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		<title>Guide to Coffee Shops of Amsterdam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The authorities of the Netherlands make plans to ban the sale of drugs to tourists, which will likely lead to the closure of many coffee shops. Life of smokers has already been complicated by the fact that tobacco smoking in the room has recently been banned in Amsterdam. It seems that Amsterdam will soon be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The authorities of the Netherlands make plans to ban the sale of drugs to tourists, which will likely lead to the closure of many coffee shops. Life of smokers has already been complicated by the fact that tobacco smoking in the room has recently been banned in Amsterdam. It seems that Amsterdam will soon be quite different. So, it is worth to go there now and walk along its best bars, according to Matador publication.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Trinity</strong><br />
This coffee shop is located out of the city center and away from the usual tourist routes. The easiest way to find it is asking for help from local residents. Inside you&#8217;ll find a great bar with a good selection of drinks, for a much lower price than is usually asked in the central streets. There are several tables for a game of pool, a large plasma screen equipped with separate smoking rooms. Under a friendly entourage of bar also relates its staff. They will be keenly interested in how you managed to find this hiding place, and will be sincerely happy that you called on them.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1241" title="de-rokerij" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/de-rokerij.JPG" alt="de-rokerij" width="512" height="384" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>De Rokerij</strong><br />
This coffee shop is on the way to Leidsplein and is famous for its mystical atmosphere. All accommodation consists of one very long room with dim lights, and even more dark walls, the design which you can admire almost forever. &#8220;Coffee&#8221; is good, but regulars respect this place just for the atmosphere. As in so many places now, to smoke tobacco, you will not be allowed, offering a substitute in the form of herbal counterpart. Bar drinks are sold at quite a reasonable price, especially considering the location of the institution.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Greenhouse</strong><br />
This network has three establishments in the city. Flagship is in the street of &#8220;red lights&#8221;. Perhaps, it is one of the most well-known in Amsterdam, and in proof of this, the walls of coffee-shop are decorated with photos of celebrities who used to come here. To somehow compensate for local high prices, alcohol in a bar is sold relatively inexpensively. Smoking indoors is forbidden, but there are few tables on the street, or else you will be offered free replacement of tobacco plant. But there are several caves in the walls, where you can retire and relax. Music is quite eclectic; the &#8220;Pink Floyd&#8221; and &#8220;Snoop Doga Dog” can easily follow one after the other.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1242" title="dolphin" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dolphin.jpg" alt="dolphin" width="520" height="346" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Grasshopper</strong><br />
Establishment is located between the Damrak and the area of &#8220;red lights&#8221; appears at once in three guises: a bar, restaurant and coffee shop. The latter is at the bottom, which is equipped with a special smoking room. TV is always turned on here, and music pours from the speakers. Staff is friendly, and prices pleasantly surprise.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hunter&#8217;s Café</strong><br />
In this coffee-shop, located at the very beginning of the &#8220;red lights” street there are quite a lot of tourists. However gloomy decor of the establishment and many comfortable armchairs and sofas create a very suitable environment for relaxing and a place can be boldly recommended. Staff loves its customers and the prices are slightly lower than in the vicinity. Tobacco, as elsewhere, is under a ban, but you will always be offered its alternatives.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Dolphins</strong><br />
Everything in this place recalls the seabed. Walls are painted in blue and there are full pictures of the underwater world, and some where you can find almost real corals. Below you will find a bar and several tables. To smoke tobacco is forbidden here, but in the top you will be met with open arms by the comfortable couches. And if you miss your friends left at home &#8211; This hotel offers free Wi-Fi.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1243" title="GreenHouse" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/GreenHouse.jpg" alt="GreenHouse" width="512" height="384" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>DampKring</strong><br />
This coffee shop became famous through the film «Ocean’s 12 friends&#8221;. Since then, people are constantly circulating in the districts who are trying to look like Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Accommodation in a spacious restaurant and the interior are dominated by various shades of orange, starting from walls to ashtrays. Drinks are sold at an average price, and they simply turn a blind eye to smoking in the room. An imposing cat usually sits in the window, who welcomes the incoming visitors.</p>
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		<title>Ghosts Burn Hotels and Steal Beer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 5, the night from Sunday to Monday, a hotel in Japan, which was visited by tourists who came to see the ghost that brings happiness, was burnt. According to the beliefs of the Japanese house, the house loved by a good ghost, will certainly be destroyed, after the house spirit leaves the house.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">On October 5, the night from Sunday to Monday, a hotel in Japan, which was visited by tourists who came to see the ghost that brings happiness, was burnt. According to the beliefs of the Japanese house, the house loved by a good ghost, will certainly be destroyed, after the house spirit leaves the house.</p>
