Iconic wines, gourmet food producers, panoramic scenery and travel-friendly weather. These are just some of the reasons the Barossa Valley attracts hordes of thirsty and hungry travelers each year. It is a major wine-producing region 60 kilometers northeast of Adelaide, a mere hop away in the vastness that is Australia. In the distant days when the country was still a fledgling colony, the fertile soils and ample rivers of the Barossa attracted immigrants from both Britain and Germany. Other European settlers also arrived ?including one of the most famous names in Australian winemaking, the Seppelts from Poland.
There is a coffee house in Beijing's Chaowai SOHO that looks as if it was teleported from the Friends set. In fact, China Daily has videos on its website showing the American sitcom fans scrambling to get there for a piece of action, dreaming of meeting their versions of Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, Ross and Chandler.
Since its debut in October 2006, at the annual China Luxury Summit in Shanghai, the famous painting, The Drunken Beauty, has made many appearances at various national luxury exhibitions, together with other works of art from masters such as Picasso, Van Gough and Monet.
Want to explore the rivers, hills and dales of Taiwan's busiest city the clean green way? Michael Jen-Siu shows the way.
Skirt the crowds and brave the wet to enjoy Nepal during the rainy season. Intrepid traveler DJ Clark shares his itinerary.
Suburban Sheshan has one of the city's most impressive places of worship, Qi Xiao reports.
Netizens at Douban.com, a popular lifestyle portal among young people in China, keep a "floating" Expo journal. As one visitor completes his or her journal on visiting the Expo Garden, be it a diary, a poem, a photo or an illustration, he or she passes it to another visitor. The "floating" Expo journal has attracted hundreds of netizens who have visited the Expo Garden. A school teacher from Singapore wrote her tips for visiting the Expo Garden; a visitor from Malaysia wrote "tenmakasih" (Malay for thank you); a girl from Guangdong province left a postcard which reads: "Love in my heart" .
"We see increasing hints encouraging people to smoke, such as matches and ashtrays by beds in hotels. Those who want to quit may be lured into smoking again. If we eliminate or decrease these hints, perhaps it's easier to create a smoke-free environment. I suggest that we close smoking rooms in the Expo Garden, which will make the Expo Garden entirely smoke free. Although the interests of smokers may be impaired, the image of Expo 2010 Shanghai will be promoted and the environment will be better."
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