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Nov 28 2009
Search PlanetAbroad Widget For Wordpress
Uncategorized - 8 months ago - admin
We have made our search available for all WordPress blogs through a plugin which can be downloaded here!
The details are in the readme.txt in the archive as well as below. Let us know your thoughts!
Search Planetabroad Widget
Plugin Name: Search Planetabroad Widget
Description: Helps you find your ideal holiday destination
Author: Alexandr Dorogikh
Author URI: mailto:dorogikh.alexander@gmail.com
Contributors: Alexandr Dorogikh, PlanetAbroad
Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9548481
Tags: travel, inspiration, destinations, holidays
Requires at least: 2.6
Tested up to: 2.8.6
Stable tag: 1.0
This plugin recommends the best holiday destinations by using your criteria: “hiking, beach, party => Sydney, Rio de Janeiro or Dubai” Try it!
Description
This plugin recommends the best holiday destinations by using your criteria: “hiking, beach, party => Sydney, Rio de Janeiro or Dubai” Try it!
It connects with the unique holiday inspiration site http://planetabroad.com – based on individual criteria like “beaches, golf courses, party” it recommends the best destinations for this.
It is a fun and easy way to discover the ideal holiday. Content is user generated on the main site http://www.planetabroad.com which leads to independence and high quality results.
Installation
1. Upload the full directory into your wp-content/plugins directory
2. Activate the plugin at the plugin administration page
3. Optionally you can chose a separate title as well as change the language. Currently however, http://planetabroad.com is almost exclusively in English so it does not make a lot of sense to chose a different language.
Frequently Asked Questions
No FAQs yet
Screenshots
The widget in the initial state:
The search results:
Changelog
1.0
* initial functionality completed
License
The widget is released under: GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3
Oct 14 2009
Japan Food Culture
Uncategorized - 10 months ago - admin
Perhaps one part destiny and two parts luck; your resolve has finally brought you to the Japanese mainland. While marveling at the sights and inviting smiles of the locals, your appetite awakens prompting you to seek a meal. Or you unfortunately did not make it to Japan yet but still want to indulge in some Japanese culture. What will you eat? Where will you dine?
As chance and centuries of tradition yield, Japanese Food Culture embodies wonderment, zest, and sumptuous styled multiple-course meals.
During the Edo and Sakoku (locked country) eras (1600 – 1868), the character of Japanese cuisine reached consummate levels of sophistication. Through profound religious influences of Buddhism and the Shinto faith, meals are symbolic; featuring five distinct flavors and colors. The tastes of sweet, spicy, sour, salty, and bitter, and visions of red, green, yellow, black, and white, fuse skillfully into three main cooking styles – that of Honzen Ryori (Formal/Elaborate Banquet), Chakaiseki Ryori (Tea Ceremony), and Kaiseki Ryori (Artistic Presentation). A fourth style, Shojin Ryori (Vegetarian) developed by Buddhist monks, has come to include some non-vegetarian elements.
Typical Japanese cuisine couples the staple foods of gohan (white Japanese rice) and noodles, with soup, tsukemono (pickled vegetables), and an array of savory okazu (side dishes); with a standard meal being ichiju-sansai (one soup with three side dishes).
As an island nation, many dishes incorporate the abundance of various types of freshwater seafood including finned fish, shellfish, crab, roe, sea mammals, and seaweed. Cooking techniques may vary from raw (sashimi), to simmered, grilled, steamed, deep-fried, or dressed. Various green teas are ubiquitous to Japan and are sipped as the perfect after mealtime beverage.
Ambiance, presentation, and table etiquette all play prominent roles in Japanese cuisine. Together, each converges to define a particular harmony; pleasing to the palate, and enjoyed visually as a work of art. Arrangement, placement, color, the influence of the seasons, and choice of receptacles are all strategic. How one holds his bowl or chopsticks, partakes from a communal receptacle, or receives a tablemate’s kind gesture of keeping his cup full, create a relaxed and pleasing dining experience. As a grateful guest, you will impart itadakimasu “I humbly receive,” before consuming the meal, and gochisosama deshita “This was a feast,” in praise of the host, before leaving.
