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Tag Archives: carnival

St. Lucia: Rich in Color, Culture, Crafts and Conviviality

By Fyllis Hockman
in :  World Travel

So there I was, at the Sulphur Springs Mud Bath in St Lucia, being smeared with green mud all over my body. Two layers first to exfoliate. Then sprinkled with black mud, a guide creating designs in stripes and handprints as if my arms, face and chest were a canvas. I felt like I was in a pool full of zebras. Okay, zebras with black handprints all over dotting the mud masterpiece. Allegedly, the mineral waters in which we were submerged washed off 10 years along with the mud palette. I'm pretty sure my husband didn't notice any difference…

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Disney’s Wish Comes True in Canaveral

By Sarah Wyatt
in :  Travel USA

Following weeks of expectation, Disney Cruise Line’s newest ship, the Wish, has finally arrived in Port Canaveral, Florida. Nearby, about two dozen local residents watched from the quay of Jetty Park. Several leatherback sea turtles and dolphins were seen romping in the cove as the ship approached. With Florida’s Patrick Space Force Base in the background, the ship was welcomed by Disney characters at a private ceremony shortly before daybreak on Monday.

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The First International Destination You’d Visit in the Post Pandemic World

By T-Boy Society of Film & Music
in :  World Travel

The latest T-Boy Society of Film & Music poll is devoted to our members' favorite international destination. That is, the first international destination we'd visit when the roadways, skyways and waterways are deemed safe to travel. You'll find members' selections to be illuminating, telling us much about their own personal preferences.

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Florida’s Back

By Sarah Wyatt
in :  Travel USA

With NASA in the background, I arrived before sunrise in Port Canaveral on Friday, June 4th. Leaning on the sixth-floor wall of the parking garage, I watched more than 1,500 Floridians cheering and waving flags on the shores of Jetty Park nearby. The water stirred and bubbled. Making her arrival in the channel was the new Carnival Mardi Gras. The …

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Carnival Beckons: A Carnival Musing for 2013

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  World Travel
carnival centerpiece sculpture of Blair and Bush in Torres Verdes, Portugal

Since ancient times, new beginnings – that’s carnival. It’s our craving to shuck memories of the slings and arrows that paralyze us. New Year’s resolutions disappear in the first head wind, but carnival has been serious about new beginnings since the Greeks partied to praise Dionysus and the Romans thanked Bacchus for wine and flora, fertility heavy on their minds.

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Ode to Carnival Past and Future, Sadly Not Present.

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
dancers preparing for a carnival parade, on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Are you mourning this year’s lack of Carnival’s spiritual cleanse, its satirical sorting of society’s woes to give us perspective? I am. And so I retreat now to past frolics. It’s hard to overstate how rotten the past year has been, in so many ways, or the dim prospects it left us, as we await whatever next escapes Pandora’s Box.

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Trinidad & Tobago Carnival Marches to Many Tunes, Takes Prisoners and Packs a Rum Punch!

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  World Travel
Trinidad and Tobago Carnival

Heads of state sometimes gather in Port of Spain to jockey for position, with some reaching out and some more antagonistic. Often overlooked is a lesson in personal diplomacy that the entire world might take from the host country, Trinidad and Tobago. The two islands, quite different from each other, form a single country, and have the Caribbean’s most intriguing culture. People who are often at loggerheads elsewhere in the world get along just fine here, thank you very much.

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America, Brace for a Global Thrashing as Carnival Speaks Truth to Power

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
carnival chariot with figures of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a parade in Torres Vedras, Portugal

Hoo-boy! It’s that time again. Carnivals around the world are gearing up to pay tribute to Fearless Leader. He’s back, and it’s as if he never went away. These are not the parades Trump had in mind. I’ve experienced plenty of Carnivals throughout a good chunk of the world. Sense of duty. Their varied traditions, some back to the ancients, …

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