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It might not be the most upmarket place we’ve stayed in this year, but George (presumably Anglicized for the overwhelmingly British clientele) and his team have given us a very warm welcome. The apartment is comfortable and clean and we don’t ask for more than that. If George is slightly disappointed that we don’t spend quite as much time or money at the hotel bar as most of his guests, he doesn’t show it. Maybe my rapturous approval of the house Village Salad has put a big mark in the credit column for the occupants of room sixty-six. But we prefer to explore a holiday destination rather than lounge about by the pool ordering pints of Mythos all day. Besides which, Ali only drinks water. Hot water or cold water are the only two beverages she needs in life. People don’t believe her at first - they think she’s just being polite. No really - no tea, no coffee, definitely no juice or sugary fizzy pop (you should see her face when I pour a glass of orange juice in the morning), and no alcohol either. I make up for these shortfalls - except for the fizzy pop. I don’t drink that stuff either. I’m quite keen on the Mythos though. Especially the way it’s served in frozen glasses. I’ve taken to putting my own beer glasses in the ice box for an hour before pouring one back at the apartment in the evenings.

Our holiday rep is young, shy and giggly. She’s also Swedish. I was in Sweden less than two weeks ago, and at the bar, as I pay for my Village Salad, I bore the poor girl to sleep about my adventures in her homeland. She agrees that the west coast is a beautiful part of the country. In turn I agree that we’re having a lovely time here in Rhodes. She grins. I think it’s the last time we’ll stay in a place like this though. For years we booked everything independently, but after the pandemic, and just so we could blame everything on the operator when things went wrong, we returned to the traditional package holiday. But it’s not really our thing. Neither of us like mixing with other people, and we really don’t need to be entertained in the evenings. We much prefer the sound of the cicadas at night to what we’re being served with here. So far we’ve been treated to Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, Lionel Richie, Billy Ocean, Rihanna, Wilson Pickett and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. All of this as we sit out on the balcony each evening, whether we like it or not. Obviously not the actual artists. How much do you think we paid for this holiday? Besides which it wouldn’t be possible as a number of them aren’t with us anymore. What’s interesting is that all of the performers come from South Africa. We think it’s the same people coming back every two or three nights, each time wearing different wigs. The quizmaster isn’t from South Africa though. Essex I reckon. He was still reading out the questions after midnight the other evening. The majority of the other guests are several years older than us. Exactly how many Rihanna songs are they familiar with? I only know two and I’m a mere stripling compared to most of them. The artists are very versatile. They usually lapse into Earth Wind and Fire or Heatwave after they’ve played the only three songs that anyone knows. Two if it’s Rihanna. Nobody seems to notice.

And competing with all of this is the din from the bar just across the way. To my horror, someone in charge of the jukebox has just faded out Mark Knopfler’s legendary guitar break from “The Sultans of Swing,” the only thing that has quite literally been music to my ears as we sit out here on the balcony in the dark. Because apparently it’s karaoke night. And the most important thing about being a karaoke performer is that you need to be tone deaf. Take the hen party that’s shouting the words of Paul Heaton over the microphone. More like an Imperfect Ten really. I sigh and open the Booking.com app. I noticed there were some apartments in a village up in the hills near the Seven Springs that we visited the other day. Next time we’ll do it all independently again, just like we used to.

To escape from all of this we’ve hired a car, just like we always do on these holidays. This time it’s a white Suzuki Celerio with a squeaky clutch pedal and a remote key fob that has a dead battery. Mostly we turn right at the bottom of our road, heading along the strip and out of town towards wherever we’ve decided to retreat to. Each time we do this, our first hazard is a bend in the road that I’ve unaffectionately named Poo Pong corner, a reference to the fact that it evidently sits over the town’s sewage drain, and upon which someone has opened a restaurant called Flames. Oh the irony! Surely it would only take a lit cigarette on an especially noxious day for the Flames to go up in, well, flames? It never seems to be that busy there. I love Greek food, but not when there are competing aromas coming from a river of floating effluent just a few yards away that’s come from the inner workings of a couple of thousand overindulgent tourists.

Occasionally though, we turn left instead of right, and drive a mile or two down the road to the tiny beach at the edge of the next town. This is a little piece of the Greece we love, with quiet water lapping at the shoreline, the flat warm sea such a gentle contrast to the drama we’re used to at home. And one evening as the sun sunk over the hills in the west it delivered the first worthwhile picture. Strangely, taken along the holiday strip rather than in some remote wild area. Later, back on the balcony, as someone from the raucous bar squawked to everyone within a half mile radius that they were simply the best, I had a quick go at it on the little laptop that comes with me on every holiday these days. I decided to award myself a small glass of ouzo. And promptly changed my mind in favour of a slightly bigger one. I needed to do something to drown that karaoke out.

