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Travel

Wilde’s Tomb

by charles on October 7, 2008

Oscar Wilde’s TombGerman tourists adding to the desecration of Wilde’s tomb.
Music by Edith Piaf “Enfin le Printemps”
The tomb of literary genius Oscar Wilde in Pere le Chaise Cemetery, Paris.
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The Sahara Hotel & Casino – To Be Avoided

by charles on October 6, 2008

I don’t normally use this as a platform to complain, some notable exceptions like being ripped off in Paris aside.
But this time I have to share and hopefully prevent others from making the mistake of staying at the Sahara Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
This is how the Sahara describes their rooms:

“The Sahara Hotel & [...]

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Walking amongst the dead…

by charles on October 4, 2008

The Scariest Skull Ever…
For my dear friend Ruth who got married this week. (She’s at the end).
Congrats to you both, Chris you got one of the best, treat her well. Ruth, ditto to you my love.
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It’s Fashion Week in NYC and mostly what that means to me is it’s a real pain in the ass to get to my favorite coffee place.
This time though there’s something special going on, a tribute to the awesome career of Valentino Garavani.

The exhibit called “The Red Thread” is only open for one more day [...]

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Why Merlene Should Win…

by charles on August 10, 2008

Dear John Chow,
I think it’s great that you’re having this contest, and while I would personally love to go I probably can’t get the time off, but I’m entering your contest anyway, and if you choose my entry I’m giving it to Merlene Paynter of Frugalous.com.
Why Merlene? Because she’s an awesome person, I know [...]

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Sunset Walks At The Louvre

by charles on May 31, 2008

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Look out Paris, here we come…

by charles on May 21, 2008

By the time this posts we’ll be somewhere over the Atlantic.
The French being such kind and wonderful people have planned a general strike of the Bus & Rail services for our arrival.
We are honoured that they would take this occasion to honor us with our first French Labor Strike. We greatly look forward to [...]

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And the countdown has begun…

by charles on February 15, 2008

I booked the trip to Paris this morning.  My sister Cathy and I depart on May 21st and return on June 1st giving us 10 days to explore the city in more depth than on the previous trips.   We’ll be staying in the Montparnasse area right on the border of the 14th & 6th arrondissements. 
 It’s [...]

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Food, glorious, delicious, tasty, spicy, FOOD!

by charles on February 8, 2008

I can’t go somewhere and not end up writing about the food, and the trip to Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo is no exception. I had some really great food on this trip.
I didn’t take a lot of pictures of food this time, I know, bad me, bad *spank* but I’ve got some. My favorite place of [...]

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Parasailing…

by charles on February 7, 2008

Is something I didn’t think I would do, fear of heights and all that, but my Mexican Escape was all about firsts and trying new things, that is not what got me up in the air… It was the 2 margaritas before noon (what? vacation = no rules) and the third one shortly after [...]

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