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Entries from September 2008

Learning to cook the local food in great locations

September 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Have you ever fallen in love with the local food of the place you were visiting, but then come home with no idea of how to prepare it for yourself? Then it looks as though On the Menu, established in 2004, have something for you. On the Menu offer specialist cooking holidays that will appeal [...]

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Tags: Activity holidays · General

The Million Dollar Holiday

September 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

Do you know that one of the most expensive hotels ever built, The Emirates Palace, in Abu Dhabi, offers the ultimate package holiday, coming in at a cool one million US dollars? So while we tear our hair out over the credit crunch, just cast your eye over this little lot, while you dream, drool [...]

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Tags: General · United Arab Emirates

A trip to space! Yes, really!

September 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Well, it had to happen, didn’t it? If you are fed up with the planet Earth altogether, and really want to get away from it all, now you can even escape off up into space. Not very far, and not for very long, but just enough to see with your own eyes that the Earth [...]

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Tags: Russia · Space