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We've written a time or two about the new question and answers site Quora. One of the main ideas behind the site is that every answer is tied to a person, so that the answer remains in the context of that person.
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Lovely food in beautiful location overlooking Yas Marina and Yas Viceroy.105 UAE for two Lebanese Sandwiches and diet coke.
My three egg omelette with fried tomatoes and mushrooms was very tasty. The bread basket didn't last with my friends enjoying the variety on offer. They open early on a Saturday, ideal for those who want an early start boating.
We were with our young children on Yas Island and looking for a child friendly venue that still had interest for us adults. The marina had a great buzz in the evening, the restaurant opened the roof a the front to become outside dining on the waterfront as soon as the temperature dropped, we enjoyed a great cook your own... More
My family and I loved this restaurant. They had a pizza oven and a great selection of different dishes, such as pasta or sandwiches. Staff were also very accommodating. Very highly recommended.
We were two; we didn't have any reservation, but we find a front table very easily. The waiter was so friendly, we were thinking whether to sit in the Lebanese side or the international side but finally we decided to sit away from the Shisha; we ordered a rocca salad as a starter, two mix grill platter as recommended by... More
This restaurant is split into two halves, a French (Alsace region) restaurant and a Lebanese. We have eaten in both, the food is good, but not outstanding. Service is similar. This is a good well priced 'everyday' type of place. The things that should really sell the property is the view of the marina across the marina on to the... More
I went there to take Breakfast with my friend it was delicious and good portion . The service good & ambiance amazing specially this time in the year . I like this place ❤
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Called in over the weekend for snacks drinks. Friendly efficient staff, great views across the Marina This is also a licenced eatery so serves Alcohol too. Hsppy to recommend
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Alfred was gone.
"You idiot!" Arthur called out to the ceiling, his voice cracking. "You bloody idiot!" He was screeching at that point, not caring that the strain would cause him to lose his voice. That was nothing compared to the emotional turmoil he was in. Nothing would ever be the same - could ever be the same.
Of course, had he been asked when something had changed, he wouldn't have been able to give a definite answer. They'd been together a long time, nearing 8 months, and the best he could guess would be around the 2 month mark.
It might have been when Alfred had come over to Arthur's house with a dozen red roses, blushing madly, but placing a wide smile on his face nonetheless.
It could have been a few days before that, when Alfred had visited his boyfriend at work, then insisted on treating the shorter blonde to lunch as soon as he had break.
It might have even been the week before that, when Alfred had given him a watch. A nice pocket watch, golden plated and brilliant.
The very same one that Arthur was throwing to the ground at that moment in anger.
"I'll never forgive you, not for as long as I live,"The British man murmured, already feeling the effects his earlier volume had on his throat. He stood there for a while, just staring at the watch. Their relationship was just taking a turn for the better, or at least, Arthur thought so. Alfred had calmed down tremendously since the time they had gotten together, more relaxed and less likely to get into things than his previous hyper self. He'd stopped eating McDonald's as if it were the greatest thing in the world (in fact, he seemed mildly repulsed if the notion of going there was introduced), and as a result, had lost a bit of weight, even though he wouldn't have been considered 'fat' originally. While these changes had been odd at first, he was still Alfred, still got scared watching lame ghost movies, still smiled that 10,000 watt smile in public, but saved his crooked, charming grin for Arthur. And yet, obviously, things were not going as wonderfully as he thought they were.
Arthur just didn't understand what was happening. Yesterday, Alfred was the perfect boyfriend. He was loving, listened attentively to the British man's rants, no matter what the subject matter was, and even complimented his cooking, for God sakes! But today, he was distant, giving vaguely cold looks and even once a small sneer when Arthur tried to smile at him.
"What's wrong with you today?" He finally snapped at dinner time. Alfred looked at him with cool disinterest.
"I'm sure I don't know what you mean by that."
"Yes you do, you're doing it right now! Have I offended you somehow?"
"You want the truth?" Arthur nodded. "I was going to wait until the weekend to break it to you, but I guess now works just as well. I've been seeing someone else." Arthur's mouth went dry.
"How long?"
"Nearing three months now. I'm sor-" He was cut off by a strong punch to the face that knocked his glasses clean off.
"How dare you lead me on like that? I loved you! I loved you so much, and you've taken our relationship and-" this time it was Arthur's turn to be interrupted.
"There was never any relationship between us, okay?" Alfred flinched slightly, almost as if he were expecting another punch, or for Arthur to start yelling again. Instead, dead silence followed his words, prompting him to continue. "I made a bet with one of the guys that I could make any one fall for me, and he picked you as my challenge. I won the bet, so now I'm done pretending to care for you. Simple as that."
