Cocoon

... up quick. An inn in the country, a famous estate, literary ghosts still stroll the grounds. "Troutbeck is an ideal cocoon for sharing travelers' tales, developing story ideas, and making new contacts that can grow into friendships," someone said, who ...

... is quite touristy and is used as the place to go over to all of the islands. On Wednesday we landed on the set of cocoon 3! We went to a 'city' called Rockhampton which is a 6 hour drive from the Whitsundays. We stayed in a caravan park which was on the ...

... and is reputed to cure arthritis, aches and pains, etc.  There are always lots of “Older” locals sitting around the edge of the pool talking and soaking – it really looks like a scene from the movie ...

Getting on the bus to Luang Prabang on my own was incredibly exciting. I shall be honest with you all and tell you that I did feel a twinge of absolute terror, but this emotion was quick to shift itself into a more optimistic one. I did feel as though I ...

For me, Bratislava is a unique place. This is the first of our cities that we have visited that because of the Velvet Revolution is now no longer under communist control.  I have no idea what I was expecting but I was pleasantly surprised.  The ...

... and getting away from it all -  Staying on one of the most highly regarded architectural houses in Australia (the Cocoon) -  Handfeeding a kookaburra -  Dancing to Sound of Music record   Worst Bits:  -  Arriving to ...

... fill up when we go. On the Friday night we stayed at the Cocoon Hotel La Rive..and it was just that. We were wrapped up in a cocoon on the river. Our room had a balcony, and from there we had a clear view of the Bourscheid Castle on the hill..lit up in ...

... in the morning. it was a little pricey so after a good night's sleep we moved on to a lovely little place called the Cocoon something or other, where we had a yummy breakfast before heading out to explore Rajastan. Jaipur is at the edge of the desert, ...

... disaster to be lying in wait just around the corner. Sure enough, a couple of days later we checked into the terrible Hotel Cocoon in Salvador, but that's another story. ALI: The first morning back in Rio and it was a beautifully clear day, perfect ...

... of bars. Soon thereafter, all the England boys show up there as well. So, we all end up staying in the same bungalows- Cocoon Vang Vieng Bungalows. A little pricier than we wanted, but as we later learned, well worth-it in terms of distance from the ...

... July or August right now.  So bizarre.  But glad it is mostly sunshine.  We checked out of Wombat and moved to Hotel Cocoon.  The staff is very nice, there is even a George at the counter in the evenings, and he went out of his way to ...

... farm. This was really cool. I saw the different stages of how they make silk. I had no idea but silk comes from a animal cocoon.  When it spins its cocoon it creates the silk.  First they soak the cocoon in what looks like water. Then machines ...

... 16 weeks until they are fat and a couple of inches long.  They are then placed on wooden trestles where they make a cocoon.  The farmer then sells the cocoon to the silk making factory. Elephant Waterfall was quite impressive.  We clambered ...

... ;since arriving here and the first one that popped up was this. I'll leave you with it.  A man found a butterfly cocoon. One day a small opening appeared in the cocoon. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as ...

... one long string of silk of the cocoon, however, it needs to be undestroyed which means stopping the moth from breaking through the cocoon. Hence, the silk factory buys the cocoons from a silk worm farm, puts them in boiling water to kill the moth ...

... nbsp;   In the next room, the moth cocoons (with moths inside)were put into hot water and silk pulled from the cocoon and wound onto spools. The outside part of the cocoon becomes raw silk and softer inside becomes fine silk—the fine silk ...

... be harvested. The hot water also melts the sericin, a gummy substance that holds the filament fibers together which hardens the cocoon. Multiple strands are spun together to create one slik thread.        We spent a ...