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Migrationdiary | July 24th 2008 by Caroline
I'm sitting here feeling completely lost at the moment, not sure where to hide or what to do with myself. My boys just left for a six week holiday to South Africa - it will be the longest time that I have ever been away from them.I have no doubt that read more
Goal Setting for the Summer Holidays
Kid Goal Setting | July 14th 2008
A year is a very long time for small children (and even older children), so helping them learn to set goals which can be achieved over the summer is a great way to introduce children to what for them is relatively "long term" goal setting. You could read more
Sensational Swirly Sun Hat
Little Window Shoppe | July 14th 2008 by Emily
Love this hat! Find it at Anthropologie.com for $38. read more
Week Thirty-Nine: Summer
AnceStories2: Stories of Me for My Descendants | July 13th 2008 by Miriam Robbins Midkiff
No doubt about it, summer has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere! This season tends to be a favorite for most people; however, there are a few who prefer a different one, or perhaps just plain don't care for summer for reasons such as heat. *How d read more
ideas for a sunny Sunday summer’s day
A Meeting place for all home office women | July 13th 2008 by doris chua
So what are your plans on a nice sunny Sunday summer’s day? Go gallivanting and get some retail therapy in town, stay at home and shop online, catch up with lost sleep from a busy week (that’s me!), relax in front of your HDTV with your l read more
Happy 4th of July!!
Little Window Shoppe | July 4th 2008 by Emily
Happy 4th of July!! What a great day. I love everything about today, family activities, hanging out at the lake on the boat, BBQ’s, fireworks, ice cream, and knowing that I live in the Good Ol’ USA. So, to strut your stars and stripes read more
Must-Haves for Frequent Travelers: Yearly Travel Insurance
World Travel News, Information and Resources. | June 30th 2008 by Travelers
Visitor health insurance is being offered as an insurance option that has market appeal for a particular target population. Generally, this population consists of the visitors. Travelers may want to travel to different countries for different reasons read more
Summer Fun
Little Window Shoppe | June 26th 2008 by Emily
Summer is here! Now is the time to enjoy all the unscheduled time with your kids doing what they do best–playing! Here are two great and inexpensive toys that will keep you all entertained. Gazillion Bubble Machine $15 What kid doesn read more
Sweet Summer Travel Experiences to Recapture (Part 2)
Travel Feeder | June 22nd 2008 by Cecil Lee
Apart from the trip to Gold Coast, I’m happy to recapture one of my previous local trips to Penang also. A Trip To Penang, Malaysia What a shame if you talk about a Malaysian and has been 6 years never travelled to Penang, “Wa Lao eh”! A read more
Summer Reading
Little Window Shoppe | June 21st 2008 by Emily
School’s out for most - but that doesn’t mean that learning has to stop just yet! Help your children join a Summer Reading club so that learning can stay fun and meaningful all summer long. Summer Reading clubs may also help child read more
The times they are a changing...
