Le rêve américain pour tous On considère souvent le XXe siècle comme le « siècle de l’Amérique ». Et ceci n’est pas seulement dû au fait que les États-Unis aient bombardé et envahi qui ils voulaient, quand ils le voulaient. Du glamour hollywoodien à Jackie O en passant par Britney Spears, la mode, les tendances et les styles américains ont tous été admirés ces cent dernières années. Et ce, jusqu’à durablement changer la façon dont les gens s’habillent, de la Pologne au Japon. Alors que la mondialisation – et avec elle, la sous-traitance de la main-d’œuvre – a entraîné une délocalisation de la production dans les ateliers des pays en voie de développement, les vêtements que vous portez sont quand même pensés, ou du moins « influencés » par les designers américains. Laura Vărgălui Mannequin et styliste Rien n’a plus influencé la mode et le comportement roumain que l’« American dream » diffusé par le cinéma et les séries télé. Simon Porte Jacquemus Créateur et P. Sara Sachs Créatrice chez Moonspoon Saloon
Top tips for first-time travellers | Backpacking guide | Gap year Big adventure ... backpackers heading off on their travels. Photo: Alamy With a daughter at the end of her own gap year and a shared credit card nearing meltdown, Michael "Tripologist" Gebicki passes on to graduates a few lessons from foreign roads. Your last year of high school now fading in the rear-vision mirror, the nightmare wait for results finished, soggy school lunches, uniforms - never again. Maybe you're thinking of spreading your wings and heading offshore, and what's not to like about a few months or even a whole year on the road? But travelling well is a skill and it doesn't necessarily come packaged in your DNA. Off on a scooter ride without a helmet. Money Advertisement The ATM is your best friend. One card that many professional travellers swear by is the 28 Degrees MasterCard, which has no annual fees, no reload fees and no international transaction fees. Taking a risky river plunge. Yet another option is the prepaid foreign currency card. Travel insurance Health Safety
Worldly Wisdom Archives - Belize / Worldly Wisdom Thumbing Through Belize: Tips For Hitchhiking Safely We stood on the side of the long dusty road, a puddle of sweat soaking into the back of our t-shirts. We had successfully hitched 141 kilometers that day, but it seemed our luck had run out. Volunteering / Worldly Wisdom Low Cost Volunteering Abroad: How To Chose A Program That’s Right For You Volunteering abroad has become an ever more popular thing to do while backpacking. Travel / Worldly Wisdom How To Stay Healthy While Traveling How to Stay Healthy While Traveling I’m writing this to you from under a mountain of tissues. Latin America / Worldly Wisdom You Know You’re in Latin America When…. Latin American Life Say what you will about Ricky Martin, but he sure got one thing right when he sang about Living La Vida Loca! 5 Simple Steps to Hostel Etiquette (And Not Being a Tool) Just recently I’ve had a bad run of terrible hostel experiences. 5 Overrated Travel Books to Leave at Home 1) Eat, Pray, Love. Worldly Wisdom
"La Vie d'Adèle" : pourquoi tant de controverses autour de la Palme d'or 2013 ? - News films Interviews Polémique sur les conditions de tournage, Palme "politique", tribune de l'auteure Julie Maroh... Après l'accueil critique élogieux et l'effervescence de la Palme d'or, les sujets de controverses se sont succédés autour de "La Vie d'Adèle". Pour faire le point, AlloCiné a posé 5 questions à Serge Kaganski, journaliste et critique aux Inrockuptibles, auteur de l'édito "Stop au Kechiche bashing". AlloCiné : Vous avez écrit un édito dans Les Inrockuptibles cette semaine intitulé "Stop au Kechiche bashing". Serge Kaganski : Ce n’est pas un article en particulier, mais plusieurs. Je me suis dit : quand même, y a un film français qui a une Palme d’or, aimé par la critique à 80-90%... Avez-vous souvenir d'un autre film français ayant suscité de vives réactions comme celles-ci après un prix ? Entre les murs , dans mon souvenir, ça s’est plutôt pas mal passé. Maurice Pialat, réalisateur de "Sous le soleil de Satan" Quand on écrit un papier comme ça, il comprend une prise de position.
