Tag : vacation
If you’re like me and want to go to a group of upscale tropical islands in the Indian Ocean to escape winter, then I’ll meet you in The Seychelles. They’re about 90 islands off of East Africa, mostly French-influenced, and flat-out gorgeous. There’s nothing to do there but enjoy the scenery, relax, and snorkel with the stingrays.
Seychelles Wikitravel entry
www.seychelles.travel
I challenge anyone to a race where the first person who takes a picture of him/herself on each island wins and the loser has to pay for the winner’s travel and accomodations. Who wants in?
Wining, dining, and designing. This French chateau features a week-long hangout/workshop in the summer that’s open to anyone pretty much, even people who draw square boobs on Etch-a-Sketches. There was an article about it in the new issue of Wallpaper*, which almost convinced me to tell the pilot to divert my plane to Boston and head straight across the Atlantic except that during the winter, they probably turn it into some weird Eyes Wide Shut party house.
If you want to start making your own furniture, reinvent the shoe, or just hit on French chicks in the countryside, then this is for you. And sacrebleu, it’s only about a $grand, too.
This village in the Pyrénées is home to the second-oldest ski resort in France, which is linked with La Mongie to make the largest ski area in the French Pyrénées. Le schwing. It’s about an hour’s drive away from Lourdes, the popular pilgrimage site if you’re into checking out places where little girls saw “visions” centuries ago. If you’re not into that junk, there’s a ton of skiing, obviously, and at night, you can get into a drunken bar brawl with locals in the village or with tourists at the major resort hotels.
Other than that, there’s not much else to do, which is a good thing if you ask me. See you on the slopes.
This is about as modswank as hotels can get, without going to Europe or some other planet. Right in the heart of downtown San Fran, the Dubya is dark, eerie, slick and has more ambient effects than a Massive Attack concert. The stark colors, blue backlighting, and background chillout music were a nice touch, but the bathroom’s sliding door was perhaps the oddest.
There are tons of those planters with grass that you see in catalogs, really cool bellhops, and an ultra-trendy bar on the first floor, making for a peculiar but nifty entrance. Their motto is “whatever, whenever” which makes for good drunken honeymoons at 5 AM, like the folks we ran into on the way out.
With a dvd player, pimp lounger, and massive headboards in every room, all in all, it’s the coolest telly I’ve ever stayed in. Our view of cloudy San Fran was cool, and being across the street from MoMA when there’s free admission is key, even though we didn’t go. I highly recommend staying here if you’re into Eurotrash or square furniture, or even if you just want to avoid the regular, boring hotellery. Definitely unique for the price.
Famous for Finland’s #1 ranked spa hotel, this seaport town is also home to an archipelago, porta-toilet factory tour, and a “Sleepyhead Carnival” – where carnies take sleeping pills to exhilarate ride-goers.
There’s also tons of sea-side shopping, including the Kaup Kaupungin (“Dung Dungeon”), which is world-renowned for its stock of rare caribou droppings. Great for collections.
Come to relax, come to lose your mind, whatever you want, Naantali will give. Unless you’re Norwegian. They won’t let you into the city.
Guess where Piriápolis is. Wrong, suckas, it’s in Uruguay.
“Ha ha, look at this country!
U R Gay?! Ha ha!”
Considered the Nicky Hilton of the two major Uruguayan coastal resorts, Piriápolis still keeps it real with restaurants galore, seedy nightlife, and ridiculous beach activities, such as goat racing.
They also have fountains to bathe in, casinos to rip you off (stupid American!), and a vast number of peddlers waiting to take your wallet. Whatever you do, don’t order maté at any time. It is served hot and strong, and sipped through a metal straw called a bombilla. This is how the locals drug and take advantage of tourists. You’ll never make it home. Otherwise, enjoy!
Government tourism’s Piriápolis page
Some crazy page
About.com’s travel guide to Piriápolis
Are you Hungary for Turkey?
Then pack your bags and head for the Turkish Aegean port of Bodrum, where you can sunbathe on a beach Cleopatra had imported from Egypt. You can also hit the trendy nightlife, which boasts some of the best saz jazz clubs around. Hang out in Old Halicarnassus’ castles, where you may even find some ancient tombs to loot.
If you get arrested for anything, which you probably will, here’s a list of embassies to call to bail you out of trouble.
Visitor reviews:
“I d to live there” – Gökhan
“me also and l love it gokhan.” – kebab
1. Skeezer Bug Spray© Factory
One of the most popular tourist attractions in the Garden State is the birthplace of what essentially created the Garden State. Due to the state’s natural pollution, insects ravaged the countryside- until William Skeezer began mass-marketing his genius invention. Finally, people could go outside for more than 5 seconds without contracting disease.
2. America’s first billboard
The blight of billboards began in New Jersey. Where else? Now, like many of its counterparts, the original billboard resides in an abandoned lot, and is only seen by people who probably can’t read. Fun fact: the original ad was in 1884 for the candy, Cocaine Drops.
3. World’s largest pet cemetery
Containing over 10,000,000 pets from over 2,700 different species, the New Jersey Pet Cemetery is nearly as impressive as Arlington. They even have an “Eternal Flame”, which is the local nickname for the on-site crematorium.
4. Golf Cart Museum
What? It’s not like there’s anything better to do.
5. Pure Waste Geyser
Jersey’s inlets and waterways are so choked with human and industrial waste, the pressure forces the waste to spew out of the ground every hour, 30 miles south of Trenton. Biological hazards prevent anyone from getting within 10,000 feet of it, so bring your wide-angle lens.