Saturday, October 30, 2010
Dear Religious White People
You all are my brothers and sisters before God and I love you all but please explain this foolishness, LOL.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Diddy having Drama
Diddy is going hard and making death threats due to his baby-mama kim Potter moving on to actor Jackie Long best known for his role in ATL as Esquire. Also known for dating Serena Williams. The thing that I dont understand is why Diddy is trippin it didn't seem like he wanted to stay faithful when he was with Kim. so whats the big deal now. Dang why doesn't he go back to messing around with Cassie like he been doing and stop trippin. Congrats Kim !!! But I dont know why Jackie would go from Serena to Kim? Both people seem like they made down grades. But it's not always about the money the other person might treat them better ? what do you think ?
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Brandy Haven’t Been With a Man in Years!!!
On “Dancing with the Stars,” Brandy admitted that it’s been a while since she’s been intimate with a man. In an interview with Life & Style, she explains why.
“I haven’t been with a man seriously and in love in six years. And, honestly, I tend to abstain if I’m not in a relationship,” she tells the magazine. “Although it hasn’t actually been a full six years, it’s been a long time. We’re talking years.”
“I actually went on a blind date a couple months ago that was very interesting but nothing serious,” she adds, noting that she tried to get back in the dating game with rapper Flo Rida.
“I was very interested in him. I mean, how can you not be — he’s very attractive. But there was just something about us that didn’t click,” she says.
In other Brandy “Dancing” news, shock jock Howard Stern says he’s put off by the way she is treated by her professional partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy during rehearsals – particularly because Brandy is black and Maks is white.
“This guy is yelling at her, giving her the business about how she has to work harder,” Stern said. “She’s being a good sport about it, pretending like this actually matters if they’re dancing the f***ing samba correctly. All of the sudden, while he’s training her he starts smacking her on the ass.”
“This guy is training a woman, a black woman,” Stern added. “You know when a man walks by a woman and makes a sound like she’s a fine horse? He’s smacking her on the ass like she’s his personal property, like back in the slave days. I was astounded they were showing this on TV.”
Tyler Perry Childhood Abuse on ‘Oprah’
Winfrey’s website says of the broadcast: “He was beaten, scarred and nearly broken. In a groundbreaking interview, Hollywood mogul Tyler Perry reveals the devastating details of his childhood sexual abuse.”
In a video promo of the episode (seen here), Perry reveals that during his childhood he was molested by three men and one woman, and that he once blacked out for three days.
Perry said in his latest newsletter that the interview is “the most in depth and revelatory” he has ever done.
McNair Widow and Sons Get $500k
Mechelle McNair had asked a Nashville judge to unfreeze a portion of the estate so that she and Steve McNair’s four sons could each have $500,000 until the probate case gets sorted out.
She and Steve McNair had two sons together. The other two are from previous relationships.
The estate of the former pro, who played 11 seasons with the Tennessee Titans and two with the Baltimore Ravens, was initially valued at $19.6 million. The bulk of his assets have been frozen since his death.
Steve McNair was 36 when he was killed by his mistress in July 2009. The woman shot him four times before turning the gun on herself.
He died without a will.
Toni Braxton’s Got Tax Problems!!!
Unfortunately the singer’s money problems don’t stop there. Last year she was sued by City National Bank after defaulting on a 2007 loan for $900,000. She was also reported to have defaulted on her mortgage payments to Bank of America last year for her California home.
Monica’s 30th Bday and Charitable Foundations
*It was a wild scene: high class and hip-hop urban entertainment meshed together Sunday night at Philippe Chow on Melrose Ave in West Hollywood. They honored Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Bullets for Peace while they partied for singer, Monica’s 30th Birthday.
It was an awesome scene to witness. Think varying levels of self mastery, fine living and passion for just about everything; spread out on one pink carpet.
Several LA Lakers including Derek Fisher and Lamar Odom were there. Also, Deniece Williams, Angela and Vanessa Simmons, Golden Brooks, Khloe Kardashian, Raven-Symone, Kenny Lattimore; need I say more. Oh no, it didn’t stop there; Black Hollywood debutantes, athletes, hip hoppers, and cultural tastemakers were on the scene for the cause.
Urban entertainment’s elite swarmed in one after the other wearing pink ribbons and draped with silver bullets, all in support of Monica’s Still Standing Foundation and its programs, and of course they came to party.
“Reach for the stars and not look down on others, but look down to help others,” Monica said in a statement for the press.
In keeping with an urban/southern sophistication and desire to give back Monica asked her family and celebrity friends to donate money in the name of her Still Standing Foundation to the Susan Komen Foundation – Susan G. Komen for the Cure – the global leader of the breast cancer movement.
Billie Jordan was on the scene and spoke to some of Monica’s most exciting celebrity guest. Here’s her (video) *Pink Carpet Report:
The birthday girl arrived in a Porsche Panamera with her fiancé, who opened the door for his soon-to-be wife and shielded her with an umbrella. Inside, the happy couple’s family and friends nibbled on the Asian cuisine, cupcakes, and candy as Jermaine Dupri worked the ones and twos.
“Because God has given me more than I could have ever imagined, I won’t even make a wish,” the mother of two told partygoers before blowing out the candles on her purse-shaped cake. “I’ll just say to everybody in here, we’re all blessed.”
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Fernando Torres taps into spirit of Anfield as Roy Hodgson faces talk of dressing room revolt
By CHRIS WHEELER
At last: Fernando Torres' second goal of the season gave Liverpool a second win
Whether Liverpool wheeled out Gerry Marsden for a rousing rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone in honour of the club’s new owners or in aid of Roy Hodgson is anyone’s guess, but it certainly set the tone at Anfield yesterday.
It was a show of unity in difficult times, demonstrating to the men from New England Sports Ventures what the Kop sounds like in full cry.
A show of support for the boss might be pushing it too far, given that Hodgson might well have been walking alone had the debacle at home to Blackpool and Merseyside derby defeat at Everton been followed by another disappointment against Blackburn.
But Hodgson’s second Premier League win, thanks to a second goal of the season from a revitalised Fernando Torres in a frantic five minutes after half-time, took some pressure off the Liverpool manager even if it was not enough to lift his side out of the relegation zone.
His fist-pumping celebration of Torres’s strike and relieved demeanour afterwards were understandable.
He had gone into the game amid speculation that Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher were battling to keep the dressing room behind him, and the new American owners had given him two games to turn things around after the club’s worst start to a top-flight campaign for more than half a century.
We're watching you: Roy Hodgson went into the game with talk of a dressing room revolt hanging over him
NESV co-owner Tom Werner was joined in the directors’ box by new board members David Ginsberg and Michael Gordon for the first home game since their takeover, although a sick John W Henry had to watch from home in Boston.
He will have been heartened by this display but Hodgson, sacked by Blackburn before the midway point of the season 12 years ago, acknowledged that one win is not enough.
‘We’ve got ourselves in a perilous position,’ he said.
On target: Joe Cole was denied by a fine save from Paul Robinson
‘One victory is going to help but it’s going to take time until we can see daylight.
‘We don’t know what the owners are thinking. There is media talk of “lose two games and sack the coach” but I’m not sure the owners have that mindset. I divorce myself from all of that.
‘It’s all very well having must-win games but there’s an opponent out there trying to stop you, and you can’t get out of your mind how bad it’s going to be if you make a mistake.’
Old red: El-Hadji Diouf's shot led to Jamie Carragher's own goal
For all Liverpool’s enterprise yesterday and the chances they created in the first half, feelings of unease looked close to the surface.
It might have been different if they had secured the lead they thoroughly deserved before half-time, and for that they could blame Paul Robinson whose superb saves denied Joe Cole, Sotirios Kyrgiakos and, in particular, Steven Gerrard.
The irony will not have been lost on many at Anfield that Sam Allardyce’s side were bullied in the air throughout.
Without regular centre backs Chris Samba and Ryan Nelsen, and with Steven Nzonzi limping off before half-time, a team who base their attack on high balls and set-pieces were exposed to the barrelling runs and aerial dominance of Kyrgiakos.
It was certainly no surprise when the big Greek made the breakthough three minutes after half-time.
Gerrard sent over a corner from the left and Phil Jones lost track of the excellent Kyrgiakos, who rose unmarked to power a header past Robinson — helped on its way by Michel Salgado.
‘I felt there was huge relief around the whole ground when they scored,’ said Allardyce.
There was. The last thing Liverpool expected was a Blackburn equaliser within three minutes, when substitute Benjani crossed from the right and ex-Liverpool man El-Hadji Diouf gave Martin Skrtel the slip and fired low towards the far post.
It's a start: Hodgson hopes Torres, celebrating here with Martin Skrtel, can rediscover his form and desire
Paul Konchesky tried to clear but hacked the ball into the back of the unfortunate Carragher, who deflected it over the line.
‘When it’s in the back of the net you think, “How on earth did that get there?”,’ sighed Hodgson, adding it was not the first soft goal his side had conceded this season.
Carragher has now scored seven own goals in the Premier League for Liverpool — three more than he has managed at the other end. Only Aston Villa’s Richard Dunne has more, scoring an eighth this weekend.
Luckily for Carragher and Konchesky, Liverpool were back in front within two minutes.
Again, they exposed the weakness of Blackburn’s defence, Cole crossing to the edge of the six-yard box for an unmarked Torres to side-foot past Robinson.
It was a confident goal, Torres’s first since Liverpool’s only other league win, over West Bromwich in August.
Hodgson is hoping the player can revive the team.
He said: ‘Torres was very down when he came back from the World Cup. People get down when they’re criticised left, right and centre.