"You're a sick bastard, and I want you out of my house!" He screamed, picking up a ceramic plate and hurling it at the retreating American's head, just missing him by inches and hitting the wall.
As he replayed the memory in his mind, still fresh, as it had occurred only a little more than a week ago, Arthur found a few tears sliding down his cheeks. 'No, I will not waste any more tears on him. He's not worth it.' Suddenly, he was brought out of his thoughts by a timid knock on his door. Confused, he went to answer it, and nearly slammed it shut when he opened it and saw Alfred's face. However, a moment later, he realized that the hair was too long to be Alfred's, the skin too pale.
"Oh, hello...um..."
"Matthew," He supplied helpfully.
"Right. Um...can I help you?" Matthew looked nervous.
"It might be better if you let me inside."
"Right, of course, come in." Arthur stepped out of the doorway and gestured inside. Matthew complied, going into the living room and sitting on the couch, back perfectly straight like he was uncomfortable.
"I have something for you - from Alfred," He said, pulling a small white envelope from his back pocket.
"And what makes him think that I'll accept anything from him? The nerve of that foul little beast, I ought to-" Arthur was getting riled up, but Matthew quickly stopped his train of thought.
"He doesn't know I'm here. And if he had his way, I wouldn't be. But you have a right to have this." He held out the envelope, and Arthur noted that it looked like it had been sealed, then opened, then sealed again many times. It was opened at this point, implying Matthew had already seen the contents. Opening it tentatively, Arthur pulled out a few pieces of regular notebook paper. Some looked like they had been used recently, while others appeared older. He picked up the one on top and saw it was dated several months ago, the day before Alfred had given him the now dented watch.
Dear Artie
I went to the doctor's today. I haven't really been feeling at the top of my game lately, so I figured a checkup couldn't hurt, right? Well...wrong, I guess. The doctor says I have an advanced state of cancer in my kidney, caused by a malignant tumor, and that while usually they could go into surgery to remove it, I'm a special case. The cancerous cells have started spread to the rest of my body, according to him. Surgery would be costly and dangerous, and I have a low chance of success at this point. Chemotherapy would be painful and useless. The doctor says I'll be lucky if I have five months to live. I want to tell you so bad, so you can tell me everything's going to be okay. But things are serious now, and everything we do matters. If I tell you, everything changes. You'll spend the rest of my life treating me like I'm delicate, and I don't think I can handle that. Not from you. So I'm writing this, knowing I'll never send it, so that I get these thoughts out of my head for a while. Knowing me, I'll probably blurt this out the second I see you anyway, making the whole process of writing this letter useless.
Love you so much,
"W-what?" Arthur asked. "Is this true?" he waved the letter in Matthew's face, who in turn nodded solemnly. "Five months...but...this is dated for six!"
"He's an everyday medical miracle," Matthew explained, and Arthur looked back down at the other letters. One was dated a couple months after the first one.
Dear Artie,
It hurts so badly. I have this constant pain in my side, and it won't go away. Worse, I decided not to tell anyone about the cancer, so I can't even complain. I think Mattie knows something's wrong, but he hasn't called me on it yet. And you, you're noticing things. It makes me worried. You keep commenting on how I look tired, or I've been losing weight lately, and every time I think that you know, somehow, and that you're trying to give me a chance to tell you myself, but I...I can't bring myself to do it. And I am so sorry. The worst part isn't even the physical pain, or the pissing blood (though that IS really nasty), it's the fact that now that I know I'm going to die, I think I'm becoming a better person than when I was clueless. It hit me when I visited you at work and you were genuinely shocked. You even asked if I was there because I needed money. What kind of boyfriend am I, that a small gesture is as rare as... I can't even finish that sentence. Partially because I'm upset, and partially because I don't know what to compare that to. You're right; I need to work on my vocabulary.
Oh shit. You're here. I guess I'll put this with the other letter, and hope that no one finds it later.
