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We've talked in other oasiones on how to organize your luggage to save space in your suitcase , tricks and other travel accessories that can help in the task, such as the range of "Pack It" Eagle Creek, including are the Pack It Folder or Pack it Cube , but this time let's talk about another product of the same family, but much more complete:

It is "complete organizer", an organizer of luggage "all in one" to bring together all your personal effects, including a "Cube" and two "Half Cubes" and that is perfectly suited to a trolley. The assembly is collapsible and has zippers for easy transport, and a rotating hanger allows hanging in different ways.

"Complete Organizer" of Eagle Creek, has a capacity of 16 liters, measures 34 x 25 x 15 cm and weighs only 340 grams.

You can buy it for 44 € in The Traveller's Store .

Llucalcari is a small farm of 0.8ha urban area is located on hilly terrain to 85 meters high and 3 km away from Deia , a municipality to which it belongs.

The village of Llucalcari, also known as "It's carrer" or "The Street", consists of about twenty houses, some of which have ancient towers. It dominates all the oratory of the "Mare de Deu dels Desamparats" (1600), whose feast day is August 15.

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Monsanto is a small Portuguese village located southeast of the Serra da Estrela and also the explendido landscape, has the peculiarity that their homes are "trapped" between huge rocks.

The town was built on the side of a mountain by taking advantage of huge granite stones for building the walls of houses or even the roof, which is why they are known as "houses of a single tile."

The village of Monsanto, whose appearance has not changed for centuries, in 1938 won the title of "most Portuguese village of Portugal".

No doubt an awesome place worth visiting.

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Menorca footwear excellence, avarca, auvarca or alvarca (avarques plural) was traditionally used by pageses or peasants of the island.

Formerly used tires were made of leather and pork or beef, in the natural color of the skin, and even today are made from real leather and available in the market a variety of colors and patterns that evolve according to the fashion The classic is still produced auvarca with car tire soles, the most requested color the "natural".

The "avarques" are still fashionable, and the Balearic islands because of their convenience, are used every summer by many islanders and tourists visiting the islands, also for its lightness the ideal footwear for travel in summer.

But if you like "avarques" and you are lucky enough to live on the islands or to have a shoe store near the band, still, now you can buy over the internet in the shop traveler .

In The Traveler's Store, you can find avarcas Ria brand, a leading company since 1947 Ferreries making the real auvarcas.

Also, if you want the hand painting can customize the drawing that you like.

Picture Start / Clickmenorca

Rest images / commuter Shop

One of the problems facing the independent traveler is able to communicate with the locals to indicate needs or any queries.

Most gestures are universal, but no matter where we are today we can say that it is essential to know some basic phrases in English, a language with which we can make ourselves understood almost anywhere in the world.

In my view, the 10 basic English words for any tourist are:

1 - Excuse me. Sorry.

2 - Please. Please.

3 - Where is ...?. Where is ...?

4 - Thank you. Thank you.

5 - Toilet. Bath.

6 - You are welkome. Of anything.

7 - Yes. Yes.

8 - No. No.

9 - How much?. How? How much cost? How much does it cost?.

10 - I am (I'm). I am.

If the languages ​​are not your forte and you want to learn more vocabulary, I suggest you see the following video, English vocabulary related to holidays and tourism:

Video / Vocabularioeningles

The famous Carnival of Venice, was for centuries a way out of town to escape the excessive control that was subjected by the Venetian GOVERNMENT. However, the Venetian carnival reached its peak in the S. Century, when noble arrived from very different places mingled with the populace to enjoy the event. Since then the masks are the most representative and most important Venetian carnival.

The Carnival of Venice lasts 10 days. The costumes are costumes of s. Venetian seventeenth abound "nobile maschera", which is a white mask with black silk robe and hat with three points. After 1972, other colors have been added to the costumes, but masks are still mostly white, silver and gold.

In 1797 Napoleon Bonaparte abolished the carnival festivities for fear that covered by anonymity plots could be generated, but the party was officially restored in 1979 officially, marking the beginning since Lent.

But there is an internationally known celebration one that is much earlier (año943) and was on linking to the carnival. This is the "Festa delle Marie", a celebration related to an episode during the Ritual of Purification of Mary.

During the ceremony of the richest family in the city, were chosen 12 brides no money for a joint celebration, clothing them with expensive clothes and jewelry from the treasury of the city. The bride came in procession to the Plaza de San Marcos, assisting in the Ducal Palace to a party in his honor, and then continue with the celebrations in the church of Santa Maria Formosa. (more ...)