'Maybe he’s just beginning to come out of that and find the joy of playing again. You can’t infuse that into a player.
'You can ask him for it but he’s the one who has to find it in himself.
‘That was his best performance this season. But we need him to score many goals if we’re going to move into the place in the table where we want to be.’
source: dailymail
At last: Fernando Torres' second goal of the season gave Liverpool a second winWhether Liverpool wheeled out Gerry Marsden for a rousing rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone in honour of the club’s new owners or in aid of Roy Hodgson is anyone’s guess, but it certainly set the tone at Anfield yesterday.
It was a show of unity in difficult times, demonstrating to the men from New England Sports Ventures what the Kop sounds like in full cry.
A show of support for the boss might be pushing it too far, given that Hodgson might well have been walking alone had the debacle at home to Blackpool and Merseyside derby defeat at Everton been followed by another disappointment against Blackburn.
But Hodgson’s second Premier League win, thanks to a second goal of the season from a revitalised Fernando Torres in a frantic five minutes after half-time, took some pressure off the Liverpool manager even if it was not enough to lift his side out of the relegation zone.
His fist-pumping celebration of Torres’s strike and relieved demeanour afterwards were understandable.
He had gone into the game amid speculation that Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher were battling to keep the dressing room behind him, and the new American owners had given him two games to turn things around after the club’s worst start to a top-flight campaign for more than half a century.
We're watching you: Roy Hodgson went into the game with talk of a dressing room revolt hanging over himNESV co-owner Tom Werner was joined in the directors’ box by new board members David Ginsberg and Michael Gordon for the first home game since their takeover, although a sick John W Henry had to watch from home in Boston.
He will have been heartened by this display but Hodgson, sacked by Blackburn before the midway point of the season 12 years ago, acknowledged that one win is not enough.
‘We’ve got ourselves in a perilous position,’ he said.
On target: Joe Cole was denied by a fine save from Paul Robinson‘One victory is going to help but it’s going to take time until we can see daylight.
‘We don’t know what the owners are thinking. There is media talk of “lose two games and sack the coach” but I’m not sure the owners have that mindset. I divorce myself from all of that.
‘It’s all very well having must-win games but there’s an opponent out there trying to stop you, and you can’t get out of your mind how bad it’s going to be if you make a mistake.’
Old red: El-Hadji Diouf's shot led to Jamie Carragher's own goalFor all Liverpool’s enterprise yesterday and the chances they created in the first half, feelings of unease looked close to the surface.
It might have been different if they had secured the lead they thoroughly deserved before half-time, and for that they could blame Paul Robinson whose superb saves denied Joe Cole, Sotirios Kyrgiakos and, in particular, Steven Gerrard.
The irony will not have been lost on many at Anfield that Sam Allardyce’s side were bullied in the air throughout.
Without regular centre backs Chris Samba and Ryan Nelsen, and with Steven Nzonzi limping off before half-time, a team who base their attack on high balls and set-pieces were exposed to the barrelling runs and aerial dominance of Kyrgiakos.
It was certainly no surprise when the big Greek made the breakthough three minutes after half-time.
Gerrard sent over a corner from the left and Phil Jones lost track of the excellent Kyrgiakos, who rose unmarked to power a header past Robinson — helped on its way by Michel Salgado.
‘I felt there was huge relief around the whole ground when they scored,’ said Allardyce.
There was. The last thing Liverpool expected was a Blackburn equaliser within three minutes, when substitute Benjani crossed from the right and ex-Liverpool man El-Hadji Diouf gave Martin Skrtel the slip and fired low towards the far post.
It's a start: Hodgson hopes Torres, celebrating here with Martin Skrtel, can rediscover his form and desirePaul Konchesky tried to clear but hacked the ball into the back of the unfortunate Carragher, who deflected it over the line.
‘When it’s in the back of the net you think, “How on earth did that get there?”,’ sighed Hodgson, adding it was not the first soft goal his side had conceded this season.
Carragher has now scored seven own goals in the Premier League for Liverpool — three more than he has managed at the other end. Only Aston Villa’s Richard Dunne has more, scoring an eighth this weekend.Luckily for Carragher and Konchesky, Liverpool were back in front within two minutes.
Again, they exposed the weakness of Blackburn’s defence, Cole crossing to the edge of the six-yard box for an unmarked Torres to side-foot past Robinson.
It was a confident goal, Torres’s first since Liverpool’s only other league win, over West Bromwich in August.
Hodgson is hoping the player can revive the team.
He said: ‘Torres was very down when he came back from the World Cup. People get down when they’re criticised left, right and centre.
'Maybe he’s just beginning to come out of that and find the joy of playing again. You can’t infuse that into a player.
'You can ask him for it but he’s the one who has to find it in himself.
‘That was his best performance this season. But we need him to score many goals if we’re going to move into the place in the table where we want to be.’
source: dailymail
2010 Miss World Top Model (More...)
23rd October 2010
NORWAY WINS TOP MODEL AND FAST-TRACKS TO MISS WORLD FINAL
Norway has won the third guaranteed place in the Miss World 2010 Final, joining Puerto Rico and Norway’s room-mate Northern Ireland in the top 25 of the 60th Anniversary Final.
At a dazzling fashion show with designs from renowned Chinese designers and hosted by the Huayu Group, the girls displayed their high fashion credentials. The Chinese-inspired show was choreographed and directed by the team behind the magnificent opening of the Beijing Olympic Games.
The quality of the contestants made it a difficult contest to judge but Norway came away with the title of Miss World Top Model. As well as the joy of winning, this title comes with a trophy and automatically guarantees a place in the top 25 of Miss World 2010.
“I really can’t believe I’ve been chosen best model out of so many wonderful girls here,’ said Norway. “It’s a great honour for me and, of course, I’m delighted to be in the top 25. Now I can look forward to the Final.”
Ultimately, it was Norway who walked away with the award, leaving Russia and United States as first and second runners up.
The gardens of the Crowne Plaza Sanya, home to Miss World in China, formed the spectacular background to this year’s fashion show, which also provided judges with chance to decide on the Miss World Top Designer Award. Contestants competed for this prestigious award by showing off creations from up-an-coming as well as established fashion designers in their own countries, to celebrate the beauty of women from around the world.
This year standards were particularly high, making it challenging for the judging panel to pick the dress that, in their eyes, most epitomises today’s high fashion. Many countries were keen to win this year’s designer award and had made sure they showed the best their country has to offer.
After the girls had shown their dresses at their very best, the judging panel announced a shortlist of twenty dresses, from which the final three were selected. Out of these remaining hopefuls the winning dress was announced as from French Polynesia, by a designer, Nelson.
source: Missworld
NORWAY WINS TOP MODEL AND FAST-TRACKS TO MISS WORLD FINAL
Norway has won the third guaranteed place in the Miss World 2010 Final, joining Puerto Rico and Norway’s room-mate Northern Ireland in the top 25 of the 60th Anniversary Final.
At a dazzling fashion show with designs from renowned Chinese designers and hosted by the Huayu Group, the girls displayed their high fashion credentials. The Chinese-inspired show was choreographed and directed by the team behind the magnificent opening of the Beijing Olympic Games.
The quality of the contestants made it a difficult contest to judge but Norway came away with the title of Miss World Top Model. As well as the joy of winning, this title comes with a trophy and automatically guarantees a place in the top 25 of Miss World 2010.
“I really can’t believe I’ve been chosen best model out of so many wonderful girls here,’ said Norway. “It’s a great honour for me and, of course, I’m delighted to be in the top 25. Now I can look forward to the Final.”
Ultimately, it was Norway who walked away with the award, leaving Russia and United States as first and second runners up.
The gardens of the Crowne Plaza Sanya, home to Miss World in China, formed the spectacular background to this year’s fashion show, which also provided judges with chance to decide on the Miss World Top Designer Award. Contestants competed for this prestigious award by showing off creations from up-an-coming as well as established fashion designers in their own countries, to celebrate the beauty of women from around the world.
This year standards were particularly high, making it challenging for the judging panel to pick the dress that, in their eyes, most epitomises today’s high fashion. Many countries were keen to win this year’s designer award and had made sure they showed the best their country has to offer.
After the girls had shown their dresses at their very best, the judging panel announced a shortlist of twenty dresses, from which the final three were selected. Out of these remaining hopefuls the winning dress was announced as from French Polynesia, by a designer, Nelson.
source: Missworld
Wedding To Remember 2010
The Bahamas: Never mind the celebrities - hiding away on Harbour Island is heaven
By DOMINIC PRINCE
As good as it gets: Dunmore Town on Harbour Island is a slice of Caribbean peace and quiet
The Bahamas has a long colonial tradition. Over the years it has attracted numerous Britons and a fair smattering of superstars. Model Elle Macpherson is a regular, as are actor Johnny Depp and naughty boy golfer Tiger Woods.
More soberly, the Duke of Windsor was its governor from 1940 to 1945, having been bundled off there as a suspected Nazi sympathiser when the war was in its infancy.
Lyford Cay, a gated estate outside Nassau, is home to the actor Sean Connery and the billionaire financier and Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis.
This is a rich man's paradise, but we were heading for a far less rowdy setting - Harbour Island, a tiny outpost about 60 miles from Nassau.
I'm not brave about flying and make it a golden rule to have at least two stiff drinks before I get on any aeroplane. Small aircraft are a source of particular terror for me, and the one we took from Nassau to Harbour Island was very small indeed. I shut my eyes and shook for the entire 20-minute journey.
On opening them again, I saw colourful clapboard houses, fishing boats bobbing up and down in the breaking tide and lots of lush gardens. What a relief.
