AMSTERDAM - Most museumgoers associate this city with the world-class Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum. Last summer, the Netherlands capital opened a third heralded venue, Hermitage Amsterdam, a branch of the renowned State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Run by a local foundation, Hermitage Amsterdam is independently financed.
Everything about it is magnificent, from its setting along the bustling Amstel River to its location in the Amstelhof, a 17th-century building formerly used as a state-run Continue reading »
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01Feb
What to do when you’re not slopeside or ringside, cheering on the world’s best cold-weather athletes next month? We’re taking you on a mini-tour through Whistler, Richmond, and Vancouver, highlighting cool neighborhoods near each Olympic venue and offering ideas on sights to see and things to do, from gallery tours and gondola rides to 24-hour skiing and snowboarding adventures.
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01Feb
STANDING 3,346 feet above sea level on a steep mountain slope overlooking the village of Bruck, Austria , I found it was easy to feel a little breathless. As the morning fog lifted, the jagged peaks of the Hohe Tauern mountain range — including the mighty Grossglockner, Austria’s highest mountain at 12,460 feet — slowly emerged. Ah, these hills are very much alive.
The bray of a donkey brought that point home as we sipped hot coffee on a creaky wooden balcony and watched our visible Continue reading » -
01Feb
Hotel operators in Malaysia should not undervalue themselves as competitive pricing may result in foreign tourists being skeptical about the services rendered.
The Star, a local daily, quoted Malaysian Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen here on Saturday as saying that when tourists visiting Malaysia looked at the competitive hotel prices, they would think that the services could not be that good.
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01Feb
Does your favorite winter sport require surf wax not ski wax? For heat on the cheap, we scoured the warm zone for destinations with great packages, or lodging options under $130 a night, and recent round-trip airfares from Boston under $450. Then we applied our rating system: high scores for barefoot simplicity, debits for resort crowds. And the winners are . . .
Culebra “I live in paradise,’’ says David Feliciano, a downsized corporate accountant from Cincinnati who landed a Continue reading » -
27Dec
Salt Lake City — The view from Mount Tuscarora was magnificent. Surrounded by the snow-covered Wasatch Range of northern Utah , our group reveled in the 1,800 feet of untracked powder that awaited us — with not a single snowboard rider or skier in sight. Several miles of rugged high-alpine terrain separated us from the nearest ski resort, but it only took a few hours by splitboard to get there.
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27Dec
Spain has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vietnam to provide up to US$700 million to help finance the planned metro system in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Thanh Nien News has reported. HCMC is planning to develop an urban transport network comprising six metro lines and three monorails by 2020, in an effort to combat traffic congestion.
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27Dec
THE BASICS
The Roosevelt , formerly the Fairmont, reopened in July after an 18-month, $170 million restoration and several delays, having been shuttered after the waters from Hurricane Katrina flooded the basement and mangled the plumbing and electricity. It was also rechristened a Waldorf Astoria property and reverted to the moniker of its heyday from the 1920s to the ’60s. Back then the New Orleans landmark was flamboyantly famous enough to serve as the model for Arthur Hailey’s Continue reading » -
27Dec
The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has chosen Indonesia’s Bali for the destination of tourism, according to local media on Monday.
UNWTO assistant secretary general Geoffrey Lipman quoted by the Jakarta globe as saying that choosing of Bali because its local wisdom regarding the balance between mankind, nature and spirituality.
”That wisdom is alive and well and is still deeply held to this day,” Lipman said in Bali.
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27Dec
DUBLIN - The Cake Café is a hidden treasure off bustling Camden Street in Dublin. Located in a passageway between an alley and the rear exit of a paper shop, it is the creation of Michelle Darmody, 33, who learned the art of baking from her mother.
Everything here is made from scratch, using as many local products as possible, and the selection varies daily. On a recent weekday, all the tables were filled as customers sampled lemon slice, traditional sponge cake filled with fresh cream and Continue reading »
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