Christian Dior Museum

This elegant villa where haute-couturier Christian Dior spent his childhood and now turns into a musée having been consecrated to him. Located at Rue, Estouville, Granville, France.

The park-line garden with lawns surrounded with trees, roses and colourful bed plants. The house is also overlooking the sea from the north side of the Lower Town.

What to expect inside the museum and jardin Christian Dior?

• The musée exhibits an eye-popping collection of Dior’s work as well as poster, publicity photographs and other memorabilia.
• Shops (They sell Christian Diors products)
• Every summer they have special exhibition in the garden.

How to get there?

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How much it cost?

Going in to the garden is free but there is an entrance fee in the museum tariff 7 euros per guest (musée tarif Plein: 7 Euros) For more information about the dates and opening times click here.

Important Reminders for every guest:

Camera is not allowed to use inside the museum.

How was our experience?

Amazing the garden is beautiful, clean and there are too many posters and signage printed with facts about his creations. It was educational going to the garden and very relaxing place go and to live as well. The museum is very pretty loads of beautiful memorabilia. His life, family, education and work are there. If you pay for a visit you’ll discover so many things inside the museum. It’s worth a visit especially if you are keen on fashion and lifestyle. You will get more inspirations from him.

She's not yet ready for a pose.

Back garden

Mother and daughter (Behind is the head statue of Christian Dior)

Things to see and read whilst walking in his beautiful garden. Facts and history of his creation.

What a beautiful place to live over-looking the seaside.

Perfume of course!

pond with fountain another view of his garden

Opening dates, times contact numbers and tarif.

Jenny O'Toole

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From Eiffel Tower, Paris To Your Home Country

Do you know how far you live from the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France?

I went to France for two weeks holiday. They say that when you go to Paris, you must see and visit the Eiffel Tower. Yes! I absolutely believe it’s a must see and worthy of going up to the top of the Eiffel Tower. The scenery is fantastic. The breeze is so refreshing in summer, but freezing when it’s windy and rainy.

In France tourism is one of the largest industries. They earn hundreds of millions of Euros per year. Tourists will pay fortunes for scenery and attractions. As long as they are happy and satisfied of the services. Getting a ticket to go up to the top of Eiffel tower is not as easy as ABC. You have to queue for four hours just to get a ticket, waiting for another hour, to enter the main gate to catch the elevator.

When you reach the 2^nd level they have some amenities like restaurant, glass floor, viewing window, viewing gallery, gift shops, and snack bar. You can see lots of small people underneath of the tower queuing to get ticket and go up to top. Wait till you reach the top floor you can see how tiny those people are. They are like ants queuing to deposit the food they are carrying.

When we are on the top of the tower it was like being on top of the world. It’s one of the wonderful experiences for me and my 22 months toddler in a buggy, pushing and carrying was not easy for us. We queued and waited for more than five hours just to reach the top. The scenery is one thing we wanted to experience. It's not only scenery you can see; there is also history and facts behind the iron tower. Which were the highlights of our escapade on that day?

These are the facts I got from the Eiffel Tower ,Paris to Berlin, Germany is 882 km, to Manila, Philippines is 10 761 km, to Moscow, Russia, is 2 495 km, to China is 9 653 km and to Lithuania is 1 706 km.

I am originally from the Philippines and I found it very amusing and educating, isn't it very educational the trip? I know that scenery will always be the number one reason of going up to the tower to see the views and to see the whole city of Paris. Sometimes, travellers forget the history and the facts behind building the Eiffel Tower, majority of the travellers are pre-occupied by the views. Every corner has fantastic views. We had a fantastic holiday last summer for more pictures. Click Here!

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The Yellow Duck Marine Tour

Thinking of going to Liverpool for day out with your family or friends?

The yellow duck marine tour offers a unique way of discovering the City of Culture in Liverpool city centre. By land and water you will enjoy this amazing experience.

Trip starts on the road, then to the historic waterfront, touring the famous sights of the city, and then making a dramatic splash down in the Salthouse Dock ending at Albert Dock.

Ticket Type     Off Peak         Peak

Adults             £9.95               £14.95

Children           £7.95               £9.95

Concessions   £8.95               £11.95

Family (2 adults & 2 Children)            £32.00             £39.95

Additional Child (upto 3 per family ticket)       £5.00   £7.00

Peak period: School & Bank Holidays (including Bank Holiday weekends) from February to October.

Our tours depart daily all year round from 10.30am or 11.00am. During very quiet times we run every 75 minutes and during busy times every 15 to 30 minutes.

A group of ten or more can share a regular commercial tour with other passengers at standard price rates with a discount rate of 10%.

The Yellow Duckmarine

32 Anchor Courtyard

Albert Dock

Liverpool

L3 4AS

0151 708 7799

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Opening Hours

Mon-Sun 09:00-17:30

Departure Point

Gower Street Bus Stop

Albert Dock

Liverpool

L3 4AS

Travel tip: Book on-line to avoid disappointments. Happy trip!
For more information and bookings check their website here: http://www.theyellowduckmarine.co.uk/

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Sunset: Overlooking the entire City of Davao

When the school term is nearly end the tourism student of University of Mindanao will decide where to go, when to go and how many days we are going to spend our educational tour.

