Owner: Spa Around the World in Eighty Days URL:http://spaaroundtheworld.wordpress.com Join Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:05:06 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Chronicles a journey of the world's top spas following Phileas Fogg's route. Covering trip planning to spa reviews, appeals to armchair travelers, adventurous explorers and health & beauty connoisseurs. Site statistics:Click here
It’s A Spa World Part Deux, or How to Plan A Trip Around the World While Losing Your Mind 2008-09-14 13:48:38 Lord Kelvin: I, Lord Kelvin, hereby vow to surrender my position as minister of science to Phileas Fogg if he can circumnavigate the globe… in more than 80 days. But if he cannot, he must never set foot in the academy again, he must tear down that abhorrent eyesore he calls a labatory, and he [...] Read more:World
A Planning Aside: Gender Bender 2008-09-12 18:48:50 Railway Official: There’s still fifty miles of track to be laid between here and Allabahad.
Phileas Fogg: But the London newspapers announced the opening of this railway throughout.
Railway Official: That must have been The Daily Telegraph. Never would have read that in The Times.
I’m so bogged down with plotting the nitty gritty details of the trip: [...]
I’ve Got a Golden “RTW” Ticket - Flying Around the World 2008-09-10 17:25:07 Phileas Fogg: One day, I will build a machine that will allow a man to fly!
San Francisco Hobo: Flying
men? Where? Where?
Phileas Fogg: Nowhere!
San Francisco Hobo: Where are the flying men? Where are the flying men?
Phileas Fogg: They’re over there!
San Francisco Hobo: Beware the flying men! Beware the Flying men! The Bird men are coming! [...] Read more:Golden
, Ticket
, World
It’s a Spa World i.e. How to Plan a Trip Around the World Without Losing Your Mind! 2008-09-07 12:30:37 If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity. - Jules Verne referring to Phileas’ carefree lifestyle
Phileas ventured out around the world the same day he accepted his wager. No such luck for me. Though my course is set, I need [...] Read more:World
Candy’s Virtual Spa Voyage - The Ultimate “Glamour Trip” 2008-09-03 19:07:20 Who hasn’t thought about what it would be like to travel around the world? Such an undertaking seems the territory of hearty backpackers and rugged athletic types. But me? More than 100 miles away from the nearest Sephora and I panic.
Though I’ve been to 90 spas as a spa consultant and author, I always [...] Read more:Candy
, Ultimate
, Voyage
Where Would Michelle Obama Spa, Spa Along the Campaign Trail with Michelle 2008-09-29 17:30:44 Ironically, though MichelleObama
is liberal in political speak and Sarah is conservative, their roles are reversed when it comes to their styles.
Michelle’s polished wardrobe has accolades galore and is under constant surveillance. Vanity Fair magazine named her one of the “10 of the World’s Best Dressed People” twice & she is in People Magazine’s [...] Read more:Campaign
, Trail
Attend the Global Spa Carnival for a Virtual Spa Vacation 2008-09-28 16:11:38 You’re Invited to Get Privy to the Secret World of Spas
Global
Spa Blog Carnival
on Monday, October 6, 2008
at Spa Around the World
The 1st Monday of each month S.A.W. gathers the top blogs from international experts and spas. Features include the latest openings, industry happenings, hot treatments, wellness trends, travel deals and more.
Suggest your fave spa [...] Read more:Vacation
Programming Change 2008-09-28 15:07:01 Due to unbelievable demand, I am postponing my Spa Around the World Trip until after the election and the holidays.
I want to thank you all for your comments and emails regarding Sarah’s spa trip along the campaign trail. Because this blog is for you, I am honoring your requests to not only follow Sarah’s, but [...] Read more:Change
, Programming
Where Would Sarah Palin Spa. . . Spa Along the Campaign Trail With Sarah 2008-09-22 16:14:54 I’m not the only spa girl doing major traveling. As we speak, gal pal, fellow pageant contestant and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah
Palin is campaigning across the US with John McCain.
Sarah is obviously a woman who cares about her appearance. In fact, when at home she has her hair cut and colored at the Beehive Beauty [...] Read more:Campaign
, Trail
How to Go Around the World and Make it Home Healthy & Happy 2008-09-19 17:48:50 [Monique has just knocked out General Fang with a martial arts strike]
Passepartout: [astonished] She must be the eleventh tiger!
Monique La Roche: [curls fingers into claws] Meow.
I’m finally starting to breathe again.
The flights are reserved
Spa treatments are booked (at least one at each spa)
I’ve written my daily itinerary
My passport is good for six months after I [...] Read more:Happy
, World
An Apple A Day - Spas in New York, NY 2008-09-17 10:57:47 At this moment the detective approached Mr. Fogg, and, looking him intently in the face, said:
Mr. Fix: “Seriously, sir, are you in great haste?”
Mr. Fogg: “Quite seriously.”
“I have a purpose in asking,” resumed Fix. “Is it absolutely necessary that you should be in New York
on the 11th, before nine o’clock in the evening, the [...] Read more:Apple
Flight Delay 2008-09-15 19:21:09 Saloon Hostess: Never be in a hurry. You’ll miss the best parts in life.
Phileas Fogg: Madam, you don’t understand. I’m looking for my man.
