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lunedì 12 dicembre 2011

Christmas, Molly the donkey, a tornado and Askewville in North...

Surely in America and the answer is in a link to a map below.

Insiders' Guide

to North Carolina's

Outer Banks,

paperback

A story, a miracle and a page about this town. And... by the way, one of the airports in this State is Raleigh Durham.

Flights

by Brussels Airlines

to Raleigh Durham

from London Heathrow

http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p(63842)a(2024947)g(19796182)url(http://www.brusselsairlines.com/en_uk/look-for/destinations/united_states/raleigh-durham.aspx)

I have learnt the meaning of the words dubbing, cheering, lap, levelling and giving up on life...

Mobil Travel Guide:

Middle Atlantic/Delaware,

District of Columbia,

Maryland,

New Jersey,

North Carolina,

Pennsylvania,

South Carolina,

Virginia,

paperback

Monday December 12, 2011

Compass America Guides:

North Carolina

by Fodor Travel Publications,

paperback

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giovedì 10 novembre 2011

The Hamptons

Sands in Manhattan. No music there?!

Sunday October 9, 2011 and some seconds ago

Fans of building? A book is on sale below:

Houses of the Hamptons 1880 - 1930

(The Architecture of Leisure),

hardcover,

by Anne Surchin and Gary Lawrance.

And other books will be sold in the next months...

In this article by Edward Helmore: Montauk Point, Southampton, surfers and sport fishermen, Amagansett, families with children, East Hampton Town, Larry Gagosian, potato farmers, Ed Michaels, the Marine Patrol, Wall Streeters, Wainscott, Steven Spielberg, Dune Hampton, Diane McNally, shellfish, Jersey Shore, Snooki, Coney Island, Rockaway, leashing, Baywatch, Randy Rosenberg, St Patrick's Day, Cape Cod and Martha Vineyards, Long Island and Long Islanders, JJ 'Big John' Ryan, shorebirds and sparrows, crustaceans, fireworks and Jeff Louchheim.

Word meanings learnt here: pristine, breaching, horseshoes crabs, piping plover, soaring, bumper-to-bumper, brown-outs, overhead, boon, hedges trim, plucking, foibles, toning down, spuds, squabbling, mansions, aghast, spillings, black-clad, lanes, revenue, clamming, common lands, boosting, flounder, osprey, scallop, clams, tight-lipped, squads, pimply, encrochment, binge drinking, bonfires, revellers, nipping, vertical fin, flopping over and piping plover.

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lunedì 7 novembre 2011

Oklahoma, Kansas and the Los Angeles - New York Footrace

In this article by James Adams: the LA to NY Footrace, the statue of Andy Payne, the Trans USA race, London, a motel in Pawhuska and Kansas.

I have learnt words such as venturing out, staggering forward, falling over, slug, concoction, screaming out for, star-spangled, faffing around, dumping and dropping out.

Monday November 7, 2011

Below a book is sold -

C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race:

The True Story

of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run

Across America by Geoff Williams

for Rodale Books.

More books will come later there

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