Half of our class decided to go to Camiguin for 3 nights and half of the class choose to go to Samal Island for Island hopping for 2 nights. The photographs were taken 6 years ago in Island Garden City of Samal, Philippines.

Image credits to Glory Manipol

After Island hopping and visiting local attractions we catch this lovely sunset over-looking the entire City of Davao on the way back to Punta del Sol we’re we stay over.

We all had fun and our tour was absolutely fantastic!

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Where to stay in Paris?

Paris is a favourite tourist destination in Europe, there is a wide range of accommodation options luxury hotels, chain hotels to low cost hostels. Every region has its good points and bad points choosing which place to stay depends on your priorities.

Paris is divided into five regions.

1.    Tour Eiffel
2.    Latin Quarter, St. Germain and Islands
3.    Marias and Bastille
4.    Lourve an Champs-Élyées
5.    Montmatre

For visit purposes decided which region do you want to stay.

To help you to decided jot down all tourist attraction you wish to visit. These will help you to choose which region you should stay, which closer to the attractions you wish to visit. 

Need Map?

Maps credit to Grand Hotel Lévéque

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Albert Dock Liverpool

If you heard the word Albert Dock what comes in your mind? Is it the famous Albert Dock we’re the world-famous ship Titanic dock in that pier? Or it might be the most famous band of all time The Beatles or The Yellow Duckmarine? Whatever it is, please allow me to tell some beautiful features of this stunning Albert Dock in Liverpool.

Welcome to the City of Culture Livepool, England 08.
FACT: Liverpool was City of Culture in 2008.

Stunning boat

The Albert Dock is the home of major tourist attractions in and most visited multi-use attraction in England aside from London.

Liverpool’s top tourist attractions found in Albert Dock. Surrounded by restaurants, bars, boat and tours and showcasing the world heritage and waterfront setting.

One of my favourite building in Liverpool.

This photo was taken inside the car on the way home,
using my phone. It's the Pump and Maritine Museum buildings.

More discoveries waiting to discover for travellers.

Liverpool Museum is state-of-the-art museum. Three story building, with over 6000 objects and heap of hands-on fun. Free Entry! Opens daily from 10am till 5pm –

•Discovering the history of Titanic at the Maritime Museum and International Slavery Museum

•The Tate Liverpool for contemporary art collections.

The Beatles Story – Culture, life, times and music of the world-famous bands The Beatles.

Yellow Duck Marine and The yellow boat cruise

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Traditional canal boat

After a long day of travelling and discovering the entire dock, time to grab something to eat and drink. One of my recommended restaurants is the Gusto Restaurant for great fresh Italian food. Pump house (British Pub) for traditional alternative.

This little girl is watching the yellow dock marine at Albert Dock.

Take the whole family for a day-out. Enjoy and make the best it because all attractions in Albert dock is absolutely free entry except for yellow duck marine.

Have a look on the map.


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Knowsley Safari Adventure

Do you fancy some Safari adventure? Looking for family day out?

If yes, then I have one recommendation. In which you don’t need to travel to Africa for Safari adventure because, the Knowsley Safari Park has loads to offer to make your Safari adventure goes wild.

Visitors are allowed to watch the feeding session for giraffe and feed as well.

Situated in the North West between Liverpool and Manchester in a quite road of Prescot Rd. Prescot, Merseyside L34 4AN

Of course the main attractions are animals from Amphibians to roaring Lions. The knowsley Safari Park, offers a unique adventure trails.

Safari Drive - The only type of leisure attraction that requires the visitor to use their car as (cage) because, it is very dangerous to walk whist the animals are roaring free and that is only a part one of the adventure trail. It’s a wow factor, isn’t it?

The Safari Park is open for all visitors, allows all the family, friends and school children to experience the breath-taking wild animals in free roaming habitats.

Asian Elephant playing

Giant Rhinos

Cheeky Baboons

Check point area for camels. They are very friendly animals.

The part two trail is, if your car is convertible unfortunately, you will miss going to the roaring lions. I’m afraid their paws are very sharp and can rip your roof, as well as the baboons’ route. Baboons like to ride on the roof of the car and they have very sharp teeth.

Part of their safety procedures for the safety of the visitor. Well there is a part that the Safari Park that doesn’t need driving.

It's nice to see these deers' can run free from predators.

Walkabout Area – allows the visitors the meet live creatures there fantastic herd of elephants as well as our giraffe, meerkats, otters, domestic species in the Lake Farm.

Sea lion Show – Time to set back and enjoy the spectacular sea-lion show.

He is waiting for his big entrance for Sea lion show.

Sea Lion Show (This sea lion can play football and can do more tricks.)

Bug House – More to see at the bug house including butterflies, dragonflies and loads of insects

Mizzy Lake Farm - is home to a wide range of farm-yard animals, from pigs, rabbits, free roaming turkeys, Highland Cattle, Mules, Llama, Goats, Rabbits, Donkeys, Guinea Pigs and more

The Watcher (Mr. Meerkat)

Woodland Walk - situated within the grounds of Knowsley safari park is a tranquil place to go for a stroll within the seven acre area.

