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The definition of an Official TCT Gathering can be found here. In our opinion, these are the best vintage trailer rallys in the world!
TCT Returns to Cedar Key, Florida
When: December 4-7, 2014
Location: Sunset Isle RV Resort, Cedar Key, FL
30 sites have been reserved for TCT members.
You must be registered with Forrest Bone first.
A list will be sent to the Wilson's and they will accept site reservations from those listed.
Site reservations will be available after November 1, 2014.
NOTE: SOLD OUT - We were allocated 30 sites by Sunset Isle and they have all been reserved.
We have started a standby list in case of cancellations. Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com to be placed on the waiting list
Registration Form
Colorado Region Tentative Schedule for 2015
The tentative schedule, and tentative leaders, for 2015 are:
Jan-Feb.: Winter Social, Denver, CO, Donna Spinelli
May: Mesa Verde National Park, Cortez, CO, Nancy and Bob May
June: Glenwood Canyon Resort, Glenwood Springs, CO, Leader: The Campbells
July: Mueller State Park, Divide, CO, Donna Spinelli
August: Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO, TBD
September: Moab, Utah, TBD
Last Minute Flash Camping Trips: camping trips in Denver during the winter dependent on last minute weather forecast. Chatfield State Park, Cherry Creek State Park possible sites.
Southeast Region Tentative Schedule for 2015
JAN 22-25 Florida Chautauqua Assembly's TCT Exhibit - DeFuniak Springs, FL
FEB 19-22 95th TCT Winter Convention - Sertoma Youth Ranch, Brooksville, FL
APR 10-12 Camping Through The Ages TCT Display Exibit - Kings Mountain Living History Farm, Kings Mountain, NC
APR 23-26 TCT Tybee Island Rally, Rivers End Campground, Tybee Island, GA
APR 30-May 2 TCT Panama City Beach Rally, St. Andrews State Park, Panama City, FL
MAY 14-17 Historic New Bern Gathering, New Bern KOA, New Bern, NC
JUN 5-7 Linville Falls TCT Gathering, Linville Falls Campground, Linville Falls, NC
SEP 17-20 Fall Into Vintage Rally, Stonebridge Campground, Maggie Valley, NC
OCT 15-18 TCT Fall Foliage Gathering, Linville Falls Campground, Linville Falls, NC
NOV 12-15 TCT Festival of Lights Gathering, James Island County Park, Charleston, SC
95th Tin Can Tourists Winter Convention
When: February 19-22, 2015
Location: Sertoma Youth Ranch, Brooksville, Florida (Dade City area)
Campground information - email@example.com
Registration Fee $150.00 per trailer for up to two adults includes three nights camping with water and electric, entertainment, morning coffee & breakfast treats, 2 catered breakfasts and BBQ dinner.
Add an additional $30 for each adult guest or children over 10. No additional meal tickets will be available at the Convention.
The John "Canner" Culp Special Interest Award will be the only award presented.
For additional information email Forrest and Jeri at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 941.302.2415
Registration Form
2015 TCT Tybee Island GA Rally
When: Thursday, April 23, 2015 - Sunday, April 26, 2015
Where: Rivers End Campground, Tybee Island GA
Event is now open for Registration - only 3 out of 82 spots available as of 11/10/14
Calendar of events and more info to follow.
Read about this years event in the TCT Blog
Rally Photos
Rally Slide show
Registration Form
Rally Pack
Event is now open for Registration -
To register -
Step 1) Complete the Registration form
Step 2) Mail Registration form and registration fee to Kim Hoke (address on form)
Step 3) Once your registration is processed the campground will be alerted
Step 4) The campground will contact you to book your site.
Please note - You will not be able to book directly with the campground. If you contact the campground you will be directed to contact email@example.com for registration info.
TCT Panama City Beach Rally
When: April 30 - May 3, 2015
Where: St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach
TCT Panama City Beach Rally in Panama City Fl 2015 at St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach.
This will be more of an informal get together with very little planned, maybe a pot luck (possibly another famous Heintz Fish Fry!)
one night and an open house on Saturday, and surely a visit to the local Vintage Trailer Restoration Shop, the rest of the time you
will have free to enjoy the beach and the rest of what Panama City Beach has to offer. You may also arrive as early as you would like,
nightly rate is $28.00 per night ($196.00 FOR A WEEK). More details to come ASAP. We will have everyone make their own RSVPs through
the Reserve America Website.
The State Park has over 170 sites so there will be plenty of room BUT reservations do fill up very fast in this area, many times the
entire park can be sold out months in advance, so don't delay in booking! We would like to try and keep all of our group in sites
1-100 if possible, but not required.
After making your RSVP with the park TCTers attending the Panama City Beach Florida May 2015 Rally should contact Tim Heintz
by e-mail at email@example.com to sign up! Please use "PCB 2015 Rally" in the e-mail subject line. Please respond with the
following information.
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Historic New Bern, NC TCT Gathering
Where: New Bern KOA, 1565 B Street, New Bern, NC 28560 Phone: 252-638-2556 or 1-800-562-3341 website: http://www.newbernkoa.com/
When May 14 - 17, 2015
We invite all TCT members to join us for a fun filled casual gathering in Historic New Bern, NC. We have 20 Sites reserved and they will hold them through February 14, 2015. Make sure you mention that you are with the TCT group when booking your reservations!
Deadline for reserving a site February 14, 2015
Each member will need to call and make their own reservation. There is no event fee!
Please email the event hosts Kelly Sloop at email@example.com or Penny Necaise Stith at email@example.com once you have reserved your spot!
TCT Linville Falls, NC Gathering
Where: Linville Falls Trailer Lodge & Campground (Newland, NC)
When: June 5-7 2015
Linville Falls Trailer Lodge & Campground (Newland, NC) opened it's doors in 1966 and retains the vintage features of the era. There is no wifi or cable tv but the location is amazing and is a perfect fit for vintage campers. They have full hookup sites with water, sewer and electric and a very well maintained bath house.
The entire campground is reserved for TCT but it's a small private campground so sites are limited. That means book early! One night deposit holds your site
The campground is located just off the Blue Ridge Parkway at junction US 221, is minutes from Western North Carolina's most spectacular attractions, including Linville Falls & Linville Gorge, Grandfather Mountain, Linville Caverns and Gem Mountain.
Reservations can be made directly with the campground by calling (828)765-2681. Please tell them you are with the TCT group to insure a spot. Reservations payment is made by check via the mail and payment in full upon arrival with cash. No debit or credit cards. Wwebsite for more info is www.linvillefalls.com
There are cabins and tent sites available as well.
Here's a link to our hike at the falls in 2014
TCT U.P. Caravan
Where: Upper Pennisula of Michigan
When: July 30 - August 8, 2015
Start planning now for the TCT U.P. Caravan; this is a one time trip opportunity for TCT members to tour Michigan's entire Upper Peninsula for 10 nights with some of your favorite vintage-camping friends. The caravan will take place from July 30 through August 8, 2015. We have planned this caravan out in a
way to give participants the opportunity to take in all the U.P. has to offer and maintain a reasonable pace. We want this to be a fun, relaxing trip! The trip will consist of 10 nights in 8 different locations, circling the entire U.P. AND, we are also
bringing along a caterer that will be preparing a wonderful dinner for us each night. Your breakfast and lunch meals are up to you. The average day will consist of traveling roughly 100 miles or so to our next destination, at your own pace, taking time to see as much or as little as you would like along the way; we will all meet up at our next stop in the early evening for happy hour, followed by a great catered dinner, and discussions of the day's adventures. Each night's stay will be at a campground with, at a minimum, electricity and bathroom/shower facilities. Due to limited campsite availability at some stops, we have to limit this trip to 25 units, so sign up early to guarantee your spot.