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Two-storied hotel-river &#8220;Rekufuso&#8221;, which was in Iwate Prefecture, enjoyed a good reputation of a house with a home spirit for more than 300 years. To get here, tourists booked rooms in advance, for two or three years. In &#8220;Rekufuso&#8221;, according to eyewitnesses, it was possible to observe several different features, the most famous and popular of which was &#8220;dzasiki Varas&#8221; – house spirit, taking the appearance of a child. It is believed that only innocent souls can notice such home spirit, and yet it protects the children and brings happiness. There was a room in the old hotel where dzasiki could even be seen by the adult travelers. Many of the guests, spent the night in this room, and then talked about the success which had fallen upon them after a rest at the hotel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1216" title="ghost" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ghost.jpg" alt="ghost" width="300" height="365" /></p>
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But even when the ghosts remain in their coveted spot, continuing to attract tourists, it does not always satisfy owners. Thus, in one of the pubs of Hampshire was inhabited by a warm and cheerful spirit that pours beer mugs to visitors free of charge. Any traveler or local resident, looking into the bar and engrossed in conversation with a neighbor or released to the toilet, coming back, may discover that his circle has considerably been increased. Of course, rumors of such a generous serving, gather more and more visitors in a pub.</p>
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However, the hostess of the establishment is unhappy &#8211; in fact the spirit fills the cups, emptying the barrels of beer, which it acquired, not paying a penny. In addition, visitors stick to the pub for hours for free drinks without buying food or extra beer, so soon an exorcist will call in a pub, and &#8220;the bartender Ridi,&#8221; as the visitors nicknamed the hospitable spirit, should be removed to another place.</p>
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		<title>Tourists Damage Egyptian Tombs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The famous Egyptian complex of pharaohs’ tombs the Plain of Kings is under the risk of termination, the frescos and relieves will manage to exist for 150 years more, before the fungus and humidity ruin them completely. Tourists play the main role in the damaging of tombs – it is because of the crowds of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The famous Egyptian complex of pharaohs’ tombs the Plain of Kings is under the risk of termination, the frescos and relieves will manage to exist for 150 years more, before the fungus and humidity ruin them completely. Tourists play the main role in the damaging of tombs – it is because of the crowds of curious travelers that the microclimate of the tombs of Tutankhamun, Nefertiti and Seti  1 is so affected that mould eats away the frescos successfully protected for thousands of years.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-832" title="egyptian_pyramids" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/egyptian_pyramids.jpg" alt="egyptian_pyramids" width="604" height="414" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The head of the Supreme Council on antiquities of the country, Zakhi Khavass, gives from 150 to 500 years of existence to the ancient monuments of Egyptian art, if the situation with visits of tourists will not be changed. The government of Egypt plans to close the tombs of Tutankhamun, Nefertiti and Seti  1 as the most damaged ones for visitors. Not to deprive the tourists of the attraction, special copies will be created in which everything must be exactly like in the original tombs. In other burials the system of ventilation will be improved and the number of visitors will be significantly limited.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-833" title="nefertari" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/nefertari.jpg" alt="nefertari" width="603" height="458" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Everyday the Plain of Kings is visited by thousands of travelers. The complex of pharaohs’ tombs, which is situated on the west shore of Nile, has been guarded by UNESCO since 1979 and is one of the most popular tourists’ sightseeing of the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-834" title="Tutankhamun tomb" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Tutankhamun-tomb.jpg" alt="Tutankhamun tomb" width="604" height="418" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Let us remind you that in the middle of August the authorities of Chile promised the residents of the Easter Island to discuss the question on controlling tourists arriving there to see the famous statues, as well as, maybe, to limit the number of travelers coming to Rapa-Nui. The thing is that due to the lack of control, the coming tourists and migrants harm the fragile ecology of Pacific Ocean Islands and damage the famous gigantic statues, which in 1995 were announced an object of all-world inheritance oh UNESCO. According to the data of state Chile tourist agency the Easter Island in 2008 was visited by 64 495 tourists.  The air company LAN, the only vehicular flying to the island, sends 7 flights a week from Santiago to the airport Mata very, as Reuters informs.</p>
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		<title>10 Ideas for a Vacation in September</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September is more preferable for a vacation than summer months. The heat reduces together with the prices, and the noisy schoolchildren release the beaches and museums from their burdensome presence. It is the very time to enjoy your rest in silence and for little money. We offer you 10 ideas for a September vacation.
