Cynthia Campbell, 2TheAdvocate :Snuggled between Mexico and Guatemala, Belize celebrates the 25th anniversary of its independence throughout September with parades, pageants, music and food. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article: http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/travel/30surfacing.html?ref=travel
Media: The New York Times - United State
Date: July 31,2006
BOBBING off the coast of jungly Belize, south of hard-partying Yucatán, with one pedicured toe in the Caribbean, Ambergris Caye is ripe for picking. Throw in mangroves populated with exotic birds and crocodiles, and a boisterous night life fueled by cheap beer and new resorts — not to mention the Western Hemisphere’s longest barrier reef — and Ambergris might just unseat Vieques as the next Caribbean hot spot. Read the rest of this entry »
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Media:Telegraph.co.uk
Date: July 24, 2006
There aren’t many manatees left in the Caribbean - perhaps a thousand - and we weren’t looking for them. But when our guide, Clive Garbutt, cut the motor of his small boat, everything fell quiet and there, sending ripples across the placid surface, was a wrinkled, whiskery snout followed by a pair of sad seal eyes. Then another smaller head came up for air - a calf! Then another, and another. We had happened on a herd. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06145/692791-34.stm
Media:Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Date:May 29, 2006
By Amy McConnell Schaarsmith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
An anniversary is such a loaded date. You have the feeling you’re supposed to make a big deal about it, maybe eat out at a fancy restaurant or book a lavish weekend at a bed and breakfast to celebrate such an important milestone — even if, as in my case, it’s only the second one. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article: http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_839.shtml
Media:Online Journal
Date:May 29, 2006
There are superficial people everywhere, but a whole section of the human soul is simply missing in Americans. Most foreigners can never understand it unless they have lived inside America’s total dominance of the material slave-state — Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. – Gui Rochat Read the rest of this entry »