Love you so much,
Arthur read through the rest of the letters, which all had similar content. The doctor had given him some painkillers to help him out, but he kept having to up the dosage to keep his pain under control. 'I feel so unheroic, relying on drugs to get me through the day. It was never supposed to be like this.' He had taken to wearing baggy clothes, so that Arthur wouldn't notice how unbearably thin he was.'Your facial expression when you saw, I nearly busted out laughing at the sight. You must have thought I was so ridiculous.' More recently, Matthew had finally confronted Alfred, though he was under the impression that, as leftover insecurity from his chubby childhood, his younger-by-minutes brother had an eating disorder. 'I was so tempted to let him keep thinking that, you don't even know. There's at least chance of recovery from those. But I couldn't do it.' And he had cut his hair differently, because malnutrition was causing it to fall out.'Balding at 26, I nearly died right then! I'm glad you didn't know about THAT part, I'd never hear the end of it.' Every letter ended the same way. 'Love you so much, Alfred.' Finally, Arthur had reached the final letter. He flinched when he recognized the date - just a few days ago, the night Alfred had admitted to cheating.
'Arthur.' The man noticed eraser marks there, and saw Alfred had originally addressed it with his pet-name for the shorter blonde. 'I am so very very sorry. You have to know that none of what I said is true. But you need to understand that I'm way past the maximum time Doc Richards gave me to live, and I'm getting worse. I'm going to be hospitalized soon, and once that happens, it's not much longer until I kick the bucket. Over the past several months, I've realized just how much you mean to me, and if I mean just half as much to you, then it would devastate you when I died. And as much as it hurt me, as much as I wanted my last memories of you to be joyful ones, I realize something now. These last six months, they've been for me. I've become the man I've always wanted to be, and even though that man is dead or dying, I still like him better than the guy I used to be. This man is in love. He's reconnected with his brother, and he has closure with his friends. But tonight...tonight was for you. I lied because I wanted to make you hate me. I wanted you to curse my name and spit at the ground at the thought of me, because if you did, then when I die, you won't be in pain. So even though it hurts worse than anything to know the last thing you'll get from me is lies, I feel like I've done what a good boyfriend should do - protect their love.' That had been a big theme in the letters as well, Alfred's strange compulsion to 'be the heroic guy his Artie deserved'. 'I thought a lot about giving you these letters, or having Mattie give them to you after - well, you know. But that would defeat the purpose. So I suppose that these letters will collect dust, at least until Mattie pulls himself together enough to sort through my things - I always had the feeling he didn't like me, even by family terms, but it turns out, he actually cares a lot. He cried when he found out about the cancer, did you know?
I have to go now - I'm so tired all the time. I can barely keep my eyes open to finish writing.
Take care of my heart, as I've left it with you,
Arthur stared at the paper with disbelief. Of course, he wasn't crying, mind you. That would be a ridiclous thing to imply, and his vision was simply blurring because he hadn't blinked in a while…having a staring contest with the paper, you see… yeah he was crying. He quickly brushed the tears from his eyes, refusing to make eye contact with Matthew.
"This is - this is some sort of joke, right?" He didn't wait for a response. "It's terrible of you to do this, you know." He swiped at his wet cheeks angrily.
"Arthur, everything in those letters is true. I would never play such a horrible joke, and neither would he, you know that."
"Do I? It seems I didn't know him as well as I thought, if he kept something this big from me!"
"Not if you think about it Arthur, just try it! If he had told you, you would have constantly worried over him, and tried to keep him as comfortable as possibly by practically chaining him to his bed! That's not him though! He needs his freedom, needs to be able to be himself. Had he told you, would you have known Alfred, or his cancer?" Matthew said this like he had rehearsed it in his head a thousand times, and perhaps he had. It didn't matter, as he was right. So many thoughts and questions were swimming through Arthur's head, and he didn't know which one should take precedent over the others.
"Where is he?" He finally decided to ask. Matthew looked at his lap nervously.
"After he left you, his health took a turn for the worse. Four days ago, he was taken to the hospital to be put under constant care and supervision. He's...so unhappy, Arthur. He honestly believes you were the last person who cared about him in the world. Tonight, when visiting hours ended, he told me to go home and get some rest, and if I come back tomorrow - if, he says, like I might not go and support my brother when he needs me-" Matthew was looking very defeated when he said this "-he asked me if I would stop by his place and find a picture of you - any picture he said, he just wanted something to think of you - and bring it to him. So I went, and this was on his desk." After Matthew finished, it was silent for a long time.
"I - I don't know what you think bringing these to me will do." Arthur said shakily.
"I want you to come with me tomorrow. See him, talk to him, let him know that he's not going to die alone. He may be an obnoxious, annoying tub of lard, but he's our obnoxious, annoying tub of lard. And we are not going to let him go out miserable." Arthur only had one more question he had to ask.
"What time do I need to be ready to leave tomorrow morning?" Matthew smiled.
"Visiting hours start at eight. Be ready by 7:30, and I'll get you there."
