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Archive for July, 2009

The Lotus Festival

This year, the Lotus Festival took place at Snetterton from United Kingdom on 13th June. Even if the festival was only for 2 days celebrated, for most of tourists was incredible.

This festival was also organised by the Lotus on Track Racing Drivers Club being supported by more than 10 clubs and organisations and even with 4 different championships.

Lotus on Track is one of the largest track organiser from the whole Europe. That’s why Track Racing Drivers Club has been created to have friendly series for the owners of Lotus. This type of series were formed in 2007. Now, the best club series is known to be the Elise Trophy. This attracts a lot of fans and tourists to the Lotus Festival.

It have also had in front 2 races from the Lotus Production and Lotus Modified classes. The next who have competed were: Toyo Tires Racing Saloons, The GT Cup, Production BMW Championship, Sports Racing Series and many others.

The Lotus Festival will take on added significance as W.C Andy Green was the only who competed in the Elise Trophy without fear, the most courageous.

At the festival there was a good attempt for a huge number of Lotus cars, around 1,000 vehicles that were competing in the same time and on the same track.

There was plenty of excitiment for visitors as well as for competitors. After this race, a party was a perfect target at the Lotus Soap Box race for everyone of there, the entire night.

Posted on July 13th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Christ Church, Jerusalem

The Christ Church from Jerusalem started to exist when several people were in the good place at a good time. As the Book say, men and women came at church each day and finally they were practically a part of it. The Church Of Christ was built in 19th century, preciselly in 1849 and it is also the oldest church from the Middle East. Along the years, the church needed help for serious repairs to maintain the reputation of the Lord clear as well as His house.

The Christ Church from Jerusalem has in its origins the needed to educate the Jewish people, to learn them about the life of Christ. The church is trying to eliminate all anti-Jewish forms, things against christian people.

This beautiful Church from Jerusalem is preciselly situated at Jaffa Gate from the Old City. The hrist Church was also the 1st Protestant church from the Middle East.

Known to be an Anglican church, it attracts annually a lot of tourists, christian visitors who are very excitied to see such an old building and also to learn something from its history.  The majority of people around the city are praying for the peace of Jerusalem. The beautiful Church also houses many different Messiah Jewish congregations.

Posted on July 12th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival is a great big event thattakes place each year on May 13th until May 24. Year by year tens of celebrities and even tourists around the world are coming in the French Riviera city. Annually, the industry of movies is celebrated there. The Cannes Film Festival is also called by french people Festival du Cannes. Here tourist could find things about the history of the movies and they can besides that to visit more attractions of Cannes along the Cote d’Azur.

This is also the 62th celebration of this kind of festival from Cannes. “Le Festival De Cannes” was also founded on 1946 13th May. This event is known to be one of the most famous and oldest festivals from Europe, as well as from the whole world.

7 years before the foundation of the Cannes Film Festival, in 1939, the government from France has decided to be Cannes the best destination for the Film Festival inauguration.

Only rich tourists could afford to take part at this prestigious film festival event. Here all the movie industry’s members are meeting annually. The best film are also awarded and its producers and actors are also awarded with a great festival. It includes a lot of exhibitions honouring some of the most important stars.

Tourists can see the film festival, but they are not allowed to attend this. Only people involved in the movies’ businessed and journalists could do this. Even the presence of stars attracts most of tourists.

The Cannes Film Festival takes place, as this year, at the Festivals and Congres Palace which is situated in the south part of France.

Posted on July 11th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Marbella Holiday

Tourists around the world who are very excited to find out the main attractions of Marbella should take a break and prepare a couple of days for a marvelous holiday in one of the most popular tourist attraction of Spain.

At first, Marbella has some of the most beautiful beaches that offer tourists a variety of water sports and don’t miss the tennis and golf clubs.

There are a lot of attractions that each visitor must see it. If you like horse-riding, than don’t waste time and get to the Costa del Sol Equestrian Art School which is not so far away from Marbella.
If you would like to choose something else, then try the Selwo Animal Park which is practically a safari park where animals are kept in safe to not hurt adults and children.

As we said, Marbella has a lot of beaches to offer and a lot to choose from. Funny Beach and Paseo Maritimo are not some exceptions.

Funny Beach is a place where children can make many outdoor activities with motor bikes, boats or children’s cars. This beach has even a great restaurant and bar where families can eat a delicious barbecue food. But this beach is specific to kids when whey host their birthday.

The weather couldn’t be better than that. With plenty of sun and warm summer time, no raining in the afternoon, golden sandy beaches there is no doubt Marbella attracts more and more tourists around the world.

Another two attractions of the city are the Alameda Park and Murallas del Castillo.

Alemada Park is the place where you should go in the morning, with fresh air and shade trees for passers, jasmines and many other flowers. But two centuries ago, in the park there were no botanical species of plants planted. Now, the Alameda Park has around 20,000 sq. metres only with plants and sculptures of the great artist, Salvador Dali.

Murallas del Castillo is known to be the only building that remains even nowadays from the Muslim era. This castle was initially built in the tenth century and continued in the fourteenth century.

Throughout these centuries, people said a lot about the posible legends of the castle. There is even said that the old castle has some underground passages and secret doors. The castle measures now only  90 x 160 square meters. Unfortunately, tourists could not visit the castle inside of it.

