Beach Suite - Alphonse Island - Seychelles. THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Killer Mike’s Guide to Atlanta | self-titled. Words by Christina Lee While Killer Mike may have won a GRAMMY in 2002–for his appearance on OutKast’s “The Whole World” single–and achieved universal acclaim for his fifth album (the recently released R.A.P. Music), the rapper’s just as well known for his contributions to the greater Atlanta community back home.
Over the past year, local news outlets have covered his Jackson church speech on behalf of Troy Davis, spotted him with Occupy Atlanta protesters at Woodruff Park, and plugged a discussion about how to connect with community leaders. Killer Mike grew up in Collier Heights, one of the first modern black neighborhoods added to the National Register of Historic Places. R.A.P. Music, Brooklyn-borne El-P beats and all, would not exist without such a childhood–of listening to his grandmother’s firsthand accounts of the civil rights movement, running into community leaders at the nearest Kroger and then learning to follow their bold example. What is the Blue Flame like? The VICE Guide to Atlanta.
Atlanta is often an unapologetic caricature of itself, fully embracing an identity as both an internationally revered hip-hop mecca and a regional safe haven for Confederate flag-phobic, civilized folks. The traffic does thicken closer to the heart of the city, but reactionary road rage may be easily pacified flipping between one of the two very legit classic rap stations, OG 97.9 and Boom 102.9. It's hard to get mad when D4L is readily available at almost all times (EVEN BETTER—Fabo occasionally chats on Boom's airwaves). It's an ATL-official language rule to address more than one person with the gender-neutral "y'all. " There's enormous ethnic diversity, which makes for interesting neighbors as well as a stacked bill of highly dope, authentic non-American cuisine.
Atlanta, despite its home in the country's stereotypically conservative and sometimes-backward Southeast pocket, boasts remarkable inclusivity. Logistically, "ITP" means "inside the perimeter," a.k.a. Home grown Octopus Bar. Your Guide to New Orleans — For Bartenders, By Bartenders | Tales of the Cocktail. Editor's note: This guide has evolved over the years, but its original purpose — to steer visiting bartenders toward the best bartender-approved food, drink and fun in the city — remains. Below, you'll find a slightly abridged version of the guide that we circulate to our CAPs each year. This is by no means an exhaustive list (because, let's be honest, it would take you a lot longer than a week to eat, drink and shop your way through this town) — rather, it's a handful of recommendations frequently made to our visiting friends in the service industry.
Special thanks to French 75's Chris Hannah for working on the first few iterations, and to The Saint's Nicholas Jarrett for continuing the tradition. Check out the Google map (which you can bookmark here), and read below for a few tips and tidbits. Breakfast, when you have a seminar (and need to stay in the French Quarter) Stanley in Jackson Square on the St. Breakfast when you don’t have a seminar (and have time to cab out of the Quarter) Serifos — a Greek retreat. A fantasy island in the Seychelles. In the morning of our second day on Fregate Island, we took the golf buggy out to an empty beach on the far west of the island and sat in the shade of a heliotrope tree, watching the waves break blue and clean on the reef, and staring at the litter of coral and shells at our feet: heaps of pinks and reds, browns and greys, and small white cones spiralled with black dots that resembled liquorice allsorts. In a way the place, whose name “Grand Anse” just means “Big Beach” in Creole, was as strange as it was beautiful.
It was certainly unlike anywhere I had ever been before. The heliotrope tree, for one, was a crooked thing. Some of its branches were grey and dead. The rest hung heavy with green leaves and white seeds. Sample the FT's top stories for a week Receive a free daily email briefing containing the 3 top stories from one of our top news themes. Grand Anse, though, made me realise just where we had come. And for a long time, that was the deal with the archipelago. Details. Athens: By the Glass, Heteroclito, Oinoscent, Vintage Wine Bar & Bistro - Drink. The Greeks know a thing or two about wine – as they should: they’ve been making it for the past 6,500 years.
Until quite recently, though, visitors to Greece might have questioned the evolution of a culture that offered a choice – in tavernas, at least – of insipid, mass-market plonk or floor cleaner-scented retsina. It came as a pleasant surprise, then, to stumble across a clutch of excellent wine bars in Athens, all nestled between Monastiraki, Syntagma and Pláka – districts better known for tin jugs of house white than carefully stored and poured vintages. Greece’s economic woes are well known, but the wine industry has – despite obstacles at every turn – bucked the trend.
