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Queers to Cuba Tour
On December 27, 2007, a group of North Americans will make history by flying to Havana on the first ever Queers to Cuba Tour. They’ll spend eight days experiencing the island’s rich cultural heritage and meeting representatives of Cuban organizations working for sexual dignity. Activists from CENESEX (the National Center for Sexual Education), the Cuban organization advancing queer reforms and AIDS awareness, will brief tour members on the island scene.

Program highlights include joining the throng celebrating the 49th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution in Old Havana, attending an authentic drag show, swimming at the gay beach, learning salsa dancing from island pros, and sampling the city’s exciting nightlife. Tour participants will explore colonial and modern Havana, sample museums of art and history, and visit the eco-community at Las Terrazas in Pinar de Rio.

The farewell dinner will be at La Guarida Restaurant where the famous 1995 movie “Strawberry and Chocolate” starring Jorge Perugorria and Vladimir Cruz was filmed. In the movie, a young Communist Party activist learns the meaning of live and let live from a gay artistic director.

The tour is being conducted by Sonja de Vries, co-founder of San Francisco-based Queers for Cuba, the first LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) group to be officially invited to Cuba. Ms de Vries studied race and gay issues in Havana from 1993 to 1994, and her groundbreaking documentary “Gay Cuba” remains the last word on the subject.

“The Queers to Cuba Tour comes at an exciting time for LGBT equality in Cuba,” says Sonja de Vries. “The Cubans are drafting legislation to allow same sex unions, lesbian adoption and insemination, and transgender reassignment surgery. These changes are being broadly debated by the population, yet North Americans hear very little about this kind of popular democracy.”

The tour is being organized by Cuba Education Tours of Vancouver, Canada, whose coordinator, Marcel Hatch, insists, “The image of Cuba as a gulag for LGBT people is false. It’s a myth invented by opponents of revolutionary Cuba. As a gay, I feel safer in Cuba than in Canada or the States. Soon island queers will enjoy greater rights and freedoms than their counterparts in the USA.”

Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba’s National Assembly, has said, “We have to abolish any form of discrimination against those persons. We have to redefine the concept of marriage. Socialism should be a society that does not exclude anybody.”

Sonja de Vries recalls, “When I visited Cuba last December with a group, we met with CENESEX president Mariela Castro Espin and she told us about the concrete work being done with transgender people, with lesbians, and with families to encourage support of their LGBT kids. Several members of my group were in tears. To see these efforts being carried out in a way that is so respectful and compassionate is not something most of us have experienced with institutions, much less government!”

The inaugural Queers to Cuba Tour will run from December 27, 2007, to January 3, 2008. Participants will stay at the Hotel St John’s in the heart Havana’s Vedado entertainment district. The services of a multilingual Cuban guide and a professional bus chauffeur will be provided throughout. It’s an event LGBT people and their friends from Canada, the United States, and beyond will not want to miss.

Ms Sonja de Vries and Mr Marcel Hatch are available for media interviews. To arrange a time, call 877-687-3817 toll free or email info@cubafriends.ca and sonrevolution@aol.com

About Cuba Education Tours Cuba Education Tours has been promoting healthy, entertaining, and ethical travel to Cuba since 2000. Examples of its programs include baseball tours, study abroad programs, a VIP presence at the Havana Jazz Festival, and volunteer opportunities for ESL teachers. The organization's website is http://www.canadacuba.ca with specific information on the Queers to Cuba Tour at http://www.gaycuba.ca and photos of Cuba on http://www.cuba-pictures.com

Will Jet Lag Ruin The Start Of Your Vacation?
The summer holiday season is with us again and many thousands of us will be jetting off to far flung corners of the globe to lie on a tropical beach and soak up the sun, to trek through some of world’s most beautiful wilderness countryside, to see some of the architectural wonders of the world or to simply explore new countries and cultures. And, unfortunately, many thousands of us will find the first few days of our vacation will also see us trying to recover from the effects of jet lag.

But is jet lag an inevitable part of modern long-haul travel?

The answer to this question depends very much on where you are flying to. If you start your journey in Sydney, Australia and fly to Tokyo, Japan then you will not experience any jet lag at all because, even though you are flying some 7,000 miles, your journey essentially takes you due north so that your starting point and destination lie in the same time zone. However, if you fly from Sydney to London, England then you will fly east to west across ten standard time zones and you will certainly experience jet lag.

Jet lag is really nothing more than the result of your own internal body clock being out of synchronization with local time and, while your body clock can adjust itself to come into line with local time, adjusting your body clock takes time.

If you fly across just two or three time zones then the time difference experienced is small enough that you probably will not really notice it greatly and your internal clock will adjust quite quickly. However, if you fly across four or more time zones then the difference will be noticeable and your body clock will take longer and longer to adjust as you cross more and more time zones.

In our example of flying from Sydney to London your body clock will take several days to adjust itself fully and, in the meantime, you are likely to find yourself suffering from insomnia, finding it difficult to get to sleep at night and to get up in the morning, feeling tired during the day, possibly experiencing difficulty in eating with nausea, stomach upset, a feeling of dehydration, a headache, and much more.