The TENATIVE itinerary is:
July 30th, Straights Area State Park
July 31 - August 1, Grand Marais Woodland Park
August 2, Baraga State Park
August 3 - 4, Fort Wilkins State Park
August 5, Porcupine Mountains State Park
August 6, Bewabic State Park
August 7, Indian Lake State park
August 8, Burt Lake State Park
The cost is $640 per couple (single rates are available, as well as rates for more than two). This fee includes your campsite every night, a catered dinner each evening, and some fun TCT U.P. Swag (Tshirts, plaques, etc.)
Please make payment to: Brandon Morrison, 453 W. Webster Ave., Muskegon, MI 49440
A minimum of $320 is due January 15, 2015; the remaining $320 due June 1, 2015 (full payment by the January deadline is also acceptable)
For further information, contact :
Brandon at email@example.com, on FB BRANDON MORRISON
Bryan at firstname.lastname@example.com,
on FB BRYAN N MATT
Registration Form
Caravan Information
Bend Classic, Vintage Trailer Rally
When: August 7-9
Where:J Bar J Ranch, 62895 Hamby Rd, Bend OR
The Bend Classic, Vintage Trailer Rally will be held August 7-9, 2015 at the J Bar J Ranch just East of Bend, OR. Camping will be on a grassy field with the Cascade Front in full view. There is some water and 110 electric but this is a ranch and not a trailer park. This is the same weekend as the HUGE car show in Bend. Bend is packed with places to go and things to do. Proceeds will benefit the programs of the Ranch. It is a Tin Can Tourist rally, please come and enjoy. Attendees will get a permanent event nametag, window placard and an "event" open/closed sign.
Contact Dal Smilie (email@example.com) with questions.
TCT Fall Into Vintage Rally
Where: Stonebridge Campground, Maggie Valley, NC
When: September 17-20, 2015
Join us for our 5th Annual Fall into Vintage Rally. We'll once again be holding the event in Maggie Valley and we are thrilled to be relocating the event to Stonebridge campground this year.
Details to follow
Registration Form
TCT Fall Foliage Gathering
Where: Linville Falls Trailer Lodge & Campground, Newland, NC
When: October 15-18, 2015
A perfect time to enjoy the Fall Leaf Season in the mountains. The campground is located just off the Blue Ridge Parkway.
We will have the entire campground held for us but it's a small private campground so sites are limited. That means book early!
Linville Falls Trailer Lodge & Campground opened it's doors in 1966 and retains the vintage features of the era. There is no wifi or cable tv but the location is amazing and is a perfect fit for vintage campers. They have full hookup sites with water, sewer and electric and a very well maintained bath house.
The campground is located just off the Blue Ridge Parkway at junction US 221, is minutes from Western North Carolina's most spectacular attractions, in...cluding Linville Falls & Linville Gorge, Grandfather Mountain, Linville Caverns and Gem Mountain.
Reservations can be made directly with the campground by calling (828)765-2681. Please tell them you are with the TCT group to insure a spot. Reservation deposits are made by check or credit card and payment in full upon arrival with cash or check. No debit or credit cards at the facility. Website for more info is www.linvillefalls.com
There are cabins and tent sites available as well.
here's a link to our hike at the falls in 2014 http://www.picturetrail.com/gid24562776
OTHER Vintage Trailer Gatherings
When: May 22-25, 2015
Where: SILVER FALLS STATE PARK, Sublimity, Oregon - silverfallslodge.com or call 866-575-8875.
"SILVER STREAK TRAILER FOLK" FB GROUP and friends/ family of group members with vintage or vintage looking trailers WELCOME.
Smaller, low keyed, casual gathering to meet and hang out. Meet and Greet and a Potluck planned. Maryhill winery tour possible if you are interested. Stay for 2 nights or stay until Memorial Day. For more info pls contact: Julie at firstname.lastname@example.com
Reservations made yourself starting 9 MONTHS BEFORE on Aug 22nd.
reservations start this Aug 22nd through Reserve America.
Contact: Julie Flavin - there is no rally fee involved
Email Julie at email@example.com and let her know that you are interested in attending
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102 Lake Front Dr.,
Cockeysville, MD, 21030-0410
Cockeysville, MD, 21030-0410
Tel: (410)785-3845
Trellis' mission is to enhance the lives of children with autism and related communication disorders by providing individualized, child and family centered treatment.
Through the use of a best practice model, we strive to form partnerships within the community to broaden the scope of autism awareness, to promote the use of the most progressive educational and behavioral methodologies, and to make training within the autism community accessible and affordable for all.
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|Grades Nursery/Preschool - 5
|Learning Difference Programs
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Student Body
|Total Students
|14 students
|Student Body Type
|% Students of Color
State avg.: 31%
|Students by Grade
Academics and Faculty
|Total Classroom Teachers
|2 teachers
|Student : Teacher Ratio
National avg.: 13:1
|Average Class Size
|8 students
Finances and Admission
|Admission Deadline
|None / Rolling
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|Non-public school, not privately funded
|Acceptance Rate
National avg.: 85%
|Admissions Director
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Hunt ValleyPlay And Learn At Hunt Valley
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(410)785-7077Daycare / Preschool0.9 mi | 10 students | Gr. NS-PK
Hunt ValleyForbush School At Hunt Valley
11201 Pepper Rd
Hunt Valley, MD, 21031
(410)527-9505Special Education School1 mi | n/a students | Gr. UG
Cockeysville St. Joseph's School
105 Church Ln
Cockeysville, MD, 21030
(410)683-0600(Roman Catholic)1.4 mi | 401 students | Gr. K-9
CockeysvilleAshland Preschool Center
116 Ashland Road
Cockeysville, MD, 21030
(410)527-1845Daycare / Preschool (Presbyterian)1.4 mi | 44 students | Gr. PK-K
CockeysvillePadonia Park Child Centers
12006 Jenifer Road
Cockeysville, MD, 21030
(410)252-8095Daycare / Preschool1.6 mi | 14 students | Gr. NS-PK
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|After the Storm Breaks: Inside The Fence
|Saturday 28/06/2014 22:52
Taking advantage of the early arrival I hopped directly onto a 205 bus. The city was busy - as ever I'd utterly failed to predict events, and there were various goings-on which were adding to the traffic - not least Wimbledon. We made slow but steady progress around the arc of the Euston Road. It was good to see the familiar, solid sights as we edged forward. I'd repeated this trip so many times, eastward with hope and expectation and westward with satisfaction, tired feet and a checklist of new prospects to investigate - the city slowly revealing itself by being walked. The Crossrail works were still affecting the ever-excavated Moorgate, so we zigzagged into Shoreditch, approaching Liverpool Street from the east and north. A few confused passengers scrambled off in surprise and we pressed on, the bus almost empty now. It still hadn't started to rain, despite an ominous cloud, so I bailed early, finding myself on the dry pavement near Whitechapel Road Market. I had a loose itinerary, as ever fanning out eastwards from the city edge - and this time based on a reading of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. This tangled, dense web of prose had provided much food for thought, but most immediately it had opened my thoughts to the array of tiny Jewish burial grounds scattered through the eastern edges of London. I had worked out a very rough route which led to several of them - including initially the Ashkenazi burial ground on Alderney Road which had initially sparked this walk. Opened in 1697, the site is enclosed by the houses fronting Mile End Road and a high wall facing a tired but interesting square of homes. It was quiet and rather humid, voices carried from a nearby playground and a large St.George flag flapped from an upstairs window. The door in the wall was closed, and a chink of light through a letterbox jammed with circulars unwanted by the dead revealed little. I skirted the site which connects to the Velho - the oldest of these sites, and entirely enclosed by the properties. No amount of trespass was going to get me a view inside, so I set off across the quiet square towards Bancroft Road. Here, almost in the precincts of the weird ziggurat of Mile End Hospital, there is more to see. The cemetary is now a quiet green space, most of the stones lying flat on the ground. Beyond, a shallow viaduct carries the line from Liverpool Street, little hope of eternal peace with trains to Chingford and Cambridge shaking the graves. After following my instincts into a dead end near the hospital grounds, I retraced my steps. The old men sitting outside a polish cafe seemed amused to see me re-emerging from the little network of streets. I wandered back to the main road, a little footsore given how long it had been since I walked.