1. Paris
In [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify">September is more preferable for a vacation than summer months. The heat reduces together with the prices, and the noisy schoolchildren release the beaches and museums from their burdensome presence. It is the very time to enjoy your rest in silence and for little money. We offer you 10 ideas for a September vacation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. Paris</strong><br />
In September the city comes back after the summer tourists&#8217; influx. The weather is not very hot and it is possible to walk quietly, without rushing into shops all the time to buy a bottle of water. In the middle of the month the yearly Autumn Festival starts, which is dedicated to all types of modern art, from the literature and music to circus and painting. Up to September 7 it is absolutely obligatory to drop in Louvre, on the exhibition “ Apogee of European clock technique “, dedicated to Avraam-Lui Brege, the father of all modern clock models. That is he, whom we are obliged to for the appearance of a large number of pocket and wall clocks.  The first wrist-watch, made already after the master’s death, borrowed a lot of things from his inventions.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-780  aligncenter" title="Paris" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Paris.jpg" alt="Paris" width="500" height="500" /></p>
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2. Harvest in Burgundy </strong><br />
You can go to Burgundy anytime, as it is always good here. But September is a special period, when you can see the harvest and the process of wine making with your own eyes. On the 5th of September the Dijon folklore and wine festivals will be held where the national work lovers can admire performances of two hundred collectives from around the world, and the lovers of eating and drinking will get an opportunity to taste the wines of the region in unlimited quantity all day long. Those who will not manage to taste in full, can go to the festival of wine-pressing in Shenov, which will be held on September 18 and 19 this year. In 1238 the dukes of Burgundy constructed wine-pressing factories where first-class wine was produced for 600 years. Nowadays these wine-pressing factories are monuments of state level, and one of them is completely restored. It is the very place where the festival will be held, and the visitors of which will be able to see the whole process of making wine, and at the same time to taste its different sorts. Besides that the program includes jazz bands&#8217; performances, folk songs and dances, and cart rides. And, of course, they won&#8217;t do without the village sausage, fried pork and traditional Burgundy snails.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-781  aligncenter" title="burgundy" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/burgundy.jpg" alt="burgundy" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>3. Barcelona</strong><br />
If you are lucky with the weather, then you will still be able to bathe in September. Though, in the evening you will, probably, have to put on something warmer than a shirt and shorts.  In any case, Barcelona is a city not depending on the weather, since the weather in Spain is the thing you have in your soul, not in the sky.  But the quantity of tourists in the streets is significantly smaller, and it is possible to stroll in the Guell park or to climb the Sagrada Family. As to the Port Aventura, which is in an hour&#8217;s distance from the city, queues to attractions will be significantly shorter, thanks to the fact that the majority of children went to school already.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-782  aligncenter" title="barcelona" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/barcelona.jpg" alt="barcelona" width="450" height="305" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>4. Andalusia</strong><br />
If the capital of Catalonia is already visited, then it is time to go to Andalusia – the most southern and the merriest part of the country. The sea is the warmest here, and the summer is the longest. And, certainly, it is worth going far away from the cost to the foot of Sierra Nevada Mountains, firstly, in order to get to Granada, which in Middle Ages was the center on Muslim state. Besides Alhambra, about which the Spaniards say, despite its Mauritanian origin: “who hasn&#8217;t seen Alhambra, he hasn&#8217;t seen Spain». It is necessary to stroll along the Mauritanian block Albasin, to drop into a bakery with traditional Arabic sweets, and to visit Arabic baths, consisting of a lot of pools, one warmer than the other. And, of course, you shouldn&#8217;t lose the opportunity to see a real flamenco and to walk along the gypsy quarter. As to the nature fans, they&#8217;d better set for a horse hiking along the foothills of Sierra Neveda, which are offered by local companies in a large number. Choose those places where night staying is offers in the cave hotels, since spending the night in handmade cave, equipped with all the comforts of civilization, can be rather curious.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-783" title="Andalusia-Alhambra" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Andalusia-Alhambra.jpg" alt="Andalusia-Alhambra" width="454" height="606" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>5. Ibiza </strong><br />
The clubs of Ibiza are impossible to imagine without crowds of people and the atmosphere in empty places will hardly seem attractive. The peak of parties is in August-September, when famous DJs and residents of the most famous clubs of the world gather at the island.  And still, going to the cult island, it is worth waiting for September. Clubbers will be in sufficient number again, but not so many to feel like sprats in a tin in any place. There will not be little joy in the first autumn month, but without traditional August craziness with jumping prices and impossibility to hire a car.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-784" title="Ibiza" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Ibiza.jpg" alt="Ibiza" width="518" height="351" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>6. Apouly (Italy)</strong><br />
