The CN Tower in Toronto Canada

There are lots of great attractions in Toronto, Canada, but if you’re into architecture and amazing structures, then a visit to the CN Tower is essential. You can’t help but miss the sight of the CN Tower, as it stands high against the skyline in Toronto. In fact, it’s one of the tallest towers in [...]

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Visiting the Empire State Building in New York

A trip to New York isn’t complete without a visit to the Empire State Building. Located on Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street, the Empire State Building rises high above the street, and stands at 1,453 feet high.

If you’re intending to visit the Empire State Building, then it’s worth visiting early in the day or late in [...]

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Top Three Places to Visit in Cape Town

A visit to Cape Town in South Africa will provide you with no shortage of things to do and places to see. But if you’ve got limited time, here’s our pick of the top three must-see places to visit in Cape Town.

1. Table Mountain

Take a cable car up Table Mountain in Cape Town
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Exploring the Cape Town Wine Routes: Constantia Valley

If you’ve been inspired to visit South Africa through seeing the country during the World Cup coverage, then there are plenty of wonderful places to visit.

Cape Town is famous for many things, including its wine routes. For anyone who enjoys a tipple or two of fine wines, and wants to see where the grapes that [...]

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the secret of Bucharest’s charm

Bucharest, the capital of Romania,  is a shifting, disconcerting city with the provincial calm of sunlight-spattered streets, lined with secret gardens, town houses and small domed churches that look like cakes of brick sprout.  It is also a dispersed city- an urban rift created by the megalomania of Ceausescu. The center of the city is [...]

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Rainbow Parade 2009

Flashy, colorful and open-minded…that was Vienna’s motto on July 4th, 2009 when the 14th Rainbow Parade took place in the streets of 1st district, the Ring Boulevard, one of the most exclusive and most beautiful streets of Vienna, which is on this special day staged as ‘the Street of Republic’.
Every year, since its first Organization [...]

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Spending a day on top of San Francisco for free

How to get the best views of San Francisco – for free

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A Queen’s Day like never before…

Year after year the townsfolk of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba celebrate on April 30th (or on April 29th if the 30th is a Sunday) a very unique and joyous day, universally known as the Queen’s Day.
Queen’s Day History
Originally intended by the Liberal Union to be a day of national unity in the [...]

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The Rainbow Parade in Vienna

The 13th Rainbow Parade for gay rights took place in Vienna Saturday the 12th of July 2008. The colourful parade was followed by about 120,000 spectators that were fascinated by the crazy and creative costumes that about 48 groups presented on their way to the Heldenplatz were a huge celebration took place after the end of the parade. The parade was not all about partying and fun, but participants also called for discrimation against gay people to stop as well as for gay marriage to be allowed. Also a minute’s silence was held for those who died of AIDS due to their sexual preferences.

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New York City - Rockefeller Center

Welcome to the ‘city within a city’ – Rockefeller Center. The project started with the intention to build a new opera for the Metropolitan Opera but was changed due to the drop out of the Metropolitan after the stock market crash in 1929. John D. Rockefeller Jr. stated “It was clear that there were only [...]

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