100 little things that travel has taught me Travel has been one of my most valuable teachers. Rather than sit in a classroom and learn about the world through a someone else’s eyes, I did it through adventures and misadventures, tears and laughter. I know I still have so much to discover, but here are some lessons that sometimes I had to learn the hard way. Some of them I already kinda knew, some I are silly, some are serious, some are obvious, and some are embarrassing. Maybe this collection will help open up new doors in your own life and own travels, and although we will all learn our own lessons, I hope maybe I will help someone avoid some of my mistakes (example: #14). Happy travels! 1. 21. 28. 43. 60. 80. 95. What are some lessons you have learned from travel? photo credits: katja hentschel: polaroid, laptop, insects, waterfall girl; mrsdkrebs: tattoo map, littlelakes: coconut, fmgbains: flowers, all others: author’s own * post written by Kyra Bramble.
Top 5 Reasons to Travel After Graduation - Why You Should Travel After Graduation Chances are that your parents didn't travel after school (the majority of US citizens don't have passports), and maybe don't think you need to, either. And after you graduate from college, it's implied that you'll go straight to work for the rest of your young-enough-to-travel life. UK students, on the other hand, hit the road to Europe running right after finishing secondary school -- it's called a gap year, and means a year of traveling or life before or after college. You should take a gap year, too. 1. School's out for the summer -- for some of you, school is out forever. 2. Some of the best travel discounts around are those given to 12-26 year-olds. 3. Believe it! 4. 5. In school, you're surrounded by people your age with whom you've much in common, and the homelife and tuition freight may be being paid by parents, loans or scholarships; you may have had to learn to work with a budget, get an apartment and even a job -- still, it's not quite the real real world... Get Gone:
Malcesine: Lake Garda Tourist Guide | Italy Heaven About Malcesine Malcesine is a small town on the eastern shore of Lake Garda in northern Italy. It's a picturesque tourist resort with cobbled lanes and a castle, crammed between the blue lake waters and the massive mountain ridge behind, Monte Baldo. Lake Garda is the largest lake in Italy, and Malcesine lies towards the narrow and mountainous northern end, often compared to a fiord. Visiting Malcesine There are four principal tourist activities for visitors to Malcesine: wander the town's lanes; catch the boat to Riva, Limone or other lake resorts; take the cable-car up to the heights of Monte Baldo; eat ice creams. Malcesine's most striking feature as you approach over Lake Garda is its historic castle, the Castello Scaligero, which is also the town's main tourist attraction. The second most important building in Malcesine is the fifteenth-century Palazzo dei Capitani, close to the harbour. Food and drink Cableway to Monte Baldo Malcesine transport Around Malcesine Malcesine accommodation
On Calabria's coast a fairytale village awakes from its slumber | Travel The hills were on fire. It was August and the view from our car window of smoke rising from forest fires was as dramatic as the road taking us south. The “motorway of the sun”, more prosaically known as the A2, negotiates the mountains of Calabria through a series of tunnels and high bridges right down to the toe of Italy. Long before it reaches the tip, the autostrada veers south-west towards the coast, as if it’s had enough of the rugged interior. This was where we left it, in search of EcoBelmonte, one of just two alberghi diffusi in Calabria, in the historic centre of a village called Belmonte Calabro, where tufo stone houses are being converted into tourist accommodation. It’s also something of a mystery to foreign tourists, its charms less accessible and obvious than almost any other Italian region. The result is one of the most magical places I’ve ever stayed. From the village, the sea, just over a mile away down a hairpin road, looked dazzling and inviting.
Italy by train: lazy days around Calabria and the south coast | Travel Suppose you have some summer days to spare. Suppose you have a fondness for trains. Here’s the idea. Travel light. If you have the time and inclination, you could make your way by rail and ferry to Palermo and start with Sicily (the Milan-Palermo train actually boards the ferry). But Sicily is difficult. So here’s an easier solution. Your daily routine is as follows. You’ll find the small stations mostly deserted. Crotone, facing east across the Ionian Sea, is a surprise. The place to stay here is Hotel Concordia (doubles from around €70), where New Grub Street writer George Gissing resided in 1897, and fellow novelist Norman Douglas 10 years later. The centre is a labyrinth of narrow alleys climbing up and around a steep conical hill, each thread of street crisscrossed above with drying laundry and inhabited below by folks playing cards and drinking wine outside the bead curtains that protect their doors. Stop wherever you want. Do you want to go on?