Just Like That | May 26th 2008 by Kirat Singh
Just look at how time has flown by.Its May, two months since I wrote last, what a lot has happened in these two months. My Board Exams, the measly one week of vacation after that, back to school, provisionally promoted to Class 11, the excruciating p read more
Turkey, Egypt, Florida Hotspots - Spain, Greece, Italy Not
An International Property Blog | May 23rd 2008
Turkey, Egypt, Morocco and Florida are top of the holiday charts this summer. As the weakness of the pound and dollar against the Euro continues to grab the headlines in the financial press, its impact on the ground can be seen in this summers holida read more
Tourists Still Holidaying Abroad This Summer
An International Property Blog | May 22nd 2008
Tourists are still travelling, that is the message being given out by some of the travel industry's leading players. Despite the doom and gloom in the press and on the TV it seems that all may not be heading south in the worldwide economy. read more
Lago di Garda
Best travel with GPS locations | May 15th 2008 by Dankuna
Lake Garda (Lago di Garda or Benaco) is the largest lake in Italy. It is located in Northern Italy, about half-way between Venice and Milan. It is in an alpine region and was formed by glaciers at the end of the last ice age. The lake and its shoreli read more
Piazza del Popolo, Rome
Best travel with GPS locations | May 13th 2008 by Dankuna
The Piazza del Popolo is a square in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means “piazza of the people”, but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian) after which the church of Santa Maria del Pop read more
Promenade des Anglais, Nice
Best travel with GPS locations | April 30th 2008 by Dankuna
Before Nice was urbanized, the coast at Nice was just bordered by a deserted band of beach covered by large pebbles. The first houses were located on higher ground well away from the sea. Starting in the second half of the 18th century, the English t read more
Winter Wonderland in the UK
Worldwide Travel Blog | February 19th 2008 by Mark
It has been really cold here in the UK these last few nights and I woke up this morning to a magical looking winter wonderland. There is no snow, but all of the trees and shrubs are coated in a brilliant white hard frost.Winter seems to have come lat read more
Summer holiday wishes from the NZS.com team!
NZS.com Blog : New Zealand Internet and Web Space Blog | December 21st 2007 by Greta
A final word from the team here at NZS.com before we head away for the summer holiday break… The long, hot days of the summer holidays should be a time of relaxation for mind and body, spent with family and friends - and giving you time out fro read more
Countdown
My Life and Other Stuff | November 28th 2007 by Scotty
Twelve working days (including today) before summer holidays! I cannot wait. The minister of home affairs goes on leave before I do, so she has just 10 working days left. My last day of work will be 14 December, and I'll return on read more
Destination Drool: Tiamo, Bahamas…
Nomadic Princess | October 20th 2007 by LdnFreq
Things aren’t looking too good in the English winter and my traveling feet are itching! But, seeing as there’s no chance in me having a holiday, I thought I’d find the most amazing destination drool to make myself go green with envy read more
Going Stateside for the
Red Mum | October 9th 2007
I MET up with my first-cousin this week, if she is my Mum's cousin, she is my first cousin isn't she? She moved to the States decades ago and I last saw her 15 years ago when the Young Wan was only six months old.We only had an hour or so before hers read more
Some of the funnier images from Turkey
Red Mum | August 28th 2007
I thought I'd post some of the funnier pics from Turkey to (maybe) give you a laugh. There's lots of 'genuine fake' signs as I got a little bored of those but here's some of the other images which caught my eye.This first one made me laugh out loud, read more
Lamb chops - lost in translation
Red Mum | August 24th 2007
IN MY last Turkish post I wrote about going to buy lamb chops, I should have updated it before now as my cunning plan to remember the word for lamb chops, pirzolasi, turned into a complete comedy sketch. In the post I explained:"The Young Wan and I a read more
Fire and threading
Red Mum | August 4th 2007
WELL I am definitely on my holidays because I am sitting in the internet cafe uploading to Flickr and having my now ritual Efes beer only I haven't eaten today yet, the heat and food don't really go together.We have had a lost day, having had a late read more
Photos from the market and more
Red Mum | August 2nd 2007
WELL as Nanny is having a nap İ thought İ would take the chance to pop into the internet cafe downstairs and upload pics from the last two days includıng pics from the market and out and about in the town photos.The cafe is nice and cool and on th read more
Greetıngs from Turkey
Red Mum | August 1st 2007
Well howdıe everyone, just takıng a couple of mınutes to say a bıg hello and warn you that postıng wıll be less than sporadıc over the next couple of weeks as I am on my holıers. You wıll also have to pardon the mad letterıng here and there read more
RM May 18 - Long 'Hot' Summer
Red Mum | June 29th 2007
RM column - May 18th - Long 'Hot' SummerThe countdown to change is getting closer and closer and I don't mean the General Election, I mean the Junior Cert. As each day passes we are getting nearer and nearer to the Young Wan's first foray into State read more
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