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I Heart My City: Jennifer’s Abu Dhabi

Island Tips — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:57:44 +0000

Jennifer Garcia-Alonso is co-founder of The Purple Passport , a web-based collection of chic, one-stop-shop guides to experiencing the world’s cities in style. She is a New Yorker who has been living in Abu Dhabi , the capital of the United …

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I Heart My City: Jennifer’s Abu Dhabi

Island Tips — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:57:44 +0000

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Sexy Miss Gotland 1953 Vintage Photo

Island Tips — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:24:01 +0000

Out exploring our summer island we found an interesting photo of the beautiful Miss Gotland competition participants in 1953, captured with a Rolleiflex Camera with Zeiss Tessar f/ 3.5 optics according to the text below the photo. The text also reveals that the photographer took the shot at 3

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Bali: Denpasar

Island Tips — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:03:14 +0000

After my trip to Manila in the summer, I firmly promised myself that I would not, under any circumstances, waste any more of my vacation days in a crowded capital city in South East Asia. ?I laid out my mental plan simply, and …

Barbados, the Perfect First Port of Call for a Twin Centre Holiday

Island Tips — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:03:25 +0000

I had some free time over the summer holiday last year and was desperate to swim in the best possible sea – that just had to be the Caribbean but where to go? I was travelling with two children… Barbados, the Perfect First Port of Call for a Twin Centre Holiday is…

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Top 10 Caribbean Getaways For the Summer

Island Tips — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:06:16 +0000

Dreaming of escaping the rat race by heading to the Caribbean for the summer? Thanks to the Internet, planning for a dream vacation is easier than ever.

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I Heart My City: Iain’s Manchester, England

Island Tips — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:38:09 +0000

Iain used to be a warrant officer in the Royal Army Physical Training Corps — a job that took him on adventures all around the world. He tried his hand at running a public house after leaving the armed forces, but it wasn’t long before his wanderlust got …

Photo: Snake dead on the way

Island Tips — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:21:06 +0000

I captured a snake on photo at our summer island (Gotland) once, which I think is a Swedish grass snake (snok in Swedish) – or Natrix natrix, family: Colubridae. We have two subspecies: N. n. natrix and N. n. gotlandica – which not even many Swedes

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Shakespeare ‘12: "As You Like It" and "Into the Woods"

Island Tips — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:10:45 +0000

“As You Like It” and “Into the Woods” will be staged for free this summer in Central Park for Shakespeare in the Park , the Public Theater announced Thursday. Performances of the Shakespeare comedy “As You Like It” will begin sometime in June…

Bowermaster’s Adventures: Finding civilization in Antarctica

Island Tips — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:44:21 +0000

Filed under: Activism , Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Paddling , Antarctica Port Lockroy — If there is a human population center along the Antarctic Peninsula, this is it. While there may be hundreds of thousands of penguins, tens of thousands of seals, whales and sea birds that call this remote stretch home, few people do. But…

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