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True to his word, Matthew was on Arthur's front porch at 7:30 sharp, ringing the doorbell. Arthur practically ran to answer it, not wasting any time on formalities and walking straight to the car, hopping in the passenger seat and waiting for Matthew to drive. At 7:58, they'd reached the hospital and rushed into the reception area.
"Brother and significant other of Alfred F. Jones, here to visit." Matthew said in a clipped tone Arthur had never heard from the younger man, not even waiting for the clerk to respond before he dashed off, leaving Arthur to scribble their names on a check-in clipboard then stumble after him. Soon, Matthew skidded to a stop in front of a seemingly random room and paused momentarily to catch his breath. "This is his room, I'm going to go in first, then I'll come get you in a moment." Then he disappeared into the room.
"Mattie! Hi!" A voice that was too tired to be Alfred's said softly.
"Hey Al, I brought you the picture like you wanted." Matthew murmured.
"Thanks, bro." The words alone would have sounded unmeaningful, but the tone of absolute gratitude and...wistfulness? in Alfred's voice seemed to add sincerity.
"And, someone came to see you." Matthew said, his voice falsely cheery as if talking to a child. He stuck his head out the door and motioned for Arthur to come in.
If Arthur had thought that Alfred sounded tired, he was completely floored by how he looked. Upon making eye contact with the American, he could see many things. Shock, fear, a bit of desperate hope, but mostly pain. So much pain Arthur couldn't believe that the last time they'd seen each other Alfred had been up and walking around. He had tubes and wires running everywhere, and there was the cliched beep of a heart monitor coming from one of the many machines in the room.
"A - Arthur, what are you doing here?" He asked. The blonde in question didn't know just how much he loved the nickname 'Artie' until Alfred refused to say it.
"I read the letters." Arthur said, not willing to break eye contact longer than absolutely necessary to ensure he didn't trip over something as he made his way to a chair near the bed. "Did you really think that you had to hide this from me? That I would treat you differently because you were sick?" Alfred let out a sigh that lasted far too long.
"If I had told you, you would have insisted…I slow down. That I relax a bit, and I not strain myself, and… 'for godsakes Alfred, would you stop being an ass and accept you need help?' And maybe it was my pride, maybe it was stupidity, but I wasn't prepared to be someone you had to help, you know? So I hid it. And I created a new philosophy for myself while I was at it. You know how people say to live like you're dying? Well, trust me, once you're actually dying… that thought becomes a whole lot less endearing. So instead, I decided to live like I'd live forever. Don't give me that look Arthur..." Alfred seemed to have to pause every so often to catch his breath, even if it was in the middle of a sentence. It made him seem so much older, like an elderly man instead of the student straight out of college he really was. "If you live forever, what's the point of doing anything? You know it'll be there tomorrow, right? But people who live forever… time must be skewed for them. A normal human's lifespan must seem like the blink of an eye. So everything is around for a precious little time before it's gone forever, and you have to grasp the opportunity before…before it leaves. Plus, what's there to do in an endless life but things worth remembering?" Arthur mulled it over for a moment.
"I suppose that does make sense..." Alfred smiled, but it was still tired, still muchmuchtootired.
"I'm glad. I've been thinking on that speech for two days. Not much to do in here but think on things." Arthur's heart cracked a little at that. "Why did you lie, Alfred? Why couldn't you have told me that you needed to go to the hospital, instead of telling me you cheated?"
"You read the letters, you know. I wanted you to hate me. The death of a love is…more of a loss than the death of an enemy. Obviously, the purpose has been defeated there, thank you Mattie..." Matthew coughed awkwardly from his corner of the room. "But the intent was good, right?"
"The intent was wonderful, Alfred, but love is worth the pain of death. If you had cared enough to read the literature, or 'sissy romance crap' as you call it, I keep around my house, you would know that, as it's the premise of pretty much all of it…" Alfred chuckled softly.
"You're always right in the end…aren't you?" He asked, though it was obvious he didn't need a reply. "Hey, will you two promise me something?" He asked, straightening in his position as much as he possibly could, turning to look Matthew in the eyes.
"Of course, whatever you want, I'll do it." Alfred turned his gaze to Arthur.
"And you? I understand if you're furious with me…I did a pretty stupid thing, and if-"
"Do you honestly think that I would be here if I hadn't wanted to come be with you? I'll promise whatever you'd like me to, you git."
"When I'm gone, I want you to look out for eachother. I won't be around to be your hero anymore, so I need you to fill my shoes. It won't be easy to…live up to such great expectations I know," His lips quirked upward in a ghost of his old smile. "But try for me?" He lifted up the hand not plugged up with tubes and held out his pinky. Matthew linked his immediately while Arthur rolled his eyes yet smiled fondly.
