Owners of Luxury yacht and personal cruise can now broaden their territory to thump the canals and lakes. Lancel and Ostréa Marine has realized the opportunity and introduced their latest creation of luxury canoe called Le Nantucket at the lately held Paris Boat Show. Developed and designed uusing the concept of ‘French lightness’, this 7.7m long boat weighs 1,900 kg but rides fast at a speed of 25 knots, thanks to its 120 horsepower diesel engine.

Its elegant simplicity with a matching color theme strikes well with red dying upon clean white surfaces. The Le Nantucket is outfitted with a stimulating windlass, mechanical table, custom stainless steel portions and chemical toilets.

If if fails to convince you then would propose you to give a second thought as it has an integrated an LCD display, a Bose sound system and iPod. This French luxury is retailed at €150,000 ($236,000) and is being produced only in counted digit of 25.

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Here is a unique trailer making your outdoor stay not only comfortable but exciting as well. Featured above is the Camp-Inn Teardrop Trailer that is no less than a feature-packed home fitting all your family needs. It is 8 to 10 feet huge and offers the comfort of a sleeping area along with a kitchen cubicle. Effortlessly hauled by a mini-van or SUV, this Camp-Inn travel trailer weighs 850 pounds and has space to accommodate two to three people.

It boasts of having a queen-size bed, storeroom room complimented by beautiful decors. Among other sundry but must-have accessories, it includes a stove, sink, table, sun roof and a TV/DVD. But this worthy and essential trailer doesn’t come cheap and is priced at $5,934.

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I never anticipated the debatable issue of global warming to reach to any conclusion. But use to confide in alternatives and reckon this is the best way out. Albeit the mention of August assures it is seemingly summers and ought to be hot but the splotches of snow, mountain landscape and clichéd snow apparatus used to confirm its winter by cladding in the guise of ill-effects of global-warming.

With glaciers liquefaction and snow attenuation, Alps-based ski resorts tend to stay in front of global warming by converting their resorts with massive spas, sleek construction and other off-slope magnetism. Renowned architects such as Zaha Hadid are engrossed designing high-altitude ski features. Shopping centers are reaching peaks of the mountain. And esteemed hotels likewise the Tschuggen Grand is forming itself into a new avatar offering all-weather resorts by adding a $30 million spa spread over 43,000-square-foot conceptualized by the Swiss architect Mario Botta.

Switzerland is been seen as the benchmark for emerging tourist destinations and the credit goes to its architectural non-ski appeal. There is a lot of praise spreading all over for eco-friendly architect Matteo Thun who designed the spaceship-like InterContinental Resort, which is an elliptical-shaped compound with built-in 186 luxury hotel accommodation, residential apartments, shops, conference rooms and a cosmic spa. Identified as “a new planet,” it would hit the board by 2010.

Not to forget the nascent spas in the vicinity of Austrian Alps. Featured above is an Aqua Dome, a 140-room contemporary spa lodge near the glacier ski resort of Sölden in western Austria. It’s impossible to ignore the three massive tangible bowls that look like al fresco birdbaths. Whilst one is a supersize whirlpool tub, second has a string of massage jumbos, and the third is flowed with saltwater with a submarine music. This dome-topped spa has two more pools and a waterfall. If you wish to dip into the designer pool of the Aqua Dome positioned in Längenfeld (Oberlängenfeld 140, Längenfeld) then you can enjoy that on a drop of 135 euros per person per night.

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Bonhams & Butterfields lately celebrated the 10 th anniversary of its distinguished motorcars auctions at Quail Lodge on 17 August 2007 carving success laurels. Now the world’s oldest surviving Rolls Royce has reached the Bonham’s auction house in London on 17 October 2007.

The 1904 car (the year year the motor-car was founded), with model number 20154 is a miniature 10-horsepower two-seater and is anticipated to generate bids over $ 2 million (euro 1.43 million) at a scheduled auction on 3 December in London. This is for the first time that this model is available in public for sale after its original sale in 1904. Earlier, a local private collector paid $403,000 for a 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Regent Convertible Coupe. Tantamount with luxurious travel, this 103-year-old car is an established name in this fabled marquee and a perfect motoring icon and a priceless object in the automotive history.

Initially, number 20154 was first displayed at the Paris Salon in late 1904, followed by London’s Olympia Show in early 1905. During the last 100 years, the car had three owners as it was reinstated by the penultimate owner in the 1950s and then is cautiously treasured by the present owner for the past 30 years. The much-anticipated auction is a great opportunity for the collectors from across the globe to handpick this car and label it to their name.

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What new at Chinese platter? A 250m x 30m super Sky screen….hovering 80 feet in the air. Positioned at The Place, a new retail expansion in Beijing’s business district the gargantuan LED sky screen is really interesting.

This huge screen is an out product of the five individual displays. Built with an investment of $32 million, the LED screen took three long years for its formation and is today leaving an unforgettable experience for every creature strolling under it.

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Now the worry of accommodating spaceships is resolved. Virgin Galactic has shard its plans to construct a Spaceport in New Mexico. This would be the first-ever American spaceport for commercial use. Out of the eleven international contestants (firms), the architecture presented by URS Corporation was hand-picked. Offering the facility of 100,000 sq ft, this commercial project expects an investment of $31 million.

The Spaceport ensures the lodging of two White Knight Two carrier aircraft along with five SpaceShipTwo spaceliners. Year 2008 is predictable as “The Year of the Spaceship” and Will Whitehorn, president, Virgin Galactic and his group is all set to celebrate the upcoming inventions in space inviting space tourists.

Well, I think the construction of the commercial spaceport can open the entry gate for us to reside there with comfort. Earlier, I informed you about the Commercial Space Station Skywalker that will soon be accessible and would demand $1mn for lifting you 515-kms above Earth offering for a mere night stay. Isn’t it an expensive deal?

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What would you call a combination of an iPod and uncountable diamonds caking it right from one corner to the other and all four sides…not just this the bling doesn’t end here it reaches till the last tip of the head phone?

I would call it the height of useless luxury or another way to flaunt your dripping and spilling riches! This musical piece of luxury is the creation of dear Norwegians, who are all set to sell it for 248,000 Norwegian Kroner (40,000 USD). PHEW!! So all those who are usually all ears for such a richie rich piece of bling have another thing to drool on!

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