh [...]

For all the necessary considerations for your travel arrangements in Hong Kong, hotel accommodations are perhaps the most important.  The hotel is the center of the journey, the place where you lay your hat and your head.  Hong Kong is a beautiful place to be spending any amount of time.  It’s one of the most [...]

The good news for world travelers is that, for a perfect heritage hotel, India has some splendid offerings.  There is no bad news here.  We have taken great care to make the choosing easier, but selecting only the cream of the crop.  Our hotels are specially selected for their excellence in service and design. providing [...]

Cool Night in Johannesburg

I was hitting all the night time raves in Joburg when one of my fellow ravers mentioned that I should try something different after dark. He told me about a guided walk on the Melville Koppies . The tour begins as the sun is going down, because thats when the nocturnal bird, the nocturnal moth [...]

Excited to be going to the Met

I first head opera in the Loony Tunes cartoons I watched as a child growing up. Not knowing the songs were just tiny pieces from giant works and not really caring. The tunes would stick in my head and run through my brain over and over again. I would hum them as i played and [...]

Recently there have been many ups and downs in the real estate market, and some of them are happening concurrently.  The purchases of homes by first time buyers, did show an overall jump nation wide during the month of July, however the other side of the coin is that some cities are experiencing that the [...]