2009 August travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

The most easterly of the Cyclades, Amorgos is rugged and mountainous, often battered by wine and wave. It is hospitable and unspoilt – visitors come for excellent walking and relaxed, uncommercialized atmosphere, or to see the location of Luc Besson’s film The Big Blue. The south coast is sheer, steep and unpopulated but for one monastery built into the cliffs. The north coast is sheltered by the mountains and has two harbours and a scattering of hill villages. Photo by: korax67
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Liseberg is an amusement park located in Gothenburg, Sweden. The park opened in 1923 and is the largest among counterparts located in the Nordic countries, attracting over 3 million visitors annually. One of the most popular attractions is the wooden roller coaster Balder, voted twice as Best Wooden Tracked Roller Coaster in the world in a major international poll. The park itself has also been chosen as one of the top ten amusement parks in the world (2005) by Forbes Magazine.
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Just north of Gothenburg on the west coast, Sweden‘s sixth largest island covers an area of 167 sq km and is the gateway to the beautiful islands of the Bohuslan Archipelago. The coastline is extraordinary complex and varied – rocky shores, sandy stretches of beach, winding inlets and sheltered bays that are natural harbors for yachts and small boats. The island has a stark beauty and liberating space. At its highest point, 116 m above sea level, you feel like on the top of the world, gazing across ancient meadows full of wild flowers, with breathtaking view to open skies and the sea. Photo by: npr001
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Lying just inside the Arctic Circle west of Norway are the Lofoten Islands, a chain of fabulous mountainous islands with wooded hillsides and lovely white sandy bays. There are five main islands in the group: Austvagoy, Gimsoya, Vestvagoy, Flakstadoya and Moskenesoya and three smaller ones. Although the islands are so far north, they enjoy a fairly mild climate due to the Gulf Stream. Photo by: joepvanwyk
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Address: 18 Little West 12th St. New York, N.Y. 10014.
Cielo provides a music program specializing in deeply soulful house music as well as various genres of electronic music.
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Skye is an island best known of all the Scottish islands, which is about 80 km from top to bottom, and has a great many things going for it, not at least the most breathtaking beautiful scenery, Ever since the Victorians discovered the joys of climbing spectacular Cuillin Ridge, the island has attracted more and more tourists and this, in the summer months, together with its notoriously changeable climate, is its only downside. Photo by: iancowe
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The Blue Tree Park hotel is located by a lake in Sao Paulo, Brasilia. The hotel is modern, clean and nicely located in the Paulista area of the city, just one block off Avienda Paulista. Shopping malls, international and Brazilian Restaurants, parks, museums, discos and other features can be easily reached from the hotel.
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Burnham Pavillion was installed in June in Millennium Park, symbolizing the forward-looking agenda of the 220 organizations commemorating this year’s 100th anniversary of the Plan of Chicago. The architects rendering of the pavilion was released by the Alderman, the Burnham Committee, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Art Institute of Chicago and Friends of Downtown. The pavilion is open from June 19 through October 31 on the South Chase Promenade of Millennium Park.
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A bunch of New Zealander’s interpreters  has created a human-powered monorail system, known as the Shweeb. Their creation does double duty, acting not just as an innovative transportation system, but also an amusement ride.
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Dave Drimmer’s Cosmic Muffin, recycled a plane Boeing B-307 to a boat and this is the most perfect example. Deemed un-flyable in 1969, Hughes’ former ‘flying office’ was rescued from the landfill by Fort Lauderdale Realtor and pilot Kenneth W. London who then spent the next four years transforming it into an exotic houseboat that has been featured everywhere from CNN to Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
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