"Really Alfred, a pinky promise?" He asked as he linked his as well.
"It's the strongest bond anyone can make. Well, other than blood bonds…but those are gross." Alfred said seriously, prompting a second eye roll from Arthur. Matthew unhooked his pinky, and Alfred maneuvered his and Arthur's so that they were holding hands. "God Artie…" He briefly gauged Arthur for a reaction to the nickname, and when it wasn't negative he continued, still so softly it unnerved Arthur. "I love you so much, you know? I was so stupid lying to you like that…look where it got me, too. Serves me right, huh?"
"What do you mean by that?" Arthur asked. "Oh right, I never did mention that in the letters, did I? Meant to…just didn't get around to it. In the first letter, I said I had less than five months to live, right? But I've made it six. You're the reason why…I've hung on for so long. I've made peace with everyone in my life, even Mattie, though it still hurts to be leaving him. In the end, I was only hanging on for you." Arthur felt his eyes cloud with tears for what felt like the hundredth time in the last couple days. Alfred slowly brought the Brit's hand to his face, and even though his mouth was covered with…something that had a tube and was keeping him alive, he brought the hand to his cheek and let it rest there. "Don't cry on my…" Alfred sucked in a deep breath. "On my account, Artie. You're too pretty to cry." Arthur couldn't even dredge up enough indignance to object to being called 'pretty.' Alfred turned to Matthew. "Mattie, you're really the…best brother I coulda asked for…even though we were separated all those years in adoption…I love you bro…let that Ukranian chick you're dating know that if she fucks with you…She's gonna have a ghost on her ass…but she seems nice…so don't you fuck with her either…or I'll haunt you." Matthew smiled slightly and nodded, though he looked worried. Alfred's speech was slowing even more, and he was taking breaths more frequently.
"I love you too, Al." "Artie…I love you so much…you know that…right? Don't ever doubt that…please." The last word was a desperate whisper, eyes so pleading that Arthur couldn't imagine saying anything but…
"Never. Never again. I love you too, too much for words." Alfred smiled again.
"Thank you…" his breath caught, and he looked like he wanted to say something else, but all that came out was a little choking sound. He squeezed Arthur's hand weakly against his cheek, before closing his eyes, giving what seemed to be a very long sigh. His hand fell off of Arthur's, and he was still. The heart monitor sputtered for a moment, then let out a continuous beep.
"Alfred? Alfred!" Arthur cried, grabbing the still hand and gripping it tightly. It was still warm. Matthew was dead silent, staring at the ground, but his shoulders were shaking.
"The doctor told me that the cancer was spreading to his lungs when he was checked in. That's why it was hard for him to breathe." His voice was shaking, but Arthur caught every word. Suddennly, something caught his eye. In the hand that Arthur wasn't clutching, there was a slightly dented photo. Reaching out and plucking it out of Alfred's hand, he saw it was a picture of the both of them when they had just gotten together. When Alfred didn't know he was sick, and Arthur was still hesitant to fall in love. It seemed so long ago.
Seconds after he grabbed it, a nurse came in, and everything after that was a blur. One thing was for sure though.
Alfred was gone.
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"Food is the one thing that unites everyone," said Erik Wolf, president of the World Food Travel Association. He was speaking Wednesday at Steamboat Springs' Larson Barn as part of the Colorado Tourism Conference.
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Arthur Kempton's ''Boogaloo'' is partly music history, tracing the will to cross over to white audiences through the careers of several extraordinary black American pop stars. It is partly a music-business book about how black pop stars and their managers gained control of publishing rights and at the same time let the dictates of commerce overtake and corrupt the values of cultural tradition. And at times it is a provocative, overdramatized, subtly moralizing book about how great black pop started rolling downhill in the late 1960's, in reaction to drug epidemics and the wearing away of traditional conservative family values among black Americans.
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The areas of black American popular music covered in ''Boogaloo'' have been chronicled many times but never in this particular combination. Mr. Kempton begins with Thomas A. Dorsey, known as the ''father of gospel music,'' but mostly father of the idea that money could be made in gospel music. He then looks at Sam Cooke, a gospel prodigy who imagined a world in which he could be as popular with white kids as with black kids; Motown and Stax records, which each played out their sordid corporate sagas, Detroit- and Memphis-style; and the Los Angeles hip-hop record label Death Row, which institutionalized the notion that being murdered was the best way for a rapper to sell records.