Harbour Island measures 3½ miles long by 1½ miles wide and has a population of just 2,500. It's like a model village, where everyone is friendly and polite. Wild chickens peck by the roadside, cockerels sing a ferocious dawn chorus, bakeries heave with breads and pastries.
There are no noisy bars, but somebody is always on hand to make cocktails with names such as Goombay Smash.
The preferred method of transport for locals and travellers alike is the golf buggy. Life here is run at a sedate, relaxed pace. But it is not quaint. There is a cosmopolitan feel about the place. Computer king Michael Dell and his entourage had left the day we arrived.
The artist Anish Kapoor has just bought a $3 million property, and a plethora of actors, moneymen and tycoons choose to spend their holidays here. After six days, I began to understand why.
For our first three nights we stayed at the Coral Sands Resort, overseen by the charming Englishwoman Pamela Berry-Brouchier. Coral Sands is run like a European country club.
Within an hour of arriving, the worries of the world we left behind had been forgotten.
The sea can be choppy, but the azure tint and lapping waves are a huge draw, and the sheer luxury is an eye-opener: showers at the beach head and a boxful of crisp towels make life easy. After swimming, we meandered on a slow undulating walk to our room that overlooked the beach. No mini-bar and limited room service meant we were encouraged to mingle in the restaurants and bars, and engage with fellow guests.
Americans, Germans, French, and Italians, they were all there.
The food and wine were superb. This was surprising because every last scrap is shipped in from America. But it wasn't always so.
The islands had thriving farming enterprises post-war. But then the Bahamian authorities-keen to get people off the land and into more mundane desk jobs, discouraged agricultural endeavour.
Now, amid fears that the tiny islands could be starved in the event of conflict, that policy has been reversed, and once more residents are being encouraged to work the land.
We visited a wonderful farm on the nearby island of Eleuthera. Pineapples were in abundance and a herd of well-kept goat s picked at golden hay. It is a new initiative from the Bahamian government, with grants available to turn derelict land into smallholdings.
One farmer at the forefront of this is a wonderfully bumptious woman who goes by the name of Lady Di. So successful has her pineapple-growing been that she is now exporting them to America.
After three glorious days at the Coral Sands, we walked the 100 yards or so to the Pink Sands Resort - until recently owned by Chris Blackwell, the mogul of Island Records.
It offers a series of cottages dotted throughout the grounds where coconut trees and other tropical vegetation wave in the breeze.
We stayed in a beachside villa called Cole Point South, whose most famous guest was the jazz great Nat King Cole and, more recently, Harrison Ford. This allowed Mrs Prince to tell everyone she'd slept in the same bed as Indiana Jones.
The stroll to the beach passed through the garden, where the pink sand massages the feet, the sound of the roaring sea acting as a magnet.
On our second day, we were befriended by an island aficionado.
A former textiles magnate from Italy, Marco had recently sold his house to Anish Kapoor and was in the middle of restoring a new villa in the centre of town. Marco was keen for us to attend one of the colourful churches on the island. Nearly 80 per cent of the population attends church and it's a spectacle not to be missed.
Gospel songs are bellowed out while the entire congregation begs forgiveness. Don't ask me why, but we were bellowing louder than anyone.
The staple food for islanders is a mollusc called a conch fish (pronounced 'conk'). These rubbery, squid-like offerings are either combined into a hot tomato and onion salad or sold battered and deep-fried as fritters.
The harbour front is full of takeaways serving conch and other good-looking dishes such as chicken, peas and rice. Expect to pay around $10 for a stand-up lunch.
On the way home on that little plane, I realised the only grumble I could muster after an otherwise-perfect holiday was that the alarm clock in our bedroom didn't work - that's how serious it was.
But then, of course, there were always the cockerels.
Travel Facts
Bahamas Flavour (08700 66 99 75, www.bahamasflavour.co.uk) offers seven nights at Coral Sands Hotel, Harbour Island, from £1,299pp B&B, including return flights from Heathrow to Nassau, plus transfers and an overnight stay at A Stone's Throw Away Gourmet B&B in Nassau.
A similar seven-night package at Pink Sands Hotel, Harbour Island, costs from £1,999pp B&B. For more details about Harbour Island, visit www.bahamas.co.uk.
source: dailymail
As good as it gets: Dunmore Town on Harbour Island is a slice of Caribbean peace and quietThe Bahamas has a long colonial tradition. Over the years it has attracted numerous Britons and a fair smattering of superstars. Model Elle Macpherson is a regular, as are actor Johnny Depp and naughty boy golfer Tiger Woods.
More soberly, the Duke of Windsor was its governor from 1940 to 1945, having been bundled off there as a suspected Nazi sympathiser when the war was in its infancy.
Lyford Cay, a gated estate outside Nassau, is home to the actor Sean Connery and the billionaire financier and Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis.
This is a rich man's paradise, but we were heading for a far less rowdy setting - Harbour Island, a tiny outpost about 60 miles from Nassau.
I'm not brave about flying and make it a golden rule to have at least two stiff drinks before I get on any aeroplane. Small aircraft are a source of particular terror for me, and the one we took from Nassau to Harbour Island was very small indeed. I shut my eyes and shook for the entire 20-minute journey.
On opening them again, I saw colourful clapboard houses, fishing boats bobbing up and down in the breaking tide and lots of lush gardens. What a relief.
Harbour Island measures 3½ miles long by 1½ miles wide and has a population of just 2,500. It's like a model village, where everyone is friendly and polite. Wild chickens peck by the roadside, cockerels sing a ferocious dawn chorus, bakeries heave with breads and pastries.
There are no noisy bars, but somebody is always on hand to make cocktails with names such as Goombay Smash.
The preferred method of transport for locals and travellers alike is the golf buggy. Life here is run at a sedate, relaxed pace. But it is not quaint. There is a cosmopolitan feel about the place. Computer king Michael Dell and his entourage had left the day we arrived.
The artist Anish Kapoor has just bought a $3 million property, and a plethora of actors, moneymen and tycoons choose to spend their holidays here. After six days, I began to understand why.
For our first three nights we stayed at the Coral Sands Resort, overseen by the charming Englishwoman Pamela Berry-Brouchier. Coral Sands is run like a European country club.
Within an hour of arriving, the worries of the world we left behind had been forgotten.
The sea can be choppy, but the azure tint and lapping waves are a huge draw, and the sheer luxury is an eye-opener: showers at the beach head and a boxful of crisp towels make life easy. After swimming, we meandered on a slow undulating walk to our room that overlooked the beach. No mini-bar and limited room service meant we were encouraged to mingle in the restaurants and bars, and engage with fellow guests.
Americans, Germans, French, and Italians, they were all there.
The food and wine were superb. This was surprising because every last scrap is shipped in from America. But it wasn't always so.
The islands had thriving farming enterprises post-war. But then the Bahamian authorities-keen to get people off the land and into more mundane desk jobs, discouraged agricultural endeavour.
Now, amid fears that the tiny islands could be starved in the event of conflict, that policy has been reversed, and once more residents are being encouraged to work the land.
We visited a wonderful farm on the nearby island of Eleuthera. Pineapples were in abundance and a herd of well-kept goat s picked at golden hay. It is a new initiative from the Bahamian government, with grants available to turn derelict land into smallholdings.
One farmer at the forefront of this is a wonderfully bumptious woman who goes by the name of Lady Di. So successful has her pineapple-growing been that she is now exporting them to America.
After three glorious days at the Coral Sands, we walked the 100 yards or so to the Pink Sands Resort - until recently owned by Chris Blackwell, the mogul of Island Records.
It offers a series of cottages dotted throughout the grounds where coconut trees and other tropical vegetation wave in the breeze.
We stayed in a beachside villa called Cole Point South, whose most famous guest was the jazz great Nat King Cole and, more recently, Harrison Ford. This allowed Mrs Prince to tell everyone she'd slept in the same bed as Indiana Jones.
The stroll to the beach passed through the garden, where the pink sand massages the feet, the sound of the roaring sea acting as a magnet.
On our second day, we were befriended by an island aficionado.
A former textiles magnate from Italy, Marco had recently sold his house to Anish Kapoor and was in the middle of restoring a new villa in the centre of town. Marco was keen for us to attend one of the colourful churches on the island. Nearly 80 per cent of the population attends church and it's a spectacle not to be missed.
Gospel songs are bellowed out while the entire congregation begs forgiveness. Don't ask me why, but we were bellowing louder than anyone.
The staple food for islanders is a mollusc called a conch fish (pronounced 'conk'). These rubbery, squid-like offerings are either combined into a hot tomato and onion salad or sold battered and deep-fried as fritters.
The harbour front is full of takeaways serving conch and other good-looking dishes such as chicken, peas and rice. Expect to pay around $10 for a stand-up lunch.
On the way home on that little plane, I realised the only grumble I could muster after an otherwise-perfect holiday was that the alarm clock in our bedroom didn't work - that's how serious it was.
But then, of course, there were always the cockerels.
Travel Facts
Bahamas Flavour (08700 66 99 75, www.bahamasflavour.co.uk) offers seven nights at Coral Sands Hotel, Harbour Island, from £1,299pp B&B, including return flights from Heathrow to Nassau, plus transfers and an overnight stay at A Stone's Throw Away Gourmet B&B in Nassau.
A similar seven-night package at Pink Sands Hotel, Harbour Island, costs from £1,999pp B&B. For more details about Harbour Island, visit www.bahamas.co.uk.
source: dailymail
Italian resort to fine women up to €500 for wearing miniskirts
By LEAH ROACH
Tourists to Castellammare di Stabi may find themselves covering up if new legislation is passed
Tourists going to a seaside resort on the Mediterranean could be donning more clothes rather than less, following a proposal to ban revealing clothes.