Bancroft Street Burial Ground
Having been mostly thwarted in my primary purpose I needed to decide how to proceed. The answer of course lay eastwards - it had been too long since I'd walked this way, and I needed to feel familiar pavement underfoot. I set out along the endless corridor of Mile End Road as it turned into a valley between cliffs of new-built student dwellings, occasionally punctuated by heritage buildings now featuring gourmet burger joints. The traffic was incessant, hypnotic even. The clouds rolled forward - already there was a haze towards the river, and rain threatened. As I reached the Green Bridge near the Regent's Canal, it began. A heavy downpour of the type which cannot ever sustain itself long. I dived into the cafe I'd often spotted under the bridge. A young, smiling woman broke off her cleaning to make my latte. A sole other customer sat nearby, staring at us as we conducted the transaction. I sat near the window, pulled out a map, regrouped and watched the rain slow to a trickle. The cafe owner arrived with friends, dripping gold and sarcasm. He clasped his friends necks like a cartoon Mafiosi and chortled unpleasantly, leering at the cafe girl. "Your boyfriend here?" he glared at the other customer, whilst addressing her. She coloured up, looked away and he pointed out the purple stain of a bite on her neck to his friends who snorted and gurgled. The boy scrambled for the exit in shame and horror. The girl's smile faded. I left too - the vague sense of despair hanging over the place was too much to bear. It was still raining a little but the pavement was preferable. I pressed on east, and let the rain soak into my sweater - it began to feel a little too wet as I approached Bow Road station so I sheltered at a bus stop, exchanged messages home, and waited...
Finally I decided I needed to move on. There was nothing to lose by getting wet, and I had plenty of time to dry off later. I edged carefully around Bow Roundabout and descended the steps to the towpath. A favourite spot - even drenched and still feeling oddly dispirited by the cafe, this was somewhere I felt at ease. As the canal surface sparkled with rainfall, I trudged the wet grit of the path, bumping into only the very occasional cyclist coming towards me. To my right, the heft of the Olympic Stadium bulked out the view. It was in the process of being dismantled and reinvented for its next incarnation. After passing the junction with the Hertford Union Canal I had a choice to make. I'd meant to head for White Post Lane, but the slope up to the Greenway was tempting . In the end I let instinct win and I found myself once again topping the Northern Outfall Sewer, striking out towards the View Tube where I knew coffee and shelter were available. Soon I was seated, steaming in the warm cafe and sipping an excellent coffee. As the mist evaporated from the windows, I found myself looking out at the Olympic Park and realised that it was now possible for me to walk in unmolested. Years of being excluded from the site were over at last, and here I was idly passing my precious day of walking in this makeshift cafeteria on the edge of the park. Finishing my coffee and packing away my notebook, I set out to break new ground...
Copper Bridges, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
I thought first of Tellytubbies. That strange, hyper-real green sward which the odd humanoids danced and capered on was before me. The park undulated, bursts of colourful flora floated above it. Ranks of lighting columns marked the footpaths, and they led down - to the City Mill River. To that stretch of river which had been an impossible goal until now. I scrambled down the steps two and three at a time, and at the foot I found a junction. Southwards lay a fenced off path under the railway, not yet ready for me. Northwards, the river curved around the foot of the stadium. I followed the curve, a vast green bank to my right as the river edged the huge bowl. I had been close to the stadium before, but never this close. The bridges arced overhead, approaching the entrances - and I calculated with a look at careful notes I'd made exactly where the stockpile of low-level waste was stashed. I touched the aggregate pile which turned the horrible cargo into a simple bridge abutment and felt connected back to years of reading and writing about the Olympics. It had passed, things had moved on, but here was tangible evidence of all that had been expressed. I moved on, finding myself almost emotional at the thought of being inside the fence at last. So much change seemed to hinge on that period, personally, nationally even. It was a moment to take stock and move forward... and I did, towards the monolithic Orbit - less a sculpture and more a watchtower close-up. I wander around it, gazing up, trying to capture in a photograph the dizzying sense of queasy instability that it's odd curves elicit. It's still a very silly, unpleasant structure, a balancing lump of concrete sitting atop a twisted tower of steel. Without meaning or merit, neither beautiful nor sublime. The pathways radiating out from it took me towards another waterway, and I traced this to it's junction with the River Lea under a rather pleasant copper faced bridge, which reflected the water and it's pathways. It was hot and humid again, with dark clouds tumbling towards us from the south. I skirted the river, crossed it and emerged on the eastern side. Small concession stands selling overpriced snacks lined this route. Families and park employees wandered around yet I still felt like a trespasser. The pathway ended at a road crossing - across the street the park continued, and a stream of young people dressed in white t-shirts with coloured facepaint were streaming towards a makeshift stage. Wardens directed them as they trollied their cargo of lager towards the site. The Holi Festival of Colours sounded like a spiritual event, but appears to be a heavily marketed appropriation of an authentic Indian festival. People turn up colourless and leave scattered with paint dust and optimism. I turned aside and wandered along Loop Road which leads to White Post Lane. Territory became familiar. The rooftops and graffiti of Hackney Wick appeared overhead. It was odd and rather disorienting to see them from this angle. I wasn't ready for this conclusion so I turned back towards the stadium and edged along the River Lea, descending briefly into a wonderful nursery garden behind tiny wicket gates. It felt unreal and strange, under this ominous sky beside the sweep of the stadium. Unseen from this angle, the cranes removing the top layer of the stands hummed and clanked. I found myself following a makeshift pathway which wound towards the Navigation and deposited me on the towpath again, not too far from where I'd entered the park. The heavens opened. I sheltered under a bridge for what seemed like an age.
White Post Lane, The former frontier
The break allowed me to gather my thoughts a little. I realised I'd been wandering aimlessly and letting the strange emotional twist of finally entering this site of exclusion and alienation getting the better of me. I needed to regain control of my walk, and I did so by following the towpath to White Post Lane, and ascending to the street. This was the sentry post - even a year ago blocked and caged still. But now it was simply a road between the forlorn edge of the Wick and the weird sheen of the park. Still a gateway, but unmanned and unacknowledged by officialdom now. I explored the bridge, walking back and forth over it, half expecting to be hindered by a passing security guard. It didn't happen so I renetered the park, and turned left onto a curving road called Clarnico Lane - a nod to the past which took me up to Waterden Road. The Lea continued into the North Park, but would have to wait for a day when it wasn't busy with revellers. I walked back to Stratford, battling against the tide of youngsters, bright eyed, expectant. More girls than boys, the odd strange older woman yelping and whooping among them. A strange mix. An odd idea. Such is the future of this biggest of public parks. I found coffee and electricity in the whirl of Westfield and made notes.
