Fab Places To Celebrate New Year


	Fab Places To Celebrate New Year
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12-29-2007 3:33 PM
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169">Sydney Harbour Bridge</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.concierge.com/img/DDBA823C-1ED6-4610-967B-D67686E41177" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=1" href="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.concierge.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=1"><A href="http://www.concierge.com/destination/edinburgh">Edinburgh</A>, Scotland</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=1">The party starts on the 29th with a torchlight procession and buzzes through to a very fuzzy January 1</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=4"><A href="http://www.concierge.com/destination/moscow">Moscow</A>, Russia</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=4">Russians exchange gifts on New Year's</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=4"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.concierge.com/img/E43050B0-4957-42FB-AA99-E8FC19ECDB81" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=7">A multi-ethnic melting pot. Let's face it, Times Square is still one of the world's largest tourist draws</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=7"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.concierge.com/img/8FF1736C-AC79-490B-89FE-14B5C210A7EB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=8" href="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=8" style="font-size: 11px;">www.concierge.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=8"><A href="http://www.concierge.com/destination/rome">Rome</A>, Italy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=8"> The curious modern ritual of diving off the Cavour Bridge into the frigid Tiber River</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=8"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.concierge.com/img/5D201FE0-31F8-48C5-BA49-93D95D41A034" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=9" href="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=9" style="font-size: 11px;">www.concierge.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=9"><A href="http://www.concierge.com/destination/athens">Athens</A>, Greece</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=9">The traditions. January 1 falls on St. Basil's Day, an important Greek Orthodox observance</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/parties/tour/detail?id=1169&page=9"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.concierge.com/img/FCB2C0FA-9130-453E-9AFF-38C8E7080EAC" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/962BAA71-6896-40A3-957D-12AFDEF3A13C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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