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City For The Hungry - Mumbai

Posted by admin on December 30th, 2007

These are the sights mouthwatering moments are made of: a handful of spices that make your mouth tingle, a basket of fresh vegetables, a pot of sizzling meat, a bowl of filling rice. Mumbai, India is one of the great culinary wonderlands of the world. From fine cuisine to the local fastfood, Mumbai has a dish for everyone - from the man who will eat anything to the gastronome on the prowl for the tasty and the exotic.

The good news is that thanks to cheap flights from UK to Mumbai, you don t have to spend a small fortune to sample Mumbai s fares. Most airports in the UK, including London Heathrow, Manchester, Cardiff, Teesside, and Newcastle have flights available. Availing of cheap flights from UK to Mumbai isn t a problem. In fact, all you have to do is inquire from your airline of choice whether or not they fly directly, or with connecting flights, to Mumbai.

The Seventh Costliest City in the World

India may be a third world country, but that doesn t make Mumbai a cheap destination. In fact, the Economic Times lists Mumbai as the seventh costliest city in the world. Thankfully, the dollar and the pound are princes among currencies. The high costs of almost everything notwithstanding, your dollar can pay for a lot. Still, it pays to cut corners wherever you can. In visiting India s financial capital, one such corner is finding a cheap flight from UK to Mumbai.

From Eyes to Stomach, in Minutes

In Mumbai, eating is not only a necessity, it is an experience. Make the most of your cheap flight from UK to Mumbai by trying sumptuous street dishes. Most city streets near public transport stations are filled with pushcarts. From these pushcarts, you can sample exotic eatables like bhelpuri, a sweet-spicy combination of puffed rice, spices like onions, chili, mint, boiled potatoes, and chutney pani puri, or puffed flour cakes made from either white flour or semolina, with a choice of filling such as tamarind chutney, onions, tomatoes, peppers, or chili vada pav, or fried dumplings sandwiched in slices of leavened wheat bread and finally, pav bhaji, which are fried vegetables served with leavened wheat bread. These delicacies are prepared on the spot for customers. So, you could not only watch your food being cooked, you could learn how to cook them as well!

Dining in Style in Mumbai

Cheap flights from UK to Mumbai take you from airports to lavishly decorated restaurants. You can t take ten steps in Mumbai and not run into one. Several dining places of note are:

Anant Ashram: This restaurant is a favorite of Mumbai s upper class. It serves authentic Indian dishes.

Masala Kraft: Known for artistic as well as creative food presentation, this restaurant serves modern dishes from different regions of India.

Brittania Restaurant: Located on Sprott Road, this restaurant is known for serving Parsi dishes, or meals that combine of Indian and Persian influences. It has been in business for more than 80 years.

When you think of Mumbai, you think of a kaleidoscope of ideas: spices, delicacies, people, temple, tradition. There is no doubt the city s soul is as intricate as a richly-woven sari or a bowl of bhelpuri. Thanks to cheap flights from UK to Mumbai, you can get to know the city, one platter at a time.

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Tips On Funding A Gap Year

Posted by admin on December 29th, 2007

You ve finally decided to take the plunge and book your gap year.

Below are some helpful tips to fund a gap year.

Working It Out

Face your fear and work out how much it is going to cost you to fund your gap year. We re talking food, accommodation, flights and all that. One thing to remember when you re working this out is that some Gap Year destinations cost more than others, so do a bit of research into the costs of the places you want to visit.

The Working Holiday

If you get yourself some paid work abroad, you don t need to save up as much money before you go. It can also seriously take the strain off your finances whilst you re travelling and help fund a gap year that s longer, better and filled with more of the things you want to do!

Budgeting

Doing little bits to save money here and there can make real difference to your money saving efforts, for example taking your lunch to work rather than buying it. You could also work out a monthly budget, giving yourself a certain amount of money to spend a week and putting the rest of the money in a separate saving account where you can t get at it!

Sponsorship/ Fundraising

If you plan to do volunteering on your trip then you can use sponsorship as a way to get the money together - you might be surprised at how willing people are to help you out:

- Ask your family, friends and work colleagues to sponsor you and to pass on the message to other people they think might sponsor you.
- Take part in a big event, such as a marathon or half marathon and get sponsored for that
- Sell cakes at work, get rid of your old stuff at a boot sale, wash cars and so on.
- Write a letter to your company s big boss to say what your doing and see if the company will sponsor you. Big companies like to get the good publicity that volunteering brings - it has been known in the past for them to double your final total.

The fund raising opportunities are endless, so get creative and you ll raise the cash you need to fund a gap year in no time! You ll soon been away chasing your dream.

Gap years & working holidays. Real Gap are the experts in gap year travel, career breaks and volunteer work abroad.

Ontario A Province Rich In Ghost Towns Of The Past

Posted by admin on December 28th, 2007

Ontario, Canada is a beautiful province filled with many hidden secrets for those armed with a compass or GPS and a little spirit of adventure. With a history rich in logging, Ontario was the site of many lumber camps. Where wood was necessary to be shipped, mills were required to cut the wood. Where lumber camps were built, railways were needed to ship the wood out. Railways required steel, which in turn required mines to extract ore from the earth.

Today you can still find remnants of yesteryear. Old mills, railway lines, wood mills and mining plants are scattered across Ontario. In many cases they are nothing more than a pile of rubble, in other cases the adventurer may still walk through the original buildings.

Ontario Abandoned Places is a website devoted to the exploration of abandoned ruins across Ontario Canada. It was originally designed to cover ghost towns but has now branched out into abandoned urban locations for the Urban Explorer. The difference is locale. A ghost town explorer is interested in a rural town, which may be longer on the maps, or in jeopardy of falling off the maps. An Urban Explorer is interested in exploring city attractions, either abandoned or off limits to the general public.

Ontario Abandoned Places follows the golden rule of “Take nothing except photographs. Leave nothing but footprints.” Break and enter is forbidden, a pair of hiking shoes and a GPS unit are encouraged.

The website brings many visitors in search of information. For some it is information on a town that a relative grew up in, which is no longer in existence. For others it s the thrill of the hunt and then there are those who grew up in these towns, and merely want to see it as it once stood.

Take Burwash for example. The old prison closed down in the late 1960 s but still holds the occasional reunion where former townsfolk reunite to share stories, photographs and of course beer. They find Ontario Abandoned Places a valuable resource for information and photographs.

Urban explorer and ghost town enthusiast