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Frontier Airlines offers social distancing bookings

Middle seat blocked for USD39 fee




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Airbnb lays off a quarter of workforce

About 1,900 to lose jobs worldwide




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Wizz confirms launch of low-cost Abu Dhabi airline in June

And new base will open in Ukraine in July




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Disney profits plunge due to theme park closures and cruise cancellations

Shanghai Disneyland to reopen on Monday - but guests must wear masks




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Royal Caribbean sued over Covid-19 death of crew member

Indonesian's family claim cruise line failed to adequately protect workers




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Air Canada conducting temperature screening of all passengers

CleanCare+ initiative rolls out May 15




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CMV extends suspension of sailings

So far, nearly 80 per cent of its passengers have rebooked




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A-ROSA plans to restart cruises at the end of May

It hopes to run selected Rhine and Danube itineraries




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Expression Web Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Microsoft Expression Web

Microsoft's free web editor is a sophisticated WYSIWYG web editor with many features usually only found in commercial offerings (and no wonder, since it was previously something you had to buy). This tutorial series takes you through the process of designing a fully functional multi-page website with Expression Web.





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Laos in the time of covid.

On March 11th the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic just as Turkey Ivory Coast Honduras and Bolivia announced their first cases. There were now 126214 confirmed cases worldwide 7266 new cases that day and a total of 4628 deaths thus f




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RUSSIA...The Golden Ring of Postcode 150000

On our wedding day Denise I exchanged gold rings.I was then told I could kiss my bride.I moved in and picked her up which brought gasps and squeals of delight.We then kissed long and hard.The minister said he had never seen that before.




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The Sound of Silence

Although enjoyable the trip to Milford Sound was a little underwhelming given its rank in the pantheon of world travel destinations. Lots of waterfalls but small in size and little else to see on the Sound itself. However the next day went the other wa




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Skopje 1 Holocaust Memorial Centre for the Jews of Macedonia

It was quite an early start as a I retraced my steps from the previous day to Serdika Bus Station. As I got there far too early I headed over to the other bus terminal for a bit of a mooch around. This one was much better and had shops places to get food




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Derbyshire 79 Chesterfield A doffed capplans plans and more plans the only way to wisely use your allocated seconds in the day

I take a sharp intake of breath as I test what the air temperature is outside . The chill of the frosty night has not yet been burned away that frosty morning feeling. My breath comes out like a thick wisp of smoke. I need my gilet on today to keep me warm




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Gili Gede Gili Renggit Gili Layar 3 of many secret Gilis around Lombok which have this out of this world feeling

Around the main island of Lombok there are many many Gilis islands. Some of them inhabited some just some rocks bushes but all having wonderful white sands turquoise waters and stunning views. Being on search for a nice Gili we finally decided to




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Derbyshire 80 Clay Cross the other side of the A61the industrial side of Chesterfield

Sometimes you have to try something different . Chesterfield area is not all Peak District pretty . Nor is full to the brim with pretty stone cottages . Stone walls fields and Bluebell Woods . There is another side . The A61 divides the two halves . The P




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Antarctica.....The Land of Ice Whales and some Seals

With sadness weve left the South Georgia Islands behind. We can imagine that many a passenger have felt similar emotions and in an effort to buoy our spirits Quark threw a BBQ on the aft deck What kind of craziness is this A bit frigid but stimulati




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Derbyshire 82 Chesterfield Gabby is still parked up I spy Another three weeks of lockdown

The brain this morning does not want to function . One side is saying get up get moving get out . The other side replies in a negative fashion . Let me stay in bed a bit longer. My foot aches . Underneath and on top. Shoes are rubbing toes from so much




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Day 05 Coffee Museum visit in Kobe Jun 2019

Thursday 27th June 2019It was raining in the morning as I made my way to the city of Kobe. The train ride to JR Kobe Station from Himeji took about an hour and very soon I was making my way out of the station towards the direction of Kobe Harbo




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Jordan roadtrip a glimpse of Lebanon

31st May 16th June 2019 This is our first blog post since coming back from a yearlong trip in 2012. Since then we have visited many amazing places but our trip to Jordan is the first one which we decided to blog a




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Guatemala soul of the earth part 12

After one week in Belize I left San Ignacio by bus towards the border with Guatemala. The crossing and procedures at the migration went smooth and without any issues. Guatemala is the second largest country of Central America after Nicaragua but has the m




