by moscerina

Photo credit: “Testaccio blues” by _mirko_ (ç„¡)

When it rains, Rome is usually the last place anyone wants to be. You can’t eat outside, unless you don’t mind getting quasi-soaked. The buses, trams and taxis seems to be in limited edition. The Vatican Museums are overrun and the Forum has a mud river flowing through it. That doesn’t mean there is nothing to do in Rome. It just means you have to be clever and get out of the historical center.

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by moscerina

Photo credit: “Testaccio blues” by _mirko_ (ç„¡)

When it rains, Rome is usually the last place anyone wants to be. You can’t eat outside, unless you don’t mind getting quasi-soaked. The buses, trams and taxis seems to be in limited edition. The Vatican Museums are overrun and the Forum has a mud river flowing through it. That doesn’t mean there is nothing to do in Rome. It just means you have to be clever and get out of the historical center.

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NYCB is returning to Copenhagen with an all Balanchine programme on September 6. Serenade is included.

Get tickets here: billetnet

photo via ballet blog the winger 

check the revamped new york city ballet website for videos on balanchine and other choreographers

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NYCB is returning to Copenhagen with an all Balanchine programme on September 6. Serenade is included.

Get tickets here: billetnet

photo via ballet blog the winger 

check the revamped new york city ballet website for videos on balanchine and other choreographers

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More About Port Phillip Bay

Port Phillip Bay, aka the Bay to the locals, is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia.

Geographically speaking, Port Phillip is a large marine bay 1,930 km² (476,900 acres) in area which has a coastline length of 264 km (164 miles). The bay is extremely shallow for its size, but navigable for the most part. The deepest portion is only 24 m (80 ft), and half the region is shallower than 8 m. Its volume is around 25 km³.

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Obviously, IT loves a good shopping spree for authentic crafts when we’re traveling. But there’s also something to be said for scoping out the local thrift stores for some fabulous finds. Our friends over at Gadling and Gridskipper reminded us of the satisfaction that comes from scoring a great item for next to nothing while you’re wandering, and we asked the Traveler staffers to tell us their favorite thrifty souvenirs.

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It’s been 30 years since “the King” passed away, but that hasn’t stopped Elvis enthusiasts from traveling to Graceland to celebrate the life of the crooner; they get over 600,000 visitors a year. But there’s bad news for the folks who weren’t convinced that Elvis had ever left the building to begin with: The Elvis is Alive Museum is about to close. The bizarre Missouri outpost, just an hour outside of St. Louis, was once a coin-operated laundry, but for the past 17 years it’s been the pet project of Baptist minister Billy Beeney. The AP reports that:

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a girl in a polo-neck by Richard Thomson

Photographer: Richard Thomson

When and Where: Miao (minority) village festival, near Kaili, Guizhou, China, 2000.

Getting the Shot: I got here by chance after deciding to follow a man who did the Asian drop-hand sign towards me by a roadside a few miles outside Kaili. ‘Come here’, he signaled. I did. I followed him for an hour or two along tracks in order to find out why. It just felt as though he must have had a good reason. The reason become obvious when banners became visible over the track near the entrance to his village: a festival.

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Our dear friend and contributing editor Andrew Nelson paused his travels for a moment to send us another great postcard from the road (literally this time).

It seems totally incongruous, but travelers barreling down Mississippi’s Interstate 20/59 will see a glorious art deco tower rising over the town of Meridian (pop. 40,000). The skyscraper, with its geometric lines and colorful terra cotta tile facade, is worthy of New York or Chicago. How did all this tower of Jazz Age power end up in a sleepy part of deep Dixie? The story’s interesting:

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Colorado is cultivating a new kind of tourism. Rather than erecting a Disneyland of the Rockies or enticing luxury-seeking tourists to one of the state’s hot springs, Colorado is drawing visitors to its many farms.

Tourists spent about $2.2 billion on “agritourism” in 2006, and the new trend is sprouting up all over the Centennial State. The Rocky Mountain News reports:

“It’s going to grow, especially if we nurture it a little bit,” said Dawn Thilmany, a professor in Colorado State University’s Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics. “We’re not leading-edge in Colorado, but we’re ahead of the curve.”

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