Patriotically, these bars also offer Greek cheeses and charcuterie to nibble with your tipple. Vintage offers proper beef too: picanha, the rump cap much favoured by Brazilians, cooked medium rare and served with – what else? – a wine sauce. Best restaurants for Chinese New Year - Food. This Chinese New Year heralds the year of the fire monkey and London, as it does each year, will be painting the town red.
Here is how some of the capital’s finest Chinese restaurants will be celebrating in style: 1) Fabulous food with a side of razzmatazz is par for the course for Alan Yau, and two of his venues are pulling out the stops this New Year. His highly anticipated Park Chinois restaurant-cum-club in Mayfair opened on the former site of Automat late last year, and launching in tune with the Lunar New Year is a special lunch menu. Expect the usual luxe dim sum regulars – Angus beef shumai (£5.50), taro croquette with king crab, scallop and prawn (£9.50), venison puff (£6) – but also standout dishes from the restaurant’s dinner menu. 2) Until February 22, Hakkasan’s 11 global venues will celebrate with a gourmet bang.
Over at the sister venue in the City, HKK, head chef Tong’s eight-course menu (£88) is rich in symbolism and tradition. Jason Atherton’s London - Destinations. Most Saturdays my wife Irha and I are woken early by our kids – Keziah [10] and Jemimah [four]. We always have breakfast out near where we live in Balham, south London – normally at Milk. It’s one of those cool, hipster-type breakfast-brunch places that always has a huge queue. I’ll have a full English in a muffin with a spicy ketchup they call hangover sauce. The coffee’s great too. We often end up in Selfridges, hands down the world’s best department store. After lunch we’ll go to the theatre. For dinner, Scott’s is probably the family favourite; Irha and I have a nice simple piece of fish with some spinach and a glass of wine and the kids love the goujons with tartare sauce and chips.
Often Ihra and I will then cosy down and watch a movie, but sometimes we’ll go out on the town. On Sundays we’ll try to have a lie-in and then I’ll cook breakfast. Or we’ll just stay at home and I’ll cook. Le Cercle des Vacances, spécialiste du voyage sur mesure. Restaurant La Chassagnette. Tailor-made Holidays | Luxury Villas | Red Savannah. The Top 60 Luxury Hotel Openings of 2016 | Luxury Hotels TravelPlusStyle. Home / T+S Magazine / The Top 60 Luxury Hotel Openings of 2016 The world's hottest 60, plus dozens of mentions!
Planning your next holiday? Thinking of staying at a new, exciting hotel? The luxury travel market will see hundreds of new properties open in 2016, all around the world, so there will be plenty to choose from. Following the success of our 2015 compilation of the Hottest Luxury Hotel Openings, we decided to up the ante this year with an even more comprehensive selection. You can rely on us picking the gems from the sea of cookie-cutter accommodation and garish nouveau riche resorts. A short note on methodology: the order of all the hotels on the list is not of great importance, maybe with the exception of the first few—and especially the resort we kick off with. 1Soneva Jani, Maldives The first property on our list comes from Soneva, one of our favourite hotel brands.
“Soneva’s brand of rustic chic luxury takes inspiration from wild nature and adds layers of discreet luxury.” A taste of luxury in Sri Lanka. Premium Fare deals (J and F) - Page 57. A collaborative collection of nice J & F premium fare deals to popular destinations. Separated into HOT, GREAT and QR Deals. This thread is not for TP runs or published sales. Links to those threads can be found below. Please also read the 'guidelines' at the bottom of this WIKI before posting or changing. Enjoy your Premium Experience. Wiki updated and cleaned on January 4th, 2016. QR exOSL extremely good deals as part of a QR 'Supersaver Promo' to CPT (GBP700), BKK (GBP560), Australia GBP1080), etc. Hot Deals in J are anything under GBP1000 to USA, under GBP1300 to Asia/South Africa/Beaches and under GBP1800 to OZ.