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Derbyshire 88 Chesterfield Day 34 what to do today The sounds of silence Ground Control to Captain Tom

The early morning dawn light was streaming in through the window . The time seemed irrelevant . It was still not quite light enough to rise . Looking at my watch I hoped the green luminous fingers would give me a clue to the time . It felt like 5am. The fi




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Day 06 Off to Yashima Shikoku Jun 2019

Friday 28th June 2019I headed to the city of Takamatsu on the eastern end of Shikoku island this morning. This is as far as my railway pass could take me given that I had only purchased the limited SanyoSan'in Area Pass rather than the all Jap




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Day 06 Off to Takamatsu Shikoku Jun 2019

Friday 28th June 2019 From Yashima I made a trip back to the city centre where the Takamatsu Symbol Tower is located. Towering 30th stories above ground level there is a public observatory where free views of the city could be had. Following




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Houhai and the Former Residence of Soong Ching Ling

When I visited China for the first time many many years ago. I remember going to a place that I really liked but couldn't remember what it was called. I remember me and one of the guys I travelled with sat at an outside bar by a lake and it was really nic




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Derbyshire 90 Chesterfield the work of fiction got it right first thingroman miles and a milestone

The work of fiction known as the weather forecast has been giving us a sandwich message the last few days. The good news the bread of the sandwich has been that April has been a lovely month . No April showers. Wall to wall sunshine. Then came the fillin




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Vang Vieng Home of the worlds best Sandwich

Laotian food is really something special sure in most countries you could go out for dinner and a show. However when you step into Laos the Dinner is the show. Performance plays a big role in Laotian cuisine. Youll likely find a spectacle in e




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Derbyshire 94 Chesterfield the day did not start wella skip in the pouring rainrunning out of things to say and do

It was not the aching feet that were stopping me in my tracks . To be fair they were burning . This walking plays havoc with the arches of your feet . It was not my brain working overtime thinking of reasons not to go out . Although it would have been easy




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Oregon Trip 2011 week of July 4th Just me and Mom

Oregon Trip 2011Day 1We left the house at 0600 and ate breakfast at Shoneys before heading to Nashville. After dropping off the car at Alexis Inn and Suites and after Mom was finally able to get up into the shuttle van lol we were off.The fl




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Derbyshire 97 Chesterfield small random acts of kindness The Five tests The R word Here comes the sun E45

Goedemorgen to you all . We would have probably woken up in Belgium this morning having dined on waffles or frites last night . I am sure that the sun would be shining as we rose . The sun has arrived here so the chances are Belgium would have been just as




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Derbyshire 98 Chesterfield walking in the footprint of Wingerworth Hallwhat is the connection between Wingerworth Randolph Hearst and the St Louis City Museum

Did you know that there was a connection between our large 7000 inhabitant village of Wingerworth Randolph Hearst and the a museum across the pond in St Louis No neither did I until I treated our village as if I were a visitor on a first visit . As a v




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12 Jyotirlingas Manifestations of Lord Shiva History Heritage blog

According to our Shiva Mahapurana one day Vishnu and Brahma had an argument over their superiority. Shiva appeared in front of them in the form of a raging fire and asked them to each find the tip of the fire. Whoever reaches the tip would be superior bet




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Derbyshire 102 Chesterfieldwe might be able to go out and exercise twice a daythe story of the Napoleonic prisoners and the 1 and a half mile milestone

It is dark when I wake . It is Day 48 of the lockdown . The sun has not risen and the birds have not woken. It is Thursday . Sage are meeting today with our government . Sage used to be that herb that you stuffed up a chicken together with onion . Now it i




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koh chang and the end of the trip is almost nigh..

Koh chang has been all about the relax and what a beautiful island to have picked. Its very laid back with lots of cute little towns to explore we defo needed a motorbike to do this as the taxi service is very expensive and seen no sign of a local bus ser




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The rest of New Zealand what an incredibly beautiful country.

