AWhat They Don’t Tell You About Being A Wedding Photographer
Before you go hire a mate to do your wedding pics, you may want to read this post by Darren who knows a thing or two about photography. It really explains what you buy with a good photographer!
Enjoy
James
What They Don’t Tell You About Being A Wedding Photographer
http://www.digital-photography-school.com/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-being-a-wedding-photographer-2
I’ve been shooting weddings for 18 years and while I do not claim to be a know-it-all, I will say I’ve seen a wide range of the glamorous, and not so glamorous, sides of the business. Many people see the money wedding photographers charge for a day of shooting and think, “I can do that no problem!” While this may be the case, I want to point out some things the glamour side of the business doesn’t tell you about.
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Les Suites Orient on the Bund Shanghai
Les Suites Orient on the Bund Shanghai
http://littlenomads.com/reviews/best-family-hotel/les-suites-orient-bund-shanghai-shanghai-china/
few years you’d think Beijing was unequivocally the capital of the Chinese building boom. But on the Bund in Shanghai, architectural expression has long been the order of the day. It’s here that Les Suites, in their first expansion from Taiwan to the mainland, has set up shop, constructing a brand-new 23-story Art Deco tower as the setting for their latest hotel, Les Suites Orient Bund Shanghai.
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InterContinental Fiji Review, thumbs up
InterContinental Fiji Review
Natandola Beach Fiji
Having just returned from a week with the family at InterContinental Fiji Resort and Spa I thought it would be of interest to review 3 top reason to why we still like this resort as place you can visit with the kids to unwind and chill out.
Read about why out kids give the hotel three thumbs visit www.littlenomads.com
Darrens budget hotel experience
My London budget hotel experience
http://www.travel-rants.com/2010/10/17/london-budget-hotel-experience/
London’s best kept secret
Armed with a iPhone, £55 and anti-bacterial hand gel Darren checks into the Hotel Strand Continental, which is according to its website is London’s best kept secret, and you will get to find out why people keep it a secret.
This a great review and will make you think why cheap is not always best. Make sure you check out his video purely disgusting!
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Kids Stay and Play for free
Amazing Race secrets are out..
Amazing Race NZ secrets are out..watch the video!
http://littlenomads.com/best-family/amazing-race-nz-secrets-are-out/
Christchurch & Canterbury Tourism is using the skills of multi-Emmy Award winner and host of hit TV programme The Amazing Race, Phil Keoghan to entice Australians to visit the region.
Keoghan, who signed on earlier this year to promote his home region of Canterbury as a tourism ambassador, has filmed a series of TV commercials and short website films (webisodes) which Christchurch & Canterbury Tourism will use to attract more Australian visitors to its shores.
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Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley,
Christmas School Holidays at Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley is just like kids play!
Parents staying at Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley this summer can be sure their kids will be kept busy and entertained, with the hotel’s free kids club and newly launched Kids Cafe.
The only hotel in the region to offer a complimentary supervised kids club, Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley has a team of professionals dedicated to looking after children while parents enjoy the extensive leisure facilities on-site or head out to explore the surrounding Wine Country.
Available throughout the year for children aged three to 12 years, the Water Dragons Kids Club is a purpose-built mini resort dedicated to younger guests, complete with play equipment, cinema, games and activities.
During the school holidays, kids are kept busy painting, drawing, building and thinking, enjoying a program of fun, supervised activities such as scavenger hunts, pirate games and mini Olympics. Little guests will also enjoy a healthy fruit platter and morning/afternoon tea.
Kids can also make the most of the hotel’s new dedicated Kids Cafe, located in The Gallery adjacent to the Redsalt Restaurant, offering a buffet dinner each night during the school holidays. The menu features favourites such as spaghetti bolognese, mini fish fillets, pizzas and grilled chicken, with fruit salad, fairy bread and a selection of cakes for dessert. A large range of activities, movies and games will also be available to keep kids entertained.
Available from $15 per child, the Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley Kids Cafe is open from 6:00pm-7:30pm daily throughout the summer school holidays.
Families staying during the school holidays can also take advantage of the new Family Escapes Package which includes accommodation for four (two adults and two children) in a guest room, breakfast daily for the whole family, and children twelve and under dine free in the hotel restaurant (when accompanied by an adult, excluding Kids Cafe), all from $190 per night*.
As a bonus, families taking up the package receive a $50 voucher to go towards their next getaway during the Easter or winter school holidays in 2011. The voucher is redeemable for accommodation at any Crowne Plaza hotel across NSW and ACT.
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Are you a unseen tourist?
UnSeen
http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2010/10/unseen/
why do I see over and over and over and over again the tourists with cameras who act like they’re at the zoo? I see it so often it makes me furious. They walk around, checking things off on their mental checklist
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Matanivusi Beach Eco Resort
Beach Eco Resort, the most ideal Family Fiji Holiday
Matanivusi Beach Eco Resort really goes out of its way to ensure that you and your family have a relaxing Fiji vacation in a truly tropical hideaway setting.
Located about 2 hours drive from Nadi Airport down on the Coral Coast near Sigatoka. Matanivusi Beach Eco Resort is set about 3km of the main road near the local village of Vunaniu. The setting for this personable resort is idyllic, with its stylish bures spread along the waters edge which are linked by the meandering timber board walks which float above the tropical forest floor and under the canopy of tall tropical trees.
The bures or as some say “Bungalows” are divided into two one bedroom apartments with well finished bathrooms, making the accommodation an ideal set up for families with parents on one side and kids on the other side. The rooms all open up on to private deck with a day bed, which is blissful for that sneaky sleep with the sound of the warm tropical waters lapping on the shore and sound of the distance waves crashing on the outer reef.
As the resort only caters for a maximum of 16 guests the resort feels intimate and very personal, with evenings being spent sharing stories of the day with other guests around dinner with the soft sounds of the tropics in the background. It really is a great way to finish a day of activities whether its surfing, exploring the area or just doing nothing by the pool.
What your host Brian and Donna McDonald have done very well is to cater for surfers who are beyond that stage of finding basic accommodation with other party goer backpacker types, and are looking for place that is comfortable which they would be happy to take a partner, family or other like minded surfing friends.
Resort Activities
When it comes to the activities there are heaps of choices from snorkelling, diving, paddle boards, fishing, kayaks and surfing being the main attraction. If your feeling water logged there are many land based activities to choose from. I took a tour with Kevu (one of many friendly staff members) to some local waterfalls using the local buses for transport. On the return we dropped in on the village at the end of the walk to the falls. Where we all kicked back on Fiji time and shared some rugby stories over a cup or two of kava with the village elders.
With surfing the breaks of Fiji being my main focus it was pleasing to surf the famous “frigates break” which is located 1 hour by boat about 30 miles offshore! This is a must break for any keen surfers, the left was working perfectly for my board selection on the day with a high tide dropping to a low in the afternoon. It was the perfect situation for building confidence as the wave started to perfect its curves and shapes as the tide dropped. Two of guys who ventured with us scored some perfect barrels in the afternoon, with Ben from WA smiling all the way back to his new wife on his return, and Hill from San Fran just so stoked to be getting barrelled at Frigates in board shorts!
Read Our final Recommendation at www.littlenomads.com
http://littlenomads.com/best-family/matanivusi-beach-eco-resort-surfing-family-fiji-holiday/