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December, 2009 - Volume 11, Issue 12
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This Month's Newsletter
Welcome to the Purple Roofs December, 2009 newsletter. We now have a twitter account - follow us, and we'll be adding features there soon, along with our site revamp planned for this winter.
Also check out our Gay Marriage Watch blog - all the news we can find about gay marriage, now published daily, on:
You can also join our daily news mailing for Gay Marriage Watch by sending a subscription request to info@purpleunions.com.
This month, we also have seven great travel articles - one from a recent tour we took on Nob Hill, and the rest from other great Purple Roofs writiers. Thanks to our contributors:
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Hob Nobbing With Snobs on Nob Hill:
The San Francisco Walking Tour
Reviewed by Scott & Mark, Purple Roofs
On our last trip to San Francisco, we booked the wonderfully named tour above - a historic walking tour of one of the city's ritziest and storied districts - Nob Hill. The tour starts at the Fairmont Hotel, which was brand new at the time of the Great Fire of 1906. The Fire plays a large part in the history of Nob Hill - before the flames swept through half of what's now the modern city of San Francisco, most of the buildings up here were built of wood, and were destroyed by the conflagration.
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Cabo on the Quiet Side - Baja, Mexico
By Eileen Hansen for El Encanto del Cabo Pulmo, Cabo Pulmo, Baja, Mexico
Of course, there’s the Cabo of the clichés—the easy get-away, Spring break land, destination for sun and fun. But there’s another one. To me, it's a quiet, crowd-free place that I visited with family friends as a teenager. Landing in the twin-engine plane on a dirt field was the entry into a foreign world. I snorkeled for the first time in Cabo San Lucas, dizzy with the colors swimming around me. I ate my first tortilla, still warm and wrapped in paper from the local tortillaria, and I learned first-hand not to drink the water.
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New South Wales' Wine Country: The Hunter Valley
By Ivy Holly, Twin Trees Country Cottages, Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia
Want to get away from the City life and its fast pace? Why not come to the HUNTER VALLEY WINE COUNTRY! You will find interesting and perhaps unusual things to do. With over 120 unique wineries to entice you on wine tasting and we hold some of the internationally acclaimed wine brands. Learn about wine appreciation. This region is one of the oldest wine region in Australia and is known for its Semillon and Shiraz and more recently Chardonnay and Verdelho.
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British Columbia's Chilcotin: Rugged Mountain Beauty
By Brenda & Jamie, Rivers Edge Guest Cottages, Kleena Kleene, British Columbia, Canada
In the remote interior of British Columbia, halfway between Williams Lake and the fishing village of Bella Coola, lies the small community of Kleena Kleene. In the heart of Tsilhqot'in territory and criss-crossed by the Klinaklini and McClinchy Rivers, it is snuggled between Ts'ylo-s Park and Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, offering many beautiful photographic opportunities.
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Torino, Italy - A Long and Varied History
By Marco Bonino, Al Porta Susa B&B, Torino, Italy
Torino (Turin) is an ancient city, Italy’s first capital, and is now a great industrial district. Each moment in history has left its mark on the city, creating a legacy of culture, architecture and monuments. The Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games showed the world an unexpected city, surprising not only people who previously couldn’t have found the city on a map, but even those who were already familiar with it.
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Traveling in Our Fabulous World: For the Naturist
By Donald Pile & Ray Williams, Gay Travelers
There are those who enjoy removing “everything” and enjoying life that way. Actually there are thousands and thousands of people who enjoy doing that. There are a lot of places for gays to travel to find such places. One great website to is www.gaynaturists.org. It is the world’s foremost association of male naturists offering naturists vacations and adventures, cruises and more. Once on their website you will be able to navigate to see exactly what you are looking for. This website features places all over the world.
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Traveling in Our Fabulous World Book Review:
Arts America, The Book & Website
By Donald Pile & Ray Williams, Gay Travelers
For travelers who are into the arts (Art Museums, Theatre, Classical Music, Opera, Jazz, Dance, Film and Summer Festivals in America), we have found a marvelous and very informative new book as well as a website to help find out where to go all over the country. The book gives extremely good information on 20 of the most important cities in America. In addition, they tell about 30 major performing-arts festivals throughout the country.
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Innkeepers - write us an article about your area, and we'll include it in a future issue of this newsletter with credit and links to your website and email addresses. Contact wheretostay@purpleroofs.com for more details.
Special Offer Accommodation Notices
As always, we also have our Late Availability & Special Offer notices (221 offers in 26 countries/regions) all at http://www.purpleroofs.com/lateavailability.html, or just check your favorite destination page - these notices are also right there on the regular listings.
Travelers - Try a Home Trade Membership for Just $75 for 5 Years...
...and stay for free with other gay, lesbian, and gay friendly travelers around the world. More details on our Mi Casa Su Casa site at: http://www.gayhometrade.com.
We've redesigned our mainstream accommodations directory - Altraverse.com
Now with over 4,200 accommodations listed worldwide - see it at:
http://www.altraverse.com
Visit our Gayapolis.com website - news, personals, much more
Some time ago, we took over the management of a new site, Gayapolis.com. We'll be moving the site to our own server soon and integrating it more closely with our other sites. You'll find personals, daily news, and a great reworked gay and lesbian directory, all at:
http://www.gayapolis.com
That's it for this issue - see you next time! :)
Mark & Scott, PURPLE ROOFS
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