Revealing garments such as low-cut tops, low-slung jeans and miniskirts could be a thing of the past for locals and visitors in the seaside town Castellammare di Stabia near Naples, under new rules being drawn up by its centre-Right mayor.
Women in the town will potentially have to cover up under the rules, which strives to promote modesty in people.
Mayor of Castellammare di Stabia, Luigi Bobbio, says the aim is to 'restore urban decorum and facilitate better civil coexistence' and would target those who are 'rowdy, unruly or simply badly behaved'.
So long miniskirts: Revealing attire could be banned if the town's mayor gets his wish
The list of 41 new rules could also see swearing in public and playing football in parks and gardens also banned.
'I think it’s the right decision,' the local parish priest, Don Paulo Cecere, told the Cronache di Napoli newspaper. 'It’s also a way of combating the rise in sexual harassment'.
Although the rules are not yet approved, if they come into force, anyone who flouts the ban can face fines between 25 and 500 euros. A meeting will take place next Monday to decide on the new rules.
source: dailymail
Tourists to Castellammare di Stabi may find themselves covering up if new legislation is passedTourists going to a seaside resort on the Mediterranean could be donning more clothes rather than less, following a proposal to ban revealing clothes.
Revealing garments such as low-cut tops, low-slung jeans and miniskirts could be a thing of the past for locals and visitors in the seaside town Castellammare di Stabia near Naples, under new rules being drawn up by its centre-Right mayor.
Women in the town will potentially have to cover up under the rules, which strives to promote modesty in people.
Mayor of Castellammare di Stabia, Luigi Bobbio, says the aim is to 'restore urban decorum and facilitate better civil coexistence' and would target those who are 'rowdy, unruly or simply badly behaved'.
So long miniskirts: Revealing attire could be banned if the town's mayor gets his wishThe list of 41 new rules could also see swearing in public and playing football in parks and gardens also banned.
'I think it’s the right decision,' the local parish priest, Don Paulo Cecere, told the Cronache di Napoli newspaper. 'It’s also a way of combating the rise in sexual harassment'.
Although the rules are not yet approved, if they come into force, anyone who flouts the ban can face fines between 25 and 500 euros. A meeting will take place next Monday to decide on the new rules.
source: dailymail
Why the Olympic Park building site has become London's hot new tourist attraction
By SARAH GORDON
Accessible to all: The Greenway skirts around the Olympic Park
Building sites are not generally places that attract day-trippers but then the 2012 Olympic Park has more potential than your average development.
Indeed, so popular is the work in progress proving that around 110,000 curious visitors have already descended on London's east end to have a nose around.
On a sunny autumn afternoon, I joined a few of them - and some 10,000 men in hard hats - at what is turning out to be the capital's unlikely new tourist attraction...
Pulling into Pudding Mill Station on the Docklands Light Railway, it is hard to avoid the Olympic Park, the train practically hovers right over the site.
The raised line that leads from central London out to Stratford in the east is the kind of route a tourist bus would charge a fortune to ride, but for the price of a commuter train ticket you can fly right by the stadium and venues in all their glory.
However, I have been told I can enjoy an even better view with a quick walk to the foot and cycle path known as the Greenway - a once-neglected passage considered far too dangerous to venture down but now revamped thanks to a wave of the Olympic wand.
The four-and-a-half mile route cuts across east London and borders the building site is currently Olympic Park, offering some great vantage points from which to see the new structures come to life.
Known as the View Tube, the main lookout has been made all the more pleasant by a community-run cafe located in a bright green building made from recycled shipping containers - these are to be known as the 'Green Games' after all.
Tube with a view: The cafe commands great views over the ray-like Aquatic Centre
Groups touring The Greenway often descend on the cafe for tea and cakes
It is not unusual to see groups on Blue Badge guided tours around the outskirts of the site making a quick pitstop en masse at the cafe to enjoy bargain bacon butties and homemade cakes.
Nor is it surprising to see a gaggle of schoolchildren being shepherded into the View Tube building and the classroom upstairs which has been designed to host and inspire younger visitors.
I'm surprised that even on a weekday there seems to be a steady trickle of locals and visitors dropping in to enjoy a coffee with a view - I even spotted the odd business meeting taking place.
For the adventurous who want to explore further afield, bikes are for hire for a wallet-friendly £5, enabling you to take yourself off around the circumference of the Park and down the length of The Greenway with its unparalleled views of London's City skyline.
You're part of it: The colourful buses are designed to get everybody involved in the build-up to the games
But if you really want a dose of Olympic fever, there is no better way to join the excitement than with a free bus tour inside the hallowed fences of the Park.
The trips take place daily but are so popular that you have to book three to four months in advance (book now if you want to see it in spring) to even have a hope of setting foot inside London's ultimate sports venue before 2012.
But it is well worth the long waiting list and stringent security checks. As I pass by the sweeping roof of the velodrome - everybody's favourite building - and the wibbly, tent-like basketball arena, it is fascinating to hear the thought process behind each decision and the unusual history of the area.
How poetic that the Park is being built on what was once a dumping ground for WW2 rubble and the site where the running track from the 1948 Olympics is buried.
While I can't get out of the vehicle for safety reasons ('Olympic rubble crushes visitor' is not among the headlines the organisers want to create), I'm as close to the action as it is possible to be ahead of the official opening.
And there is something truly exciting about seeing the Park mid-transformation - it feels like a VIP-style sneak peek behind the scenes with giant steel rods rushed past us and bulky items lurking mysteriously under tarpaulins.
Contrasts: The wibbly Basketball Arena has been likened to a giant mattress while the wooden cladding is almost finished on the elegant Velodrome behind
A surprising number of structures look almost finished from the outside. Some are temporary and others are purposefully designed so that they can be converted into something else once the games are over.
The enormous media centre has had cooling systems built on the outside, so that once the TV cameras have gone, they can be removed easily and the building put to good use in other ways.
The Aquatics Centre and Stadium have extra seating that can be detached to make them smaller and the Basketball Arena can be taken down and set up in another part of the UK that needs a sports venue.
Three waterways criss-cross the Park and the banks - currently covered in orange fencing to protect new plants - are being designed to create picnic spots for the visiting masses.
And organisers have worked with the University of Sheffield to choose just the right wildflowers for the meadow outside the Stadium so they bloom an appropriate gold colour in the month of August.
Boomtime: The area is experiencing a renaissance as visitors take the opportunity to explore nearby walkways
But it's not just the pretty touches that make the site so special, the idea of creating a legacy - so intrinsic to London's successful bid - has come to life in a myriad of unusual ways.
As well as the 4,000 trees being planted, a 2,000-pupil school is also being built just behind the Olympic Village so that when it is turned into a residential area in 2013 there is already a community feel.
The soil of the once-industrial site has been removed and cleaned before being built on, to rid it of the poisonous asbestos and chemicals that had seeped into the ground and an apprentice centre has been set up to train young people in the building and construction trade.
Seeing the Park now, there is a real sense of seeing the power of regeneration in action. Visitors leave walking that little bit taller, that little bit prouder, and local children are full of bubbling, excited chatter.
As for me, I'm heading straight home to apply for 2012 tickets online. There's no way I'm missing out on this party.
Travel Facts
To find out more about the Olympic Games and register for tickets visit www.london2012.com
To book a bus tour, call the Olympic Delivery Authority on 0300 2012 001. The line is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Remember, photo identification is needed to enter the Olympic Park.
source :dailymail
Accessible to all: The Greenway skirts around the Olympic Park
Building sites are not generally places that attract day-trippers but then the 2012 Olympic Park has more potential than your average development.
Indeed, so popular is the work in progress proving that around 110,000 curious visitors have already descended on London's east end to have a nose around.
On a sunny autumn afternoon, I joined a few of them - and some 10,000 men in hard hats - at what is turning out to be the capital's unlikely new tourist attraction...
Pulling into Pudding Mill Station on the Docklands Light Railway, it is hard to avoid the Olympic Park, the train practically hovers right over the site.
The raised line that leads from central London out to Stratford in the east is the kind of route a tourist bus would charge a fortune to ride, but for the price of a commuter train ticket you can fly right by the stadium and venues in all their glory.
However, I have been told I can enjoy an even better view with a quick walk to the foot and cycle path known as the Greenway - a once-neglected passage considered far too dangerous to venture down but now revamped thanks to a wave of the Olympic wand.
The four-and-a-half mile route cuts across east London and borders the building site is currently Olympic Park, offering some great vantage points from which to see the new structures come to life.
Known as the View Tube, the main lookout has been made all the more pleasant by a community-run cafe located in a bright green building made from recycled shipping containers - these are to be known as the 'Green Games' after all.
Tube with a view: The cafe commands great views over the ray-like Aquatic Centre
Groups touring The Greenway often descend on the cafe for tea and cakesIt is not unusual to see groups on Blue Badge guided tours around the outskirts of the site making a quick pitstop en masse at the cafe to enjoy bargain bacon butties and homemade cakes.
Nor is it surprising to see a gaggle of schoolchildren being shepherded into the View Tube building and the classroom upstairs which has been designed to host and inspire younger visitors.
I'm surprised that even on a weekday there seems to be a steady trickle of locals and visitors dropping in to enjoy a coffee with a view - I even spotted the odd business meeting taking place.
For the adventurous who want to explore further afield, bikes are for hire for a wallet-friendly £5, enabling you to take yourself off around the circumference of the Park and down the length of The Greenway with its unparalleled views of London's City skyline.