So what can be done?

There are a whole variety of ‘traditional’ remedies for jet lag including diets, formulas, over-the-counter medication, sleeping pills, melatonin and others and each has its supporters and detractors, but are these ‘traditional’ remedies the answer?

The simple answer to this question is no. These ‘traditional’ remedies do not work and, in some cases, will actually make your jet lag worse.

Treating jet lag is not a matter of pills and formulas, but requires you to devise a plan centered on your specific travel plans and lifestyle which allows you to assist your body’s natural process of adjusting its own internal body clock. This means taking a series of steps in preparation for your journey, as well as during your flight and at your destination. In some cases these will be enough to help you avoid jet lag altogether and, in others, they will certainly help to reduce the effects of jet lag considerably.

Help-Me-To-Sleep.com provides comprehensive advice on <a href="http://help-me-to-sleep.com/jet-lag" target="_blank">jet lag</a> and also gives details of a specific <a href="http://help-me-to-sleep.com/jet-lag/treatment-of-jet-lag.html" target="_blank">jet lag treatment</a> plan to follow before your journey, en-route and at your destination.

Cedar City Tours can be your hub for Southern Utah Destinations
Family travel to Cedar City, Utah is a wonderful base of operations for your Adventure! Cedar City is known as Festival City. It is home to Southern Utah University, The Utah Shakespearean Festival, The Utah Summer Games, The American Children s Christmas Festival, The Cedar City SkyFest, Neil Simon Festival, Himmelsk Festival Royal, yearly Cowboy Gathering, Rodeo, July Jamboree, Utah Midsummer Renaissance Faire, Groovefest, Paiute Restoration Gathering & Pow-wow Author: Bob Therrien http://www.CedarCityTOURS.com Cedar City, Utah can be great during all 4 seasons, fall, winter, spring and summer. Any time of the year is a great time to do some cedarcitytours. Cedar City is close to Cedar Breaks National Monument, Brian Head skiing/boarding/mtn biking park, Kolob Canyons, Zion National Park, Bryce National Park, Dixie National Forest, seen the fantastic ancient Indian rock art in Parowan Gap? Have you see Mammoth Cave, lava flows, Panguitch Lake, Three peaks, Thunderbird Gardens, seen Flanigan Arch, Southwest Wildlife Foundation Nature Center, or Ashdown Gorge? Visiting Utah can be quite an adventure experience. The major airport to fly into the region is normally Las Vegas for Southern Utah. Cedar City has a growing and new airport on the outskirts of town. The small 10 minute city is perfect for getting around. It has most of anything anyone would want, and you can get to most of it in about 10 minutes or less. It is home to a wonderful university, Southern Utah University. SUU enrollment seems to be growing each year. There is also Southwest Applied Technology as well as George Wythe College. As a perfect location for outdoor activity, Utah has 5 National parks and 3 National Monuments, in addition to the dozens of state parks. There are plenty of adventure choices. Red rock canyons, sandstone cliffs, the desert, the best snow on earth skiing, Joshua trees, slot canyons, canyoneering, travel, tour & adventure await your cedarcitytours. The National parks are: Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, and Zion National Park. If that s not enough of the most incredible landscape anywhere, the 3 National Monuments are: Cedar Breaks National Monument, Dinosaur National Monuments and GSENM, Grand Staircase National Monument. How about adding two National Recreation areas to the mix and maybe you ll never want to leave Utah. The Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area all add up to one of the most spectacular places on earth to visit. Here are some of the things you can do. Hiking Camping Biking Golf Boating Beaches ATV Museums Scenic Drives Dog Sledding Snowmobiling Horseback Riding Hunting Antique Shopping Festivals/State Fairs Rafting Ice Skating Fly Fishing Wildlife Lake/Rivers Alpine & Nordic Skiing/Snowboarding Another city is Saint George in southern Utah and just a couple of hours north of Las Vegas. It has an elevation of 2,880 feet above sea level. St. George has an average annual temperature of 59.9 F with summer temperatures well into the 100s. Palm trees and red rock cliffs are the norm in Saint George along with all the convenience of a city of 100 thousand. Cedar City is well known as festival city. It is home to Southern Utah University, The Utah Shakespearean Festival, The Utah Summer Games, The American Children s Christmas Festival, The Cedar City SkyFest, Neil Simon Festival, Himmelsk Festival Royal, yearly Cowboy Gathering, Rodeo, July Jamboree, Utah Midsummer Renaissance Faire, Groovefest, and Paiute Restoration Gathering & Pow-wow. Cedar City is very close to Brian Head Ski Area. Close enough to be in the Vegas desert, ski during the day with views of Cedar Breaks Red Rocks and back to the desert for dinner. You ll enjoy your cedarcitytours!

Bob Therrien is a travel writer and has traveled all over North America. He currently operates the website at http://www.cedarcitytours.com

Let international relocation services help you with your transfer
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