In September it is still summer on the hill of the Italian boot. The sea is warm and the supermarkets are filled with fresh vegetables and fruit of local origin. Tomatoes, or oranges, and especially figs are soft, juicy and unusually tasty. In ancient Rome   this district used to be specialized in bread producing; now it is famous for its cheeses. In the first half of September, a festival of cheeses is held, when in every small village the local people boast of their production. Cheeses for tasting are put on the tables in the middle of the street, and it should be drunk down by traditional local wines &#8220;Castel Del Monte&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-785" title="Castel Del Monte" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Castel-Del-Monte.jpg" alt="Castel Del Monte" width="560" height="419" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>7. Vienna</strong><br />
If music always sounds in the head and there is a wish to enjoy it in full, then your road should lead you to Vienna. In September, the musical season starts in Vienna. Almost every evening concerts of classical music are held in magnificent Vienna philharmonic. Besides that 2009 is declared the Hayden year, and a separate rich program of philharmonic is dedicated to the composer&#8217;s works. Autumn is also the season of first nights in Vienna Opera.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-786" title="Vienna" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Vienna.jpg" alt="Vienna" width="502" height="377" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>8. Czech Republic </strong><br />
Traditionally Czech Republic is famous for its beer, but in September it is habitual to come here to the Znoimen wine festival. And this year it will be held on September 11-12. As usual, here it will be possible not only to enjoy the favorite drink, to see knight tournaments, to buy souvenirs at the fair of ancient trades, and to eat fresh bourchak. This traditional drink, which, in a way, reminds of fizzy mustard, in reality, is sweet and at the same time piquant partly fermented wine. According to the legend the man who will drink seven liters of bourchak at once, will be able to boast of his excellent health for a long time.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-787" title="Czech Republic" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Czech-Republic-.jpg" alt="Czech Republic" width="513" height="405" /><br />
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>9. Athens</strong><br />
In September the heat in Athens reduces, the average temperature sets at about 24 degrees, and it is possible to walk along the ancient ruins, without the fear that the shining sun will melt your brain. This month is the most suitable time to evaluate the latest tourist improvements of the Greek capital. For example, the prohibition for car movement around Acropolis or the new museum, where since last autumn the statues of Golden Age of Athens democracy and other exhibits have been guarded, those which in the former time could hardly be placed in the  small museum  at the top of Acropolis.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>10. Seychelles</strong><br />
If you want some exotics and magnificent sandy beaches, then the best of all is to go to Seychelles in September. Besides the traditional tropic fairy-tale, this is the time when you can observe the whales, sharks and cramp-fish in one of the national parks.</p>
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		<title>Legendary British Pubs at the Verge of Extinction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British pubs gradually stop their existence. This pitiable conclusion was made by the British Association of Beer and Pubs on the basis of the fact that since the beginning of this year 52 pubs are closed every week, this is one third more than last year. Unfortunately, the smoking prohibition in the public places and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">British pubs gradually stop their existence. This pitiable conclusion was made by the British Association of Beer and Pubs on the basis of the fact that since the beginning of this year 52 pubs are closed every week, this is one third more than last year. Unfortunately, the smoking prohibition in the public places and constantly growing overhead expenses do not leave chances for small bars to survive.  The British themselves are sure that if it keeps going that way then it will have a bad impact on the national self-consciousness of the citizens. So, if you want to manage to see the legendary British pubs, you have to hurry with the visit to Foggy Albion. By the way, there is a chance that the pubs, which are in the list of the best ones, as the British edition of The Times states, will remain safe in any situation, thanks to the creative approach and endless optimism of their owners.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Thomas Lord</strong><br />
West Meon, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU32 1LN.<br />
Main courses £12.50-£18; sandwiches from £5<br />
Named after its founder, this pub is proud of not only its cuisine but also of its interior. The darkly beamed and half-paneled walls are decorated with different kinds of attributes: old bats, caps, pads and associated prints. All this is in a good harmony with spiral leather sofas and armchairs. For illumination, besides the electricity big fat candles are used, and they make the interior more mystic. The public here is mainly constant and rather amicable. The meat which predominates in the menu is cooked with vegetables and herbs, from the large vegetable patch of the pub’s owner. The best dish is the lamb in rosemary sauce.</p>
