Diva Di's Cruising Adventures: Day 55 - Solomon's Island, MD

Source: Sail Blogs

Sat 26 May 2012 Docked at Beacon Marina, Solomon's Island, MD [photo: one of many waterfront pubs on the island] It was a great night's sleep once we went below with the hatches closed. Apparently, several 50-something guys th ...
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Cuban casas particulares turn home into a business

Source: Quad-Cities Online

SANTIAGO, Cuba -- Norma Arias Puente has been learning the hospitality business for more than a decade from a perch overlooking the city's Parque Cespedes and the Cathedral of Nuestra Senora de la Asunci ...
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Obama's re-election campaign - the thrill is gone

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The president's trip to the Bay Area last week made it painfully clear that the Barack Obama re-election campaign has lost its mojo. There was no life, no personality, no memorable line or moment and no ...
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Art Districts and Failed Student Exchange

Source: Travel Blog

So I apologize for not updating for a little bit. I've been super busy with professors filling up the scheduled study time with excursions that take 4 hours (more on that in this post). This is the first time that I' ...
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It's getting chilly

Source: Travel Blog

So... it's me again! I told a bit of a porky in my last blog. I did not in fact hike on Fox Glacier, it was on Franz Josef Glacier. Woops. But it was beautiful, I got the helicopter up to the top of the g ...
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Europa Day 14

Source: Travel Blog

Day 14 and this is 2 weeks away....... A day in the Loire valley doing the castles here. But first things first - washing. Find a coin laundry very close tot the hotel we are staying and all systems go, until we can't ...
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Paris Take 2

Source: Travel Blog

The Eurostar to Paris was rather a relaxed and unproductive train ride for us; other than the us getting to Paris, obviously. When we arrived Ashleyâs dad, Morley (of blog post âSnow and Cheeseâ fame), and his wife, Cheryl, were patiently waiting a ...
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Ex-prostitute Alison Carey on her rift with superstar Mariah Carey

Source: The Sun

“I just wish Mariah would let me be her sister again and a proper auntie to her children. Alison says: “When Mariah did not have food, it was me who came and filled up her fridge. When she did not have clean clothes, I would pay for ...
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Join Jamie Oliver's fight for good food in schools and lobby your MP | letters

Source: Guardian Unlimited

The secretary of state has yet to provide a single good reason as to why the million plus and rising children in academies and free schools should not benefit from guarantees on the nutritional quality of the meals they are ...
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