Turbo Travelguide

Archive for July, 2009

Nice, an article in The Times with ten tips for a perfectly packed suitcase: “Be strict. Think of your trip as a set of events — the pub lunch, the beach day, the city sights — and remember what you wore last time to these places. You know what you really wear and what you don’t — if you pack an extra four shirts “just in case”, you’ll only make your case heavier and have to iron the clothes again on your return.” Read them all.

In short:

1. Hard case — rectangular, not square — with internal elasticated bands.
2. Don’t pack for ‘just in case’
3. Make a list of all items in the case, so you can check them and forget nothing.
4. Start packing trousers
5. Next (T-) shirts.
6. Fold in the trousers and on top jackets.
7. Shoes (in a plastic bag) and ties and belts in empty slots.
8. Strap it all.
9. You could pack in a bundle.
10. Never overpack.

Chinese developers are commemorating the late Michael Jackson by building a scaled-down replica of his Neverland Ranch on an island off Shanghai, a state-run newspaper said on Friday. Investors in the project, which will cost about 100 million yuan ($15 million) to build, hope it will open on Chongming island ahead of next year’s Expo in Shanghai, the China Daily newspaper reported. [source]

Van Gogh painted himself

The Royal Academy of Arts in London presents from January 23  2010 a major exhibition on Vincent van Gogh. It is the largest exhibition on the Dutch painter in Great Britain since 1968, reported the English art establishment Friday.
The Royal Academy of Arts shows ‘The real Van Gogh: the artist and his characters’ 65 paintings, thirty drawings and 35 letters of Van Gogh. Most of these letters the artist wrote to his brother Theo. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam offers from October 9 2009 an exhibition devoted to the letters, at the end of fifteen years research into the correspondence of the painter.