You're part of it: The colourful buses are designed to get everybody involved in the build-up to the gamesBut if you really want a dose of Olympic fever, there is no better way to join the excitement than with a free bus tour inside the hallowed fences of the Park.
The trips take place daily but are so popular that you have to book three to four months in advance (book now if you want to see it in spring) to even have a hope of setting foot inside London's ultimate sports venue before 2012.
But it is well worth the long waiting list and stringent security checks. As I pass by the sweeping roof of the velodrome - everybody's favourite building - and the wibbly, tent-like basketball arena, it is fascinating to hear the thought process behind each decision and the unusual history of the area.
How poetic that the Park is being built on what was once a dumping ground for WW2 rubble and the site where the running track from the 1948 Olympics is buried.
While I can't get out of the vehicle for safety reasons ('Olympic rubble crushes visitor' is not among the headlines the organisers want to create), I'm as close to the action as it is possible to be ahead of the official opening.
And there is something truly exciting about seeing the Park mid-transformation - it feels like a VIP-style sneak peek behind the scenes with giant steel rods rushed past us and bulky items lurking mysteriously under tarpaulins.
Contrasts: The wibbly Basketball Arena has been likened to a giant mattress while the wooden cladding is almost finished on the elegant Velodrome behindA surprising number of structures look almost finished from the outside. Some are temporary and others are purposefully designed so that they can be converted into something else once the games are over.
The enormous media centre has had cooling systems built on the outside, so that once the TV cameras have gone, they can be removed easily and the building put to good use in other ways.
The Aquatics Centre and Stadium have extra seating that can be detached to make them smaller and the Basketball Arena can be taken down and set up in another part of the UK that needs a sports venue.
Three waterways criss-cross the Park and the banks - currently covered in orange fencing to protect new plants - are being designed to create picnic spots for the visiting masses.
And organisers have worked with the University of Sheffield to choose just the right wildflowers for the meadow outside the Stadium so they bloom an appropriate gold colour in the month of August.
Boomtime: The area is experiencing a renaissance as visitors take the opportunity to explore nearby walkwaysBut it's not just the pretty touches that make the site so special, the idea of creating a legacy - so intrinsic to London's successful bid - has come to life in a myriad of unusual ways.
As well as the 4,000 trees being planted, a 2,000-pupil school is also being built just behind the Olympic Village so that when it is turned into a residential area in 2013 there is already a community feel.
The soil of the once-industrial site has been removed and cleaned before being built on, to rid it of the poisonous asbestos and chemicals that had seeped into the ground and an apprentice centre has been set up to train young people in the building and construction trade.
Seeing the Park now, there is a real sense of seeing the power of regeneration in action. Visitors leave walking that little bit taller, that little bit prouder, and local children are full of bubbling, excited chatter.
As for me, I'm heading straight home to apply for 2012 tickets online. There's no way I'm missing out on this party.
Travel Facts
To find out more about the Olympic Games and register for tickets visit www.london2012.com
To book a bus tour, call the Olympic Delivery Authority on 0300 2012 001. The line is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Remember, photo identification is needed to enter the Olympic Park.
source :dailymail
A Grand Day Out - spooky special: The best days out for a truly scary Halloween 2010
By MARK HUGHES-MORGAN
Tis the season to be scary: Grab your pumpkin. Halloween is here again
It's almost that time of year when things go bump in the night. Or, at least, on a day out somewhere in the UK. From castle ghosts in Cornwall and zombies in Brighton to scientific spookiness in Yorkshire, Mark Hughes-Morgan picks five great family trips for Halloween.
Park Hall Farm, near Oswestry, Shropshire
For some old-school ghost-hunting, the National Trust's 16th-century, moated Baddesley Clinton Hall, near Solihull, is promising - a local minister was murdered after being discovered trying to strangle the lady of the house. There are also three priest holes and plenty of half-term Halloween activities from £2 (01564 783294, www.nationaltrust.org.uk).
But for another cheesier 'spooktacular', the Park Hall Countryside Experience has fancy dress action, from mummy-wrapping (loo roll is involved) to pumpkin-carving (every day at 2pm).
Details: Adults cost £6.95, children £6.45; 01691 671123, www.parkhallfarm.co.uk - activities October 23-31.
Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Pumpkins and witches are old hat. Consider instead Hybrid X, at the Magna Science Adventure Centre, near Rotherham. A 21st-century experience that takes you through the laboratory complex of the 'Dominions Genetic Modification And Research Facility'.
A cast of more than 30 actors will attempt to scare the living daylights out of you as you negotiate 1,000ft of dark, twisting corridor space. There are appropriate levels of scariness for different age groups.
Details: Runs until Sunday October 31, £6. On Saturday October 30 there is an extra-scary level for grown-ups (8pm to 2am, including disco and bar). Hybrid X lasts about 20 minutes. Magna Science Adventure Centre is open 10am to 5pm. Adults £9.95, children £7.95 (01709 720002, www.hybrid-x.co.uk, www.visitmagna.co.uk).
Lancaster Castle, Lancashire
Famous for torture, hangings and witches, where could be finer for a family day out this Halloween than the medieval Lancaster Castle, once home to John Of Gaunt?
Already at ease with its macabre past - there are Dark History Tours of the Castle in November and December - Lancaster enjoys this time of year, with 'spooky tours and chilling surprises'.
There are spooky tours on October 30, but book early as the adult tours are already sold out. In half-term, the Judges' Lodgings museum, two minutes' walk away, hosts a programme of workshops, from Hansel and Gretel to the art of making an Egyptian mummy.
There are also chilling ghost stories (October 27), strictly for braver adults and teenagers.
Details: Lancaster Castle, 01524 64998, www.lancastercastle.com. (Children's Halloween tour: £5). The Judges' Lodgings museum (adults £3, children free) open in the afternoons until October 31; (01524 32808, www.lancashire.gov.uk).
The Zombie Parade, Brighton, West Sussex
The annual Brighton Zombie Parade, on Saturday October 30, brings out hundreds of bizarrely attired promenaders to flaunt their gore around the town. Starts at 3pm from Brighton Station and following the parade, the undead can head on to the Zombie after-party.
Details: www.beachofthedead.com
Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall
One of the mightiest fortresses built by Henry VIII, Pendennis has an abundance of warlike associations, which blend nicely into Halloween and the supernatural.
As well as a Tudor gun deck, there is a guardhouse kitted out in World War I style, and a World War II observation post.
Naturally, it claims its fair share of ghosts, from soldiers in red tunics to horses - previous custodians have legendarily been woken by the sound of ghostly hooves. Other scary sightings include the ghost of 'screaming' Anna, a scullery maid, who met a grisly end on the stairs.
Lay all this fevered nonsense to rest with a Haunted Castle tour or a night-time Haunted Tour (adults only).
And for those with steely constitutions, you can stay in the on-site Custodian's Cottage and enjoy stunning views of Gyllyngvase Bay and the Lizard Peninsula after everyone - except you-know-who - has gone home (sleeps two).
Details: Family tour, October 25-31, regularly 10am to 4pm. Family tickets cost £15. Haunted Tours Oct 28-31, 7.30pm and 9.30pm, £15, pre-booking recommended. More information on 01326 316 594, www.english-heritage.org.uk.
source: dailymail
Tis the season to be scary: Grab your pumpkin. Halloween is here again
It's almost that time of year when things go bump in the night. Or, at least, on a day out somewhere in the UK. From castle ghosts in Cornwall and zombies in Brighton to scientific spookiness in Yorkshire, Mark Hughes-Morgan picks five great family trips for Halloween.
Park Hall Farm, near Oswestry, Shropshire
For some old-school ghost-hunting, the National Trust's 16th-century, moated Baddesley Clinton Hall, near Solihull, is promising - a local minister was murdered after being discovered trying to strangle the lady of the house. There are also three priest holes and plenty of half-term Halloween activities from £2 (01564 783294, www.nationaltrust.org.uk).
But for another cheesier 'spooktacular', the Park Hall Countryside Experience has fancy dress action, from mummy-wrapping (loo roll is involved) to pumpkin-carving (every day at 2pm).
Details: Adults cost £6.95, children £6.45; 01691 671123, www.parkhallfarm.co.uk - activities October 23-31.
Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Pumpkins and witches are old hat. Consider instead Hybrid X, at the Magna Science Adventure Centre, near Rotherham. A 21st-century experience that takes you through the laboratory complex of the 'Dominions Genetic Modification And Research Facility'.
A cast of more than 30 actors will attempt to scare the living daylights out of you as you negotiate 1,000ft of dark, twisting corridor space. There are appropriate levels of scariness for different age groups.
Details: Runs until Sunday October 31, £6. On Saturday October 30 there is an extra-scary level for grown-ups (8pm to 2am, including disco and bar). Hybrid X lasts about 20 minutes. Magna Science Adventure Centre is open 10am to 5pm. Adults £9.95, children £7.95 (01709 720002, www.hybrid-x.co.uk, www.visitmagna.co.uk).
Lancaster Castle, Lancashire
Famous for torture, hangings and witches, where could be finer for a family day out this Halloween than the medieval Lancaster Castle, once home to John Of Gaunt?
Already at ease with its macabre past - there are Dark History Tours of the Castle in November and December - Lancaster enjoys this time of year, with 'spooky tours and chilling surprises'.
There are spooky tours on October 30, but book early as the adult tours are already sold out. In half-term, the Judges' Lodgings museum, two minutes' walk away, hosts a programme of workshops, from Hansel and Gretel to the art of making an Egyptian mummy.
There are also chilling ghost stories (October 27), strictly for braver adults and teenagers.
