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Dubai & Abu Dhabi - Deira (Chapter) Lonely Planet

Deira feels like a cross between Cairo and Karachi. Dusty, crowded and chaotic, it’s a world away from the slick and sanitised city piercing the clouds at the other end of town.

Coverage includes: Neighbourhood Top Five, Explore Deira, Local Life, Getting There & Away, Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Sleeping, Shopping and Sports & Activities.

Dubai & Abu Dhabi - Deira (Chapter)

Country charm.

 There is something so simple but so beautiful about wood in a home, and in this case - the kitchen. With white washed floors, beautiful exposed brick and fun tiles or wallpaper you can really play up the rustic charm of plain old wood. Here are some of our favorite kitchens at the moment.

From the white washed floors, to that wallpaper and the raw wood cabinets, this little cottage is picture perfect!

I just want to spend days baking in this kitchen!

Graham & Co makes simple look so so good.

Such a pretty kitchen! The yellow fridge is so perfect with the white and the wood.

This is my absolute DREAM kitchen! All of that exposed brick and those perfect wooden shelves? The two photos above are both at Hally's Cafe in London and I can't stop staring at them! Photos found here.

Tales That Witness Madness (1973)

          UK-based Amicus Productions, a second-tier competitor to Hammer Films, earned a niche in the horror marketplace by making a series of anthology movies, nasty little numbers featuring terse vignettes grouped by framing stories. Examples include Tales from the Crypt (1972) and The Vault of Horror (1973). The success of these pictures inevitably led other companies to ape the Amicus formula, hence this silly project from World Film Services. Although Tales That Witness Madness is a respectable endeavor thanks to decent production values and the presence of familiar actors, the script by Jennifer Jayne (writing as Jay Fairbank) is an uninspired pastiche of hoary shock-fiction tropes. There’s not a genuine scare in Tales That Witness Madness, and most of the humor is of the unintentional sort. Plus, the longest story is almost interminably boring.

          The picture begins with a shrink, Dr. Tremayne (Donald Pleasance), showing a colleague around a psychiatric facility where four odd patients are housed. As each patient is presented, his or her tale appears in flashback. The first bit, “Mr. Tiger,” features a little boy whose bickering parents discover the lad’s imaginary friend may not be imaginary. Next comes “Penny Farthing,” a drab yarn about an antique dealer getting possessed by the figure in an old painting. In “Mel,” the best vignette of the batch, an artist (Michael Jayston) brings home an old tree and then decides he likes the tree better than his wife (Joan Collins). The final sequence, “Luau,” is a tedious tale about people caught up in a ritual-sacrifice scheme. Except for “Mel,” which has a pithy, Twilight Zone-esque tone, the stories drone on lifelessly. (“Mr. Tiger” is fine, but the “twist” ending is so obvious from the first frame that there’s no tension.)

          The actors all deliver serviceable work, with young Russell Lewis (as the boy in “Mr. Tiger”) and Jayston (the artist in “Mel”) providing the most vivid performances. As for the leading ladies, Collins, who inexplicably spent much of the ’70s appearing in bad horror movies, does her usual shrewish-sexpot routine, while Hollywood actress Kim Novak—playing the lead in “Luau”—drains all vitality from the movie with her colorless non-acting. Director Freddie Francis, the former cinematographer who directed numerous frightfests for Hammer and Amicus (including the aforementioned Tales from the Crypt, among other horror anthology movies), handles this project with his characteristic aplomb, but even his smooth style can only compensate so much for the enervated nature of the stories.

Tales That Witness Madness: FUNKY

Kiwi Father and Son Feared Dead After Avalanche on K2

Marty and Denali Schmidt are missing on K2
Also - Longs Peak video by Alan Arnette - below
Andrew Wexler on Mt Temple  -  below

http://saltoro.blogspot.com/2013/07/kiwi-father-and-son-feared-dead-after.html

http://altitudepakistan.blogspot.com/2013/07/marty-and-denali-schmidt-reported.html

http://www.climbing.com/news/avalanche-takes-father-and-son-on-k2/

https://www.facebook.com/cyril.kaicener

Random picture of Victoria Falls on Facebook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQiGLmMmNOc  --  Longs Peak Video

http://www.globalalpine.com/2013/07/climbing-east-ridge-of-mt-temple-and.html

Mt Temple

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California - San Francisco (Chapter)

Get to know the world capital of weird from the inside out, from mural-lined alleyways named after poets to clothing-optional beaches on a former military base. San Francisco’s morning fog erases the boundaries between land and ocean, reality and infinite possibility.

Coverage includes: Sights, Activities, Tours, Festivals & Events, Sleeping, Eating, Drinking, Entertainment and Shopping.

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California - San Francisco (Chapter)

SUMMER CAMOUFLAGE - FLOWER PRINTS

Most pics you already saw in previous posts and it was too easy to put a Magnum PI picture between these pics of Hawaii Prints. 

But one thing is for sure, this summer more then ever, you have to wear flower pints. Whether it's a shirt, a pant, a tie or a hat it's the must have summer camouflage.

Scott McKenzie already said it in 1967 "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers"