Prague’s Spontaneous Shrine to John Lennon
affiliate program By Betsa Marsh The 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s tragic murder will be commemorated all over the world, but especially at what many Czechs consider the first Lennon Memorial. The Lennon Wall in Prague’s Mala Strana (Lesser Town) sprang up spontaneously after the Dec. 8 shooting, and Praguers risked imprisonment to write on [...]
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Johnny X Gets an Angle on Cubist Prague
affiliate program By Betsa Marsh Johnny X, the SATW Traveling Teddy who globetrots for the third-grade class of Meredith Schroeder at St. Joseph Consolidated School in Hamilton, Ohio, recently toured Prague. He enjoyed walking the narrow, twisting paths of Old Town and The Jewish Quarter, exploring Prague’s unbroken millennium of architecture, but after a few [...]
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Cincinnati–There’s An App for That!
affiliate program Just out! Cincinnati Essentials is my new app that covers the waterfront from Cincinnati’s Ghost Subway to flying pigs and frying goetta. Designed for travelers and residents alike, Cincinnati Essentials uncovers the best of the quirky Queen City. The mobile guide for Apple iPhones, iPods and iPads is available for $2.99 on iTunes. [...]
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Falling for Irresistible Thai Artists in a Big Way
Are you a mad shopaholic when you travel? I’m usually pretty resolute about just buying tiny trinkets for friends back home, but when I’m confronted with a darling 12-year-old art prodigy in Northern Thailand, well, I lose all control… Ashley the Traveling Teddy also had a big day at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, and [...]
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Lawrence of Arabia Surprises at Horse Museum
The world is coming to Lexington for the 16-day Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, starting Sept. 25. While you’re watching some of the best horses and riders from around the globe, be sure to pop into the Kentucky Horse Park’s International Museum of the Horse to see “A Gift from the Desert” about the Arabian [...]
Keep Reading...Lend an Ear to Van Gogh iPhone App
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is the first museum on the European Continent to have an iPhone application. The application, “Yours, Vincent,” was developed to accompany the exhibition “Van Gogh’s letters: The artist speaks,” running through Jan. 3. The application allows people with an iPhone or an iPod touch to zoom in on 120 [...]
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