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The Real Story of Pacific Grove IS Amazing!

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Today we did a downtown Dallas VoiceMap audio walking tour. We visited more than a dozen locations over the course of 2 hours.

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Check out the rainbow events at South Australia's History Festival

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Check out the rainbow events at South Australia's History Festival

As part of South Australia’s History Festival, a self-guide tour will celebrate the queer history of Adelaide.

Flamboyance Tours are presenting the queer history of Adelaide in a self-guided audio tour, sharing the stories of LGBTQIA+ life and people.

Not just a tour about Adelaide’s queer history, but of how the city shaped Australian queer history through tragic circumstances.

When: Anytime in May, tours take approximately 1 hour

Where: George Duncan Memorial, Victoria Drive, Adelaide

Price: $10 per person, bookings required

Additional Information: You need to have GPS activated on your phone as well as the free VoiceMap app downloaded to undertake the tour.

From Darkness into Light: The Power of Visibility!

Heading out of the city centre and to Port Adelaide, local legend Dr Gertrude Glossip is hosting a history talk at Port Adelaide Library.

While homosexuality and gender diversity has a history of being marginalised, hidden, and illegal, the  ‘out and proud’ liberation movement brought achievements that continue to have an impact.

Join Dr Gertrude Glossip to reflect on the significance of these experiences.

When: Saturday, May 4

Time: 2.30PM-3.30PM

Where: Port Adelaide Library

Price: Free, but bookings required online

For more information and to book tickets, visit South Australia’s History Festival.

More Pride Events:

Geelong Pride Film Festival hits screens next month

Mardi Gras is coming to Wagga Wagga

Victoria’s Pride: Regional Pride events across Victoria

Rainbow Beaches BBQ Lunch brings queer joy to Ulverstone

For the latest LGBTIQA+ Sister Girl and Brother Boy news, entertainment, community stories in Australia, visit qnews.com.au. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

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VoiceMap Audio Tours

Experience the magic of GPS audio walks, cycles, drives and even boat rides with VoiceMap tours in over 250 cities worldwide. They’re like podcasts that move with you, to tell stories about what you’re seeing right now. VoiceMap’s tours are produced by insightful local storytellers, including journalists, filmmakers, novelists, podcasters, and tour guides. Sir Ian McKellen has even created a…

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The VoiceMap landing page lists nearby towns and cities with available tours which then detail the length of the tour and the languages available. It is a simple interface which is what holds a lot of the appeal.

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بهترین راه برای دیدن برج گالاتا چیست؟

بهترین راه برای دیدن برج گالاتا چیست؟

به گفته مسافران Tripadvisor ، اینها بهترین روش ها برای تجربه برج Galata هستند:

    برج گالاتا و صبحانه روی پشت بام (از 85.34 دلار)     برج صبح گالاتا و تور شهر استانبول (از 104.48 دلار)     استانبول: گالاتا تور صوتی عکاسی با هدایت خودکار توسط VoiceMap (از 6.79 دلار)     سفر دریایی Bosphorus Sunset Cruise on Luxury Yacht (از 60.05 دلار)     Big Bus Hop-On Hop-Off استانبول (از 60.05 دلار)

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Celebrate Heritage Day with this free audio tour guide

Celebrate Heritage Day with this free audio tour guide

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VoiceMap is offering one free audio tour for a major Cape Town tourist attraction to celebrate Heritage Day.

If you’re in the Mother City this week, why not make the most of a day outside by learning more about the city. The weather is expected to be great, so a walk outside now that we’re in Level 1 is a great morning activity before your afternoon braai.

There are over 50 tours across…

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Celebrate Heritage Day with this free audio tour guide

Celebrate Heritage Day with this free audio tour guide

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VoiceMap is offering one free audio tour for a major Cape Town tourist attraction to celebrate Heritage Day.

If you’re in the Mother City this week, why not make the most of a day outside by learning more about the city. The weather is expected to be great, so a walk outside now that we’re in Level 1 is a great morning activity before your afternoon braai.

There are over 50 tours across…

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​By Roxanne Reid Imagine the foresight it must take to see a bare patch of veld and dream up a fully fledged village and health spa in the middle of nowhere. This is what happened when Scottish railwayman James Logan founded in South Africa back in 1884. Discover why to visit Lord Milner Hotel and in the .

​Imagine too the tenacity of Logan going ahead with his plans to build The Lord Milner Hotel in 1899, in the early stages of the Anglo Boer War of 1899-1902. Before long some 10 000 British troops were camping around the village and the hotel was taken over as a military hospital, the turret as a lookout. 

