Travel Freak

If you travel is made looking for a good accommodation, hunting the typical restaurant, travel by train or courier, with the desire to know the locals just to get two or chatter exchange jokes on tourists, Americans, Germans and Italians, then the Club Med is not for you. But if you are so stressed from work, family or a report went to evil, and agognate a week where everything, but everything is perfect, then perhaps Club Med is for you.

From January Club Med has opened a new resort on the island of Mauritus, specifically in the northeast coast, not far from the capital Port Louis. The resort, Plantation d’Albion, in addition to the beautiful natural scenery of the island, has much to offer its guests, as two swimming pools, tennis courts, a golf course and sports equipment for sports like sailing, snorkeling or Beach volleyball. But we are lazy for which we are contenting ourselves with ciondolare the bar, restaurant, the beach without us miss the garden party.

The village (offenderanno mica them if I called the village?) Has 266 rooms and suites, all with terrace and balcony overlooking the ocean or the lush gardens.

On Friday the Republic I found an alert interesting for fans of travel and mysteries, for devotees of 1408… This is a book, or rather a guide “The Penguin book of ghosts” (available on amazon.co.uk to 9.74 pounds) which proposes a route between skulls and ghosts for a holiday English “fear”, wandering between skulls speakers and spectra of animals without head, wives murdered and growers ghost.

A text to navigate the places contaminated with supernatural presences in which Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson have reviewed a list of localities British assediate by ghosts.

County for the county tell the stories are more surreal: two young wives, killed at Cleeve Corner, near the village of Prestbury in the county of Gloucestershire and Armboth Hall, in the Lake District, returning to the place of the crime with a veil and bouquet. In the county of Cumbria, where stands the Muncaster Castle, from 1880 the skulls of two peasants condemned unjustly shout revenge. In the district of Kensington, east London, tells the story of a woman dead from 15 years whose ghost has appeared on the day of death of her husband.

There are not even the ectoplasmi animals: in the village of Stanney, in Cheshire, people are frightened by the spectre of un’anatra without head. And in the county of Shropshire village Hyssington is terrified by a bull with eyes fiammeggianti.

The famous Hotel Royal Monceau, built in 20 years and inaugurated in 1928, is undergoing restructuring. Since its birth was the splendor of receiving hotel in Paris; among celebrities Eisenhower, Churchill, de Niro, and the youngest, was the set of videos from Madonna “Justify my love.”

The responsibility for this whole restructuring is by Philippe Stark and, with the occasion, the original furnishings are for sale at auction. You can buy from June 19 to 22, at the headquarters of the hotel, on the Avenue Hoche. Chandeliers, carpets, coffee tables, there is something for all tastes and all prices… If you love flea markets and antique shops in Paris, this certainly deserves a trip, fund can buy a piece of history of a building that was certainly a legend.

Arriva animation 4d with Shrek to Movie Park in Bottrop in Germany el’occasione progress is to go to make a look. The park, the largest of its kind, is devoted exclusively to the world of cinema and is also ideal for a weekend with his family.

The attractions are very different: the reconstruction of the set of “The man in black” to “The blues brothers”, the stunt man in action; trip to Mars, the encounter with aliens in the Bermuda Triangle. For the kids there with Patrick SpongeBob, Dora and Jimmy Neutron.

Throughout the month of June, the park is open from 10 am to 18, while in July the closure was postponed to 20.00 and increase the days devoted to special events such as July 5 devoted to “Laser Show” or July 14 dedicated to SpongeBob birthday (hence the calendar).

On holiday in the homes of writers

An idea of original holiday for all lovers of books? Staying in the homes of our favorite writers. Yes, maybe there happen to take tea with Stephen King or playing quidditch with JK Rowling, but would you like to put the pleasure unique and unrepeatable to rent the house of John Keats or Robert Louis Stevenson?

This bell’articolo of The Observer presents a list of places open to the public where you can relive the atmosphere from which it drew inspiration our favorite novels. Why not take advantage: for the homeless in Kent where Charles Dickens lived during the long summer holidays, between 1937 and 1959, (and where seems to have written Nicholas Nickleby) spend from 83 to 207 pounds. Without considering that, from 19 to 22 June, you can participate in Broadstairs Dickens Festival 2008.

And what they say the room number 511 of the Ambos Mundos, in Havana, where Ernest Hemingway wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” which he himself described as “a good place to write.” The list is long, from Berlin where Franz Kafka stayed that to Key West described by Tennessee Williams, up to the estate in Vermont where Rudyard Kipling spent his honeymoon (and learned to ski on skis from donatigli Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the inventor of Sherlock Holmes).