My route back east took my back along the same route by bus - looping into an as yet unused bus station near the press centre, soon to be a new media outpost at the east of the city. Then I was onto the familiar roads around Victoria Park. This had been the edge, but now it was just a stop along the way. I had new paths to tread, the possibility of completing my navigation by river in the area - and oddly I found I didn't entirely dislike what had become of the Olympic Zone. I missed it's oddness, its ragged rurality, the strange emptiness of the wilderness that used to be here - but the sweeps of green, the views that opened, the sense of being in a valley between swathes of the city was new and intriguing. I allowed myself to dry off as I headed homewards, unsure when I'd be heading back this way. The storm had broken, and my old ideas about this part of the city had been washed away. But there were new layers of exposed earth to sift...
|Throwing A Dead Rat At The Curtains: A Prelude To Flight
|Tuesday 01/04/2014 21:54
We set out around noon, heading for the station in a burst of sunshine. Standing with our luggage at Worle Station, it seemed improbable that we could pull this off. The train to Bristol provided entertainment in the form of an attempted fare-dodger scuppered by travelling Revenue Protection Officers. He told them he was "a very busy man!" but it didn't wash. We grabbed a leisurely drink at Temple Meads before changing to our London train. Amazingly, given First Great Western's recent record, things went smoothly and we were soon creeping under the roof of Paddington station on a surprisingly springlike afternoon. Our first stop was souvenir hunting for people we'd be meeting overseas - Paddington Bear and London related items purchased, we headed for our hotel to integrate them into our luggage.
We'd thought about a trip to Harrods for some time, and the need to pick up some small but classy things as gifts gave us the perfect opportunity. Given the pleasant afternoon we decided to walk through Hyde Park, passing the Long Water and the Serpentine, with the Albert Memorial shimmering through the haze. Thus we echoed the hidden route of the Tyburn Brook - another lost river, and another entry point into the story for me. The park was busy with Londoners surprised by the sun. A girl clad in hipster velvet rolled up her skirt to get her pale knees tanned, and the Diana Memorial Fountain was busy with paddling children and lounging tourists. The haze was in part a product of the Saharan Dust Cloud, whipped up in North Africa and deposited on us by a warm current of air. It promised terrible issues for some in coming days, but for now though it leant an unreal shimmer to the park, blooming with the new Spring.
Albert Memorial, Hyde Park
West Carriage Drive Bridge
We walked along the edge of the park, diving in between some Mews to reach Knightsbridge. Harrods loomed suddenly between the buildings, inducing a gasp of surprise at its scale. Before we headed in, we stopped into a gushingly ornate Italian place for an early dinner. Watching the world go by outdoors, we contemplated our trip and its complexities. Just now, it was all possibility and potential. Things felt uncommonly good. Eventually, we headed across the street. As ever, Harrods didn't disappoint - the Food Hall heaved with ludicrous temptations, harassed businessmen picking up 'something special' competing with tourists for space. We trailed through endless departments, few of which declared their prices openly. House music thudded in the fashion quarter, while the kitchenware area was marked by calm, bucolic music. Meanwhile in Bedding, a head-scarfed Arabian woman bounced on a bed and receieved a quote of "Four thousand, seven hundred" - though it wasn't clear if this was for the whole ensemble, or just the linen. Our last stop was the foot of the Egyptian Escalator. In itself, this is a highlight of the building - a period piece which documents the craze for all things Ancient in the early 20th century - but the bizarre and gauche memorial to Diana and Dodi placed by Mohammed Al Fayed is like a magnet. It's impossible to ignore the terrible statue, while puzzling over the weirdly masonic 'pyramid and hourglass' device under the soft-focus icons of the tragic pair. We took surreptitious pictures before leaving it to the tourists.
A taxi ride back through the park in a hazy sunset completed our excursion for the day. The driver navigated us into Bayswater and the knotted streets of stucco-clad hotels, and we settled in for the evening. Tomorrow would be more hectic, but just for now London was strangely homely and comfortable territory.
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|Vincula Fracta: A Return to the City...
|Saturday 08/03/2014 22:36
Passive Planning Objection, Mare Street, Hackney
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Leadenhall Building
Anyone who has read this sorry screed of travel details will know this is not a new part of the world to me. But, I'm almost ashamed to say I've never been inside the precincts of the tower. Today we ventured in - undeterred by the rude security staff and the high prices for audio guides, we shuffled along the cobbbled streets to Traitor's Gate. The White Tower glittered beside us, as we turned into the courtyard around the Wakefield Tower and admired the view. An accretion of architectural styles and periods, a building extended and refortified with passing years and growing threats. It felt like the foundation of modern empire: a continual shoring up of tradition with more and more martial superiority. Having watched a guard-changing ceremony while Raven's picked at unsuspecting tourists' picnics, we joined a crowd heading for the Crown Jewels. At last I'd see some of the fundamental tools of monarchy for real. We worked our way around the rather cleverly staged display, watching projections of coronations, and marvelling at the perfectly preserved artefacts. Of course the really old things were gone - destroyed by Cromwell in the revolution - but here were tokens of Carolingean splendour, designed to shamelessly announce the reinstatement of monarchy. At the key moment, as we passed the state crowns, orbs and sceptres we stepped onto a conveyor which slowly edged us by at a reasonable speed. Like some sort of gameshow with impossible prizes, we guessed the value of the Cullinan II diamond, and found ourselves out by the order of hundreds of millions. Blinking in the sunshine again, we sat awhile and appraised the situation outside the tiny, sequestered church of St. Peter Ad Vincula. Overwhelmed by royalty and the sense of enclosure we decided to head for the river.
The sunshine had brought the crowds here too, and we queued for so long beside the pier it seemed we'd quite literally miss the boat - but we made it comfortable, the crowds still lining up to board the vessel while we found a seat among a group of disinterested Spanish tourists. We finally set off, curving out into the Thames, before turning and setting off upstream with Tower Bridge and the exterior of Traitor's Gate receding behind us. Under London Bridge, and then to Blackfriars, where the Fleet was concealed today - with a Thames Waterman providing commentary along the way. Edging around the bend in the stream we left the City of London and moved along the Embankment towards Westminter Pier. The journey was all too short - a quiet, relaxing interlude before emerging again into a press of tourists around the Palace of Westminster. We made our way carefully around the confusion of pedestrian crossings at Parliament Square, looking for a good angle on St. Stephen's Tower, but continually finding ourselves thwarted by the low, early spring sun. It was chilly now, but still bright and we decided to walk along Whitehall, past the Cenotaph and the fortress-like gates of Downing Street and to Trafalgar Square where we could board a bus back to Paddington.
As we sipped champagne in a spot which has become a bit of a landmark to us, we reflected on the trip ahead of our train home. It had been a long, tiring and fulfilling day - a return to London after a period of absence longer than I can remember for a good many years. Once again, as life changes, so does my relationship with the city. I never thought I'd be a tourist in the traditional sense again - and certainly never thought I'd enjoy it so much. The memory of the boat bringing us west via the curving silver arc of river sparked an urge to be back again soon. There is an entire new park to explore out east, and many more of these tourist adventures ahead...
