Archive for June, 2009

  • Sleeping on a Jet Plane :: Hostel in a 7471June 30, 2009

    Sleeping on a Jet Plane :: Hostel in a 747

    We came across this article on Brilliant Trips – an awesome website that has great travel trips.  How cool is this?? The Jumbo Hostel is a Boeing 747 jumbo jet that has been converted into an upmarket hostel located at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden. Located a short ten minute walk from the check-in counters, the [...]

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  • Running Of The Bulls :: Not For The Slow Footed0June 22, 2009

    Running Of The Bulls :: Not For The Slow Footed

    The Running of the Bulls is a practice that involves running in front of bulls that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town’s streets. The most famous running of the bulls is that of the nine-day festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, although they are held in towns [...]

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  • Rio Carnival :: God Made Glitter For Brazilians0June 22, 2009

    Rio Carnival :: God Made Glitter For Brazilians

    Starting out as a festival before the somber mood of Lent, Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is considered one of the greatest shows on Earth. Rio de Janeiro is known as the cultural capital of Brazil and was the administrative capital from 1822 to 1960, when Federal Government moved to the new capital, Brasilia. The [...]

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  • La Tomatina :: Paint The Town Red0June 22, 2009

    La Tomatina :: Paint The Town Red

    La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world to fight in a brutal battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are [...]

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  • World Cup Bound! Third Times A Charm1June 2, 2009

    World Cup Bound! Third Times A Charm

    It is now official! We are going to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as official ticket holders. This is a big relief, and probably keeps us out of unnecessary trouble or hassle with scalping. We didn’t get tickets for the quarter finals match, but were fortunate to get two games in Port Elizabeth [...]

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