The facade of the Lord Milner Hotel

Once the war was over, the town and hotel were restored to their intended purpose as hotel and health spa while the concession at the station did a roaring trade supplying steam trains with water and passengers with refreshments. People who flocked to for its curative clean air in those early days included the likes of writer and feminist Olive Schreiner, Winston Churchill’s father Randolph, colonial empire builder Cecil John Rhodes and writer Rudyard Kipling. That today is a time capsule of the Victorian era is thanks to another visionary who came along almost a century later. Hotelier David Rawdon did such a good job of restoring the hotel and town to their former glory that was declared a National Monument in 1975.

Old fashioned fuel pumps and broekie lace on the main road

​There’s an ageless tranquillity here that’s hard to find in the fast-paced modern world. There’s little traffic so you can wander the streets in peace, admire old buildings and outdated petrol pumps on the side of the road, follow a puff of dust and see where it takes you.

The Laird's Arms pub

When the Blue Train or Rovos Rail stops at the Victorian station, visitors pour out like ants to visit the museum and the hotel, to admire the buildings in a time warp. It’s a frenetic time with lots of foot traffic and clicking of cameras, but things settle down when the whistle blows and the train moves away again on its trans- journey. ​​Then it’s time for those left behind to take tea in one of the hotel’s lounges or order a drink in the pub, to go for a walk across the veld or, later in the afternoon, to watch the sunset and the first glimmerings of what will be a spectacular night sky here in the dry . Relax. Breathe in the clean air. Surrender yourself to be restored and revitalised so you can face a return to city life with equanimity.

train on its trans- journey

Things to do in 1. Download the free VoiceMap app (Apple and Android) as a guide to walk you around the village, point out some of the old buildings and fill you in on the little village’s intriguing history. 2. Take a trip on the old London double-decker red bus. At 18:00 each day except Sunday it takes visitors on a short tour of the village, picking out some of the landmarks like the house where Olive Schreiner stayed and the field where England and South Africa played the first friendly cricket match (James Logan was a great cricket fan). Finish your whistle-stop tour at the Laird’s Arms (see point 5) next to the hotel in time for a drink before dinner.

Old carts and a London red bus outside the station

3. Delve into the past in the museum – all three of them. The Transport Museum has a collection of vintage cars from the 1930s to 1960s, old bikes and train carriages. The Railway Museum on the station platform has a station master’s office dating back to the 1890s and the original signal room. 

Wouldn't you love these see these gents out on the road in ?

Victorian furniture in one of the small, cold rooms beneath the station

​By far my favourite place to get lost for an hour or two is the Marie Rawdon Museum under the station. There are vast collections of everything from kitchen utensils, old cameras and typewriters, to bedpans, dolls and war souvenirs, even a full-on pharmacy. The rooms under the station used to be a jail during the Anglo Boer War; feel the cold and damp and imagine what it must have been like for the prisoners during a winter. 

Collection of bedpans and basins in the museum

Museum collections include cobbler's equipment and woodworking tools

The apothecary, or pharmacy, in museum

4. Walk around the village with your camera to capture memories of the restored old buildings. See the house where Olive Schreiner stayed in attempt to cure her asthma in the dry air, the old post office (now a gift shop) where she used to post her letters. Admire the bank building with its original teller’s counter and banking equipment intact, the pink church that used to be a concert hall and school until the 1960s. 

The old post office

​The yellow courthouse and jail would have been known to Boer hero Gideon Scheepers who spent time in the jail before he was tried for treason in Graaff-Reinet and executed by firing squad in 1902. 

court house and jail

​Visit Logan’s General Store (now a coffee shop) and see the flourmill and mineral waterworks where Logan produced lemonade and ginger beer to sell to travellers. A windmill harnessed the winds to generate electricity – a South African first – and power the mill. There’s a rather nice collection of succulents in the garden today.

General Store, now a coffee shop

5. Spend some time in the Laird’s Arms to soak up its saloon-like ambience. A local character, Johnny, plays rousing honky-tonk tunes in the evenings while you order a drink at the polished wooden bar with its shiny brass taps. It’s a wonderful place to imagine what the atmosphere in must have been like more than a hundred years ago. If you’re here at lunch time, order a pub lunch.

Johnny at the piano in the Laird's Arms

Atmospheric dark wood and brass in the Laird's Arms pub

6. Explore the hotel, its grand staircase and reception rooms for a feel of what those who came here for their health at the turn of the 20th century would have experienced. Take a seat here or there to fully appreciate the moment. 

The grand staircase in the hotel's lobby

One of the sitting rooms at the Lord Milner Hotel

I love the sitting room at the back where the piano is; last time we visited a young couple was enjoying a cup of tea, retreating into the coolness from a stinking hot day outside.