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|Escaping London - An Accidental Epilogue?
|Monday 07/10/2013 22:12
The weekend has been long, strange and unexpectedly surreal. We set out rather later than usual on Saturday, having spent the morning at a tiny village hall in Somerset. The contrast was both curious and a little disorienting, as we arrived at Paddington and plunged headlong into a tube journey eastwards. Our regular visits to the city in recent months have fallen into a pattern - we meet with friends, enjoy company and include some of our wanderings. It's a settled, easy way of enjoying the city - it tempers the more overwhelming qualities which can surface, and it satisfies my need to wander. We've made a few plans for the weekend, and as I have an extra day off work we're in no hurry to be anywhere - the plan is for a fairly relaxing weekend before we both plunge into complicated work-related weeks. However it's pretty clear on our arrival that all is not well. We don't want to intrude on private life, and it feels like the only thing we can reasonably do is find somewhere else to be - so we make plans for a hotel stay the next night and quietly retire. It's not an easy decision for a number of reasons, but it feels right.
Approaching the Hackney Pearl
Sunday starts earlier than usual. We've a couple of targets in mind, and we take our leave swiftly and head for the tube to Stratford. A quick change to the Overground and we arrive at Hackney Wick. The morning has turned out improbably bright and we walk under clear blue skies towards The Hackney Pearl. It's just opening up, and the friendly Texan barista is happy to chat while she makes us fantastic coffee. We sit and discuss the events of the trip so far in the quiet morning, watching the Wick wake up. Hipsters emerge, pale and red-eyed for their coffee fix, while families with cute little soon-to-be-hipster kids totter and wheel about the place, heading for the station and perhaps somewhat guiltily to the magnetic retail mecca of Westfield? It's quiet, an occasional car passes and the Overground trains screech as they negotiate the curve of the line towards Stratford. The sun is high and bright when we reach the meeting point for the walk. Simon, our guide appears on his bike and suddenly our group begins to assemble. We're a truly cosmopolitan bunch - USA, Germany, Italy, Canada and of course the UK all represented. We meander around Hackney Wick and Fish Island, exploring a world of changing priorities and shifting politics. Genuine innovation - petrol, plastic, oxygen - sits alongside artifice and artistry. Street art, legal and otherwise, is significant here. Not just territorial markings but statements of purpose. The ideas of living space and industrial space are conflated - much to the local council's chagrin - and the Wick is home as much as it is work nowadays, a new role for this island of industry in some senses. Over all of this, the shadow of the Olympics lurks. I guess if you'd done this tour in 2006 it would have been very different. A tale of resistance and objection which never really disappeared, but was somehow edged out of the mainstream and into the churn and bluster of the British Left. Simon calls the issues "complex", and with a year of clear hindsight he's right - there's good stuff to be found... New bridges link Fish Island with the park, infrastructure will improve, arts funding is at a counter-economic peak here. Meanwhile, the same artists face a pricing-out of the housing and workspace market. As leases mature on these hulking, previously largely worthless industrial shells, they will be re-let at post-Olympic prices. There's already talk of Poplar and Canning Town as the new edgelands.
As we cross the Hertford Union Canal and enter Fish Island, the sun is high and inescapable. Headaches descend and we blink into the stark white of another new art space. This one is determined to survive, using the Localism Act to delay sale long enough to potentially raise the absurd amount of cash required. In some ways, it's faintly depressing - worthy, if a little textbook perhaps - but ultimately doomed to collapse into a round of squatting and frantic money-raising. It will be a news story, briefly and locally, then a sale. We pass the multi-story stable block and cross the narrow walkway over the gates of Old Ford Lock. In the distance, the old Big Breakfast TV studio cottage is dwarfed by the Olympic Stadium. I took some pictures here before the games, but never turned back to see this view once I'd crossed the Cut. It didn't seem right. Surely I was the one being watched back then? We edge along the water, finally ascending to the Greenway. At last this stretch is open again and I can complete a bit of undone business, but the sun beats even harder on the flat open expanse of pathway above the sewer. Finally we arrive at The View Tube. The Orbit towers pointlessly over us, and occasionally vehicles flit about the park. It's busy here, a little chaotic even as the barista and cashier skitters between transactions, pausing mid-sentence to weave into the cafe with plates and cups. We settle in to recover from the walk, chatting briefly to Simon before he disappears for his next assignment in Stoke Newington. I feel like I've closed a book - or at least ended a chapter. My more scattered wanders condensed into a single walk. Simon has achieved what I failed repeatedly to do - focus on the place. Eventually we head off - to Pudding Mill Lane DLR station, enclosed within the same sinister blue fencing which used to mark out the borders of the Olympic Project, now bequeathed to the ponderously slow but largely hidden Crossrail project. Briefly on our journey we pass through Westfield - busy, oddly populated by young women dressed to be out for a night rather than perched on traffic bollards outside a retail complex. We buy provisions and disappear into a taxi which takes us to Baker's Arms, and our strange, idiosyncratic hotel for the night. I still have a journey to make - into the Roding Valley via Epping Forest on a tiny bus to collect our belongings. Lea Valley Road pulses with life even this late, but the suburbs are dark and a little uninviting - strangely more sinister than the babble of foreign voices and bustle of unfamiliarity on the main streets. The bus curls around Whipps Cross Hospital, a massive site almost entirely obscured by trees - inside Victorian asylum buildings vie with horrible modern utility blocks. There's little sense or order. Signs point to various departments based on body parts, but they're all out of place - the Chest Department sitting weirdly close to Podiatry. I'm not sorry to find myself in the anodyne, faceless suburbia once again.
The Orbit looms over The Greenway
I wake early, my back aching from a night on a hard bed. The change of plans feels like it has cursed us. This extra day here was meant to be an extended adventure, but now it feels like an imposition. We set out on the No.55 towards Hackney. Progress is slow, the sun radiates in, headaches are re-calibrated and start to pulse in concert with the bus engine. We pass over Lea Bridge and the brief stripe of green which separates the bleak, collapsing kebab shops of Walthamstow from the organic vendors of Clapton. The urge to walk the valley south towards the city is strong, but there is coffee at stake here. Once free of the snarl-up of Hackney Central we're swiftly onto Mare Street and soon walking towards Broadway Market again. At Climpson and Sons we find wonderful coffee as ever, and spend some time people-watching - not least observing the seemingly endless train of employees disappearing into the basement, each a little more hipster than the last. We linger over coffee and food, the tiny store fills and empties over and again. Business seems good - no surprise with coffee this well done. We finally head out into the cool of London Fields to regroup. There's no plan and too much time - almost the worst possible situation. We're tired, tired of London almost, and disappointment is brewing into anger. In the midst of this I decide to do something which I'd never normally countenance. I head west...
A rare western sortie in St. James's Park
We end the day at dusk in St. James's Park. The gliding Pelicans looking sinister against the backdrop of greenery, Buckingham Palace floating through the slight evening mist. It's a beautiful, crisp afternoon. The sun is almost gone as we head for Bressenden Place, realising an entire street of buildings has disappeared leaving us disoriented. We arrive back at Paddington in darkness, thankful to be back and contemplating a cosy, restful journey. The last stragglers of the evening peak scan the board and dash for trains. We collapse onto ours and settle in for the ride - the tension and threat of London left behind as we speed west towards home. I never thought I'd feel quite so relieved, so thankful to be leaving - and I wonder about what this might mean for my future engagement with a city which has absorbed hours of my time and occupied much of my imagination. Again I sense a book closing, a work complete - but I have nothing much to show for years of trudging concrete, absorbing facts and developing allegiances.