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As much as it comes close to it, this is not an aesthetic history, even if Mr. Kempton can't resist writing some descriptive passages about the way this music feels and sounds. But at a certain point this book seems to lift up from its moorings and take leave of music-as-music almost entirely.
It happens about two-thirds of the way through, while telling the tale of Berry Gordy, the founder and owner of Motown Records. Dealing with Mr. Gordy, Mr. Kempton turns acidulous. He mentions the record executive's early career as a failed pimp, and thereafter, keeps applying apposite quotes from Iceberg Slim's memoir, ''Pimp: The Story of My Life'' to describe Mr. Gordy's style of controlling his performers' destinies. (His larger point, and a central one to the book, is that in the 60's, the pimp supplanted the sharecropper's ideal of ''getting over'' -- using wiles to beat the system. Accordingly, Mr. Kempton shows how Mr. Gordy played favorites, cultivated ''puppets,'' dropped gifted artists from his affections without warning. There is cleverness and insight at work here, but also a strange discomfort with the fact that crooked people have usually been involved with great popular music.
The Cooke chapter is the book's long, effective centerpiece. Though most of the research for ''Boogaloo'' is secondary -- the Cooke section draws heavily on Daniel Wolff's Cooke biography -- Mr. Kempton talks about the music, parsing songs like ''A Change Is Gonna Come.'' And he also acts as a general analyst of the race-and-class game, sometimes assuming knowledge (apparently without having conducted many interviews) of a particular person's deep psychology. This is a perilous game, but Mr. Kempton plays it with gusto.
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The Rome & Vatican Card is one of the more confusing city passes that we've reviewed here, but it's also among the most useful and best values for most visitors to Rome. Unlike many of the city passes that include "free" admission to 30 or 40 obscure museums along with the 4 or 5 that most people care about, the Rome Pass pretty much covers exactly what most people want to see, and little else.
In other words, this 3-day pass covers nearly all of the things that first-time Rome visitors will actually see and do, without charging more for things that you probably won't do. However, what makes it a bit confusing is that several of the things it covers are "Fast-Track Entries" that allow you to skip the (usually) very long ticket queues. Two of these attractions are actually free if you don't mind standing in the long queue, watching so many other people admitted before you.
Is the Rome & Vatican Card worth it? (short version)
Rome and the Vatican have several extremely popular attractions such as the Vatican Museum (including the Sistine Chapel), St. Peter's Basilica, and the Coliseum, all of which have some of Europe's longest ticket queues, especially in warmer months. The hop-on, hop-off bus tours here are also extremely popular and highly recommended. If you want to do all of these things in the shortest time possible then this pass will save you time and money.
This is a really good deal for visitors to Rome who have two or three sightseeing days and who want to see the famous attractions in an efficient way. But if you have more time than that then you can save some money by standing in the queues and skipping the audio tours. If you are coming in winter, the ticket queues are usually fairly short anyway.
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Officially you get the following 4 items:
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- Roma Pass for over 30 historic attractions, plus a travelcard for Rome's public transport network
- A detailed guidebook
- Map of the city
But in reality, the OMNIA Vatican and Rome card and the Roma Pass give you what is listed below:
Rome hop-on, hop-off bus tour – 3 days validity (€32)
These tours are excellent and highly recommended since you'll discover that Rome is absolutely filled with amazing architecture and statues. This bus tour is the fastest and easiest way to see it all in a short time, especially from the open upper deck. You can do a one-day version of this for around €20 if you choose not to get the Rome Pass, but it's nice to be able to use it for all three days.
Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel (€29)
The Vatican Museum is huge, amazing, and known for VERY long ticket queues. You enter and then it's a one-way walk all the way through, with the Sistine Chapel near the end, so it's part of the same attraction. Admission to the Vatican Museum is €16 if you don't mind standing in the queue. The OMNIA Card includes admission PLUS Fast Track Entry AND an audio guide, so it's a €29 value. The audio guide is highly recommended unless you have a human tour guide because otherwise you really don't know what you are looking at.
St. Peter's Basilica – Fast Track Entry plus audio guide (€15)
When you leave the Vatican Museum you'll be in front of St. Peter's Basilica, which is the largest cathedral in Rome and a must-see. The basilica is technically free to enter, but the queues here are usually VERY long as well. The OMNIA Card gives you Fast-Track (instant) entry AND and audio guide. Again, the audio guide is highly recommended if you don't have a human guide because this place is huge and filled with things that aren't otherwise explained.
St John in the Lateran and the Cloister – Fast Track Entry (€10)
Back in Rome, close to the main train station, you'll find this cathedral that is officially the seat of the pope. It's ornate, popular, and very important for those interested in Roman Catholicism.
