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Amazing Ashikaga Flower Park, Japan

One of the best places to view fuji flowers in Japan is the Ashikaga Flower Park. Japanese Ashikaga Flower Par is located in the city of Ashikaga Tochigi in the province of on o. Honsyu. Park covers about 8.2 hectares and is famous for various kinds of wisteria. The scenery changes with the seasons and these gradual transformatins are noticeable in the changing colors of the blooming flowers and blossoming...

Urban Jewel – Manarola in Cinque Terre, Italy

Manarola is tiny village on the Cinque Terre coast of Italy. It is built on a high rock 70 metres above sea level, and is one of the most charming and romantic of the Cinque Terre villages. Typical tower houses of the Genoese style are the main sight of this town. On the west end, you’ll find a wild little harbor and the east side has a small church square where the townsmen meet for various...

Rana Plaza Disaster – Protest after One Year in Brussels

Activists organized protest in Brussels to commemorate the Rana Plaza accident, in which more than 1,300 textile workers died in Bangladesh. The victims’ families and the hundreds of injured workers have still not received anything like adequate compensation. credit: SETCa BBTK

Private Air Museum in Hermeskeil

The Flugausstellung Hermeskeil is a private aviation museum in the town of Hermeskeil in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. This aviation museum is the largest private aviation museum in Europe. It was founded by Leo Junior in 1973 and has now amassed 100+ planes and helicopters. The most notable aircrafts in residence are a De Havilland Comet and Vickers VC-10, military jets like Harrier, Tornado,...

How Many Calories Does 30 Minutes Sports Activity Burn?

The amount of calories you burn during a sports activity depends on numerous factors, the most important being your weight and level of exertion. Weight: 70 kg Time: 30 minutes Aerobics – low impact 203.71 cal Aerobics – high impact 259.26 cal Water aerobics 148.15 cal Step aerobics 259.26 cal Stationary bicycling 259.26 cal Vigorous stationary cycling 388.90 cal Stationary rowing 259.26...

Stelvio Pass Breathtaking Road

The Stelvio Pass is a mountain pass in northern Italy, at an elevation of 2,757 m above sea level. It is most dramatic mountain pass to drive and the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps, and the second highest in the Alps, just 13 m below France\’s Col de l\’Iseran (2,770 m). The Stelvio Pass was originally built to link the Austrian Province of Lombardia with the rest of Austria....

Children and Teenagers Bedrooms Ideas by Mazzali

The Mazzali furniture program for children and teenagers bedrooms is solutions and ideas from childhood until the age of majority. Designing a child’s bedroom can be very complex task becouse the fast pace in which kids are growing up these days. There are a lot of types of rooms and room designs to apply to your dream home. credit: Mazzali

Amberley Vintage Car Show 2014

Amberley Workng Museum Spring exhibition is a wonderful display of cars from the vintage era. MG YA Wolseley 4/44 Holden FX215 Utility MG TF Roadster Alvis TA14 Coupe Ford Model A Riley Biarritz Rolls Royce Silver Dawn credit: pyntofmyld

The Queen Elizabeth II – A Royal visit to Rome

The foreign trip, a rarity these days for the 87-year-old monarch, had to be postponed last year because she was unwell. She was accompanied by her 92-year-old husband Prince Philip. The queen has visited the Vatican twice during her reign, once to meet John XXIII in 1961 and again in 2000 to see John Paul II. Queen Elizabeth II bearing a basket of honey, whiskey and other goodies from the royal estates...

British Polo Day in Abu Dhabi

British Polo Day is a celebration of British luxury and heritage in a polo events network that spans the World. Abu Dhabi once again proved to be a very glamorous affair, with His Highness Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan al Nahyan and His Excellency, British Ambassador Dominic Jermey. credit: Land Rover MENA