For now, at least, my focus needs to lie to the west - and for the first time in years I find myself wondering when, and in what context I'll return here?
|Canals and Coffee
|Sunday 08/09/2013 22:55
We arrived via a sleepily pleasant trip to Paddington. We didn't have too much in the way of time restrictions, so we hopped on a bus to Liverpool Street which took in the West End. It was a little quieter and cooler than our last bus trip along Oxford Street, so we enjoyed sightseeing, and winced at the chances people took in dashing across the street between buses. Trafalgar Square was busy - as ever - but had a rather lazy weekend feel to it's bustle. Things felt optimistic and open, a world away from the locked-down city through which I was recalling walks. We dipped into the Fleet Valley at Ludgate Circus and climbed towards the white flank of St.Paul's, resolving to stop in soon as we skirted it and headed deeper into the City and our last stop. Liverpool Street station has become a joint favourite spot - busy and open, full of possibility, signifying a place to head out into the unknown but equally a marker on our way home. Today, we headed directly for a suburban train out of there, soon passing under Brick Lane and scurrying across the rooftops of Bethnal Green with the sun bursting irregularly from between ominous clouds. It felt good to be back.
As we descended the stairs into the rather noisome tunnel at Cambridge Heath I could detect disquiet. Why had I brought us to this strange, semi-derelict corner of the city? This didn't ease once we turned onto Mare Street with its mix of kebab shops, overstuffed convenience stores and tumbled together housing. We crossed the canal and turned west into Andrews Road - one of my earliest Hackney Walks took this route, the proud gasholders dominating the skyline while the modernist roofline of Ash Grove Bus Depot sneaks into view between blocks. Neither of these architectural highlights were doing much to ease the sense of being somewhere less than pleasant, but the first hints of hipster Hackney saved me - as a pop-up shop outside an industrial unit yielded treasures... 1950s 'atomic' themed curtain fabric, heritage boardgames - we chatted a little before heading on beside the canal and turning into the bustle of Broadway Market. I was of course instantly forgiven, the low brick shops flanked a busy street market, several live musicians competed for audience, the smells of bread, coffee, meet and painfully-hip moustache wax filled the Hackney morning air. We dived in...
Broadway Market under threatening skies...
After visiting a fascinating store where a local trader was selling her fabric crafts, we wandered into the market. Almost right away we found ourselves, almost involuntarily, in the line for a coffee stall. The small crew of guys running it weren't hurrying, but the long queue said it all. The facial hair quotient too, spoke volumes - and as the neighbouring music stall played Pink Floyd we shuffled towards our brew. And when we finally got it, it was wonderful. I was transported the 4700 miles or so to Stumptown Coffee and happy mornings watching the Seattle traffic. This was good coffee, perhaps the best I've had in the UK. We pressed on - bread, meet, knitwear, books - the stalls were all just a little better thought-out than the usual fare at markets. The crowds meandered between them, sampling, purchasing, gossiping. Clouds rolled overhead and I though of my picnic plans, already beginning to feel inadequate in picturing my home-baked, rather flat bread in comparison to the shiny, dark crusts on display. Eventually we found our way to London Fields, with a sudden shower passing swiftly enough to let us sit and eat while a toddler with stabilisers, pursued some impossibly cool BMX kids around a cycle track at amazing pace and with a look of serious dedication! Out on the path where we sat, the only cycles were of the vintage, home decorated kind - and we listened to them clattering by while we drank Ginger Beer. The sun edged out - it was time to press on.
After a walk back through the market and a second visit to the coffee stall, we descended to the canal tow path. The sun seemed a little more likely to stay out now, so we started our walk east along the waterside. I recalled my last trek along here, and little had changed on the canal. Barges still doubled for cafes and market stalls, bicycles still careered stupidly along the edge of the path. The crowds seemed a little thinner - perhaps people really had resorted to this easier way of getting around last summer when it was busy? But the path remained well used as we curved south towards Old Ford Lock and crossed into Victoria Park. We found a spot beside the lake and watched the birds scudding into the water to land, routinely shaking their tail-feathers dry. Dogs hesitantly sniffed at the edge of the water, scared of the stately and surprisingly large swans. A brave little lad chased pigeons and occasionally bigger birds around, pursued by an amused parent. It was oddly idyllic - this strange corner of East London a near perfect spot this afternoon.
Our ride arrived and we headed off into Bow, sadly not heading for even more coffee at the Wick this visit. As we headed east to visit with our friends, the remnants of the Olympic Park loomed over the road. It seems strange how much time and effort I've spent walking in this patch of the city, and how there still seems so much uncharted territory. There will be future visits, more coffee, longer stays I hope. But I will always find myself comparing these jaunts to a hot, edgy summer which changed the city and certainly changed me beyond belief.
|Circling The Newest Suburb
|Sunday 07/07/2013 23:51
The ascent from Bloomsbury by bus is slow and sure - less fragmented and hot than the crawl along Oxford Street but still at times it's a wonder we can nose through the crowds in Camden. The markets pour humanity onto the High Street. The heat reduces the pace to a crawl. It's almost a relief to begin the climb through docile suburban scenes to Hampstead. Once at the terminus though, the village is just as busy. Beer gardens overflow and people mill idly around enjoying the sunshine. We start the walk to Parliament Hill, encumbered by bags but undetered. The huge, stately villas of Hampstead impress not just with their order and beauty, but with their provenance - Orwell's name adorning the last in the row before the street gives way to a grassy rise. As we crest the hill, the slope falls away to reveal a knot of people basking in the sun, and beyond them a hazy, shimmering view over the city. I have completed another circle - returning here in entirely different circumstances. A whole new configuration.
A hazy view from Parliament Hill
Its even hotter when we head out the next morning, and we're drawn towards Westfield again. The manufactured streets throb with reflected pre-noon heat, and the unseen speakers leak terrible music. In the middle distance the dust bowl of the Olympic Stadium reflects heat upwards in a shimmering mirage. Everywhere there is publicity for the relaunch of the park and its environs. Names for new locales selected with only the most tenuous links with history, but with marketing blurb which uses them like they've always existed...we're asked to believe Sweetwater was always know as that because it's '...where they made Clarnico Mint Creams'. London's newest suburb in E20 - or a strange rebirth of the oldest village outside the city walls at Old Ford? It's a strange parting in the subway at Stratford station. A place I've spent disproportionate amounts of time lurking in the past, and which has featured oddly often in our visits to London recently too. It feels odd to be cut loose - a little groundless, lost and purposeless. But the walk is full of possibility and expectation - it's the hottest day of the year again and I wonder how I always manage to be shuffling around these dusty, empty pathways at this time of year? No hope of a designer coffee stall this side of the Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road. I have a vague notion of where I want to be - but no real thought of how to get there. This is how the best journeys all begin...
In the end I plump for the DLR. I hop in and unexpectedly get the prime front seat. Pretending I'm driving for the short trip to West Ham is diverting - but I'm aware I'm annoying a bunch of young Spanish students who wanted to do the same. I wonder idly if they're the same bunch who taunted me on my Limehouse Cut walk a year back? Perhaps I'm being haunted? On the platform at West Ham it's quiet - but the heat whacks me in the face the moment I leave the shade of the canopy. I climb the stairs, and I'm momentarily unsettled by the echoing brick cavern of the station. It's oddly good to be out in the open after this, walking a dusty industrial route alongside the railway. A deleted bridge sparks my interest briefly before the Greenway steps, which I ascend - the wide gated approach built for Olympic sized crowds now purposeless. It's too hot to be out, so apart from a few hardy cyclists the Greenway is clear. The Orbit shimmers in the middle distance back at my starting point.
