BY CLAY LARROY
Regardless
of whether you are
traveling to a nearby location for the weekend or taking a
week-long destination vacation, you are always going to benefit from some tips
and ideas on how to make the whole process, more fun and less stressful. Take
time each day to alleviate stress while traveling or
vacationing and you will thank yourself for it when you get back home. With all
the chaos, jet-lag, partying and other excitement of travel comes a whole lot
of stress on your mind and body. By the time most vacations are over, another
one is needed to recover so taking a few minutes each day to rejuvenate will
make it easier for you to resume your normal life when it's all over. When you want to
plan a vacation contact me!
Film Location and Film Festival Vacations
Have
you watched a movie filmed in a familiar setting and recognized buildings, a
restaurant or a street? Have you ever wanted to visit a location after seeing a
film? Watch the "Borne Identity" and you will see many Parisian
locations. If you are ever in Prague, look for the many easily identifiable
scenes from the first "Mission Impossible". Just outside Asheville,
North Carolina in Lake Lure, you can see the spectacular backdrop for
"Last of the Mohicans" and "Dirty Dancing". Where are the
terrific scenes in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy filmed? You
probably know that New Zealand doubled for Middle Earth.
Researching
and then visiting a film location is terrific entertainment as is visiting one
of the over 1,600 film festivals held each year. If you are a film buff, there
is no end to the game of identifying and then finding the locations of famous
movie scenes. All you need is a Blockbuster account and a good travel
consultant and you are not just off to the movies, but also on a very unique
scavenger hunt.
The
internet is a great place to begin locating your favorite movie settings. Go to
Google, and use a search term resembling the following: "set
location for "dirty dancing". Most likely, you will get back
dozens of search results assisting you with locating scenes, sometimes with
great directional detail and, on occasion, with the actual latitude and
longitude geocoding for you GPS owners! If you are traveling to a destination
already, try a search styled as follows: ""film
locations" Seattle". You will be rewarded with references to
scenes from "Sleepless in Seattle" along with detailed directions for
locating the spots familiar to fans of the movie. Many cities, such as New
York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Vancouver or Chicago have appeared in so many
movies that the challenge will be to decide from which movies you wish to
choose!
A
film festival is an event that lasts anywhere from a day to over a week and
features films, films, films. They are held all over the United States and in
several other countries as well. Many film festivals such as the well-known
Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival are well
established, each with over a twenty-five year history, while new festivals are
popping up every year.
Many
film festivals offer a variety of films including independent films,
documentaries, gay and lesbian themed movies, full-length feature films,
comedies, foreign films, music videos and more while others stay with one theme
for the length of the festival. There are usually a few film premieres at each
film festival and some, such as the Breckenridge Film Festival, are adding
strong educational components to attract more visitors.
In
addition to dozens of film showings, many festivals are located in areas that
are worthy of a vacation alone. Who wouldn’t want to visit the beautiful
mountains of Utah? The Sundance Film Festival makes that region even more
attractive. When there isn’t a film playing that you want to see, you can ski
the fantastic slopes. Want to visit France? Why not do it during the Festival
de Cannes, one of the most famous and oldest film festivals in the world?
REFERENCE SITES:
http://www.travelresearchonline.com/
“Traveling tends to magnify all human
emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
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