Olympic Holidays

Alyssa Clarke and her family went to the Olympic National Park to celebrate the start of the summer holidays! They sent this postcard: Alyssa Clarke went to Kalaloch Beach right after school got out for a camping trip. It is in the Olympic ...

... a symbol of passion - sometimes forbidden passion. In folk culture, it is also celebratory. Many of the ornaments for Chinese holidays, such as banners, lanterns and clothes, accentuate red as the essential element in the color scheme. The burst of ...

If word on the street is anything to go by - more Chinese are having stay-cations - staying at home these holidays. Not only are they staying at home, those that are traveling are staying within China, if we are to believe some surveys and polls taken ...

I'm on holidays- yay! Yesterday was the first day of our weeklong vacation for Chinese National Day (which is actually tomorrow). Last week passed pretty smoothly- nothing major happening in school, but everyone was definitely looking forward to a ...

... and evening had come way too quickly - we were desperate to stay on a few more days! A phone call to Olympic Holidays and quick search on the internet revealed there was no chance of changing our flight or buying a later departure... ...

... Syntagma entrance and I pass through an alley with trees on both sides. Many small white kiosks have been put up for the holidays selling Christmas gifts and decorations. On the side of Zappeion there is a kind of fun fair for children's rides. Parents ...

... experiencing motor sled rides or car driving on ice. VIALATTEA SPORT AND CULTURE ViaLattea, offers to winter tourists holidays to remember. Snow sports can be matched with cultural and enogastronomic itineraries with thousand places serving truffles, ...

... 't think I'd trust an establishment with $5 steaks. As it's such a big place maybe they just don't physically leave the continent for holidays so maybe FX just isn't an issue, the ones who do leave for hols. though must get some shock when they see their ...

... even more exaggerated because I am in Qingdao with almost all 1 billion of China's occupants during their Golden Week holidays. I walked the scenic 7km coastal pathway passing all 6 of Qingdao's beaches (aptly titled 'Beach 1' through to ...

... so we had to leave a day later. Lois read on CNN last week that 64 million Chinese would be traveling by train over the holidays. The logistics of operating the train system here is amazing. Our train left Suzhou at 7:55 pm. It was a sleeper train. Each ...

... . An orphanage has had to move its children elsewhere. The Games will be a normal working period for Beijingers. No holidays have yet been announced, except for workers in polluting factories that will be closed for two months. Transportation of all ...

On Dec.24th, Christmas Eve, I was in Barcelona for my third day, second full day. I had never been away from home around the holidays before. Well I have never been away from my family at least. I was kind of disappointed that I wasn't going to be able to ...

... wine.  After dinner, we purchase another bottle of wine to enjoy while watching the opening ceremonies.  Gotta love holidays!  The opening ceremonies were Awesome!  They were fantastic on tv.  So much so, we wished ...

... world and no one looked to be in any particular hurry. Stray dogs proudly strutted their stuff as if there were national holidays declared in their name. People played mahjong or didn't do anything at all, just sitting in plastic chairs and listening to ...

... believe that it could take us 25min to get there in the morning - especially when we explained it was like going to Washdyke. School holidays in Sydney is packed with things to do for kids - most at a hefty price- but a good search finds lots of free ...

... most scenic routes in Canada. Cycling has been a passion of mine for many years. As a high school teacher I had long holidays and many were spent in Europe in a combination of language study and what the French call, "cyclotourisme". That ...

... U/14 Football tournament was all part of ‘Golden week’ in Japan. Golden Week is basically a week of public holidays, there is a Buddhist religion holiday, the Emperor’s birthday, Constitution Day, Children’s Day and Greenery Day. ...

... so we picked up groceries on the way home, cooked dinner and did our washing. Can’t escape the domestic stuff even when on holidays! Today we headed to Neuchatel; it is about 40 minutes by train from Lausanne. I have been dying to see the Neuchatel ...

... to Great Wall at Mutianyu. Make record time of 1 hour 30 minutes out to wall as most of China in bed due to start of holidays. Climb up via steps in first tower of wall (lazy ones take the cable car) and walk along between four towers (se pictures). ...

... and Latin teacher from Florence. He said he's going to Greece now and will stay home in August because everyone in Italy takes holidays then so Greece will be much busier. The ship’s first stop at 11:00 was Venitsa Greece, after which we continued ...