Abbey Creek, looking towards the Thames
The dense air clamps around Abbey Creek as clouds of insects rise and whirl. The ghost of the Channelsea Ricer reflected in the office block windows - which are now equally unrequired and empty. The reek from the modern pumping station envelops the old temple of municipalism, Abbey Mills Pumping Station - a weirdly oriental presence in the searing afternoon heat. Another small group of cyclists pause for water, but sniffing with distaste they soon move on. I cross the creek, and walk northwards towards the thin blade of a tower block on Stratford High Street, an oddly overt bit of Olympic planning gain. It could be a year ago - with all the tension and possibility that this walk would have contained then - but things feel very different. The temporary bridge taking the Greenway over the street isn't there anymore. The route is deleted in every respect. So, I turn west into the little knot of Bow streets which snuggle between the river and the sewer. A curious little estate of streets which seem quiet and inconsequential now, just as they were last summer at the height of the area's fame. Picking my way around the heat-blasted streets I find Three Mills Wall River and edge south. The park is full of sunbathers and frolickers - but its proving too hot to be energetic, so people loll listlessly on the grass. I'm an odd presence - still shirted, walking determinedly.
I linger briefly on Three Mills Island, because it always feels like a rather special spot. The tide is high, and the mill buildings look superbly solid and familiar. It's easy to get caught up with comparison and reassessment here, but I press on along the narrow spit of land which divides the watercourses. Even the ever present cyclists have decided to stay at home, and I have an unusually trouble-free trip to Bow Locks, with none of the incessant and impertinent bell-dinging high speed swishes of metalwork. The water shimmers ominiously here - a long-haired latin model is posing for a photoshoot against the lock machinery in his billowing pirate shirt, otherwise the scene is deserted. I traverse the looping bridge with its curious steps which make my ankles ache, and head up the slope beside the Limehouse Cut which leads to the Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road. Appearing just over the rows of gantry signs and low-rise, empty-windowed former industry is Balfron Tower which I'd visited a few weeks back. Slowly, surely, this corner of the city is beginning to make sense to me.
Bow Locks
Deciding that a bus adventure needed a little more time, I slogged the final section of the walk through Bromley-by-Bow on tired, hot feet. The High Street was quiet, occasional whoops of joy penetrating the quiet from garden paddling pools. I cut through the back of a block and onto Bow Road to pick up a more direct bus back to the City and soon found myself on an overheating 25 which must have been the first for a while as it stopped almost everywhere. I'd meant to get an 8 and take a circuit of Bethnal Green, but this would do fine. It also meant a brief final walk from Aldgate to Liverpool Street, passing the entrance to Bevis Marks Synagogue which I'd mentioned very recently based on a memory of a visit. As I refreshed myself with reduced priced baked goods and fruit juice in the gardens of St.Botolph's Church, I reflected on a walk which I couldn't have made a year ago because of security checks, but which now was just as diverting and engaging as ever. Any thought that it was the grand Olympic project which drew me here dissipated - it certainly helped, but the pace of change is always in a strange parallax out East. I'll be back, because I need to see what happens next...
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Can I boil bamboo inserts to prep? I bought 10 and was wondering if i could do this rather than throwing 10 alone in the washing machine. If I can do this, how long do I boil for then what's best way to dry them? Tia..
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Ryker - my 3.5 year old babycakes who was CDd, BW, BFd
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thanks! Bumping..anyone else?
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I always boil my bamboo in a big pot on the stove for about twenty minutes. I find it's better if you put them in already sopping wet since they absorb so much water. To dry I just put them in the dryer with the rest of my diapers.
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A very neat and tidy hotel for an excellent price. - Robert
We came early and the front desk staff allowed us to check-in 2hrs before the normal time as soon as the room was vacant. It's really great since we are very tired from our long bus travel.
The room we took is the seaside and the view was great. It's also an advantage that it is along the beach so no need to cross the street to go there and after going to the beach you can go straight to the swimming pool.
The location is fine. It's hard to get taxi but there is a bus stop in front of the hotel - Anonymous
Great location. Accommodation was fantastic. Bus stop outside the apartment. Plenty of buses. You can get number 102 from airport directly to the apartments. Excellent pool area. Supermarket in the mall. We had a wonderful stay & would highly recommend it. Jason was very helpful. Easy access to Penang & Batu Ferringhi. - Anonymous
We had a fantastic stay here lasting for a 2 weeks instead of initially planned 2 days. Very quite, large common areas, nice owners. 2 mins to local food court, 2 mins to the beach, 3 mins to the bus stop, 3 mins to the closest shop, 7 mins to Tesco supermarket with some proper restaurants. Overall highly recommended! - Anonymous
Beautiful lobby, big rooms, free wifi, polite staff. Good breakfast.
Hotel situated in front of the sea, but it's dirty on Peneng.
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"Stacy's Mom has got it going on…"
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WTF?! Husband And Wife With Brain Aneurysm Stand In Front Of Train To Commit Suicide!
What the hell is up with these train suicides in New York?!
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This guy has too much time on his hands.
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Execware, LLC is a holding company with a portfolio of 7 software patents, all related to an information visualization methodology, conceived incrementally over many years, named contextual data modeling (CDM). The inventor, the Execware CEO, now believes he can add no more to the concept beyond his November 2012 patent, and seeks to actualize CDM. As a holding company, Execware is not equipped to do that. Instead, this website explains CDM and 'showcases' 3 envisioned versions of a CDM application named Reason to support our goal - commercialization by a major software publisher.
With Reason you build datasets of the things/ events/people/places/whatever (or a mix) you analyze, plan, manage, or monitor in your field (especially intelligence analysis and law investigation). Then you manipulate/model the displayed data to reflect your evolving reasoning. There is nothing like it!
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Adrian Gardner will leave his post as National Weather Service CIO to assume his new duties in February
Adrian Gardner has been appointed as the chief information officer for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, according to a story posted on the DorobekInsider blog today.
Gardner will report to NASA on Feb. 1, according to the story. The position at NASA Goddard became vacant when Linda Cureton was promoted to the CIO post at NASA headquarters.
Gardner currently serves as the CIO for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service. He began that job in January 2007.
Gardner was named to Federal Computer Week's Federal 100 in 2006.
From October 2006 to January 2007, Gardner served as the deputy associate CIO for IT reform at the Energy Department, according to his bio. From September 2005 to October 2006, he was the deputy associate CIO for cyber security for DOE.
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A Doctor at a health conference said The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be destructive, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it? After several seconds of silence, a 70-year-old man sitting in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, Wedding Cake.
Thanks to: Anonymous - USA.
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A man receives a call from his Credit Card Company, Sir, we have detected an unusual pattern of spending on your card, and we are calling to see if everything is alright.
Yes, replied the man. My card was stolen over a month ago. Why didnt you report your card as stolen? asked the card company representative. The man replied, Well, whoever stole my card is spending a lot less than my wife!
Thanks to: Felix Kneuper - Fort Stockton - TX - USA.
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A hobo (wanderer) comes up to the front door of a neat looking farmhouse and raps gently on the door. When the farm owner answers, the hobo asks him, "Please, sir, could you give me something to eat? I haven't had a good meal in several days." The owner says, "I have made a fortune in my lifetime by supplying goods for people. I've never given anything away for nothing. However, if you go around the back, you will see a gallon of paint and a clean paint brush. If you will paint my porch in the back of the house, I will give you a good meal." So the hobo goes around back and a while later he again knocks on the door. The owner asks, "Finished already? Good. Come on in. Sit down. The cook will bring your meal right in." The hobo says, "Thank you very much, sir. But there's something that I think you should know. It's not a Porsche you got there. It's a BMW.."
