| Aruba's island beauty offers sand, sea and sunsets (AP via Yahoo! News) Given a choice between a snowy mountain and a sandy beach, I prefer the cold. But my wife is from Miami and my infant son howls when exposed to a chill. So this year I deferred to them, and we headed to Aruba. us.rd.yahoo.com |
The Complete Guide To: The best of Denmark (Independent) The Little Mermaid may be its best-known icon, but there's much more to this Scandinavian gem. Roger Norum investigates the museums, the beaches, the longboats and the lager us.rd.yahoo.com |
Let's move to Selsey and the Witterings, West Sussex (Guardian Unlimited) Appealingly end-of-the-line-ish What's going for it? In the 50s, architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called East and West Wittering "a jumble of bungalows and chalets near the beach in an untidy half grown-up state". Sixty years later and – thank heavens – they've still not grown up. The Witterings, and Selsey next door, retain an air of impermanence thanks to the shack-like bungalows and ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Captain loses license for 1 year The skipper of a parasail vessel that was involved in a fatal accident in Maunalua Bay off Hawai'i Kai in 2009 turned in his Merchant Mariner's license last week and will undergo a one-year suspension, the U.S. Coast Guard has announced. honoluluadvertiser.com |
Once upon a Tim...the politicians fairy tale A COLCHESTER political heavyweight, who has long been the scourge of the opposition, has revealed his soft-side after having a fairy tale published. gazette-news.co.uk |