The music room, with its piano and harp

7. Ask the staff about the ghosts that are said to haunt the hotel. On our very first visit we heard about a woman in white who is sometimes seen near the tower. On our most recent visit, we commented on the strange eyes of the blonde-haired child in a painting in the Marie Rawdon Museum. The chap in the museum told us that a visitor had recently taken a photo of it with her cell phone, another with her daughter’s camera. Then she screamed and came scuttling out as if the hounds of hell were at her heels. Turned out the cell phone pic was fine, but in the other there was a shadow over the child’s shoulder as if someone was standing behind her. A ghost? Who can tell?

Painting of the girl who may have a ghost over her shoulder

8. Explore the gardens behind the hotel to appreciate how they survive in the extremes of really hot summers and really cold winters. If you go far enough you’ll discover the swimming pool, where residents can relax on a lounger with a good book.

Rooms set in green gardens

9. Duck into the tiny traveller’s chapel along the river behind the hotel to imagine how perfect it would be for an intimate wedding. Take a moment to appreciate the serenity and listen to the sounds of the tinkling fountain outside. The building’s original use was far less unruffled; it used to house gas-generating equipment to light the town.

Traveller's chapel,

10. See David Rawdon’s house where he died in 2010. It’s the last cottage down the side road where the pink church is. Someone told us he ordered champagne the night he died and the bottle and glass have been left untouched. Someone else told us it was whisky so – as with all good legends – the stories are already getting jumbled. 11. Enjoy dinner in the Victorian-style dining room with its dark antique furniture and heavy drapes. The food is of the traditional variety, with bobotie, lamb shank and malva pudding making an appearance. Service is friendly but slow when the dining room is full, so try to relax and downshift to time.

Things to do in : take a walk on the veld

12. Go for a walk in the veld, to feel the ‘sense of wild exhilaration and freedom’ that Olive Schreiner so loved. There used to be a British encampment with 10 000 men and 20 000 horses here in about 1900, so you might even pick up a relic from those days. ​

The hotel at night

accommodation When it comes to your accommodation, you get a choice between suites or rooms in the hotel, historic cottages in the village, or the lower priced Matjies Motel for more budget conscious travellers. I’ve stayed in a cottage in the village, the main hotel (which I love for its classic style) and the Riverbank Rooms at the motel. The latter aren’t as posh as the hotel but still perfectly comfortable at a lower price, with the bonus of a parking spot close to your door. Like it? Pin this image! 

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Beautiful day for a self guided VoiceMap audio walking tour of the Esplanade near City Park.

With a light lunch of gumbo and fried okra at Liuzza’s By The Track.

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When in Montevideo, explore the old city with this audio tour.

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Placemaking voicemap

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VoiceMap is an app which uses location services to list nearby towns and cities and provide walking tours available in that area. The app uses smart technology to allow the user to distance themselves from the screen to create an immersive experience.

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Lisbon / Portugal blogs

Lisbon and Portugal isnpire hundreads of travel posts, bloggers and videos but there are a few that stand out for me which I check out regurarly. 

HERE TO GO TO

http://www.wheretwogoto.com/category/around-portugal/around-lisbon/

A travel blog for Portugal and outside of it. Good tips for day or weekend trips from Lisbon. Written by expat couple in English.

SALT OF PORTUGAL

https://saltofportugal.com/about/

Mainly about Lisbon and Portugal. Different themes you can search for posts produced by small group of posts. I like that concept how they create this thing together. Nice artwork. They also have their own voicemap tour of Lisbon! And scarfs inspired by Lisbon tiles.In English.

LISBON BY LIGHT

https://www.lisbonbylight.com/lisbon-stories/

This is lovely even though more like a design blog. I love the idea of ’stories of Lisbon’ as locals of the city, often artists. Great strories and inspirations.  Great way to discover portuguese brands and artists. Very ’arty’, very Lisboa.

THE LITTLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

http://www.littleupsidedowncake.com/category/lisbon-stories/

Like the name tells you already this about eating in Lisbon and elsewhere in the world. Another not a travel blog. You can look for recipes according to the time of the year, which is a fun idea. Love the posts of different cafés of Lisbon. Also stories behind the counter. Amazing photos!

LISBOA COOL / LISBON SECRETA / TIME OUT

Available in Portuguese as in English. These are all quite similar, commercial websites about Lisbon. Tips for visiting and learning more of it but also events, restaurants, cafes… Time Out comes out as a magazine once a week if you prefer.

VISUAL DIARY

https://www.lily.fi/blogit/visual-diary

In Finnish. Written by a graphic designer living in Lisbon for over 3 years. She writes about life, in general but especially in Lisbon. Great lists. Also about design. I love her photos. She also has a great instagram account worth following if you speak Finnish.

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LISBON ME PLEASE / LISBOA LIVE / LISBOA COME

https://www.instagram.com/lisbon_me_please/

https://www.instagram.com/lisboalive/

https://www.instagram.com/lisboa.come/

Do you follow blogs about your home city /country?