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A man was just waking up from anesthesia after surgery, and his wife was sitting by his side. His eyes fluttered open and he said, You are beautiful. Then he fell asleep again. His wife had never heard him say that, so she stayed by his side. A few minutes later, his eyes fluttered open and he said, You are cute! The wife was disappointed because instead of beautiful, it was now cute. She said, What happened to beautiful?
Her husband replied, The drugs are wearing off!
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As she makes the rounds to promote her latest film, Django Unchained, Kerry Washington has shown off a number of gorgeous beauty looks. Recently the actress wore her typically side-swept bangs in a more edgy, blunt style with a bold red lip. Today, Kerry stepped on the Parisian red carpet with an oversize bun sans fringe. The two styles represent her styling versatility: casually coiffed for day and elegantly upswept for night. Which side of Kerry do you like best?
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I think she looks really chic with bangs, too!
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She looks great either way. But I voted bangs. :)
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Love her bangs!
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WEST MONROE, La. (AP) - "Faith. Family. Ducks." It's the unofficial motto for the family featured in the TV reality show Duck Dynasty and that homespun philosophy permeates nearly everything in this small north Louisiana town.
AUBURN, Maine (AP) - For 3 ½ years, a black stone urn of C.J. Twomey's ashes has sat on a shelf in his parents' Maine home, not far from the door he walked out of one beautiful April day shortly before shooting himself.
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. (AP) - A Lake Tahoe couple filed a police report saying they received numerous death threats and harassing messages after reporting problems with a black bear that was captured and euthanized by Nevada wildlife officials.
NEW YORK (AP) - A man and his 3-year-old son plummeted to their deaths from a Manhattan apartment building, police said Sunday as they investigated what led to the tragedy.
CHICAGO (AP) - The detached dad, turning up his nose at diapering and too busy to bathe, dress and play with his kids, is mostly a myth, a big government survey suggests. Most American fathers say they are heavily involved in hands-on parenting, the researchers found.
SEATTLE (AP) - Students at a Seattle-area Catholic school are gaining national attention for their protest over the forced departure of a gay vice principal.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sixty-three years after Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph E. Gantt went missing in action during the Korean War, his remains were returned to his 94-year-old widow in a solemn ceremony at Los Angeles International Airport before dawn Friday.
TRINIDAD, Colo. (AP) - Police in southern Colorado say they thwarted a school shooting plot by two teenagers, one of whom idolized mass shooters, just a week after a student opened fire in the halls of a suburban Denver high school.
NEW YORK (AP) - Years after being exiled to New York City's sidewalks by a ban on smoking in indoor public places, some smokers relished electronic cigarettes as a way to come in from the cold.
BRUSHY PRAIRIE, Ind. (AP) - A northeastern Indiana soldier surprised his mother Friday with an early return home, masquerading as Santa Claus while she sat on his lap at a school staff Christmas breakfast while she gave a wish list of gifts.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that marks a drastic shift toward gay marriage in a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Authorities on Friday were trying to determine whether a Northern California man's anger over complications he suffered from a 2010 surgery prompted him to go on a shooting rampage at a Nevada urologist's office, killing one doctor and critically wounding another before committing suicide.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - SeaWorld on Friday posted ads in a handful of newspapers around the nation in response to a critical documentary that inspired eight musical acts to cancel performances at the company's Orlando marine park.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A new historical narrative posted by the Mormon church on its website officially acknowledges that some plural marriages were performed following an 1890 ban and that polygamy was widely practiced in the late 19th century.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Usher says though Justin Bieber had a wild year, people shouldn't count the pop singer out just yet.
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - A Mississippi man who was once declared dead, only to resurface as a suspect in a kidnapping and killing, was sentenced to death Friday after a jury earlier convicted him of murder.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - A man who has bumps resembling horns implanted in his forehead was found guilty of murder and other charges Friday for his role in the kidnapping and slaying of three Massachusetts men in 2011.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina inmate with mental illness who died of thirst was held in solitary confinement for 35 days and cited twice for flooding his cell, according to prison records.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina state trooper's dashboard video shows an unarmed driver being shot just seconds after he was stopped for a seatbelt offense - and the trooper, who was fired last week, has now been charged with assault.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Eric Holder, America's first black attorney general and an unflinching champion of civil rights in enforcing the nation's laws, announced his resignation Thursday after leading the Justice Department since the first days of President Barack Obama's term. He is the fourth-longest-serving attorney general in U.S. history.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A powerful earthquake shook a large swath of Alaska on Thursday morning, knocking things off shelves and causing people to take cover but bringing no immediate reports of injuries or major damage.
BEIRUT (AP) - When the United States opened its aerial campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria this week, its first salvo also hit an al-Qaida cell it says was planning terror attacks - a move that has injected more chaos into the conflict and could help President Bashar Assad.
POLICE: BURGLAR KILLS ACCOMPLICE OVER STOLEN ITEMS: WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina authorities say a burglar fatally shot his accomplice after the two men argued about how to split up the stolen goods.
CARPINTERIA (AP) - A California woman is recovering from scratches, a bite and a broken rib after being attacked by a black bear that chased her dogs through an avocado grove.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI director on Thursday criticized the decision by Apple and Google to encrypt smartphones data so it can be inaccessible to law enforcement, even with a court order.
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Posted: Saturday, October 12, 2013 --- 8:27 p.m.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- The new health care law means small businesses have important choices to make about offering health insurance to their employees.
A Press-Gazette Media report (http://gbpg.net/17mkPGV ) says business owners throughout Wisconsin are trying to figure out which requirements apply to them and how they'll respond.
The Obama administration delayed for one year a provision that requires employers with 50 or more workers to provide health insurance or pay a penalty.
Businesses below that threshold can choose to drop coverage and have their employees go through the individual Health Insurance Marketplace. Those that don't offer coverage but want to could do so through the Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP, exchange.
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Human Rights in Ireland
A call to accept the recommendation of the Constitutional Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural rights
Dear Taoiseach,
The Economic, Social and Cultural (ESC) Rights Initiative is a network of organisations and individuals with a shared belief that increased protection of ESC rights in Irish law would contribute to a more just, inclusive and equal society.
Amnesty welcomes final report of the Constitutional Convention and recommendation to strengthen economic, social and cultural rights
Amnesty International has welcomed the publication today of the Constitutional Convention report recommending strengthening economic, social and cultural rights.
Amnesty welcomes the recommendation of the Constitutional Convention to strengthen ESC rights
In its final meeting this weekend the Constitutional Convention considered whether Bunreacht na hÉireann should be amended to better protect fundamental human rights like health, social security and housing.
Constitutional Convention on tour
The Constitutional Convention is hitting the road and coming to a town near you!
This is your chance to get involved and have your say. You have an opportunity to influence Bunreacht na hÉireann and ask for your human rights to be protected.
Ireland has committed to protecting these rights in international law but many of these rights are missing from the Irish Constitution.


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TV Series: Gomorrah S01 (2014) – Great adaptation of the book and the movie
Roberto Savianno has got to be one of the bravest people on the planet. Having taken on the Camora (the Naples mob) in the book and movie of the same title (both of which are excellent) and having been assigned … Continue reading
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TV Series: Penny Dreadful S01 (2014) – Slowmo horror mashup
On a friend's suggestion, I watched the 8 episodes of the Penny Dreadful series that aired this summer on Showtime. It was a mashup of sorts of various monsters from horror stories in Victorian London: Doctor Frankenstein, Count Dracula, and Dorian … Continue reading
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TV Series: Ken Burn's Jazz (2001) – Beautiful documentary but based on flawed premises
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