Burning Man
[youtube m68-kx9LG7E] The week long Burning Man festival has just finished and anyone who hasn’t been there may be asking what it is all about. Burning man is a type of festival held in...
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Halloween Horror Nights 2008
Halloween Horror Nights seems to be this country’s best kept secret when it comes to Halloween festivities. It is a huge local event at Universal Studios Orlando, as well as Universal Studios Hollywood. Thousands...
Baggage Claim down that chute Madam!
[youtube 8_UwQ-JKumM] We hear a lot of stories about confused travellers but this one takes the cake, apparently recently at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport a 78 year old woman mistook a baggage chute for the...
World’s highest observation deck
[youtube enRYzZIOUoA] The world’s highest observation deck is set to open this Saturday at the Shanghai World Financial Centre in China. Like Beijing, Shanghai has seen huge investment in recent years to turn the...
AQUATICA- Raising the bar for Waterparks everwhere
This is ANYTHING but your typical waterpark! Who could create a waterpark better than SeaWorld? SeaWorld has created its first waterpark with Aquatica in Orlando, Florida. It really is something to see! At Aquatica,...
Cascading Falls in New York City
As if New York City didn’t need another spectacular tourist attraction, well they have done it again and this time bigger than ever. A special public art fund has commissioned a breathtaking exhibition of...
Gizmo’s and gadgets in Singapore
If you are visiting Singapore and want something electrical- then Sim Lim Square is the place to head. Here floors and floors of every thing electrcial are available, with just about every conceivable and...
Soviet statues and a zoo you can eat
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Soviet control of much of Eastern Europe many of the huge monuments to the rule were removed and in many cases destroyed....
Berlin’s Stadtschloss / Palast der Republic
The Stadtschloss was once a German palace for William 2 prior to WW1 it was largely destroyed during WW2 and eventually demolished during the 1950’s by the East German Government to remove traces of...
The Singapore Flyer now is Feng Shui
[youtube HKxF_v6I6n0] Ferris wheels have been making a come back of late and it seems many major cities around the world are trying to build the biggest and best. The Singapore Flyer is currently...