Details: Lancaster Castle, 01524 64998, www.lancastercastle.com. (Children's Halloween tour: £5). The Judges' Lodgings museum (adults £3, children free) open in the afternoons until October 31; (01524 32808, www.lancashire.gov.uk).
The Zombie Parade, Brighton, West Sussex
The annual Brighton Zombie Parade, on Saturday October 30, brings out hundreds of bizarrely attired promenaders to flaunt their gore around the town. Starts at 3pm from Brighton Station and following the parade, the undead can head on to the Zombie after-party.
Details: www.beachofthedead.com
Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall
One of the mightiest fortresses built by Henry VIII, Pendennis has an abundance of warlike associations, which blend nicely into Halloween and the supernatural.
As well as a Tudor gun deck, there is a guardhouse kitted out in World War I style, and a World War II observation post.
Naturally, it claims its fair share of ghosts, from soldiers in red tunics to horses - previous custodians have legendarily been woken by the sound of ghostly hooves. Other scary sightings include the ghost of 'screaming' Anna, a scullery maid, who met a grisly end on the stairs.
Lay all this fevered nonsense to rest with a Haunted Castle tour or a night-time Haunted Tour (adults only).
And for those with steely constitutions, you can stay in the on-site Custodian's Cottage and enjoy stunning views of Gyllyngvase Bay and the Lizard Peninsula after everyone - except you-know-who - has gone home (sleeps two).
Details: Family tour, October 25-31, regularly 10am to 4pm. Family tickets cost £15. Haunted Tours Oct 28-31, 7.30pm and 9.30pm, £15, pre-booking recommended. More information on 01326 316 594, www.english-heritage.org.uk.
source: dailymail
A Grand Day Out - spooky special: The best days out for a truly scary Halloween 2010
By MARK HUGHES-MORGAN
Tis the season to be scary: Grab your pumpkin. Halloween is here again
It's almost that time of year when things go bump in the night. Or, at least, on a day out somewhere in the UK. From castle ghosts in Cornwall and zombies in Brighton to scientific spookiness in Yorkshire, Mark Hughes-Morgan picks five great family trips for Halloween.
Park Hall Farm, near Oswestry, Shropshire
For some old-school ghost-hunting, the National Trust's 16th-century, moated Baddesley Clinton Hall, near Solihull, is promising - a local minister was murdered after being discovered trying to strangle the lady of the house. There are also three priest holes and plenty of half-term Halloween activities from £2 (01564 783294, www.nationaltrust.org.uk).
But for another cheesier 'spooktacular', the Park Hall Countryside Experience has fancy dress action, from mummy-wrapping (loo roll is involved) to pumpkin-carving (every day at 2pm).
Details: Adults cost £6.95, children £6.45; 01691 671123, www.parkhallfarm.co.uk - activities October 23-31.
Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Pumpkins and witches are old hat. Consider instead Hybrid X, at the Magna Science Adventure Centre, near Rotherham. A 21st-century experience that takes you through the laboratory complex of the 'Dominions Genetic Modification And Research Facility'.
A cast of more than 30 actors will attempt to scare the living daylights out of you as you negotiate 1,000ft of dark, twisting corridor space. There are appropriate levels of scariness for different age groups.
Details: Runs until Sunday October 31, £6. On Saturday October 30 there is an extra-scary level for grown-ups (8pm to 2am, including disco and bar). Hybrid X lasts about 20 minutes. Magna Science Adventure Centre is open 10am to 5pm. Adults £9.95, children £7.95 (01709 720002, www.hybrid-x.co.uk, www.visitmagna.co.uk).
Lancaster Castle, Lancashire
Famous for torture, hangings and witches, where could be finer for a family day out this Halloween than the medieval Lancaster Castle, once home to John Of Gaunt?
Already at ease with its macabre past - there are Dark History Tours of the Castle in November and December - Lancaster enjoys this time of year, with 'spooky tours and chilling surprises'.
There are spooky tours on October 30, but book early as the adult tours are already sold out. In half-term, the Judges' Lodgings museum, two minutes' walk away, hosts a programme of workshops, from Hansel and Gretel to the art of making an Egyptian mummy.
There are also chilling ghost stories (October 27), strictly for braver adults and teenagers.
Details: Lancaster Castle, 01524 64998, www.lancastercastle.com. (Children's Halloween tour: £5). The Judges' Lodgings museum (adults £3, children free) open in the afternoons until October 31; (01524 32808, www.lancashire.gov.uk).
The Zombie Parade, Brighton, West Sussex
The annual Brighton Zombie Parade, on Saturday October 30, brings out hundreds of bizarrely attired promenaders to flaunt their gore around the town. Starts at 3pm from Brighton Station and following the parade, the undead can head on to the Zombie after-party.
Details: www.beachofthedead.com
Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall
One of the mightiest fortresses built by Henry VIII, Pendennis has an abundance of warlike associations, which blend nicely into Halloween and the supernatural.
As well as a Tudor gun deck, there is a guardhouse kitted out in World War I style, and a World War II observation post.
Naturally, it claims its fair share of ghosts, from soldiers in red tunics to horses - previous custodians have legendarily been woken by the sound of ghostly hooves. Other scary sightings include the ghost of 'screaming' Anna, a scullery maid, who met a grisly end on the stairs.
Lay all this fevered nonsense to rest with a Haunted Castle tour or a night-time Haunted Tour (adults only).
And for those with steely constitutions, you can stay in the on-site Custodian's Cottage and enjoy stunning views of Gyllyngvase Bay and the Lizard Peninsula after everyone - except you-know-who - has gone home (sleeps two).
Details: Family tour, October 25-31, regularly 10am to 4pm. Family tickets cost £15. Haunted Tours Oct 28-31, 7.30pm and 9.30pm, £15, pre-booking recommended. More information on 01326 316 594, www.english-heritage.org.uk.
source: dailymail
Tis the season to be scary: Grab your pumpkin. Halloween is here again
It's almost that time of year when things go bump in the night. Or, at least, on a day out somewhere in the UK. From castle ghosts in Cornwall and zombies in Brighton to scientific spookiness in Yorkshire, Mark Hughes-Morgan picks five great family trips for Halloween.
Park Hall Farm, near Oswestry, Shropshire
For some old-school ghost-hunting, the National Trust's 16th-century, moated Baddesley Clinton Hall, near Solihull, is promising - a local minister was murdered after being discovered trying to strangle the lady of the house. There are also three priest holes and plenty of half-term Halloween activities from £2 (01564 783294, www.nationaltrust.org.uk).
But for another cheesier 'spooktacular', the Park Hall Countryside Experience has fancy dress action, from mummy-wrapping (loo roll is involved) to pumpkin-carving (every day at 2pm).
Details: Adults cost £6.95, children £6.45; 01691 671123, www.parkhallfarm.co.uk - activities October 23-31.
Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Pumpkins and witches are old hat. Consider instead Hybrid X, at the Magna Science Adventure Centre, near Rotherham. A 21st-century experience that takes you through the laboratory complex of the 'Dominions Genetic Modification And Research Facility'.
A cast of more than 30 actors will attempt to scare the living daylights out of you as you negotiate 1,000ft of dark, twisting corridor space. There are appropriate levels of scariness for different age groups.
Details: Runs until Sunday October 31, £6. On Saturday October 30 there is an extra-scary level for grown-ups (8pm to 2am, including disco and bar). Hybrid X lasts about 20 minutes. Magna Science Adventure Centre is open 10am to 5pm. Adults £9.95, children £7.95 (01709 720002, www.hybrid-x.co.uk, www.visitmagna.co.uk).
Lancaster Castle, Lancashire
Famous for torture, hangings and witches, where could be finer for a family day out this Halloween than the medieval Lancaster Castle, once home to John Of Gaunt?
Already at ease with its macabre past - there are Dark History Tours of the Castle in November and December - Lancaster enjoys this time of year, with 'spooky tours and chilling surprises'.
There are spooky tours on October 30, but book early as the adult tours are already sold out. In half-term, the Judges' Lodgings museum, two minutes' walk away, hosts a programme of workshops, from Hansel and Gretel to the art of making an Egyptian mummy.
There are also chilling ghost stories (October 27), strictly for braver adults and teenagers.
Details: Lancaster Castle, 01524 64998, www.lancastercastle.com. (Children's Halloween tour: £5). The Judges' Lodgings museum (adults £3, children free) open in the afternoons until October 31; (01524 32808, www.lancashire.gov.uk).
The Zombie Parade, Brighton, West Sussex
The annual Brighton Zombie Parade, on Saturday October 30, brings out hundreds of bizarrely attired promenaders to flaunt their gore around the town. Starts at 3pm from Brighton Station and following the parade, the undead can head on to the Zombie after-party.
Details: www.beachofthedead.com
Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall
One of the mightiest fortresses built by Henry VIII, Pendennis has an abundance of warlike associations, which blend nicely into Halloween and the supernatural.
As well as a Tudor gun deck, there is a guardhouse kitted out in World War I style, and a World War II observation post.
Naturally, it claims its fair share of ghosts, from soldiers in red tunics to horses - previous custodians have legendarily been woken by the sound of ghostly hooves. Other scary sightings include the ghost of 'screaming' Anna, a scullery maid, who met a grisly end on the stairs.
Lay all this fevered nonsense to rest with a Haunted Castle tour or a night-time Haunted Tour (adults only).
And for those with steely constitutions, you can stay in the on-site Custodian's Cottage and enjoy stunning views of Gyllyngvase Bay and the Lizard Peninsula after everyone - except you-know-who - has gone home (sleeps two).
