Chilling out in an Ice Hotel > Blogger At Large with Megan Singleton

It's also wise to book a warm room in the main hotel if it doesn't come with your package, that way you can use it to change, shower, toilet and scamper to in the night if you can't hack it. Ready for bed? ... Hotel de Glace in Canada opens Jan 4 until April 4. This has the hot tub suite (a must for me). You'll get a tour of the whole hotel before you check in and can see each artistic design in every room. Tags: Ice Hotels, Quebec, Sweden. VN:F [1.7.7_1013] ...

Jersey's musings: Friday Five

The freeway entrance/exit by my hotel featured a line of cars stopped at the top of the exit ramp waiting for an opening, rather than maintaining speed and merging in. The Five. With the holidays coming up, there's a 99% chance this will be my last Friday Five of ... I just don't see me sitting down on Christmas day or New Year's day to peck out a Friday Five. Maybe I'm wrong, but if you were going to make book on me not posting a Friday Five, I wouldn't bet against me. ...

Supervised By A Cat - Meet some of my coworkers!

Tuesday was our employee Christmas party (a lovely luncheon served at a nearby hotel -- my own Mr Catyah played the piano as entertainment for the party, and he was a great success). Anyway, another part of the entertainment was this ... " Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx "Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts!" Opus the penguin "My best friend is the man who gives me a book I haven't read yet." Abraham Lincoln ...

Stinque » I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar Away

Sarah Palin not only annoyed leaders of the Utah Republican Party when she didn't have time for them during her book signing stop in Salt Lake City last week. She also took off from her hotel after arranging for a last-minute hair ...

Flickr interview series: Matthew Morton « Laura Ward

When I was at uni I picked up this awesome hardback book of his photos in a sale bin out. I can't remember what it was called, but it was great, these all-american wide open photos, but at the root of it quite banal. ... This picture was taken near the hotel in the afternoon. It was sunny but down a very narrow and dark alleyway. I walked past and did a u-turn to get the shot. I tried set up the camera without him noticing so he wouldn't look up. It was slowish exposure, ...

Tips for TravellingBudget Travel Guide Book

As an even morefrugalalternative to a hotel,if you'reyoungand adventurous, you mighteven want to give"couch surfing"a try. It's a systemwhereyou register, then are referredto strangerswho are willing;to let you sleep on theircouch. ... (And ,the driver in our teamreminds me, they'reharderto park.) Don't get the "gas package"whereyou can returnthe rental car empty... you'll neverget it to empty....You'llbe too afraidof running out of gas on yourway backto the airport, ...

jewish lady black man: 50 is fabulous, 60 is sensational and 70 ...

There was absolutely no room for a passenger and I drove nine thousand miles My very first book talk and signing was in St. Augustine, Florida. The town people were waiting for me as the book store put a write-up about me in the local paper . From there I travelled up the coast speaking and signing books at Barnes and Noble, Borders and other independent stores. I slept in a different hotel every two nights and financed the rooms by renting out my own apartment. ...