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Last year, greater Madrid was the inland Spanish region in which visitor numbers rose fastest; in fact, that 2014 figure of 10.2m tourists represents a historic record for the city. For decades, the charm of Madrid was that of a place that felt unremittingly, and unrepentantly, Spanish. These days, cheap air travel and the massive presence of exiled young Spaniards in London, Berlin and New York conspire to bring global trends home to roost. Madrid has been quick to pick up, for example, on such international urban memes as midcentury-modern furniture, artisan bread, craft beers and pop-up restaurants.
Philippine resorts - Destinations. Ask Charlie McCulloch, the maverick entrepreneur who found a deserted palm-fringed island in Linapacan in Palawan and turned it into a private paradise, what took him to the Philippines in the first place and he has a ready answer. “I wanted a challenge,” he explains, “and the Philippines turned out to be just perfect.
The Calamian Archipelago in Northern Palawan had everything I was looking for. It is one of the last places in the world where there are pristine seas, untouched reefs and unexplored islands. I wanted more than just luxury and a stunning location – I was looking for authenticity and adventure and a way of enjoying the company of friends and family in a totally relaxed and private setting.” On the face of it, creating Ariara – a heavenly private island resort – in a far-flung little-known sea seems perverse, for there’s no getting away from the fact that the Philippines, for those of us who live in the west, is a long, long way from home. HOSHINOYA Kyoto, Japan | Activity - Our activities | Hoshino Resorts. Otium in Italy, Tour of emotions. Time Out Tokyo | Tokyo Events, Activities & Things To Do.
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A wine-and-cheese station for a glass of rouge and a sliver of brie while sitting on a bench fashioned from a fishing boat. Or as you head off to Zuzuu (the kids' club), you might stumble across The White Room, a part-colonial, part-tropical folly (pillars and a thatched roof) of such kitschness, you half expect the ghost of Elvis to emerge in a white tuxedo. Or you could stop in at the Ottoman Lounge (a nod to Ayada's Turkish ownership) and settle in for a coffee with a squidge of Turkish delight and a shisha pipe. The Middle Eastern mood shimmies through the villas: a filigree lampshade here, a joss-stick there, a flounce of Turkish fabric over the bed.
The world's best family hotels | Holidays with children. The worldwide hotels every parent should know about: the best in Europe, in the city, for action stations and winter sun OK, so it's not a real safari lodge. It's not rough and ready; nothing is tented. And it doesn't try and pretend to have anything to do with Out of Africa. But if you're a nervous African newbie, then a Four Seasons provides all the coddling you need.
This is the company's first property in sub-Saharan Africa (there are plans for ones in Zanzibar and Johannesburg) and for those who don't like bugs, early-morning game drives or being accompanied to their room by an armed guide, it is the ultimate play-safe hideout. There's even a doctor on call 24/7. JOURNEY TIME 12 hours 25 minutes (a total of three flights), then a 50-minute transfer TIME DIFFERENCE +3 hours INSIDER TIP Ask for Prescus for your game drives. Instapaper. America’s “Forgotten” Vacation Destinations. Americans just don’t vacation like they used to. Cross country road trips, picturesque mountain resorts, and far off seaside towns have been replaced by “staycations,” transcontinental cruises, and brief weekend jaunts to the city. The glory days of Griswold-ian journeys, Borscht belt summers, and month long excursions across the midwest are now behind us, and in their wake many of America’s once mighty vacation destinations, such as the five spots below, have begun to fade off into obscurity.
Silver Springs, Florida. – Before Disney World swooped in and stole all the spotlight, Silver Springs was North Florida’s preeminent tourist destination. Silver Springs’ Nature Theme Park featured all sorts of wildlife, gondola rides, carousels, and the park’s legendary “glass bottom boats.” Unfortunately all this wasn’t enough to keep the park afloat and it closed as an attraction late last year. Comments: 14.
Miss Immy's London: Did You Know? Did you know there are five cash machines in London which offer English or Cockney for your transaction? It'll ask you to enter your Huckleberry Finn (PIN). Whether you would like your Sausage & Mash (cash) with a receipt. And if you'd like to see your Rattle & Tank (bank) balance on the Charlie Sheen (screen). If you're ever heading up East, check out the ATMs on Commercial Rd and Roman Rd and if you find one, I'm sure it'll put a big smile on your boat race! CAMLEY STREET NATURAL PARKDid you know that literally a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Kings Cross St Pancras, there is a wonderful oasis of calm?
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