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19 May, 2013
Posted on Friday, September 30th, 2011
The Atlantic Hotel in Jersey has been awarded top honours for outstanding food and service.
Among its recent accolades, the hotel now boasts a Michelin star for its Ocean Restaurant, and 4 AA Rosettes, an honour only 14 other hotel restaurants in the UK share.
Posted on Friday, September 30th, 2011
Outside the city of Denver, skiers and snowboarders at Crested Butte Mountain Resort (CBMR) will be treated to a free lift ticket on opening day.
The promotion is in celebration of the resort’s 50th birthday on 23 November.
Posted on Thursday, September 29th, 2011
The American Mustache Institute (AMI) has named Chicago the most mustache-friendly city in the United States.
To decide the winner, the AMI spent two years assessing over one hundred American cities on their treatment of mustaches, and interviewing another 200 Americans with mustaches in the quest to find the city that most embraced facial hair.
Posted on Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Visitors are in for a thrill this Halloween season in Orlando at Universal Studios Florida.
What started out as a single haunted house, decked out and opened to the public for just one weekend 21 years ago, has transformed into one of the busiest events of year for the theme park.
Posted on Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
An hour northwest of Stockholm, Sweden, the Sala Silvermine Hotel is giving guests an opportunity to sleep underground.
The hotel’s luxurious Underground Suite sends guests plunging 509 feet (over 150 metres) underground in a mineshaft to the minimalist room complete with bed, champagne platter, and silver furnishings paying tribute to the mine’s initial function.
Posted on Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
An hour outside of Brussels in Limburg, a new church has been unveiled in the Belgian countryside.
The work, titled ‘Reading between the Lines’, is a transparent church merging art and architecture, and commenting on the increase of vacant churches in the area.
Posted on Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
The largest pinball museum in the United States is set to open in Baltimore.
Opening this November, the National Pinball Museum will be in the heart of the city’s tourist district, moving from its original home in Georgetown in hopes of attracting tourists on holiday in Baltimore.
Posted on Monday, September 26th, 2011
Archaeologists working in Austria on a site outside Vienna have discovered the remains of a school for Roman gladiators.
The gladiator school’s discovery was made at the Carnuntum Archaeological Park, and along with the remains of the school, archaeologists found new features never seen before at such a facility.
