Best Trips 2014 -- National Geographic Traveler The Imperishable City New Orleans, like Rome or hope, is eternal. Visit Louisiana’s filigreed, fleur-de-lis city twice or 20 times, and the scent will be as unchanging as the air is unmoving: a humid mix of confederate jasmine and fried shrimp, diesel fuel and desire. The French Quarter? Always rolling. The music remains unrivaled. Immutable. “Goodness, sugar,” says Marda Burton, doyenne of the French Quarter. Travel Tips When to Go: A subtropical climate makes New Orleans a year-round destination. How to Get Around: Take a private shuttle or taxi from New Orleans International Airport to your hotel. Where to Stay: Escape French Quarter crowds, noise, and prices at Jazz Quarters in the adjacent Treme neighborhood. Where to Eat or Drink: If New Orleans were a meal, it would be prepared at Antoine’s. What to Buy: All things Haitian voodoo, including tarot readings by priestess Sallie Ann Glassman (appointments required), are available at Island of Salvation Botanica.
Featured Posts : Nature's Nurture Homemade Air Fresheners: Essential Oil Reed Diffusers Before we went “green” a few years ago, I think it’s safe to say that I was completely obsessed with commercial air-fresheners. Spray fresheners, plug-in fresheners, scented candles, you name it. Every room in our home had some sort of air-freshening device that left a strong, fruity, cheery scent … Continue Reading Oil of Oregano: Nature’s Antibiotic Have you ever bought something that you heard about from others only to let it sit in your cabinet for what seems like 5 years before you finally get yourself to use it? Paleo Breakfast Muffins with Coconut Flour (Dairy-free Options) Little Monkey’s eczema has been out of control lately, so we’ve been experimenting with different allergy-free food options until we figure out what his triggers are. Top 10 Posts of 2012 This has been such a great year for Nature’s Nurture! Natural Homemade Anti-Itch Remedies Homemade Remedy for Sore Throat and Cough Natural Skin Care: Baking Soda for Blackheads
Legal Nomads | Where culture, food and travel intersect. Holiday hotspots: where to go in 2014 | Travel 1. Cape Town, South Africa Following in the footsteps of Helsinki and Seoul, Cape Town has been elected World Design Capital 2014, giving it the opportunity to showcase about 450 innovation projects. That it was selected more as a "one to watch" rather than a fully polished design leader makes it even more exciting to keep an eye on. To see a social/design experiment in action, go to Woodstock, a run-down suburb given a new lease of life through the Neighbourgoods Market), which sells artisan goods in a former biscuit factory: The Old Biscuit Mill. This is also home to Luke Dale-Roberts' restaurants the Test Kitchen and the Pot Luck Club & Gallery. 2. Our enduring love affair with France, and with Provence in particular, has been seized upon by Eurostar, which is extending the direct six-hour summer service from Ashford to Avignon by two weeks (28 June-13 September), with a view to a year-round service from 2015. 3. 4. The man himself would no doubt have approved. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Uncornered Market | Around the World Travel Blog and Photos Twenty destinations for 2014: in pictures From the wild frontiers of Papua New Guinea, to unspoilt Italian islands, our experts suggest where to go this year. Read Charles Starmer-Smith's introduction to how the destinations were chosen here. Cities Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow, always a city that knows how to party, is preparing to welcome athletes from all over the world for a monumental knees-up over the 11 days of the Commonwealth Games from July 23. Read the full article here Picture: AP Heather Poole | Another flight attendant writing about flying Tourism Concern - Curbing tourist developments in Goa Outcomes This was Tourism Concern’s first campaign and we successfully introduced British tour operators to the issues, and raised public awareness through an effective media campaign. The issue Goa was one of the first destinations where Tourism Concern forged a strong working relationship with local groups. There is a strong NGO network there which has campaigned on tourism since mass tourism first began in this Southern Indian state in the 1980s. Goa has moved from being a hippy destination in the 1960s to a combination of a backpacker's hang-out and a mass tourist destination. Our campaign Tourism Concern lobbied British tour operators using hotels in Goa which contravened environmental regulations. More about cultural conflicts and environmental damage.
Backpacking travel guide for Southeast Asia. Travelfish.org Ebola: airlines cancel more flights to affected countries | Society Airlines have cancelled more than a third of international flights to three west African countries over fears that an outbreak of the Ebola virus could spread, as more African countries introduce measures to block visitors from affected areas. Of 590 monthly flights scheduled to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, 216 have been cancelled, according to OAG, an airline data provider. Although 14 cases of Ebola have been reported in Nigeria, flights to and from the country have not been affected. African countries are rolling out measures to stop Ebola from spreading: South Africa on Thursday banned travellers from Ebola-stricken countries from entering the country, and on Friday Senegal announced it was closing its border with Guinea as a preventative measure, while Chad said it had closed its border with Nigeria. Over the past two weeks new treatment centres in Liberia have been overwhelmed as soon as they opened by patients who had not previously been identified.
GranTourismo! - The website of globetrotting professional travel writing & photography team Lara Dunston & Terence Carter. Finland: a family break on the Åland islands | Travel At midnight there is a long orange streak of sunset across the horizon and the colour of the sky is just past dusk. As we wait for the last ferry back to Helsinki, there are tantalising strains of nightclub music and the raucous, drunken, happy noise of young people, who have just graduated from college, walking along the harbour, looking for a bar. Later, when the ship leaves, the green silhouettes of the islands we’ve been staying on are visible in the fading light long after midnight. This disorientating feeling of the Nordic white nights makes a holiday on the Åland islands unsettling and unusual. It is light when you go to sleep and dawn if you wake at four in the morning; no one feels inclined to sleep too much. The autonomous Åland archipelago – a patch of around 7,000 islands, halfway between Finland and Sweden – is a Nordic holiday playground where people come to cycle, kayak, sail, fish, swim in the cold Baltic Sea and warm up in saunas afterwards. Budget camping, Denmark