If you have a sense of adventure and want to stay somewhere different, try
Unusual Hotels of the World. It is an interesting online guide that has been put together by a couple of friends, listing hotels around the world that offer their guests something, shall we say, out of the ordinary.
Typical hotels featured in the guide, might accomodate guests underground, inside an igloo, up a tree or even underwater. The website is a truly comprehensive resource for unusual hotels around the world, some of them are pretty famous but there are many hotels which will be new discoveries for the adventurous traveller.
Labels: adventure, guide, hotels, tourists, World
New Zealand is enjoying a bumper crop of cherries and apricots, thanks to the hot dry summer, which has created near perfect conditions for growers; cherry yields might be twice the harvest record, and the prospects for the apple and kiwifruit harvest also looks great.
However the bumper crops must be picked and the shortage of labour in some areas is said to be critical. Tourists on Working Holiday Scheme visas are being urged to head to the fruit growing regions, in order to help get the fruit of the trees.
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Labels: 2008, employment, fruit pickers, New Zealand, seasonal workers, tourists