Booked by Rob Oo

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Booking.com City Campus, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Design (2015): UNStudio.

booking.com by Javi Díez

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Taking a booking... by Barry Miles

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Booking a ticket by phil anker

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http://www.booking.com/hotel/bg/apartment-in-the-cliff.bg.html #lumiavoices #pichitme #nban #natgeo #natural #shotonmylumia #earthofficial #DNG #lumiachallenge by Камен Калудов

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St. Pancras Station, London - III by pvizdal_photo

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Booking Office

Booking shoots in central Florida 📍 • • • • • by Ryan Burgos

Booking Office by Duane Moore

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Bookings Available by zircon100

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Nansene Community Center & Dance Hall, Wasco County, SW of Dufur, OR. July 2017.

Booking Office by Stefan the Cameraman

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Side and rear of house by Lexxi Gynoid

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Visit this location at Fantasy Home - Where Dreams Become a Reality in Second Life

Transwa Booking Centre by onas mer

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Kalgoorlie, AUSTRÀLIA 2023

Booking a Holiday! by Lily Garnier

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Took an isolated shot of a mac laptop and then added a photo of a restaurant on the island of Mykonos, Greece and inserted the picture onto the screen. Happy holidays!

For Booking: 36355470 by Safiya Al-Oribi

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Photography by Safiya aloraibi

Model rose

Retouching by Walaa aloraibi

Victoria by Ella Ruth

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One of my favourites of the lovely and utterly beautiful Victoria Nevland during the London flickr group meet up in September. See the full shoot here

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Four Seasons Hotel, Taipa, Macau by Snuffy

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Excerpt from booking.com:

Experience 5-star hospitality in Macao at Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip, just 5- minutes' drive from the 18-hole Caesars Golf Macau. Lounge at the private pool-side cabanas with a flat-screen TV, or take a swim in any of the 5 outdoor pools. Signature treatments like honey body scrubs, marble full body massage and cold stone facial massages are available at the spa.

Elegant and luxurious, all the air-conditioned guestrooms come with a 42-inch flat-screen TV, DVD player and a mini-bar. Most rooms enjoy views of the Cotai Strip or the outdoor pool. Full bathroom fittings are provided, including a bathtub, separate walk-in rainshower and a flat-screen TV. Twice-daily housekeeping services with evening ice delivery are provided.

Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip is a 5-minute drive from Macau International Airport, the Macau Taipa Ferry Terminal and the Maritime Ferry Terminal. Shuttle services can be arranged at an extra charge.

For the health conscious, visit the 24-hour gym. There is also a well-equipped business center, babysitting services and laundry services.

Zi Yat Heen Restaurant offers delicious Cantonese cuisine, with the option of private dining rooms. Other dining options include Southeast Asian dishes and international buffet spreads at Belcanção, as well as burgers and noodles at Splash Cafe. Afternoon tea is available at Windows Restaurant, while the chic Bar Azul offers premium champagne.

Booking It by River Gabbert

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A westbound BNSF intermodal train flies between the set of vaders in the middle of Hardin on BNSF's Marceline Subdivision as the sun's vibrant colors bleed through the sheet of clouds.

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BNSF Marceline Subdivision

Hardin, Missouri, USA

November 30, 2025

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Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM

Old town Dubrovnik by Alex

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Dubrovnik is a historic city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Book Accommodation in Old Town, Dubrovnik

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Booking by Gauthier Delecroix - 郭天

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Nanjing, March 2023

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Millcroft Inn & Spa, Alton, ON by Snuffy

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Excerpt from booking.com:

Located on 100 acres, this 100% smoke-free Caledon property features an on-site spa and restaurant. Free Wi-Fi is offered in all areas. Forks of the Credit Provincial Park is 6.2 mi away.

A flat-screen cable TV is featured in all rooms at Millcroft Inn & Spa. Each guest room includes a coffee maker and bottled water. A seating area, a desk and a clock radio are provided.

Headwaters restaurant serves a menu inspired by local organic ingredients. Guests can enjoy views of the Mill Pond and Shaw’s Creek Pond while dining.

The Millcroft Spa, Center for Well-Being offers an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, a gym, a sauna and a hot tub. Guests can enjoy variety of treatments including hydrotherapy and herbal steam rooms. Outdoor hot springs with waterfalls are also featured.

Horseback riding opportunities are available at Greyden Equestrian Facility 9.9 mi away. Theater Orangeville is just 15 minutes’ drive from Inn & Spa Millcroft Caledon.

booking here by kay hansen

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baroque and opera

Moonlit by Ella Ruth

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Full shoot

Make up: Fiona Brunt

Model: May Whiston

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Levi Zuzu by Roy Mildor/ Photographer

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For your booking please contact Roy Mildor

"The artist in me cries out for design." Robert Frost by sprotbon (Bonnie)

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I design digital scrap booking kit's and sell them. I also do digital scrap booking, using PSP, PS and GIMP. I like to be "creative" and artistic, rather than sticking to the plausible and often "flat" look of scrap booking, my work reflects a more of a care-free, fairy-tale story book feel.

This is one I did of myself running. Some of the items on this page I did not create myself.

Nightmare Booking by Hitman.47 (www.burieddreams.nl)

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