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	<title>Happy Steps travel blog &#187; Art &amp; Culture</title>
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		<title>Dumaguete famous landmarks and tourist attractions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Road trip: Bacolod (Negros Occidental) to Dumaguete (Negros Oriental) 
 After about 5 hours of road travel from Bacolod with our trusty van, we arrived in Dumaguete, fondly known as the “City of Gentle People”. Compared to most Visayan cities such as Bacolod or Iloilo, Dumaguete is less crowded. The first thing I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A virtual Visita Iglesia (church pilgrimage during the Holy Week)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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The season of Lent is here again, and this means a week of reflection and meditation which starts from Holy Monday to Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Black Saturday and finally Easter Sunday. Whew. 
There’s been a lot of traveling going on in the Philippines this Holy Week since most offices are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Flower Clock at the Rauma Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2009/02/19/the-flower-clock-at-the-rauma-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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One of the featured art exhibits at the Rauma Museum in Finland during their Flower Power (Rauma Biennale Balticum 2008) art festival is the Flower Clock by artist Bjorn O. Olsson. The concept is based on the Flower Clock Phenomenon (Horologium Florae) which was according to the observations of Carl von Linne during the mid-18th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Buddy Bears in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/11/24/united-buddy-bears-in-berlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I now know the story behind the colorful bear statue we saw in one of the sidewalks of Berlin which I just fondly named as the Berlin Bear. Well, that’s what you get with surfing in the net; you end up with some interesting information.   The bear statue we saw is actually one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art market in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/10/20/art-market-in-berlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Wanna shop for paintings, décors, jewelry, t-shirts, lanterns, bags, buttons and all sorts of art, handicrafts and books in Berlin? Check out the Art market (Kunstmarkt) at the Museum Island (Museumsinsel) beside the bridge every Saturday (11:00 AM &#8211; 3:00 PM) and Sunday (10:00 AM &#8211; 2:00 PM) where you can find some Berlin souvenirs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On local concerts and theater shows</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/10/18/on-local-concerts-and-theater-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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One way for travel bugs to get a taste of a place’s art and culture is to watch the local concerts and musical events in town. I was not able to do so during my Prague vacation, but at least we were treated to a beautiful concert by the choir at the Strahovsky Monastery when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home improvement ideas from travel</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/10/15/home-improvement-ideas-from-travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Our family had a nice day tour at the Royal Flora Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand two years ago where we saw lots of great flower arrangement ideas for our home. Colorful plants and flowers were stacked on different levels of iron bars making a nice ‘flower column’ which is great for gardens with little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helsinki City Museum: Helsinki through the years</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/10/15/helsinki-city-museum-helsinki-through-the-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/10/15/helsinki-city-museum-helsinki-through-the-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Helsinki City Museum: Old Helsinki days	
 
At the second floor is the Russian era where more interesting artifacts are displayed. We took longer time at another section in the ground floor which highlights the era of Finnish independence from Russian rule, the consequent changes in Finnish lifestyle and the city’s progress that followed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helsinki City Museum: Old Helsinki days</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/10/10/helsinki-city-museum-old-helsinki-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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While in Finland, my big sis took us on a day tour of Helsinki though our time was very much limited but nevertheless we squeezed in about an hour of visit at the Helsinki City Museum. We chose it from among the many museums listed on our guide since it was just within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prague artist David Cerny: pink tank, hanging statue, crawling babies and more</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/10/10/prague-artist-david-cerny-pink-tank-hanging-statue-crawling-babies-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you paint a war tank pink? Maybe not, but controversial Czech artist and sculptor David Cerny did it to a Soviet tank when he was still an art student in 1991. While that tank is now kept in Lešany Military museum, a pink torso of a tank by Cerny was just recently planted on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: A building at the Old Town, Prague</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/10/08/wordless-wednesday-a-building-at-the-old-town-prague/</link>
		<comments>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/10/08/wordless-wednesday-a-building-at-the-old-town-prague/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>At the medieval Turku Castle</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/07/14/at-the-medieval-turku-castle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Visiting castles would always be on the travel itinerary of tourists when going to Europe. It’s like stepping into the days of kings and queens, or imagining you’re part of a fairy tale. Getting inside the medieval castle of Turku acquaints the visitor of Finland’s rich culture and history, each stair or doorway leading to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flower Power at the Rauma Art Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/07/12/flower-power-at-the-rauma-art-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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The Rauma Biennale Balticum 2008 art festival is currently ongoing at the Rauma Art Museum in Old Rauma, Finland. The exhibition, which started last June 14 and will end on September 21, features prominent Biennale artists such as Aija Zarina, Krista Leesi, Lutz Mommartz, Malgorzata Markiewicz and many others with this year’s theme ‘Flower Power’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viennese coffee house culture</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/07/09/viennese-coffee-house-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meeting in cafés have become part of the Viennese culture, where prominent writers used to be seen together exchanging ideas with contemporaries and some even find it a comfortable place to write their thoughts, thus the terms ‘coffee house literature’ and ‘coffee house poets’.  Coffee is one beverage most people consume to stimulate their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panaad Festival in Negros 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/04/27/panaad-festival-in-negros-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.happysteps.net/2008/04/27/panaad-festival-in-negros-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s up in Negros Occidental? It’s a week-long event that’s not to be missed by the Negrosanons, the Panaad Festival which is dubbed as the “mother of all festivals”. This annual event showcases the arts and culture, tourist attractions and local products of the different towns and municipalities in the province of Negros Occidental, from [...]]]></description>
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