Nuno got to take a bus tour out of Amsterdam near the end of his 3 month stay. The tour group rode eastwards towards a small community reachable across a 2 km long dike stretching across a man-made lake created out of the stranded waters of the North Sea! Nuno gives you the lowdown on one of the ...
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It's funny with the speed this world is moving at thanks to the internet and the torrent of new content ALWAYS out there and ready to be blogged about, shared through social networks or collected within social bookmarking web applications, something like getting content to come to you instead of ...
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Here's a webcomic I found by accident. It's called "Last Blood". It's written by Bobby Crosby and illustrated by Owen Gieni, this comic brings a new twist for fans of vampire and zombie films!
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Religious visions happen every year all over the world. Some of them, like the one that happened in Fatima, Portugal take on a life of their own. Nuno Teixeira gives you the lowdown on Our Lady of Fatima, a sanctuary that brings people of faith together from all over Portugal and even the world. ...
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While Nuno was on the west coast of Canada, in Victoria, BC he was lucky enough to tag along in a group of tourists, led by John Adams, renowned historian and researcher and host of the show Creepy Canada. Nuno joined the 9:30pm group which lasted for about an hour and a half. During a dozen tale...
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Two years ago Nuno was able to get to Portugal. While there he grabbed a load of videos. Driving into the city of Aveiro one can see a stretch of grided waterspots. These waterspots are part of a process that seperates the natural salts out of the sea water that flows in through canals. Nuno give...
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For many people, when they think of Holland, they inevitably think of clogs--traditional wooden shoes that come in many different shapes and sizes, decoration and style. Nuno brings you the lowdown on the dutch clogs with a little help from the fine people at The Wooden Shoe Factory in Volendam.
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It seems like everyone on the internet loves cats. The internet feeds my partner's addiction; she gets daily flickr feeds and so on, so how could I NOT have checked this place out with her while in Amsterdam. Here's the lowdown on Amsterdam's de Poezenboot (The Cat Boat) sanctuary.
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Ever wonder where modern torture etiquette came from? Nuno gives you the lowdown on the Torture Museum in Amsterdam and in doing so highlights some of the old age devices that have thankfully gone out of practice today. At least we can all hope so, but really, who knows what goes on in the darker...
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The city of Nijmegen has a long turbulent history. During World War II it was the first city to be invaded by the Germans which then allowed entry into the rest of Holland. The Canadians played a pivotal part in once again securing Nijmegen--but of course as with all war, many lives where the pri...
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If you like to stumble on random stuff out of the blue and you're the kind of person that REALLY likes to dig around like a warthog in a grub fest then The Flype Club might and might NOT be for you. Nuno gives you the lowdown on the Flype Club with the help of two founding members "stevenswrong" ...
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I’ve been following Order of the Stick since it came out (albeit a few dozen behind at this point) and am nothing short of amazed at how much substance is actually in them from both a joke and a story perspective. It's considered a must read for gamers, especially those who play Dungeons & ...
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