And ANY TWO of the attractions below
- The Coliseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill – Fast-Track Entry (€12)
- Castel St. Angelo (€10.50)
- Borghese Gallery (€11)
- Capitoline Museums (€15)
- Museum of Rome (€7)
Obviously you are going to visit the Coliseum and the Roman Forum (and Palatine Hill as well), so it's really just one of the others. The Borghese Gallery is the most popular of them and definitely worth a look.
PLUS a 3-Day unlimited public transport pass (€18)
The Rome subway is very handy, especially for quickly getting to the Vatican. Since the Roma Pass comes with a 3-day unlimited transport pass, you'll be able to move quickly around the city, even at night.
Prices of the 2016 Rome & Vatican Card
- 3-Day Adult Rome & Vatican Card (ages 10+): €108
- 3-Day Child Rome & Vatican Card (ages 6-9): €75
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The Rome and Vatican Card is only available online so you can't buy it at any of the attractions once you get to Rome.
Top attractions that are included in the OMNIA card
- Rome 3-day hop-on, hop-off bus tour (€32)
- Sistine Chapel & Vatican Museums (incl. Fast Track Entry & audio guide) (€29)
- St. Peter's Basilica (incl. Fast Track Entry & audio guide) (€15)
- St. John in the Lateran (€10)
- 3-Day unlimited public transport pass (€18)
And any 2 of the attractions below
- The Coliseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill (€12)
- Castel St. Angelo (€10.50)
- Borghese Gallery (€11)
- Capitoline Museums (€15)
- Museum of Rome (€7)
Top attractions that AREN'T included in the OMNIA card
National Gallery of Modern Art (€8)
However, the Rome & Vatican Card only include 2 of those 5 attractions listed above, so the other 3 are NOT included. Realistically, almost everyone wants to visit the Coliseum/Roman Forum/Palatine Hill, and the Borghese, with the others being less popular.
Is the Rome and Vatican Pass a good deal?
Let's do the math here and see how it stacks up. If you do everything included with the pass, assuming that you visit the Coliseum/Forum/Palatine Hill and the Borghese Gallery, the total comes to around €130. If you skip one of the attractions then the value is closer to €120, which is still a good deal for a package that only costs €108 or even less if you get a discount.
On one hand this is a very good deal for most visitors in Rome for the first time and who want to see the main sights within 2 to 3 days. Even if this package weren't available you'd probably end up doing pretty much all of these things and paying full price.
On the other hand, several of the included attractions here are actually Fast-Track Entries (skip the ticket queue) and audio guides. So if you have plenty of time to stand in the long ticket queues, and if you are more interested in just seeing the inside of these places rather than actually understanding what you are looking at, then you can save money by not buying the card.
Who should buy the Rome and Vatican Card
- First-time Rome visitors who want to see the top sights in limited time
- Visitors who prefer to pay a bit more to avoid the very-long ticket queues
- Visitors who want to know what they are seeing without hiring a human guide
Who should NOT buy the Rome and Vatican Card
- Visitors who prefer to save money and don't mind waiting in long ticket queues
- Rome visitors on very-low "backpacker" budgets
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Where to buy and collect the OMNIA Rome and Vatican Pass
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The Rome and Vatican Card is only available online so you can't buy it at any of the attractions once you get to Rome.
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With Full Tilt Poker no longer offering high stakes games, most of the action has transitioned to PokerStars. Blom is still a regular, but there hasn't been as much high-stakes action as there used to be.
"Online has been really slow lately," Blom said. "I've been playing some but the games haven't been good."
It may seem strange that Blom is playing a relatively small event like the Unibet Open, but he doesn't think so.
"It's a good vibe and atmosphere here and I'm just enjoying myself," Blom said. "I'm having a good time. The people I play are a bit different than who I play usually and that's good."
Blom lived in London for some time but has since moved back to Sweden. He came over again just to enjoy himself, play some poker and have some drinks. He brought a couple of friends and he hung out with the Unibet team for quite a bit.
"I believe that you learn more from playing than from studying."
When Blom was living in London, he played a ton but wasn't always on top of his game. He admitted to partying a little too much from time to time.
That's what happened with Blom on more than one occasion.
"I've been doing a little bit better since I moved back to Sweden," Blom said. He lives in a small town now with no nightclubs and no bar street. "It's a bit easier to focus on my game now but I'm still working on a lot of stuff."