Hello everyone I hope you are all well and enjoyed the half term break. Since I last wrote I have been busy exploring more of New Zealand so let me fill you in on what we have been up to whilst visiting the South Island. Mount CookWe spent a n




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A Day of Travel DenScotland

A day of travel is never uneventful and this was true for me as well My flight from Denver to London was great I got a middle row seat in the front of the economy section so I had extra leg room The steward was really friendly and thanks to the eventfu




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Free Hop on Hop off Bus in Perth

It's great to have a local show you round and Anna has been taking me around the sights of Perth today. Great to see some old buildings have been preserved amongst the soaring modern ones. There is quite a bit of digging up main roads and new developments




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The Audacity of Hope

Okay here goes with my first blog post ever.I'm two and a half days into my adventure and I'm still alive so that's a great start. The first thing that needs to be said which I'm sure most everyone has heard before is that the smog here is crazy




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off to Tibet

Happy National Day holiday Next week is the 61st anniversary of the PRC so we have no school Thanks Chairman Mao Last night the overseas students office held a banquet for all the international students. The president or dean not sure which...i




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Photos of Apartment and view from Balcony

Photos of my Guatemala City apartment and the view from my balcony. Photos 112.




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the land of elephants....

There is a strange thing that happens when you live overseas. People take weekend trips to Vietnam or Japan or Korea or in my case Thailand. In the states this would be like taking a trip to Florida or California or just to a random city in the midwest.




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1st Real Day of our Holiday

So now we are lying in our Holiday Inn room in a nice big King Bed at Los Angeles International Airport HOW EXCITING But what has happened up until now To be honest not a lot so here goes.....Left Cairns at 430am on the 2nd October to fly




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Expo and a whole load of catch up

It has been 6 weeks since we all started at Dulwich College and the time has just completely and utterly flown away. I can't believe it has been almost 2 months since we moved into our lovely new apartment in Jinqiao and our new life on 'the dark side' if




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Up the East Coast of USA Cape May MD

Cape May is a city at the southern tip of Cape May Peninsula in




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Apple’s software updates are like changing the water in a fish tank. I’d rather let the fish die | Charlie Brooker

The all-new iPhones and Apple Watch can be easily avoided but there’s no escaping iOS 8

The past few weeks haven’t been great for Apple. First they were implicated in the stolen celebrity nude photo disaster, which reminded everybody how easily clouds leak. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the iPhone is generally marketed as a diabolical timewasting device with the potential to wreak a grotesque and devastating invasion of your personal privacy. They tend to focus more on all the cool colours it comes in.

Then they launched the horrible-looking Apple Watch, which does everything an iPhone can do, but more expensively and pointlessly, and on a slightly different part of your body. Only an unhealthily devoted Apple fanatic could bear to wear a Apple Watch, and even that poor notional idiot would have to keep putting their iPhone down in order to operate the damn thing. It’ll scarcely be used for telling the time, just as the iPhone is scarcely used for making calls. It’s not a watch. It’s a gaudy wristband aimed at raising awareness of Chinese factory conditions. Or a handy visual tag that helps con artists instantly identify gullible rich idiots in a crowd.

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This awesome dissection of internet hyperbole will make you cry and change your life | Charlie Brooker

Exaggeration is the official language of the internet. Only the most strident statements have any impact. Oversteer and oversell, all the time

The other day I was talking to a music fan who’d recently gone to see one of Kate Bush’s widely praised live appearances. Naturally I was keen to hear a first-hand account of this era-defining event, so I asked what it was like.

“The first half was great,” she said. “But the second half got a bit boring.”

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Cameron rebooted: five more years of a shiny computerised toe in a prime-ministerial suit

We’ve had the bloodletting of the Ed Wedding. Now we’ve got the full-fat Tory government that virtually no one predicted

It was supposed to be more complicated. After the vote, they said we’d have to get out the constitutional slide rule to try to work out who’d won. The Wikipedia entry on “minority government” experienced a huge spike in traffic. There were more bitter arguments about legitimacy than five seasons of Jeremy Kyle. Everyone agreed the election would herald the gravest constitutional crisis since the abdication, or that time Jade Goody slagged off Shilpa Shetty on Big Brother. Many said Ed Miliband was certain to become prime minister.

Yep. That’s what they said.

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From the Editors: The Audio of Our Interview with Morrissey

British pop singer Morrissey has accused DER SPIEGEL of falsely quoting him in a recently published interview. The magazine stands behind its reporting and has made the decision to post the audio online in response.




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The Profound Lesson of the Notre Dame Fire

As the flames shot out of the roof of Notre Dame de Paris on Monday evening, a global community of concern quickly formed. It shows that the idea of cultural heritage is much more than just a UNESCO list.