Details: Family tour, October 25-31, regularly 10am to 4pm. Family tickets cost £15. Haunted Tours Oct 28-31, 7.30pm and 9.30pm, £15, pre-booking recommended. More information on 01326 316 594, www.english-heritage.org.uk.
source: dailymail
Red hot Chile: Deserts, mountains, wine and cowboys in the home of the rescued miners
By COLIN BARRACLOUGH
Out of this world: Chile boasts spectacular scenery, including Moon Valley in the Atacama Desert
No-one knows if Camp Hope, the settlement built near the San Jose copper and gold mine in northern Chile, will become a tourist destination. President Sebastian Pinera has pledged to build a monument honouring the heroics of the rescue, but it's likely to be in Copiapo, the gritty industrial city that's home to most of the 33 freed miners.
Even so, the world has been looking at Chile and it likes what it sees. This is a country with a rich culture, steeped in history and blessed with spectacular natural beauty.
It has five sites on UNESCO's World Heritage list, while its capital, Santiago, is one of South America's liveliest, most progressive cities.
Squeezed between the Pacific and the imposing Andes, Chile is a sliver of a country, rarely more than 100 miles wide yet nearly five times as long as Britain, stretching from the tropics to Antarctica.
Its awe-inspiring landscapes - from the Atacama Desert to the lush forests, tumbling glaciers and steep fjords of Patagonia - encompass eight World Biosphere Reserves.
Cynics may sneer at the slogan 'Chile does things well', but other South Americans can only admire their neighbours' ability to achieve results in testing times.
Chileans have largely succeeded in forging a common identity since winning independence from Spain in the early 19th century.
A touch too reserved at times, they have nevertheless built a stable society based on conservative, Catholic, family-orientated beliefs.
For many, the country will always be remembered for the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who seized power from Salvador Allende in a bloody 1973 coup. But since the return of democracy in 1989, Chile has changed dramatically.
Mining has existed in the mainland's arid north since Neolithic times, when the Atacameno tribes quarried rough-hewn Talabre slate from its parched hills.
Today, Atacama is one of Chile's most spectacular regions, a lunar landscape of vast, ochre valleys, salt flats, geysers and hot springs. It is also one of the world's driest regions.
From the oasis village of San Pedro de Atacama, a nexus for Atacameno tribes since ancient times, outdoor enthusiasts can reach the summit of the snow-capped volcanoes that rise above the desert or head out by mountain bike to marvel at how life survives in the arid terrain.
Others prefer to browse the llamamotif pottery and colourful woollens or drive out to admire geysers and gorges, salt cathedrals and flamingo-packed lakes.
Visitors return each evening to elegant, adobe-and-stone hotels - among the best are Awasi, Tierra Atacama and the Alto Atacama.
Sons of the soil: Chilean huasos on horseback are a regular sight in the country's vineyards
As burning logs keep the cool night air at bay, you can sit under shadow-flecked carob and pepper trees to sip Pisco Sours, Chile's national drink, before dining on local produce such as quinoa, charqui (air-dried llama or beef) and oasis-grown herbs.
The Milky Way illuminates the path to bed.
Patagonia is at the opposite end of the country. One of the world's last true wildernesses, it is an untamed region of temperate jungle, glacier-cut valleys, tumultuous rivers and icy peaks.
Luxury estancias (ranches) and fishing lodges dot the region, some accessible only by air or boat. Cruise ships nose among the coastal archipelagos, offering upclose contact with bountiful marine life, submerged glacial valleys and dramatic seascapes.
Adventure seekers flock to Patagonia to paddle sea kayaks along the rocky shore, saddle up with Chilean cowboys or fish for monster-sized trout.
Hikers stomp off along the challenging trails at Torres del Paine national park, which is isolated from the rest of Chile by permanent inland ice caps and deep fjords that jut almost to the country's eastern frontier.
Vineyard-hopping in Chile once merited little more than a day trip from Santiago. But today there are high-tech wineries and designminded tasting rooms to visit.
Eighty vineyards are spread around the country, but the Colchagua Valley, Chile's most successful wine-growing area, is an easy, two-hour drive from Santiago, the fast, well-signed Ruta 5 highway paralleling the Andes until it emerges through a ridge into Colchagua.
Ten years ago, aficionados scoffed at Chilean wine, mocking its overly robust, big-bodied cabernets and merlots. Now, after investment in new technology and the adoption of European advice, its winemakers are notching up accolades and competition medals.
Alexandra Marnier-Lapostolle, whose family produces Grand Marnier, fell in love with Colchagua when she emigrated here from France in 1994.
She set up her award-winning Casa Lapostolle vineyard in its sun-baked soil, unveiling a stateof-the-art winery and sculpting its hauntingly lit storage chambers from the solid granite hillside.
The investment paid off. Two years ago, Wine Spectator singled out Lapostolle's Clos Apalta 2005 blend as the most exciting wine in the world.
Guests come to Lapostolle to stay in the four secluded cabins, each roofed in laurel and filled with the fragrance of fresh blossom.
From the cabins' private wooden decks, guests can survey the lodge's cactus-edged infinity pool and a shimmering vista of merlot and carmenere vines below.
British visitors to Chile usually pass through Santiago, a clean, modern city that reflects the country's enthusiasm for innovation, design and new technology.
In Las Condes, a business district kept neater than London's Docklands, thoughtfully built offices and public buildings line wide, well-planned boulevards.
The rescue of the Chilean miners - including 30th man out Raul Bustos - focused the world's attention on Chile
The capital was once seen as a tiresome overnight stop between the country's more compelling highlights. In the past three years, however, innovative chefs have refreshed the city's food scene.
In upscale Vitacura, chef and showman Gianfranco Vanella reduces swordfish, octopus and oil fish to foam and emulsions at Mercat Restoran, a foodie's favourite in a Sixties building.
Other attractions include haggling with fishmongers in the bustling, wrought-iron Mercado Central, sipping a beer in the buzzing bars of bohemian Bellavista or catching an avantgarde art show in up-and-coming Barrio Brasil.
Climb 2,800ft Cerro San Cristobal, which dominates leafy Parque Metropolitano. Its sweeping views stretch all the way to the Andean Cordillera.
Believe me, if you were gripped by the 69-day captivity of those stoic miners, you'll be enthralled by their heart-stopping country.
Travel Facts
Black Tomato (020 7426 9888, www.blacktomato.co.uk) can arrange a ten-night itinerary in Chile visiting Santiago, Colchagua Valley, Patagonia and the Atacama Desert, from £4,499 per person. This includes all flights, transfers and accommodation with breakfast, based on two sharing.
source: dailymail
Out of this world: Chile boasts spectacular scenery, including Moon Valley in the Atacama DesertNo-one knows if Camp Hope, the settlement built near the San Jose copper and gold mine in northern Chile, will become a tourist destination. President Sebastian Pinera has pledged to build a monument honouring the heroics of the rescue, but it's likely to be in Copiapo, the gritty industrial city that's home to most of the 33 freed miners.
Even so, the world has been looking at Chile and it likes what it sees. This is a country with a rich culture, steeped in history and blessed with spectacular natural beauty.
It has five sites on UNESCO's World Heritage list, while its capital, Santiago, is one of South America's liveliest, most progressive cities.
Squeezed between the Pacific and the imposing Andes, Chile is a sliver of a country, rarely more than 100 miles wide yet nearly five times as long as Britain, stretching from the tropics to Antarctica.
Its awe-inspiring landscapes - from the Atacama Desert to the lush forests, tumbling glaciers and steep fjords of Patagonia - encompass eight World Biosphere Reserves.
Cynics may sneer at the slogan 'Chile does things well', but other South Americans can only admire their neighbours' ability to achieve results in testing times.
Chileans have largely succeeded in forging a common identity since winning independence from Spain in the early 19th century.
A touch too reserved at times, they have nevertheless built a stable society based on conservative, Catholic, family-orientated beliefs.
For many, the country will always be remembered for the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who seized power from Salvador Allende in a bloody 1973 coup. But since the return of democracy in 1989, Chile has changed dramatically.
Mining has existed in the mainland's arid north since Neolithic times, when the Atacameno tribes quarried rough-hewn Talabre slate from its parched hills.
Today, Atacama is one of Chile's most spectacular regions, a lunar landscape of vast, ochre valleys, salt flats, geysers and hot springs. It is also one of the world's driest regions.
From the oasis village of San Pedro de Atacama, a nexus for Atacameno tribes since ancient times, outdoor enthusiasts can reach the summit of the snow-capped volcanoes that rise above the desert or head out by mountain bike to marvel at how life survives in the arid terrain.
Others prefer to browse the llamamotif pottery and colourful woollens or drive out to admire geysers and gorges, salt cathedrals and flamingo-packed lakes.
Visitors return each evening to elegant, adobe-and-stone hotels - among the best are Awasi, Tierra Atacama and the Alto Atacama.
Sons of the soil: Chilean huasos on horseback are a regular sight in the country's vineyardsAs burning logs keep the cool night air at bay, you can sit under shadow-flecked carob and pepper trees to sip Pisco Sours, Chile's national drink, before dining on local produce such as quinoa, charqui (air-dried llama or beef) and oasis-grown herbs.
The Milky Way illuminates the path to bed.
Patagonia is at the opposite end of the country. One of the world's last true wildernesses, it is an untamed region of temperate jungle, glacier-cut valleys, tumultuous rivers and icy peaks.
Luxury estancias (ranches) and fishing lodges dot the region, some accessible only by air or boat. Cruise ships nose among the coastal archipelagos, offering upclose contact with bountiful marine life, submerged glacial valleys and dramatic seascapes.