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"If I'm sitting on the train, for example, a hand crosses my mind," he said. "I think about different situations like this sometimes but I've never really done real studying or watch a video or something. No software, nothing like that. But I play quite a lot and I believe that you learn more from playing than from studying."
While he's not a big believer of studying databases and using other digital tools to help plug holes, he does work on his game in a different way.
"I just try to get back to a good rhythm," he said. "I'm trying to get into shape and stuff. I feel that's really important if you're playing long sessions."
So no more daily partying in London but just playing in Sweden, not as much drinking and more working out.
"A little bit less of that, a little bit more of working out," Blom said with a big smile remembering of the time he smashed through a glass table at the PCA on a night of heavy drinking. "It's good where I live now; there aren't as many distractions. It's a really small place: no clubs, no bars, nothing like that anymore. I just enjoy my time with friends and family now and don't do as much partying anymore. I used to do that a lot, but slowed down."
The summer might be an exception on those resolutions. In mid-June, it looks like the sun never sets in Sweden. In fact, in northern Sweden, it doesn't, and in the south, it only sets for an hour or two. To Swedes, this calls for celebration. Friends and family gather for the most typically Swedish tradition of all: Midsummer.
For guys Blom's age, that means binge drinking like there's no tomorrow. Blom might be working out and may have shifted his focus from partying to getting in shape, but midsummer is still midsummer.
"We have big parties in the summer, really good parties. So we'll see," Blom said with a smile on his face that revealed he hasn't said goodbye to the days of partying all together just yet.
The action online has slowed down a bit, according to Blom, but he doesn't know what to do other than play poker online.
"It changed so much but I don't have that much of a plan for that really," he said.
Living in Sweden, with big taxes on live winnings, Blom said playing live isn't the best of alternatives.
"So now it's February, right? I don't usually have a big plan," he said about making plans to play live.
Some poker players have their plans built around live events, but Blom doesn't have them marked on his calendar. In fact, he doesn't have a calendar. There is, however, one event he wants to play for sure this year besides possibly some more Unibet events.
"I would like to play the World Series of Poker Main Event because I've not played that in recent years," he said. "That's one thing I would like to play this year."
"I would like to play the World Series of Poker Main Event because I've not played that in recent years."
The Super High Roller Bowl, a $250,000 buy in event in ARIA prior to the World Series of Poker, isn't on Blom's list.
"The thing about that is, since I live in Sweden now, there would be huge taxes if I'd play," Blom said. "If I play a World Series event like the Main Event, that's fine, but a tournament like that is a bit different."
Meanwhile, Blom seemed to have had a good time playing eSports players in the Unibet Battle Royale Sit & Go.
"Yeah, I really enjoyed it!" he said.
Alan "hotted" Widmann, Sebastian "Forsen" Fors and Thijs "ThijsNL" Molendijk were just some of the players to participate. All excel at specific eSports and battled Blom in the game he's an expert in.
While he usually plays the top contenders of the game of poker, he now faced players with a whole lot less experience.
"They weren't really the people I usually play so it was a good change," he said. "A lot of different characters and a lot of joking at the table. The atmosphere was very good."
Besides playing against the eSports players, Blom also battled some of the Unibet ambassadors.
"I didn't get anything going and was down to five big blinds before I knew it," Blom said. "Then I won a couple of flips and finally got into it."
Blom eventually got heads-up against Charlotte Van Brabander. The Belgian former Counter Strike player and former poker pro now focuses on a career in marketing and politics.
But still, she represents Unibet and the Unibet Open events and won the two last editions of the Battle Royale she played in.
"She played really impressively," Blom said of Van Brabander. "When we were three-handed, she pretty much pushed the pace. It was a fast structure and she had a good plan. She played well."
Van Brabander would go on to win it, her third time in a row.
Van Brabander took home the £5,000 first-place prize and Blom walked away with £3,000 from the freeroll, enough money for some rounds at the bar bending in London, or a ten-year membership at the fitness club back in Sweden.
All photos courtesy of Tambet Kask/Unibet Open
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Welcome to my place of dreams – Vietnam. I promised myself I would visit this country before I turned the doddering old age of 30 and now – a few months before I cross the threshold to my thirties, I have arrived in Hanoi. My boyfriend, Jeff, and I are staying in a hotel on Hang… [Read More]
Lessons in Vietnamese Street Food
Deep red Thai chilies, translucent vermicelli noodles with green cilantro and mint, crispy brown egg rolls and sweet Nuoc Chan poured over chicken skewers—there are two things I know to be true of Vietnamese cuisine, it is both beautiful to look at and awakens the palate. Although I am quick to relish in the… [Read More]