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Brown Horse Inn</strong><br />
Winster, Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3NR.<br />
Main courses £9.50-£14.95; bar snacks (lunch) from £4.75. Doubles from £80-£90<br />
It is not so easy to notice this pub which is situated far from the main streets. But it is worth searching for.  Settled down in the tavern of the 18th century, the pub keeps its interior with the stone floors and wooden ceiling beams. The picture is supplemented with the open fire, traditional oak chairs and monumental candelabras. The walls are decorated with the contemporary artists’ creations.<br />
On your plate will appear vegetables from the back garden, poultry and eggs from the surrounding farms. Don’t doubt to order homemade black pudding with quails’ eggs and mustard sauce or duck breast with sweet layered potatoes, and for desert a layered marmalade, candied lemon with homemade ice cream.<br />
There is a hotel attached to the tavern with four rooms where huge beds are covered with glamorous textiles, and there is a very good view on the surrounding hills.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Bell Inn</strong><br />
Aldworth, Reading, Berkshire, RG8 9SE<br />
Bar meals £2.50-£6<br />
The pub, existing for 200 years, retained the style of ancient British pubs. You can find plain benches, venerable dark-wood paneling and the atmosphere of those years here. In one of the rooms you can sit near the fire, though the public prefers to gather around the glass bar cheek. Fifty years ago the regulars were agricultural workers; today the public is more intellectual but the piped music and mobile phones are not welcome here.<br />
The food fits the image and they keep it simple: choose from hearty warm rolls filled with thick slices of home-baked ham, ox tongue or good old cheddar, treacle sponge and winter soups of the day.<br />
The beer of the local Arkell’s and West Berkshire breweries is available for good prices. You can also sit with a glass of beer in a big garden, which belongs to the pub.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Tobie Norris </strong><br />
12 St Paul&#8217;s Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire, PE9 2BE<br />
Main courses £6.75-£12.95<br />
The house built in 1280, remodeled in 1663 and again, superbly, in 2006, the Tobie Norris will take you back to the old days close to – Oliver Cromwell. Just when entering you will immediately forget about the noisy market outside it and darting in and out cars, you will be surrounded with the stone-wooden interior and the smell of trees. Find a wooden pew or a nice leather armchair and sit back doing nothing with a pint of beer or a glass of wine which you can also get here. You can have a bite here of an excellent pizza or smoked salmon.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Crown </strong><br />
Park Street, Stoke-by-Nayland, Colchester, Suffolk, CO6 4SE<br />
Main courses £10.95-£17.95. Doubles from £70-£170<br />
The pub attached to a same named hotel is decorated in pastel colors and contains chaotic rooms spilling over one into the other. This space is for conservative public and idle talks with a pint of beer. At the same time, the menu of the pub can boast of both the dishes of traditional cuisine and of cooks’ novelties.<br />
Several chefs spend their time to have a chance to suggest the visitors toasts with bacon and mussels, or a pheasant shot in the local woods with prunes and leeks sauce.  The desserts from quince and ginger pudding are not less magnificent. On sunny days you can sit on the terrace with a bottle of wine from the huge collection of the pub.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-726  aligncenter" title="The Crown" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/The-Crown-.jpg" alt="The Crown" width="448" height="336" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Farmer&#8217;s Inn </strong><br />
West Hatch, Taunton, Somerset, TA3 5RS<br />
Main courses £10.75-£16; bar meals £5.50-£10.75. Doubles from £125-£150<br />
If you ever find yourself in the heart of Somerset County, don’t doubt to drop into that pub, since only in such places you can see real Britain. The surrounding landscape will please you with cows in the fields, colorful cockerels and a friendly public inside it will meet the newcomer with an interest, suggest a seat at the fireplace or a high chair at the bar. Thanks to the changes made by the owners of the place, the rooms fluently spill over one into the other, presenting the newcomers a feeling of comfort because of the open area and the quantity of colors and light. Imagine terracotta floors and ceilings covered with cracks. The wall panels decorated with yellow tongues of flame, old pine tables, on which are pots with rosemary, and high piles of logs not far from the fireplace. Specialties of the place are considered sardines on grill, different steaks, and also chocolate and mint mousses.  In summer all that can be tasted on the terrace.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-727  aligncenter" title="Farmer's Inn" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Farmers-Inn-.jpg" alt="Farmer's Inn" width="460" height="276" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Turtley Corn Mill </strong><br />
Avonwick, South Brent, Devon, TQ10 9ES<br />
Main courses £9.75-£16.95. Doubles from £89-£110<br />
The mill, repaired in 2005, is of six acres of land sloping down to the lake. The space is suggested as a place for picnics. There are so many people here that it is necessary to order a table in advance. It is also possible to play croquet, or chess here.<br />
