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Home Tag Archives: Aran Islands

Tag Archives: Aran Islands

T-Boy Society of Film & Music’s Favorite Island Destinations

By T-Boy Society of Film & Music
in :  T-Boy Society of Film & Music
Seychelles

The T-Boy Society of Film & Music’s latest poll is dedicated to our Favorite Island Destinations.  Like last month's Friendliest Destination we've decided to continue with another uplifting theme to counteract the horrendous news of today.

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A Dozen or So Things About Beaches & the Sea

By Ed Boitano
in :  Eclectic Stuff
the Black Rock

Although two-piece bathing suits were being used by women as early as the 1930s, the bikini is commonly dated to 1946, when partly due to material rationing after World War II... De Arte Natandi (‘The Art of Swimming’), by Sir Everard Digby, published in England in 1587 but written in Latin, was the first treatise on the topic published in Britain. Written in an age when many people could not swim and drowning was a regular cause of death, it features advice on different swimming techniques.

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T-Boy’s BEST Virtual Vacations

By Ed Boitano
in :  World Travel

You may not be traveling to far-away places in the immediate future, but we can bring them to you. Here's a series of T-Boy’s virtual trips, and we hope you'll be able to go there and to other distant destinations soon.

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The Aran Islands: A Living History

By Ed Boitano
in :  World Travel
Dun Aonghasa, Aran Islands

In Robert Flaherty's brilliant 1934 documentary film, Man of Aran, we see an Irish man smashing limestone rocks to bits, while his wife gathers seaweed from the shore below the island's steep windswept cliffs. Meanwhile, their young son scavenges for animal manure and precious particles of dirt that have collected between the rocks, blown from the mainland.

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