Experience the elite of Japanese Food Culture, while dining abroad in some of the world’s most favored Japanese restaurants.
Daidaiya Shinjukuten Restaurants of Tokyo
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The Daidaiya Shinjukuten restaurant chain of Tokyo offers an impressive nouvelle-Japonaise cuisine. [more...]
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Compliments of Chef Ronnie Chia; Tatsuya Japanese Restaurant in Singapore is an elite, and choice, sushi establishment. [more...]
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Singapore’s Akira Japanese Restaurant serves up delicious meals at affordable prices. [more...]
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Operated by the Thai Express Group, the Shokudo Japanese Food Bazaar is a lively show-kitchen style restaurant. [more...]
Oct 7 2009
Help release Filipino pain
Uncategorized - 10 months ago - Jonas
We all have seen the awful images in Manila by the typhoon “Ondoy” (Ketsana) and I am hoping everybody is safe now.
PlanetAbroad in the past was fortunate enough to work with a range of Filipino freelancers. Their continuous efforts are helping to build PlanetAbroad step by step.
By consequence, I feel a high level of responsibility to support the wonderful people of the Philippines in these tough times. Countless of my friends have had awful hours desperately trying to reach friends and relatives to check their well-being. One of our freelancer’s husband was trapped in a car all night long due to the flooding. These are just small pieces of a huge catastrophe. To play our part in helping to rebuild and ease the pain we have decided to donate all of PlanetAbroad’s revenues until Sunday the 25th of October.
Donations will be transferred to “The Philippine National Red Cross” as they are a proven and trusted source of support.
So how exactly does this work? Every time you book a trip online instead of going straight to the websites like hotels.com or zuji.com you visit through the following links:
PlanetAbroad gets a commission of the trips you book. In most cases this money is transferred upon check-in (at the hotel, flight etc.). As soon as we receive the money we will transfer it to the Philippine National Red Cross.
So, to cut a long story short, simply by going through one of the above links when booking trips you can help a beautiful nation terribly hit by a natural disaster!
Thank you very much in advance, we highly appreciate it.
Jonas
PS. Join our Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PlanetAbroad/154698602533?ref=ts to make sure you get all the updates on the status of the fundraising process
UPDATE:
We added another agent:
Click here for Expedia
Oct 6 2009
Puerto Rico Nightlife
Travel ideas - 10 months ago - admin
Welcome Abroad!
Tantalizing, sizzling, rewarding and enriching; nightlife on the Island of Puerto Rico is unlike any other. Lose yourself in a festive and tropic atmosphere in any one of the island’s five regions (Northern, Eastern, Central, Western, and Southern); teeming with a cultural richness and unmistakable flare.
Visitors, indulged by the locals, are welcomed readily and encouraged to venture out come nightfall. Festivities await while you sample a variety of venues; each with a unique and tempting lure.
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As twilight falls in the San Juan district of Santurce of the island’s Northern Region, a lively transformation of the historic Plaza del Mercado is underway. [more...]
Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza Casino
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Try your hand at Lady Luck in this Vegas inspired Hotel Casino and Lounge. [more...]
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For a more subdued and stirring evening, a visit to Teatro La Perla in Ponce of the island’s Southern Region is sure to please. [more...]
Oct 1 2009
French Food Culture
Travel ideas - 10 months ago - admin
Evolving steadily since attaining cultural significance during 15th century Renaissance, modern French Cuisine, and the accompanying accoutrements, not only satisfy the palate, but also please the eye.
An invigorating fusion of wine, food, and traditional exploits, French Food Culture has emerged a bona fide “social theater”; akin to any Fine Art. Complete with elaborate and strategic presentations, display and composition are as integral to such Haute and Nouvelle cuisines as the ingredients themselves.
