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GeoBeats - Guided video tours of your next international destination

GeoBeats - Guided video tours of your next international destination

Best Websites for Virtual Travel Summer is here, and it’s time to travel. Or, that’s what travel companies want you to think. Many of us are staying put instead – whether it’s because we’re on a budget, we can’t get the days off, or we just don’t want to deal with throngs of other tourists. Whatever the reason, you don’t have to miss out just because you’re kicking back at home. There are a lot of travel websites on the Internet (we have a whole list of them here), but most of those are to get you to buy something. If you’re looking for alternative sites that truly channel the spirit of travel, paired with terrific photography – some accompanied by well-written stories – here are our favorites for feeding your armchair wanderlust. Roads and Kingdoms Roads and Kingdoms is a refreshing new travel site created by Nathan Thornburgh, a former foreign correspondent at Time Magazine, and Matt Goulding, the author of Eat This, Not That, with Anthony Bourdain serving as its editor-at-large. National Geographic Vice Expats Blog

How Children Learn: Portraits of Classrooms Around the World by Maria Popova A revealing lens on a system-phenomenon both global in reach and strikingly local in degree of diversity. Since 2004, Julian Germain has been capturing the inner lives of schools around the world, from England to Nigeria to Qatar, in his large-scale photographs of schoolchildren in class. Jessore, Bangladesh. Image courtesy Julian Germain Brazil, Belo Horizonte, Series 6, Mathematics USA, St Louis, Grade 4 & 5, Geography Nigeria, Kano, Ooron Dutse, Senior Islamic Secondary Level 2, Social Studies Taiwan, Ruei Fang Township, Kindergarten, Art St. The extent of concentration and mutuality required for each portrait offer a beautiful metaphor for the teaching-learning process itself. I never tell the students how they should look but ensuring that everybody has a clear view of the camera requires concentration and patience. England, Seaham, Reception and Year 1, Structured Play Tokyo, Japan, Grade 5, Classical Japanese Havana, Cuba. Lagos, Nigeria. Qatar, Grade 8, English

Traveling Online - Virtual Travel Vacation Pictures Photographs Travelogues Everything You Own In A Photo: A Look At Our Worldly Possessions : The Picture Show Today on All Things Considered, photographer Peter Menzel and his wife, Faith D’Aluisio, discuss their latest book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. But 16 years ago, Menzel was working on another project, called Material World: A Global Family Portrait. He and other photographers took portraits of 30 statistically average families with all of their worldly possessions displayed outside their homes. Hide caption The Ukita family in front of their home in Tokyo. From Peter Menzel's "Material World" project, which photographs 30 statistically average families in 30 different countries with all of their possessions.

The world's favourite foods: interactive Turn autoplay off Edition: <span><a href=" Sign in Beta About us Today's paper Subscribe Custom Search The world's favourite foods: interactive Pasta has been named the world's favourite food, narrowly beating meat or rice dishes and pizza, in a new global survey by Oxfam into the way the world eats today• Food blog: what's your favourite food? Life and style Food & drink More interactives What's your favourite food? Key topics © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Send to a friend Your IP address will be logged Share Short link for this page: Contact us Contact Life & Style editorlifeandstyle@theguardian.com Report errors or inaccuracies: userhelp@theguardian.com Letters for publication should be sent to: letters@theguardian.com Close

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