The inside of the mill has been transformed into a number of spacious inter-connected areas: the bar with its dark slate floors and doors leads to the blooming garden; the floor of the library is made of wood  as well as the floor of the reading hall, whose virgin white walls are decorated with engraving and eastern carpets and here you can read both love novel and morning newspaper with the same pleasure.<br />
The food here is traditional and mainly is made from local products. Here you can try beef in red wine or sea bass with minted pea sauce. Every day a new menu is printed off. As a drink Princetown Jail Ale and several sorts of wine are offered.</p>
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		<title>The Strangest Competitions of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of strange competitions in the world. Some of them appeared centuries ago, while others have appeared in the new millennium and are designed to attract tourists into a small town. Such “championships” have ceased to be a national entertainment. Their popularity is growing: Every year more and more visitors from around [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">There are a lot of strange competitions in the world. Some of them appeared centuries ago, while others have appeared in the new millennium and are designed to attract tourists into a small town. Such “championships” have ceased to be a national entertainment. Their popularity is growing: Every year more and more visitors from around the world take part in these competitions.  Perhaps, it is worth to travel to watch from the side or even to take part in an unusual tournament.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Finland<br />
Wife Carrying Championship</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It turns out, that carrying women on hands is not only for proving your love, but also for earning money. Every year world championships are held for carrying second half on hands. The most popular championship is held in the Finnish village Sonkajarvi. It is held in memory of those times when men had to steal their future wives. A daunting 250-meter track with obstacles and even a small pit with water is prepared for the “sportsmen”. It is impossible to pass this test, having wives in the arms, and that`s why the participants of the tournament usually drop their wives. There is little romanticism in this run, during the entire path each representatives of the beautiful sex is repeatedly dropped, so that they can not avoid bruises and scratches. Everyone can participate in the competition after submitting an application in town site.<br />
Recently, such unusual sport games appear also in other countries. These championships take place in Denmark, Latvia, Sweden, Estonia, South Korea.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Italy<br />
Championship of Mosquito Killing</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Contest for the destruction of blood-sucking insects is held in Italy every year. For example, in San Nazzaro-Sesia participants are given the same flytrap approved by the judges and they are given 10-minutes for murder. It is important not to forget to preserve the bodies, because the winner will be determined by this criteria. Those, who win the first three places, will receive 10 euro for each destroyed mosquito. However, the rules may vary.<br />
Similar competitions were organized in the Lomellina valley, south of Milan. But there “sportsmen”  had to kill mosquitoes with his bare hands.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Japan, Poland<br />
Championship of loud shouting</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Visit Japan during this event and you will never believe in the myth of the quiet and restrained Japanese. Crier competition is held in Oita prefectures every year. Over one hundred participants are trying to talk to each other &#8211; they are able to roar with volume exceeding 100 decibels &#8211; more than the roar of rock breakers or noise from the carrier at full speed trains. Each one invents the main word combination himself. However, according to psychologists, this discharge will certainly help the Japanese, who are locked in the office, working almost without rest, and forced to comply with a lot of conditions.<br />
The Poles, too, decided to take care of their health and nervous system, and organized a similar tournament in the city of Goldap.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">United Kingdom, Singapore<br />
Races of plastic ducks</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We speak about the same yellow ducks which are used to entertain children, when taking a bath. People across the planet with the same gambling made this stupid occupation. They launch ducks in rivers and seas. Competitions in Singapore are like the lottery: buying a toy, you should write your name on it and hope for the favor of fortune. All the ducks are dropped into the water. Toys rush to the finish under exclamations of fans. Owner of the winner will receive one million dollars.<br />
At Misty Albion a no less exciting racing is taking place: in various cities throughout the country hundreds of thousands of ducks have to swim upstream some distance. Similar competitions have already been held on the river Avon, the Thames, Ray.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Finland<br />