The last landmark we have to mention is the Paseo Marítimo which stretches more than five kilometers. On both sides of this boardwalk you can see a plenty of palm trees, several buildings and mini shops. A promenade along this boardwalk makes you very delighted in any season of year.

Posted on July 10th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Tel Aviv Museum of Art is situated in Israel and is known to be the most visited museum from Israel. This famous museum hosts some of the most renowned paintings of important artists as Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet,Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, etc.

Through these marvelous objects there are also many exhibitions and cultural programmes for children and adults with classical music, dance, different types of arts, important events and cinema for movies. It has even a department for design and architecture.

Tel Aviv Museum Of Art is also considered the biggest museum from Israel representing the specific traditions of Tel Aviv and sombolyzing the Israelian culture and art.

This museum has been opened since 1932. Interesting is that the Israel state has been not founded yet.
The most important attraction of this museum is that it offers a peek into the fascinating world of Israel’s art created by artists.

Posted on July 9th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The Maritime Museum of San Diego

The Maritime Museum of San Diego has one of the most precious collections which consist on 5 galleries represented by some historic ships as Star of India (the oldest ship in the world) the 1904 yacht Medea, the HMS Surprise which is practically a replica of a ship from the 18th century).

This museum represents several themes of maritime histories and their strong connection with San Diego City.

The Maritime Museum of San Diego is a good landmark for tourists who want to find thing about the maritime history. It’s a great place to start with.

People who live here know for sure the Star of India as being a majestic ship which is anchored alongside North Harbor Drive. They shouldn’t be aware of the other ships which are in the museum.

Posted on July 8th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

Nanjing Road in Shanghai

Nanjing Road situated in Shanghai and is kown to be the most important tourist streets from here. It is considered the best place where visitors have the chance to learn something about the history of Shanghai City.

Tourists should also know that Nanjing Road is the first commercial road ever built Shanghai. At the beginning of this century, there were only 4 stores along the Nanjing Road.

But in time, the street has become  the most visited shopping center in Shanghai and now beside departament stores, there are several restaurants, shopping malls, souvenir shops, and even an incredible night scene and different hotels where every tourist can spend his night.You wil never be sorry to visit this place, it is a must-see tourist attraction for every traveler who comes to Shanghai.

The road which is situated to the east part of Tibet Road is practically the East Nanjing Road and the road to the west part of it is called the West Nanjing Road.

Around this famous street, there are a lot of cultural buildings as Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Theatre, People’s Square,  etc that you can visit all day.

Posted on July 7th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The Badlands Golf Club

Johnny Miller is the person who has designed the Badlands Golf Club. Together with his team he has capitalized a terrain where he could create a golf club.

Chi Chi Rodriguez, who was twice the Senior Class Champion in Las Vegas had a very important contribution to this design.

He has seen a  design course through which golfers are challenging eachother. In this way, the Badlands Golf Club incorporated five or six sets of tees on each hole.

This Club was chosen one of the Top 10 Courses in Nevada. It also has decided to offer 27 golf holes. Players even have the chance to select from 4 sets of tees. In this way could be created rounds for all level of talents and abilities.

The Badlands Golf Club has 3 nine-hole layouts. These are Diablo, Desperado and The Outlaw. All of them had as designer Johnny Miller. Johnny has opened this club for the public in 1995.

It is not so hard to get there and the surrounding views are more spectacular and beautiful than in other countries where golf is a good choice to spend your time.

Posted on July 6th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

The Shark Reef

The Shark Reef is also called the deep blue world. Here you will also find some of the most incredible and famous creatures from all the aquariums and exhibits of North America.

A lot of types of sharks with green sea turtles, fishes as piranha, moon jellies and even golden crocodiles are in total more than 2,000 animals situated in 1.6 million gallons of seawater.

All the tourists have the chance to SCUBA dive in the seawater, until 22 foot deep Shipwreck Exhibit. It is surrounded by all these species of animals.

If you thought to visit it, there is a serious program for people of all ages. This kind of program has an hour in which you can visit the aquarium and an hour for the classroom session. It will have as a leadership the Education team.

To protect these animals, serious measures are taken by Shark Reef. Ths is for conservating and preservating this environment. One of the most important way of preserving these natural resources are the recycling water and turn the imitation corals into some exhibits.

The Shark Reef is believed to maintain the standard of life of every animal and to take care of their lifecycles.

Posted on July 5th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »

San Francisco

San Francisco is famous for the phenomenon of fog which sometimes takes several months for the hills with steep slopes, for the combination of Victorian architecture and modern architecture.

The most famous monuments and places to visit are the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, cable pulled trams in San Francisco, Transamerica Pyramid Building, Coit Tower and Chinatown.

San Francisco is the second largest city after density. San Francisco is characterized by a high standard of living. The great wealth and opportunity generated by the Internet revolution continues to draw many highly educated and high-income workers and residents to San Francisco.

Lower-income neighborhoods have consequently become increasingly gentrified, and many of the city’s traditional business and industrial districts have experienced a renaissance driven by the Redevelopment of the Embarcadero, including the neighborhoods South Beach and Mission Bay.

The city’s property values and household income have escalated to among the highest in the nation, allowing the city to support a large restaurant and entertainment infrastructure.

Because the cost of living in San Francisco is exceptionally high, many middle class families have decided they can no longer afford to live within the city and have left.
Yet San Francisco is a beautiful and interesting city.

Posted on July 4th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »