December 12, 2013

Top 10 things to do in Dubai

–Skydive Dubai

If you love high sensations and you always had the wish to skydive, this is definitely the place to do it! The view is one of the most incredible ones in the world. You will be jumping with an instructor from 4000 meters high above the famous Jumeirah Palm Dubai! I really advise you to do it, it’s worth it! For those who are a bit scared, do not hesitate, I certainly don’t regret it! It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever done in my life!

-Burj Khalifa

Going on the top of this tower is unavoidable ! This is one of the most touristic things. The Burj Khalifa is today the highest tower in the world at 828m! The view up there is just breathtaking. You’ll be able to see all skyscrapers, the big long highways, and the interminable desert that circles this crazy town.

-Dubai Fountain

This waterplay with more than 200 fountains illuminates the streets and the city place every night. This is one of the most important tourist points in the city and attracts every time more than 1000 visitors. While the music is playing, the fountains are adapted to the melody and are moving according to the notes. This is one of the most beautiful things in Dubai with a lot emotions!

-Burj El Arab

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This is the only seven-star hotel in the world. This incredible establishment is also the world’s tallest and most luxurious hotel.
The only way to get in, apart from booking a room at a disconcerting price, is to reserve a table in one of the restaurants.

-Dubai Mall

This is the largest mall in the world. This shopping center composed of 1200 shops also has a big aquarium and an ice rink! This is a very chic shopping center with the most beautiful shops.

-Ski’Dubai

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-Madinat

Madinat Jumeirah is a luxurious 5 star Arabian resort in Dubai. It is designed as a traditional Arabian town. Composed of many hotels and restaurants, tourists can take little boats to go through the resort, which is really pleasant. It is impressive to see the differences between the modernized economic part of the city with its skyscrapers and the original part of Dubai with its cultural hotspots and real Emirate feeling.

-Jumeirah Palm

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The Jumeirah Palm is an artificial archipelago in the shape of a palm tree. This isle is one of the most famous and craziest things that has been done in Dubai. It is composed of many hotels resorts and a water park but also a lot of villas from the richest people in Dubai. It is really pleasant to go to the palm and admire the view on the city.

-Atlantis Water Park

What about spending a day in a water park? With its 30 degrees all year long Dubai has many aquaparks. Atlantis is definitely the best one! With family and your children or with friends, you will for sure have a lot of fun in those attractions! River, water slides with rings or high sensation slides, there is something for everyone. You’ll love it!

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-Dubai Desert

Dubai is not only a city with skyscrapers, beaches and malls. This town was created in the middle of the desert where you can go on a four-wheel drive safari. The tours are very popular and crowded with tourists, but it’s still very enjoyable and typical.

Pauline Mariller

December 12, 2013

Grevin Wax Museum

The Grevin Wax museum which was founded in 1882. Specializes in building wax statues. The museum offers the occasion to meet the most iconic people of all time, from Louis XIV to Barack Obama.

Located in Paris next to the underground station « Grands Boulevards », the wax museum is a good opportunity to spend an afternoon with your friend on cold and rainy days.

The museum is divided into several sections and themes:

1- Stars section : I’m sure you will be glad to take a picture with George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Madonna or Marilyn Monroe. You will find them all at the museum.

2- History section: The Grevin team built up scenes of historical moments to experience them by your own. You can attend to the Queen Marie Antoinette’s trial and take pictures with Angela Merkel or the famous General De Gaulle.

3- The champions section: Do you like sport? Would you ever forget a meeting with the world’s greatest champions? Pelé, Parker, Loeb and Teddy Riner, they are all waiting for you at the Grévins museum:

4- The discovery tour section: The Grévin’s discovery tour reveals the secrets of making wax statues! At the end of the visit, you will have the chance to test your skills and build your own statue.

For the Christmas time meet Santa Claus : he is waiting for you at the hall of columns. He comes every year to take his place in the pantheon of celebrities.

The museum is open during the Christmas period from 10:00 to 19:00 o’clock. You can buy the tickets for about 16€ on the website http://www.grevin-paris.com.

December 11, 2013 Aside

Why should you wear vintage?

Vintage is unique

Have you ever walked into a party and realized that you were wearing the same outfit as another person? We all shudder at the very thought of this common social misfortune. On the other hand, if you wear vintage you will avoid such embarrassing moments because vintage is unique. When you wear a vintage dress for example, you are automatically wearing a highly individual and rare piece of clothing that very well might be the only one of its kind. At that certain time, these older items were produced in much smaller amounts than today’s mass produced clothing. This is one of the main reasons why so many Hollywood celebrities wear vintage on the red carpets. Wearing vintage will assure that you will stand out from the crowd in a trendsetting outfit that actually underlines your individuality!

Vintage is an investment

Unless you are willing to spend a small fortune on the newest haute couture, your clothes already lose value the second you take the tag off of them. You can rarely buy a piece of clothing expecting it to keep its value over a certain amount of time. In comparison to that, there is a collectible market for vintage clothing and the value of many pieces raises with time. On top of that, many pieces of vintage clothing are actually collectable. As it becomes harder and harder to find with time, vintage clothing becomes more and more valuable as it grows older. Vintage is definitely money well spent!

Written by: Christina Vasiliadis

http://threesixtyecotique.com/2013/10/top-10-reasons-wear-vintage/
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Why-Should-You-Buy-Vintage-Clothing-7-Great-Reasons-/10000000009769463/g.html

December 11, 2013 Aside

ALAIA – An exhibition that no fashion lover should miss!

A few weeks ago Camille and I visited the ALAIA fashion exhibition to tell you about it on our lifestyle blog. This exhibition, which takes place in the Galliera Museum in Paris, honors Azzedine Alaia, a Tunisian fashion designer. Alaia studied at the School of Fine Arts in Tunisia before moving to Paris during the 1950s. He was excited about Parisian elegance and the beauty of the French metropolis. The young creative benefited from the city’s inspiration to create collections of very chic clothes.

The exhibition comprises a selection of about seventy iconic models presenting some of Alaias most famous dresses. The range of clothes goes from old fashioned cotton dresses from the 50s to highly modern combinations of leather and sequins. You can even see a dress that has been worn by one of his most faithful admires Naomi Campbell.

Within the development of fashion, the exhibition also shows the development of the female outline over the last years, becoming thinner and more androgynous from year to year. The interior-design of the show is very chaste and dark focusing on the amazing items disposed. It is really easy to recognize Alaias device for fashion : ‘When I’m working on a garment, it has to flow over the body, in profile and in back view.’

Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures in the museum, but anyway they wouldn’t have transfered the breathtaking spirit of the complete works of Azzedine Alaia – so as a fashion victim you should really not miss this exhibition which takes place until January 26^th!

Katharina Grewing

Based on: http://parismusees.paris.fr/en/exhibition/alaia

http://palaisgalliera.paris.fr/en/exhibitions/alaia

December 11, 2013

TRAVEL

Facing difference I am facing myself

Travel is that place that frees me from you

Where there is no importance to what or who

The core of what I am now reveals itself

It is each and every second’s discovery

In which I find myself bathed and floating in

That gives me that feeling of being within

My god given right to live and love fully

When time has come to go back home

When life gets hard and my heart moans

Every encounter every landscape

In my mind are carved so I can escape

Kathrin G., Olivier V.

December 10, 2013

TOP 4 how to entertain your kids on an airplane!

AirParis

We want to make you fly

This is usually hell for parents: Taking young children on the airplane. They are crying, shouting and moving all the time. They want to run around, push every button they can find, and just create chaos. But a flight can be so relaxing when the kids are well entertained and when they have something “useful” to do. In the following we give you the four best ideas proposed by AirParis, an airline we took for an 8h flight to Dubai. This is how they managed to get our children quiet and comfortable. If you can only use one of these tips, we can assure you that you’ll enjoy your voyage and be able to look forward to the next flight with your lovely family.

4 – Places especially for kids in the airplane

What about regrouping two or three kids next to each other so that they can play together? Of course, the parents have to be OK with that – that is why there is an option which is proposed during the booking process on the official websites. Just imagine how relaxed you could be as parents when children are entertaining themselves during an 8h flight. A real dream 10000km above the ground.

And additionally, the crewmembers are especially paying attention to your children, trying to make them feel happy and safe.

3 – Creative food ideas

There is nothing worse than a hungry child next to you during a flight. As flight crews offer a very limited selection you should better think of bringing your own food for them. It’s astonishing how much time children can spend on consuming snack food. Nevertheless there are a few things to observe to be sure to do everything right – and AirParis was really careful with its meal selection for children.

First of all: Avoid any sticky, messy or crumbly food. For juice boxes it’s important to choose small spill-proof containers that can be finished at once. Furthermore it’s all about the certain mixture; neither favorite snacks nor new surprises should be missing.

But attention: Never ever commit a blunder by bringing only one bag for two children. A bag, containing one bottle of juice, one bag of chips, or even worse two different flavors of chips can be deadly. A fight about who gets the most and who gets the best is irrefutable. But no worries, you can easily hide out from this catastrophe. The fair solution is one bag for each child, with identical contents, so everyone knows exactly what is his or hers. Make sure that you also have a pack of gum to chew at takeoff and landing. It can’t be ensured that your children won’t have any ear issues but at least it will help a little. The amount of unhealthy snack food during a flight might be as much as they usually get for one week in daily life.

And in case you completely forgot about bringing something for your children: Just think of a crazy meal and ask your children to use their imagination and to pretend to cook it – a great way to pass time while sitting in a seat.

But that’s the effort the airline put forth to ensure a calm flight. Last but not least, for the benefit of our seatmates.

2 – TV program just for kids

Imagine your kid can watch all his favourite Disney and Pixar movies on the plane, you won’t hear anything during the entire flight. The airline offers a big range of movies for kids, beside the big Blockbusters, you can find a Kids channel with very interesting documentaries, interactive television programmes and the most recent television programmes. Of course your child will also find all the classics such as “The adventure of Tintin” or “ Pippi Longstocking” and “Winnie-the-pooh” . All contents are specially assembled for children and are chosen with a lot of care. This exclusive offer, which you can’t find on any other air company, is totally free for all international flights.

OUR WINNER – What can be possibly better than Toys?

Then after eating and playing with all the food given by the cabin crew, children could entertain themselves for a part of the voyage with toys. You parents don’t have to bring and be weighed down with your children’s games. Many of the airplane companies give toys for children on the flight. They usually have cuddly toys, a little colouring book with colored pencils, but AirParis really offers everything a children could ask for. Even the latest technologies are taken on the flights and allow the children to distract themselves, for example to play on touch screens installed in front of the seats. Just imagine your two little children playing together or against each other in a racing game of Disney – isn’t that sweet!

These things should show you that it isn’t that hard to have a relaxing flight above the clouds. But always think about one thing: Parents are the best entertainment for their children and kids love when parents are paying them attention – so don’t just leave the kids alone with their plastic toys and animated series.

Langrenay, Greilmeier, Mariller, Witt

SOURCES:

http://www.parenting.com/gal…/50-ways-entertain-kids-plane
http://www.cozi.com/live…/17-ways-entertain-kids-planes
https://www.listplanit.com/…/list-of-things-to…/

December 10, 2013 Aside

The invasion of blockbusters in cinema ?

Do you know those movies where you already know the end before watching it ? Those are called blockbusters.

The world of Cinema has really changed in the last two decades, principaly with the explosion of downloads. In fact, the only source to make profits is the projection at the cinema, and not like before with DVD sales.

The international market represents 70 percent of profits, therefore, blockbusters. We can see that with “Ice Age“, this movie has generated 175 million dollars in America, and 206 million dollars in the international market for the first one of the saga. We are talking about 200 million dollars in America and 700 million dollars internationally for the third “Ice Age 3“.

Obsessed by the international market, the functioning of the Americain studio doesn’t leave any place for creativity. To be sure of the result, they make a movie only if one hero, one book or one game is well-known enough worldwide. There are only blockbusters that will be sold in mass.

The American studio’s goal is now to create a series of movies, like Iron-man, Spiderman, Superman, which generate billions of dollars. They have realized that the population most likely to watch, are young people less than 24 years old, so they produce movies which are likely to please them.

Aurélien Masurel.

December 10, 2013

The Big Bang Theory

Today, I’m going to talk to you about a new party for a new area: The Big Bang Theory. This is an electronic music festival that lasts two days. In the summer this music festival is better known as Marvellous Island. The location is called “Chalet de la Porte Jaune”, and is in an island in the middle of the Bois de Vincennes, the woods east of Paris.

The Big Bang theory’s aim is to plunge an expected 8,000 people for this first edition, into a galaxy of artistic encounters during these two nights, on Friday the 29^th and Saturday, the 30^th of November. For an entire weekend, you’ll feel the vibrations and interstellar dance in the Milky Way galaxy. This is a very unique and unusual experience.

The only downside are the ticket prices: tickets are between 25 and 55 euros according to the number of days desired. But tickets sold out very quickly. This party is worth the cost though, because it’s a sacred journey that takes people away from the cliché parties already experienced.

Beyond the very nice line-up, this is an artistic world, led by the sets and stage designs, combining sound and light performance.

For your eyes, you have the guarantee of a trip into a cosmos of lunar rocks created by magician designers. Then, for your ears, they offered you the best artists labels of our galaxy, such as Minus or Crosstown Rebel, and many others to join people on this unexpected trip. So, it’s under a starry night that the party begins. Once you cross the porch, you can let yourself be carried light years away from your daily life. This party transports everybody to an electronic heaven.

Enjoy!

Margot Lieau

Sources:

http://www.parisbouge.com/event/113145/

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December 8, 2013

The Showcase

Showcase is one of the most famous Parisian nightclubs, it is located under the Alexander III bridge which is a marvelous monument, especially famous for its street lights and sculptures ornamented with gold leaf.

First, a little history about the bridge: it was unveiled in 1900 by the Russian tsar, and it symbolizes the French-Russian relationship. The building of this huge monument took approximately 3 years and it was the Russian tsar who laid the foundation stone.

Now let’s get back to the topic; Showcase. It is the biggest Parisian nightclub and can allow almost 2,000 people. Since it’s located under the bridge, the huge dance floor is situated behind the several pillars that support the bridge. We can see all the old bridge structure which is made of old stone and heavy metal welded with traditional rivets (rivets that were created during the Eiffel period). The night club also has a really nice outdoor smoking room, which is actually located at the other side of the bridge. This outdoor smoking area is a friendly place because both smoker and non smokers can go without contracting final stage lung cancer in ten seconds. More over you have a marvelous landscape view on the Grand Palais, plus the Eiffel tower, plus the Alexander III bridge, PLUS the Invalids, and well, it could be worse!

The Showcase has a nice reputation thanks to its atmosphere and musics. The nightclub manages to attract DJ stars such as Kavinsky, Bakermat, Etienne de Crecy and many others. Showcase also organized a famous electro festival during the summer which lasted one week. Because of this dynamism and energy, the nightclub is almost full all the time, therefore, if you want to go there please dress up appropriately. For men, forget sneakers; for girls, forget jeans, and don’t wear too much make up and jewelry in order to not look like a Christmas tree (as we say in France).

Showcase is also really famous for being a multicultural place, because of its location and the quite touristic landscape it offers (Eiffel tower + Grand palais + Invalides + Alexander III = All in one formula for only one nightclub ! What a bargain!). Consequently it seems to be a good place to improve your idioms (Alcohol helps you to have a better accent in theory… but forget grammar rules). Indeed this nightclub is voted on by Erasmus students. The place is also a nice reference for the French hipster community.

To conclude, as you can understand, Showcase is not a second hand choice for a party hang out. First, because you must dress up properly, and secondly, because the prices are expensive (minimum price for a drink is 10e, and if you want to have a bottle, please call your banker and beg him to death unless your name is Rothschild). But after those requirements are met, you can enjoy your night in one of the most unusual places in Paris.

Hey dude , I’m going to dance under a 110 year-old bridge in Paris !

Eudes LESEUTE

Sources:

http://www.showcase.fr

http://www.residentadvisor.net/club-detail.aspx?id=9222

http://www.insecula.com/salle/MS00783.html

December 6, 2013

A Step Beyond The Cinema Video

Ladies and Gentlemen, we present you our ” A Step Beyond The Cinema”-Video which deals firstly about cinema’s history and its impact on our lives nowadays and secondly, we show you eiffelmag’s special news edition about the existence of streaming websites and the modern 3D device. Enjoy it !