Championship of mobile phones throwing</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you ever wanted to throw your mobile phone away with all the force, do not just break it. It is better to take part in the championship for throwing phones in the Finnish town of Savonlinna. For the first time this competition was held in 2000, but it quickly gained popularity. Organizers claim that good environmental targets are pursued &#8211; old mobile phone is not released somewhere, it is utilized by all the rules. Competitions take place in the men&#8217;s, women&#8217;s and junior categories. Besides you do not have to damage your own cell phone: Organizers will provide the rules of props &#8211; you can choose any brand, any model weighing 200 to 440 grams.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Following the Finnish national competitions such competitions were held in Germany, Great Britain, Norway and other countries. The prize for the winner is a trip to an international tournament in Finland.</p>
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		<title>Museums that work twentyfour hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tourists cause obvious damage to museums. Crowds of visitors violate carefully protected microclimate of the premises, increase in humidity and bring the street dust and dirt on the soles of their shoes. Weight load on the floors of the most popular galleries and exhibits is very high. For example, the total weight of visitors to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-207" title="louvre-museum-picture" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/louvre-museum-picture-300x192.jpg" alt="louvre-museum-picture" width="300" height="192" />Tourists cause obvious damage to museums. Crowds of visitors violate carefully protected microclimate of the premises, increase in humidity and bring the street dust and dirt on the soles of their shoes. Weight load on the floors of the most popular galleries and exhibits is very high. For example, the total weight of visitors to Hermitage is about 2.5 million tons annually. From such a terrible burden suffer the unique paintings on the walls of the rooms, and the parquet floor, which, by the way, is also a work of art. And this situation is the norm for all the popular museums or galleries.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The most interesting thing is that museums do not really need visitors. The main objective of their employees is to preserve, enhance and explore the treasures available to them, and not unsuccessful in their weight, attempts to explain the value of exposure to the crowd or the visitors, who do not understand in the history of art. Tourists themselves also are not always enthusiastic about the need to go for land, to stand in queues and walk miles of the museum halls, only because, coming to Paris and not visiting Louvre, is a bad habit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps for these reasons in the early 90-ies the museums of the world have begun to move in virtual space. Today, almost every exhibit has its own web page, where you can find at least the basic information about the exhibited collections, hours of work facilities, the cost of tickets and how to reach it. But this, of course, was not enough. Gradually, museums have begun to spread on the Internet photographs of their collections, and then, with the development of technology, to create a virtual space on the web where you can get any picture or statue of the mechanism and to distinguish its three-dimensional image from all directions. Almost simultaneously, the possibility to search the collections, not only on the author&#8217;s works, but, for example, in his colors. One of the best expositions of virtual world can boast Hermitage, where will be able to easily walk and the Louvre or the Prado gallery.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Wishing to make a computer trip, or even just find out what museums exist in the world, stands on the site call the Virtual Library of Museums, which considers to be the most popular by country and by topics.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-208" title="Hermitage" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Hermitage-300x225.jpg" alt="Hermitage" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Following the digitization of real objects and the museums have come to turn the creation of exhibits that have no physical embodiment, and existing solely on the World Wide Web. Most of them were initially devoted to computers and digital art, and later there were sites of scientific laboratories institutions. Perhaps the oldest of the exhibits is a collection of computer-Museum of Computer Art, born in 1993 and dedicated to digital art and photography. Existed for in a web space more than a dozen years later, in 2008, the museum is still a real gallery, opened in Brooklyn.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But perhaps the most interesting opportunity to travel to galleries the world without leaving home, offer sites that collect and catalog a collection of various museums. After such a virtual gallery, you can get acquainted with the exposition, disparate parts of which are remote to many thousands of kilometers of ground, but collected in one place, provides a new view on the subject. For example, the Virtual Museum of Canada brings together the collection of 2500 local institutions, including the tiny exhibit. It is unlikely that even the most meticulous traveler could ever visit all of them in reality.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, in order to carry out a computer trip, you need to have high-speed Internet channel and, preferably, a powerful computer. Otherwise, many of the opportunities provided by museum sites are inaccessible. For example, at the Museum of Hampsona you can download and to consider the objects from all sides (and even across) found during archaeological excavations Indian habitats in Arkansas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is believed that the relocation of the museum exhibits from the real world to a virtual world, sooner or later will lead to the closure of the real galleries and to reduce the number of tourist trips around the world.</p>
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		<title>Secret Bars of Czech Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oldest alcoholic beverage in the history of mankind is beer. It was invented more than 6 thousand years ago in middle East. But tourists do not go to its home in Iraq and Iran to drink beer. They don’t go even to Turkey from where, apparently, it came to the territory of Europe. Czech [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-132" title="travel-11" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/travel-11.jpg" alt="travel-11" width="230" height="306" />The oldest alcoholic beverage in the history of mankind is beer. It was invented more than 6 thousand years ago in middle East. But tourists do not go to its home in Iraq and Iran to drink beer. They don’t go even to Turkey from where, apparently, it came to the territory of Europe. Czech and Belgium, have become the main European centers of beer production.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If Belgium is famous for huge quantity of all kinds of “double” and “triple” ale and fruit beer, the Czech Republic have long kept the first for the production and consumption of barley excellent &#8211; light and dark. “Disyatki”, “lejaki” and “tmave” sound familiar for beer-lovers, made pilgrimages to the country for several times, where, after 8 pm meeting local people on the streets of the city can only be accidental. The entire Czech Republic is sitting on the basement pubs and bars and drink their favorite beverage. And in a small provincial town of the past this happens after 5 pm.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Czech brewer&#8217;s are the best ones of all the former Soviet countries that has preserved the atmosphere of “Soviet” bars, and therefore you don’t have to rely on the servility of fussy waiters. “U FLEC” or “Beer Dum” are widespread tourist sites in Prague, and as every well-known restaurant abroad will serve (and cheat) travelers with a hundred-percent quality. However in order to understand the real taste and culture of Czech beer, you should go to other places.</p>
<p>“Do Midvidki” which is  located in the old location near the major «Tesco» Brewery is a hotel-pub<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-133" title="travel-2" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/travel-2.jpg" alt="travel-2" width="230" height="306" /> that remains popular among citizens of Prague but is  not too  popular  with tourists. Besides the three huge halls and a summer verandah, people will find  a small room facilities, where semi-welded served  beer is served. To spill this beer in the glasses, tourists have to wait for 15-20 minutes, as this is how long it takes foam to go down. But it&#8217;s worth it! Actually there are not a lot of people who get to  the secret room.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The famous bar «A black ox» near Loretsk square remains a local pub, despite the proximity to one of the most popular hiking trails in Prague. Apparently, the reason is the local residents occupy all the tables starting from morning and it is almost impossible break through. Yes, they will greet foreign visitors and say goodbye, but the parting will be especially loud and happy, when the tourists leave with nothing. Czechs preserve their secret places. Still,  travelers just need to stay here as in Prague to try unbottled dark «Velikopopovitskogo Roebuck» which can be found in very limited number of bars.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you can not attached to «A black ox», you can get to the bar called «A goat», which is located in Prague-3, Jan Zhelivskogo 4. This is also purely a local institution, but as tourists come to these edges less resistance to them is not as cohesive.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Between the two streets, rising to the Loreto and Stragovski monasteries, almost at the top you can find a narrow passage. A  few people go there but it is necessary  to visit a small bar, the entrance to which is hidden in the wall lane. Beer here is delicious &#8211; but no more than elsewhere in Prague. Prices here are higher, but this is only because you can see an incredible view of the capital of the Czech Republic. It does not matter whether one will drink a glass of beer or eat a full meal at one of the tables on the terrace, but you should be here.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-134" title="travel-3" src="http://www.travelvivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/travel-3.jpg" alt="travel-3" width="230" height="345" />There  are  many bars on the river bank in Český Krumlov, but there is a restaurant on the left of the bridge in the second house. Here you can find not just another outstanding local beer, but they also prepare  beautiful old dishes of Czech kitchen, and serve them in an authentic dish. In addition, there is a small but representative museums and there are always sits available  on the terrace of the River.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is very difficult escape from tourists  in Karlovy Vary. Still, here is the place where the prices are acceptable, and beer is not going to the usual tourist attractions. In the heart of Karlovy Vary in the famous hotels you  can  climb to the mountain on the cable car and appear at the foot lookout tower. Leap up, glance at the prestigious look and down again.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In Karlstejn, after inspection of the castle you  can  hurry no  more  and go down the same path. At the entrance to the castle right under the pointer «A Dragon» trail begins. Walk along the road for about 300 meters and you can find another Czech treasure. «A Dragon» is designed especially for tourists, and is accepted as the best restaurant on the quality of beer and food.</p>
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