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Shopping in Gothenburg, Sweden

by ITKT Media Partner | Oct 8, 2011 | Announcements, Sweden | 0 |

From the Visit Sweden Newsletter Gothenburg is big enough to make you feel that you are in a major...

Kitsilano: Vancouver’s Lovely Western Suburb

by Julian Worker | Oct 8, 2011 | Canada, ITKT Blogs | 0 |

Kitsilano, or 'Kits' as locals know it, used to be the Vancouver version of San...

Vancouver’s Commercial Drive

by Julian Worker | Sep 13, 2011 | Canada, ITKT Blogs | 1 |

The lively 16-block area of Commercial Drive (between Broadway and Venables) is an enormously...

Chester – Walled City of the West

by Julian Worker | Sep 24, 2010 | England, ITKT Blogs | 0 |

The city walls hold Chester tightly in their grasp. But age doesn’t dictate what’s...

Mama Got a Brand New Bag…In Abaco, Bahamas

by Jenny Block | Dec 8, 2009 | Bahamas, ITKT Blogs | 0 |

From floor to ceiling – literally – the walls and shelves and corners and countertops were covered with bags made of heavy sail canvas in a plethora of colors and right at the entrance sat two older women at ancient, industrial sewing machines sewing patches like the one I had seen on the shuttle onto the bags.

Architecture and More in Dusselforf

by Cindy Lou Dale | Jul 28, 2008 | Germany, Spotlight | 0 |

Apart from it being Germany's richest city, the nation's advertising and fashion capital (where Claudia Schiffer was discovered), and the hub of many Japanese corporations and banks, it's also a city of eclectic art...

Expert Shopping in Oaxaca

by Kimberli Waack | Feb 16, 2008 | Mexico, World | 0 |

The Méxican state of Oaxaca (pronounced wah-HA-kah) doesn't just sound exotic to my ears, the name inspires thoughts of the mysterious and unusual. Located in Mexico's deep south, the state's name taken from a...