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Dubai to knock back Hooters plan 0

Dubai to knock back Hooters plan

[youtube auTa3HYv2-0] The popular restaurant chain Hooters which is very popular throughout the US for its food, well lets face it- it’s hot waitresses wearing tight T Shirts and short orange shorts has sold...

Orlando – Theme park family fun 0

Orlando – Theme park family fun

[youtube bAI3YpMSUfE] Orlando in central Florida is home to plenty of retirees in Bombay shorts and white shoes and socks and the world’s biggest theme parks. There’s the huge Disneyworld complex, Universal Studios, Seaworld...

Acthung! Hot Chips 0

Acthung! Hot Chips

We have all seen vending machines serving soft drinks, coffee and chocolates and even vending machine restaurants in Japan, but here’s a first, sitting quietly on a subway station in the German City of...

World’s biggest pineapple 1

World’s biggest pineapple

Well in case you haven’t noticed here at Tripandom we love everything kitsch and what could be more kitsch than a giant 30ft fiberglass pineapple. This magnificent structure is on Queensland Australia’s Sunshine Coast...

Sci-Fi Car Silo 0

Sci-Fi Car Silo

Wolfsburg is a city in northern Germany that is home to the huge Volkswagen factory which produces the Golf. At their factory the company has what could only be described as a theme park...

On top of the bottom of the world- almost 0

On top of the bottom of the world- almost

Mt Wellington in Hobart the capital of Tasmania, the small triangle island off the southern coast of Australia offers some of the most spectacular view on earth. Being just 20 minutes from the centre...

Its ABC … 123 … 0

Its ABC … 123 …

You can’t walk far along Kalukua Avenue in along Waikiki beach in Honolulu with out coming across an ABC Shop they are like a large convenience store or mini supermarket. These shops are just...

Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum 0

Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum

Ho Chi Minh was a revolutionary who later became president of the Republic of Vietnam, he died in 1969 and his body is till on display to the public in a huge granite mausoleum...