Tabletops are virgin canvas adorned with processions of appetizers and main courses. Meals are consumed in a leisure yet devoted style promoting both, familial bonding and spirited social revelry. The traditions and loving rituals, with which each meal is prepared, make French cuisine and the resulting culture nothing short of edible Art.
Formal courses are unique and unaided; each giving way to its successor in the following order: Hors D’oeuvres, The Fish Course, The Main Course, The Salad Course, The Cheese Plate, and lastly The Sweet Desert Course. Fresh breads, a traditional French meal’s mainstay, are present throughout each course.
Traditionally served first, “Outside of the Main Course or Works,” hors d’oeuvres are basic yet simple, and cleverly designed to stimulate the appetite. Aperitifs (small palate-arousing cocktails) may also accompany this first course.
A Fish Course will sometimes follow hors d’oeuvres and be lavishly garnished with an assortment of vegetables. Afterwards, a small dish of citrus-flavored sorbet is consumed to cleanse the palate; giving way to the main course.
Arriving at the Main Course, one will find an elaborate meat or poultry dish; again garnished with vegetables crafted for display by culinary prowess.
Next, a simple Salad Course of tossed greens with vinaigrette is served; whose purpose is to again cleanse the palate, and aid in digestion.
A bastion of French Cuisine; a selection of cheeses are then served on a wooden board (The Cheese Plate) amid a bevy of fresh cut fruits.
Lastly, the Sweet Dessert Course may be served for a special occasion. This course is an ornately decorated treat; rich and indulgent to taste, and served with freshly brewed café.
French cuisine implores you to Dine Abroad and experience Le Cuisine Francois (The True French Cook) first-hand, in one of many sophisticated eateries of the region.
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Indulge yourself in subtle, fresh, and authentic Basque, and French cuisines; compliments of Chef Stephane Jego at the Chez L’Ami Jean. [more...]
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Experience succulent, and savory, culinary creations; direct from the kitchen of Chef Pascal Barbot. [more...]
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Delight in a Parisian cabaret as you dine on traditional French cuisine at La Villa D’Este Restaurant. [more...]
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Experience the tastes of inventive, and modern, French cuisine while dining at the base of The Arc de Triomphe. [more...]
Sep 24 2009
Fresh Mountain Air
Travel ideas / Uncategorized - 10 months ago - admin
Throw caution to the winds in the fresh mountain air; adopting laissez faire for your much-needed escape. Never mind the date or time, leaving urban woes behind, as your date with peace, respite, and tranquility awaits… Welcome Abroad! The time has finally come and you’ve earned it. Avail yourself a well-deserved retreat from the trappings of modernity. Envision simple, remote, yet quaint as you surpass the cares and pressures of the daily and mundane. “Nature’s Tonic” – Fresh Mountain Air, is sure to revive, rejuvenate and soothe you. Delight in a pleasing zephyr or a crisp cool breeze as you settle on your perfectly suited getaway. Have you any destination in mind? Australia, Europe, or the enchanting ambiance of Africa; experience the essence of an ascending locale. Some places to consider include:
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Lying within the Drakensberg Mountains of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the Dragon Peaks Resort is a charming and rewarding mountaineer’s paradise. [more...]
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The Faroe Islands are an 18-island archipelago, peppered by a dramatic shoreline of volcanic basalt cliffs. [more...]
The Blue Mountains (Australia)
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Majestic, serene, and yielding breathtaking panoramic mountainous views, the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia offer up a tantalizing and enchanting escape. [more...]
(image by m0rula) Composed of the three valleys Valdidentro, Valdisotto and Valfurva, Bormio is situated in the National Park of Stelvio. [more...]
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Picturesque villages and rolling hills – that is what the Toelzer Land in Bavaria looks like. [more...]
Sep 24 2009
Welcome to PlanetAbroad’s Blog
Uncategorized - 10 months ago - admin
Hello everybody and welcome to PlanetAbroad’s Blog.
Here we will share our newest recommendations with you, keep you updated on new features on the website and provide you with further interesting travel related news.
We will start off later this week by publishing a post on some fresh mountain air destinations… Stay tuned!