Amusement Rides – such as Bumble Bees, Carousel's, Honeypot Bears, Jungle Safari,
Jungle Dodgems, Lakeside railways, Mini Pirate ships and Rattle snake.

The final trails ends at the Oasis Restaurant offers a wide range of hot and cold food for when you need food on the go.
If you fancy nice and easy with fantastic views then the place to eat is Karamoja Restaurant.

Aerial Extreme - One of the region’s most iconic and popular visitor attractions, we felt it fitting that we should give it the world’s biggest urban High Ropes Adventure Course! With over 60 awe-inspiring obstacles you will amaze yourself as you take each challenge head on, from speedy zip wires, mid-air jumps, suspended gravity defying climbing walls and much more. No experience or skill is required, just a willingness to have fun. Once connected by our instructors to an overhead safety line, that's it! You remain connected throughout the aerial journey allowing you to concentrate on having fun.
Shopping for souvenirs there is a wide range of soft toys, decorations and other beautiful souvenirs to take home.

Our overall experience:

I am very impressed of the concept of the entire Safari Park. It was very exciting to have a unique safari adventure.

I can tell how much effort they put up to create such excellent and award-winning leisure attractions in the Merseyside.

The highlight of our Safari drive was the kissed from a massive camel in my side car window. I was a bit scared if they are going to smash my window side. But they are not, they like smelling thats all. They are very friendly animals and feeding the giraffe is absolutely incredible.

We definitely recommend the Knowsley Safari Park to all the visitors. Why not take the whole family at knowsley Safari Park one day.

For more information visit their website www.knowsleysafariexperience.co.uk

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World Museum Liverpool

Wonderful World Museum is situated in the city centre of Liverpool. The only museum that makes your imagination goes wild. Discovering treasures from around the world, meet live creatures and exploring the outer space. Some people say going to the museum is dead boring. No it’s not let me tell you our trip in the museum.

Before I start typing our trip to the museum let me tell you the good news. The good news is the museum offers free entry! Open 7 times a week from 10am to 5pm.

To start our visit we started at the ground floor of course where else. To get some activity trail, brochures and some fact sheets at the information desk. When we get in the museum we first meet two dinosaurs, one in the ground level in the museum, but when  I  look up the ceiling I can see a Pterosaur’s, a prehistoric flying reptile. Wow! That’s amazing. I wonder what’s inside. I can’t wait.

Pterosaur’s, a prehistoric flying reptile

We started at the level 1 – Aquarium – meet live fish from Australia to Anglesey in this watery world. You can see all types’ of sea shells, live crabs, prawns, lobster and beautiful corals. The Treasure House Theatre is also in the same floor where you can see live shows, films and demonstrations

Next level - Clore National History Centre – In this section you can find some objects, animals, plants and rocks.
Bug House – meet live bugs of course, insects and even spiders.
Exhibition Gallery – unique exhibition are displayed in this section.

Tyronnosaurus Rex foot Cast
66 million years

In third level - World Cultures - see objects from the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Great floor to discover different cultures, their national out-fit and more.
Ancient World - find out about Anglo Saxons, Romans, Greeks and Egyptians. My toddler really enjoys the ancient world. I teach her how to play the Mancala it’s an ancient games. Which we called in the Philippines as “Sungca”.
Weston Discovery Centre - handle objects from around the world.
More things to discover on the fourth level
Dinosaurs - discover replica skeletons of dinosaurs, fossilised reptile footprints and Ice Age mammal bones.
Natural World - explore the canopy of a steamy jungle and see a magnificent lion in the African plains.

We are hungry and thirsty so we carry on going to the Fifth level to grab something to eat and drink. I had soup of the day, which is cream mushroom and bread. My husband had one bottle of ginger beer and Pearl has her tasty treat, after few minutes in the World Museum Café.

Coarse Iron Meteorite weight over 30 tons in 1891.

Palm Leaf Frond fossils 50 million year old.

Megalosaurus found in South of England.

In the same floor the Space collections - look at rockets, telescopes, Moon rock and models of the solar system.

Time - see examples of clock and watch craftsmanship from 1500s to the 1960s.
Planetarium - blast off on a spectacular journey through space and time as the universe is revealed around you. So that was the end of our trip. Oh wait before I forget to mention we went to the souvenir shops next to the information desk before we go out.

How was our visit?

I decided to take my husband and daughter to the world museum on my birthday. I think it’s unique to spend my birthday in the museum. I know my toddler is a massive fan of dinosaurs, animals, and insects. I am pretty sure she will enjoy our trip to the museum.

We really had a good day out. For me to rate the World Museum I’ll give 5 star for overall features. It’s world class museum. It’s state-of-the-art museum.  The way they display all the objects are mind-boggling. The whole museum is clean and child friendly. It’s a perfect place for the whole family and school children to spend a day out.

Fantastic day out with amazing discoveries! 
For more information visit their website : http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/

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