DanielaThe Lemon Festival (“Fete du Citron“) in Menton this year had a really interesting way to celebrate the lemons and oranges – thousands of fruits were used to create several creative sculptures and mosaics, all having as theme the cinema. The festival takes place during Feb 5th – Mar 3rd, and it is supported by the local tourism office to encourage visits to the city. We’ve gathered below some pictures from the festival to understand what made us write about it:
DanielaHi guys! This is a quick one – just wanted to let you know that we made a couple of small fixes to help you navigate and share your traveling experiences through photos & videos:
1. You can now add a small description to each of your photos. If you have ~50 photos from your latest trip in Paris, you can tell us what you did & how you felt the city by adding a Post, then simply add a small text to the photos you want to give more explanations, like “this is me with my friend having the best coffee ever” 
2. We’ve added some titles & links to help you navigate when viewing the photo gallery of a trip. Nothing fancy, just “back to trip/back to post/back to profile”.
Go login & tell us what you think!
Daniela
Visionary concept, the world’s frst flying hotel introduced by design company Seymourpowell and called “Aircruse“. The hotel will have low passenger numbers and huge internal spaces offering room for living, dining and relaxing, as well as scope for dramatic and inspirational public spaces, as the company states in the press release.
Furthermore, the giant kite-shaped hotel is eco-friendly: the Aircruise combines solar power with a primary hydrogen drive for a cruising speed of around 90mph, while transporting 100 people from London to New York.
Samsung Construction and Trading already showed interest in building this machine, and they estimated 2015 as the year when it will fly for the first time. Well, if this is the future of luxury traveling, we might witness a strong competition for the sea cruises operators.
Daniela
We’ve heard much about green travel in the past few months, and people seem to have a positive reaction and encourage it as well. But what is green travel after all, and how can we actually do that on our next trip? There seem to be various definitions, but the one for the Ecotourism is used the most as guidance: “Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people.” (TIES, 1990).
Ok, so it’s about responsability and improvement. Hmm… that sounds nice, but why should we care? Well, one simple answer is that there are ~1 billion tourists traveling the world each year, and the number is growing. People and especially places will not stay like they are forever, and is very likely to suffer from the crowds passing by each day. Think about how much you love the places you went to, and the memories that you have – won’t it be nice if other people can see those places too? At first I thought that well, green traveling, like using bio products, will certainly be more expensive. But it actually isn’t, and it is very likely to give you a good feeling about the trip when you end it, and the people you met in each place you’ve been. (more…)
