4/29/2014

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Booking.com B.V., part of the Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), owns and operates Booking.com™, the world leader in booking accommodation online. Each day, over 625,000 room nights are reserved on Booking.com. The Booking.com website and apps attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.
Established in 1996, Booking.com B.V. guarantees the best prices for every type of property, from small, family-run bed and breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. Truly international, Booking.com is available in more than 40 languages, and offers over 453,177 properties in 200 countries.
Booking.com B.V. is based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and is supported internationally by 115 offices in over 50 countries around the world: Amsterdam - Antalya - Athens - Auckland - Bangkok - Barcelona - Beijing - Berlin - Bogotá - Bolzano - Bordeaux - Boston - Brussels - Bucharest - Budapest - Buenos Aires - Cairo - Calgary - Cambridge - Cape Town - Casablanca - Chengdu - Chicago - Colombo - Copenhagen - Denver - Dubai - Dublin - Dusseldorf - Edinburgh - Faro - Fukuoka - Grand Rapids - Guangzhou - Haikou - Helsinki - Heraklion - Ho Chi Minh City - Hong Kong - Honolulu - Houston - Innsbruck - Istanbul - Jakarta - Jeddah - Kiev - Krakow - Kuala Lumpur - Kuta (Bali) - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Las Vegas - Lille - Lima - Lisbon - London - Los Angeles - Lyon - Madrid - Málaga - Manchester - Manila - Mexico City - Miami - Milan - Montréal - Moscow - Mumbai - Munich - Natal - New Delhi - New York - Nice - Norwalk - Orlando - Osaka - Oslo - Paris - Phuket - Prague - Rennes - Riga - Rio de Janeiro - Rome - Saint Petersburg - San Francisco - Santiago - Santo Domingo - São Paulo - Sapporo - Seattle - Seoul - Shanghai - Siem Reap - Singapore - Sochi - Sofia - Stockholm - Sydney - Taipei - Tallinn - Tel Aviv - Thessaloníki - Tokyo - Toronto - Vancouver - Venice - Vienna - Warsaw - Zagreb - Zürich
Booking.com B.V. is registered with the trade register of the Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, under registration number 31047344. VAT registration number is NL805734958B01. Registration number with Dutch Data Protection Authority is 1288246.

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Over 6500 people right across the world are dedicated to serving Booking.com’s customers and property-owning partners.

Our mission
To help leisure and business travellers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy the world’s best places to stay.

Our vision
Booking.com is an informative, user-friendly website that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travellers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodation, in every corner of the world.
Our Hotel and Content teams work from local support offices with our property partners to support transparency, availability, and best pricing for all our customers. Our multilingual Customer Service team provides 24/7 dedicated assistance and advocacy to make sure our customers’ stays meet or exceed their expectations.

Lowest rates
Whether you’re staying in a city, by the coast or in the countryside, Booking.com guarantees to offer you the best available rates.

No reservation fees
The Booking.com reservation service is free. We do not charge any booking fees or add any administration fees – and in many cases, rooms can be cancelled free of charge.

Secure booking
The Booking.com reservation system is secure and your credit card and personal information are encrypted. We work to high standards to guarantee your privacy. For further details, please check our Privacy Statement

Benefits for our property-owning partners
More than 2.8 million room nights are booked on our website every week. Booking.com provides a cost-effective commission-based model, a network of over 5000 affiliate partner websites, and a personalised account management service to help you to optimise your revenue.

4/16/2014

The most beautiful tunnels in the world

I want to pass on them or stop gaping.
Nature is beautiful, but there is nothing more magical than being under the trees as a living tunnel. Whether it formed naturally or with a little help of talented gardeners corridor of trees will enchant everyone lucky enough to walk under its green branches.

Dark hedges, Northern Ireland
The most beautiful tunnels in the world
© Stephen Emerson
The most beautiful tunnels in the world
© Christopher Tait
Mysterious tunnel from Northern Ireland as if descended from the cover of an old book. James Stewart beeches planted back in the 18th century to impress your guests at the entrance to his house Greyskhil.

Road to Halnaker, UK
The most beautiful tunnels in the world
© Sam Moore
This truly is a fabulous tunnel near the town Halnaker, Sussex, England. It is incredibly popular with photographers, which is not surprising.

3/21/2014

Beautiful people Paralympic Games 2014

International Women's Day unfairly overshadowed in the news reports about Paralympic competitions. But it is the athletes who now serve in the winter disciplines demonstrate the incredible power of the spirit of the people do not stop the external circumstances. All these people are beautiful and strong, and we have much to learn from them. 
Each of the people in these photographs - the hero, and therefore the most beautiful shots Paralympic Winter Games. 

March Zainullina (Russia), Biathlon 
Beautiful people Paralympic Games 2014

Vasily Varlakov (Russia), Hockey 
Beautiful people Paralympic Games 2014

Stefania Jalloh (USA), Cross-country skiing 
Beautiful people Paralympic Games 2014

3/03/2014

People with low vision

Photographer Jamie Beck and Motion designer Kevin Burg used a relatively new kind of visual art, which they also invented. Image - photos and video, but something in between.
Photos on small changes that pay attention to the details of the viewer, and the main frame remains stationary. In a series of pictures "Looking at New York through my glasses" one can see how bright the world becomes, if you have good points.


If you wear glasses, then you know just how accurate these cinemagraphs are.

But, as soon as the focus movies in front of the glasses, the world becomes crisp.

Using these spectacles in a cinemagraph is a brilliant idea.

When out of frame (literally) the world is a blur.

We've never seen NYC like this before.

2/16/2014

Mirror remembers everything

"The tragedy of old age is not that a person is aging, and that he remains young soul" Oscar Wilde
That's why every year it becomes harder and harder to look at yourself in the mirror and put up with the way your body changes. As it becomes weak and flabby. And in my heart that you are still young and beautiful, full of energy and life goes on.
Photographer Tom Hussey created from Dallas touched a chord with photo series in which older people look at themselves in the mirror and see the reflection of himself in his youth.
It's very simple and .... fleeting, is not it? Once each of us will feel like a hero of such a series.



2/03/2014

Wengen in Wonderland

Photographer sent her kid to the world of sweet childhood dreams
Interestingly, babies have dreams? Mother of three boys Queenie Liao sure see. They dream of a bright colored tales and fascinating journey. When her youngest son sleeps Wengen, the photographer creates from toys, clothes and all that is at hand home decoration to your pictures. The project is called "Wengen in Wonderland" and carries the sleeping baby in his mother invented a fabulous adventure. Similar pictures previously done and the other mother Adele Enersen and her project "While the baby sleeps". But as wonderful and talented as it redone. A fantasy mother is simply amazing.



Best street art

The whole world as a blank canvas . Work from the streets of breathtaking .
Among the best - simple and complex , funny and scary , provocative and contain a special meaning. We have tried to cover the whole spectrum of incredible street art and show it to you .
Richmond , USA. Etam Cru

Bristol , United Kingdom. Cosmo Sarson. Christ - breaker

Moscow . Maya Plisetskaya on the wall at Dmitrovka , 16.
The work of renowned Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra .