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Category Archives: Tourism
Death Takes A Holiday
Everyone needs a break from their job now and then, even the grim reaper. This darkly humorous Instagram campaign titled “The Swim Reaper” was created by the government of New Zealand to raise awareness about watersport and beach safety. You … Continue reading
Did you remember to get your visa
Some of us spend more time traveling through fictional lands than we may care to admit. What if those imaginary countries actually issued their own passports and travel documents? Well, thanks to NeoMam Studios and Budget Direct we can have … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Tourism
Tagged Game of Thrones, Hunger Games, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Star Wars, Superman
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Hackney not hackneyed
I was happy to discover that London-based artist/illustrator/cartographer Jenni Sparks has released a new series of London culture maps. The highly detailed typographic illustrations are the result of a year’s research and work. Each piece incorporates Sparks’ impressions of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Maps, Tourism
Tagged Brick Lane, Brixton, Camden, Chelsea, London, Shoreditch
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Just Denali
A big h/t to TBTP follower Daniel Wood for sending the link for the video below. As I have mentioned previously, I’m an evangelist for Alaska travel. If you’ve got the time ( and the cash), it’s more than worth … Continue reading
See Your Sea Food Up Close In Norway
The Norwegian architecture group Snøhetta has released images of its design for Under, Europe’s first underwater restaurant in Lindesnes, Norway. The project is set to begin construction in February 2018, with a concrete cuboid half-submerged like a monolithic shipwreck off … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Restaurants, Tourism
Tagged Lindesnes, Norway, VisitNorway
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Mind Your Metro Manners
The Los Angeles subway system thought it was a novel idea to use a Sailor Moon-inspired anime-like character named Super Kind Girl to star in a new series of PSA videos encouraging good public transportation manners. Each of the bilingual … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Asia, Film, Public Transport, Tourism, USA
Tagged Anime, California, Los Angeles, Metro, Subway
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Monsters In Philadelphia
With Frankenstein and Dracula, Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker created two of history’s most memorable monsters. Two hundred years after Frankenstein was published, pages from Mary Shelley’s manuscript will make their only appearance in the United States, to be displayed for the first … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Museums, Tourism, USA, Writing
Tagged Bram Stoker, Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Rosenbach
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Isn’t It Romantic
England’s famed Lake District has recently been recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage region, but it has long attracted literary tourists and nature lovers. The Craig Manor Hotel on beautiful Lake Windermere has produced the charming infographic below … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Hotels, Tourism
Tagged Beatrix Potter, Cumbria, England, Lake District, Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth
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This Is Real Street Art
Isafjördur is a small city in the extreme northwest corner of Iceland. It’s a remote place with a population of just 2,600 year-round residents, but like the rest of the country it has been experiencing a tourism boom. And with … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, Tourism
Tagged Iceland, Isafjordur, Street Art, West Fjords
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Travel Between The Pages 