Saloon Hostess: So am I.
As you may have surmised from my last post, the planning phase is taking longer than I thought, and no way would I be ready to leave today, [...] Read more:Delay
, Flight
World Diabetes Day 2008 - Be a BlueBeauty to Bring Diabetes to Light 2008-10-19 15:10:36 In 2007, the United Nations marked November 14 as WorldDiabetes
Day - making it an official UN World Health Day. On this day, the International Diabetes Federation wages a campaign to invoke global diabetes awareness. This year the focus is on childhood diabetes with aims to:
▪ Increase the number of children supported by [...]
Blog Action Day - What a Spa Girl Knows about Poverty 2008-10-15 12:21:20 Today is Blog Action
Day. A day when we bloggers use our substantial (or insubstantial as the case may be) pull to bring worldwide attention to an issue that plagues our society. The topic this year is poverty.
How on earth, you may be thinking, would a spa blogger know anything about poverty? The topics [...] Read more:Poverty
Celebrate Columbus Day Christopher Columbus’ Spa Trip 2008-10-13 17:24:49 Today, after dance class, I went to renew my tags and, surprise, the BMV was closed for Columbus
Day. I had totally forgotten.
So I began wondering how to pay homage to old Chris’s landing. After an excruciatingly long voyage, exhausted and beaten down by salt air and seawater, he would definitely need some [...] Read more:Celebrate
, Christopher
AIG Gives Spa Vacations a Bad Rep 2008-10-10 13:50:55 The lavish retreat taken by American International Group executives following the massive bailout is infuriating. Yet, I am even more maddened by the way the media is covering the story.
Their focus on the spa, though that was only a small percentage of the retreat’s total expense, irritates me. Why? It warns the world that a [...] Read more:Vacations
Spa Cure for a Migraine - The Natural Way to a Migraine Free Day 2008-10-08 20:01:11 Ohh my head is turning inside out, I’m too nauseous to even eat pizza. . . migraine onslaught. And to boot, I haven’t written my Cindy McCain spa post yet.
Seems I get more than my share of migraines, especially the first day of a spa trip - due to caffeine withdrawal (I love my coffee). [...] Read more:Migraine
, Natural
Spa Blogs and Spas Unite - It’s the Global Spa Carnival 1st ed 2008-10-06 17:59:24 Thanks for joining our first Global
Spa Carnival
. The first Monday of every month, we give it up (our space that is) to highlight posts and news from the finest spa blogs, because who has time to surf for hours?
Get the Insider’s SpaView
Need a spa day? Destination Spa Vacations features SpaFinder’s 2008 Reader’s Choice [...] Read more:Blogs
The Sarah Palin VP Debate Spa Style - Should she, would she, or did she? 2008-10-03 12:31:23 I was over at a friend’s last night pre-debate, and was asked to predict Sarah
’s outfit. Funny, everyone thought she would be in red, since she wears it a bit, but I said if I were her I would go for black - it’s my power color and I’m betting it’s hers too.
She walked out [...] Read more:Debate
, Style
SpaCandy - Guilt Free Health & Beauty Goodies 2008-10-27 15:09:25 With Halloween coming up, the scariest thing I can think of is making it out of the grocery and avoiding all the chocolate and treats calling my name (it is Candy after all!). How do I resist? I begin dreaming about one of my favorite chocolate fixes that won’t be mean to my insides like [...] Read more:Beauty
, Goodies
, Health
Green Mountain at Fox Run Helps Women With Type 2 Diabetes Live Optimally 2008-10-22 15:11:13 GreenMountain
at Fox Run, a women’s weight loss retreat in gorgeous Vermont, is hosting Living Well, A Woman’s Program for Mastering Diabetes
Through Lifestyle Change: A Type 2 Diabetes Program on the following dates:
November 9 - 16, 2008
February 15 - 21, 2009
The program is co-presented by Joslin Diabetes Center , the world’s [...] Read more:Green Mountain
, Women
Ah-Spa-Hah Moment! Sixty-second inspiration. Lindt Excellence Chocolate 2008-11-21 10:41:08 Hi everyone, this is a new feature on the S.A.T.W., because sometimes I have these aha! moments this is a tip that you guys can use, but I don’t have time to write a longer post.
I was just having my daily square of chocolate from a bar I picked up at Fresh Market. It is [...] Read more:Chocolate
, Excellence
, Moment
, Sixty
Indulge in Thai Massage Therapy without going to a Spa in Thailand 2008-11-17 09:04:35 Happy Monday everyone! I’ve been a bit under the weather this weekend and didn’t want to keep you waiting. So Kelly Kilpatrick kindly contributed this post on Thai massage - yes it is available outside of Thailand
. Enjoy! Candace
Thai massage is a fairly recent newcomer to the American massage therapy market. It is an [...] Read more:Massage
, Therapy
SpaCandy: WET Bath and Body Products by Tag Galyean Inventor of Silvertag Shower 2008-11-12 20:24:37 I can’t think of a better name for a spa line than WET! The phrase “you’re all wet” takes on a more pleasant connotation when applied to spa architect and designer Tag Galyean’s line of skincare products. Not only are they best used when wet - they are part of his illustrious reputation as the [...] Read more:Inventor
, Products
, Shower
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