Adventure seekers flock to Patagonia to paddle sea kayaks along the rocky shore, saddle up with Chilean cowboys or fish for monster-sized trout.
Hikers stomp off along the challenging trails at Torres del Paine national park, which is isolated from the rest of Chile by permanent inland ice caps and deep fjords that jut almost to the country's eastern frontier.
Vineyard-hopping in Chile once merited little more than a day trip from Santiago. But today there are high-tech wineries and designminded tasting rooms to visit.
Eighty vineyards are spread around the country, but the Colchagua Valley, Chile's most successful wine-growing area, is an easy, two-hour drive from Santiago, the fast, well-signed Ruta 5 highway paralleling the Andes until it emerges through a ridge into Colchagua.
Ten years ago, aficionados scoffed at Chilean wine, mocking its overly robust, big-bodied cabernets and merlots. Now, after investment in new technology and the adoption of European advice, its winemakers are notching up accolades and competition medals.
Alexandra Marnier-Lapostolle, whose family produces Grand Marnier, fell in love with Colchagua when she emigrated here from France in 1994.
She set up her award-winning Casa Lapostolle vineyard in its sun-baked soil, unveiling a stateof-the-art winery and sculpting its hauntingly lit storage chambers from the solid granite hillside.
The investment paid off. Two years ago, Wine Spectator singled out Lapostolle's Clos Apalta 2005 blend as the most exciting wine in the world.
Guests come to Lapostolle to stay in the four secluded cabins, each roofed in laurel and filled with the fragrance of fresh blossom.
From the cabins' private wooden decks, guests can survey the lodge's cactus-edged infinity pool and a shimmering vista of merlot and carmenere vines below.
British visitors to Chile usually pass through Santiago, a clean, modern city that reflects the country's enthusiasm for innovation, design and new technology.
In Las Condes, a business district kept neater than London's Docklands, thoughtfully built offices and public buildings line wide, well-planned boulevards.
The rescue of the Chilean miners - including 30th man out Raul Bustos - focused the world's attention on Chile
The capital was once seen as a tiresome overnight stop between the country's more compelling highlights. In the past three years, however, innovative chefs have refreshed the city's food scene.
In upscale Vitacura, chef and showman Gianfranco Vanella reduces swordfish, octopus and oil fish to foam and emulsions at Mercat Restoran, a foodie's favourite in a Sixties building.
Other attractions include haggling with fishmongers in the bustling, wrought-iron Mercado Central, sipping a beer in the buzzing bars of bohemian Bellavista or catching an avantgarde art show in up-and-coming Barrio Brasil.
Climb 2,800ft Cerro San Cristobal, which dominates leafy Parque Metropolitano. Its sweeping views stretch all the way to the Andean Cordillera.
Believe me, if you were gripped by the 69-day captivity of those stoic miners, you'll be enthralled by their heart-stopping country.
Travel Facts
Black Tomato (020 7426 9888, www.blacktomato.co.uk) can arrange a ten-night itinerary in Chile visiting Santiago, Colchagua Valley, Patagonia and the Atacama Desert, from £4,499 per person. This includes all flights, transfers and accommodation with breakfast, based on two sharing.
source: dailymail
Wayne Rooney cancels £90,000 birthday bash as he quits Britain for Dubai break with Coleen
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Flying out: Wayne and Coleen Rooney at Manchester Airport yesterday
Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen secretly jetted off to Dubai last night, cancelling his £90,000 birthday bash.
The footballer pulled the plug on his lavish 25th birthday party despite already spending thousands on food and drink.
A marquee erected at their luxury £4.5million home in Cheshire will be unused as they unwind on a five-day break.
The £10,000 trip comes after a torrid week which saw the England star almost ditch his club Manchester United.
All is forgiven - perhaps: Sir Alex Ferguson and Wayne Rooney posing together after he signed a new deal
He stunned the footballing world by declaring that the club no longer matched his ambition and criticised the quality of his fellow players.
He left fans boiling with rage and prompted death threats by also saying he would be happy to sign for arch-rivals Manchester City.
Eventually, after an incredible U-turn, the stand-off ended and he clinched a new deal with United - doubling his weekly salary to £200,000.
He and Sir Alex Ferguson posed for a saccharine picture with their arms around each others shoulders to show they had buried the hatchet.
The contract makes the 25-year-old the highest-paid English footballer of all time. Rooney was then forced to apologise to his team and the fans.
High life: The Rooneys on holiday in the U.S. in July this year
Luxury: The Burj Al Arab in Dubai, where rooms cost up to £1,200-a-night
Wife Coleen, 24, rang around the 100 guests they had invited to his birthday to cancel and they packed their bags for a last-minute holiday.
They left their one-year-old son Kai behind with her parents and it is thought they will reschedule the party for next weekend instead.
Rooney, who is currently injured, asked permission from Sir Alex to go on the trip and the Manchester United manager gave it his full backing.
The couple only recently returned from a brief trip to Prague in what was billed a 'second honeymoon' to patch up their marriage.
source: dailymail
Flying out: Wayne and Coleen Rooney at Manchester Airport yesterday
Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen secretly jetted off to Dubai last night, cancelling his £90,000 birthday bash.
The footballer pulled the plug on his lavish 25th birthday party despite already spending thousands on food and drink.
A marquee erected at their luxury £4.5million home in Cheshire will be unused as they unwind on a five-day break.
The £10,000 trip comes after a torrid week which saw the England star almost ditch his club Manchester United.
All is forgiven - perhaps: Sir Alex Ferguson and Wayne Rooney posing together after he signed a new dealHe stunned the footballing world by declaring that the club no longer matched his ambition and criticised the quality of his fellow players.
He left fans boiling with rage and prompted death threats by also saying he would be happy to sign for arch-rivals Manchester City.
Eventually, after an incredible U-turn, the stand-off ended and he clinched a new deal with United - doubling his weekly salary to £200,000.
He and Sir Alex Ferguson posed for a saccharine picture with their arms around each others shoulders to show they had buried the hatchet.
The contract makes the 25-year-old the highest-paid English footballer of all time. Rooney was then forced to apologise to his team and the fans.
High life: The Rooneys on holiday in the U.S. in July this year
Luxury: The Burj Al Arab in Dubai, where rooms cost up to £1,200-a-nightWife Coleen, 24, rang around the 100 guests they had invited to his birthday to cancel and they packed their bags for a last-minute holiday.
They left their one-year-old son Kai behind with her parents and it is thought they will reschedule the party for next weekend instead.
Rooney, who is currently injured, asked permission from Sir Alex to go on the trip and the Manchester United manager gave it his full backing.
The couple only recently returned from a brief trip to Prague in what was billed a 'second honeymoon' to patch up their marriage.
source: dailymail
Lady Gaga getting into the swing of Halloween as she looks like a mad scientist on London's Southbank
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Manic street preacher: Not often seen smiling, Gaga looks a little crazy as she laughs loudly on London's Southbank
With an incredible pair of sunglasses that would give Elton John a run for his money, the wacky singer complete with cobweb like hair looked like she had stepped off the set of Edward Scissorhands today.
Filming on London's Southbank, you can guarantee the US pop sensation won't come up with a half baked idea but will follow it through to the end, even if it makes no sense to rest of us.
Wearing two foot heels, fishnet tights and a gothic dress with zips, laces and black crosses attached, Gaga achieved her goal of being the person who stood out the from the crowd the most. Although, this could have been probably been achieved with just one of the above.
Happy Halloween: Lady Gaga is all dressed up and nowhere to go a week ahead of schedule in a black bustier and netted tights and see through skirt
It adds questions as to what Gaga might pull out of the wardrobe this time next week when she might not be the only one dressed so sinister on October 31.
But if her previous dresses are anything to go by, Gaga is sure not to disappoint following her recent 'meat dress' that caused much outcry and controversy from animal right group PETA.
Although not for the first time, the outrageous outfit wasn't the first ever 'meat dress' to be styled following US costume designer Jia Jem's dress that was fashioned out of salami and bacon.
Gaga's creation produced a number of interpretations from being herself a woman and therefore 'seen as a piece of meat' through to one that lies synonymous with the rest of her costumes, just plain over the top to attract attention, much like the one above.
source :dailymail
Manic street preacher: Not often seen smiling, Gaga looks a little crazy as she laughs loudly on London's SouthbankWith an incredible pair of sunglasses that would give Elton John a run for his money, the wacky singer complete with cobweb like hair looked like she had stepped off the set of Edward Scissorhands today.
Filming on London's Southbank, you can guarantee the US pop sensation won't come up with a half baked idea but will follow it through to the end, even if it makes no sense to rest of us.
Wearing two foot heels, fishnet tights and a gothic dress with zips, laces and black crosses attached, Gaga achieved her goal of being the person who stood out the from the crowd the most. Although, this could have been probably been achieved with just one of the above.
Happy Halloween: Lady Gaga is all dressed up and nowhere to go a week ahead of schedule in a black bustier and netted tights and see through skirtIt adds questions as to what Gaga might pull out of the wardrobe this time next week when she might not be the only one dressed so sinister on October 31.
But if her previous dresses are anything to go by, Gaga is sure not to disappoint following her recent 'meat dress' that caused much outcry and controversy from animal right group PETA.
Although not for the first time, the outrageous outfit wasn't the first ever 'meat dress' to be styled following US costume designer Jia Jem's dress that was fashioned out of salami and bacon.
Gaga's creation produced a number of interpretations from being herself a woman and therefore 'seen as a piece of meat' through to one that lies synonymous with the rest of her costumes, just plain over the top to attract attention, much like the one above.
source :dailymail
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