Sleep behind ancient stone walls, wake up in an elegant four-poster bed and explore a private estate. We can introduce you to the best castles to rent. From five-star luxury to budget-friendly rustic (质朴的) experiences, each one has its own fascinating history.
A. Schlosshotel Klink Germany
€ 96 per room, per night (room only)
Hotel Schloss Klink stands directly beside Lake Müritz, a 5-minute walk from the boat harbor. Built in 1898, many of the elegant rooms feature wooden beams(木梁) and sloping ceilings. There are five on-site restaurants, a large spa and an indoor pool with lake views.
B. Castello di Bibbione Italy
€ 99 per room, per night (room only)
Castello di Bibbione is set between Florence and Siena with views of the Chianti hills. The rustic apartments feature wood-beamed ceilings and terracotta floors, and each comes with a fully-equipped kitchenette with a dining area. In the summer, you can relax in the outdoor swimming pool or garden. Wine tastings can be arranged, and bikes are provided free-of-charge.
C. Augill Castle England
£180 per room, per night (bed & breakfast) Free cancellations
Augill Castle is located in the upper reaches of the Eden Valley and is a mere 10 minutes' drive away from the picturesque Yorkshire Dales. This is very much a family retreat and, as such, the castle owners can offer an informal and relaxed castle experience, creating memories that adults and children alike will never forget.
D. Highlands Castle USA
$600 per room, per night (room only)
Highlands Castle is located in Bolton Landing in upstate New York, offering views of Lake George and the Adirondack Mountains. Accommodation includes a seating area and in some cases, a dining area, terrace and kitchen. Guests can enjoy swimming, boating, kayaking (划独木舟), horse-riding and diving.
When plumbing( 水暖设备)makes funny noises, it's not always a good sign. But John Kovac, a harpist(竖琴演奏者)from Virginia, likes the pipes to sing. He thinks plumbing pipes make good musical instruments.
Kovac has made standard harps out of wood for more than 20 years. He says he feels excited when he creates an instrument with his hands and uses it to make music come alive. But it takes years of training and special tools to make a traditional musical instrument. Kovac wanted to share the joy of
making instruments with people who might not have the time or money to do it. So he decided to find an easier way.
Plumbing was the answer. Kovac found PVC pipes at a local store. PVC pipes are the white tubing that many plumbers use. You might find some in your house under a sink or in the basement. Kovac says that PVC pipes are great for making instruments because they are inexpensive, come in many shapes and sizes, and fit together perfectly.
Kovac makes harps, guitars, violins, and drums out of PVC pipes. He also makes uncommon instruments like the udu from Nigeria. His instruments may look as if they come from outer space, but they really work. He and some of his music students and friends even started a band called the East Coast PVC Band.
Sally Seabright is a violin teacher who plays the PVC violin with the band. At first, the rounded shape of the PVC violin made it difficult to hold between her chin and shoulder, but Kovac made a slight change by adding a piece that fits perfectly under her chin.
That kind of adaptability is what Kovac admires about PVC. He says, "I know it's not easy for the average person to make a musical instrument, but I hope to enable anyone who has ever dreamed of making a violin, harp, or guitar to fulfill his or her dreams. "
Everything you know is in your brain. For what you don't, you can ask the web. However, as you can imagine, in the past there were no computers and no web at all. Think about people living 3, 500 years ago, in places where pyramids towered above them. The lack of explanations about how things worked inspired the ancients to make discoveries and feed their curiosity.
But do not think they knew nothing: in fact, we still wonder how the Egyptians could build the pyramids using their own, rather rudimentary equipment. They wrote down their knowledge on books (called papyrus scrolls) so that later people could benefit from their skills.
Living safer and healthier was a top priority for the ancients: when they hurt their heads in battles,
they used to heal their wounds using the cures, some of which were recorded on a papyrus now known as the Edwin Smith Papyrus. Interestingly, this is the oldest written evidence of the word "brain" we have on Earth, and it dates back to 3, 500 years ago!
However, writing the word "brain" on a papyrus did not solve all the curiosities and questions about it. Around 2, 500 years ago, for example, ancient Greeks wondered whether mind and soul lay in the brain or in the heart.
2, 000 years ago, Roman physician Galen of Pergamon was sure he had solved the question: it was the brain, not the heart, that was the center of mental life. However, Galen had to convince the people around him that what he had discovered was true. It was not easy, mostly because people held their earlier beliefs. Every neuroscientist, just like Galen did, has to carefully observe reality, focus on something that is really interesting, think about how it can work, perform experiments, and discuss the data they get. This way, they can obtain convincing evidence to be shared with others.
In 2008, Michael Goodfellow, a scientist at Newcastle University, was handed a soil sample taken from Chile's Atacama Desert—the world's driest desert, once considered a dead zone. "Quite frankly, we didn't expect to isolate（使分离）anything, " Goodfellow admits. But to his surprise, he was able to grow a diversity of bacteria from the sample.
A 2018 review counted a total of 46 new molecules(分子)that have been isolated from the Atacama bacteria so far, many of which show antibiotic(抗菌的), antiviral or anticancer properties(特征). It was the type of bacteria living in the Atacama that proved particularly exciting: actinobacteria(放线菌).
Take streptomyces griseus for example, a species of actinobacteria you might find in soil. A sample of streptomyces, when placed among mycobacterium tuberculosis( 结核杆菌), will release a chemical which stops its bacterial neighbors from growing the proteins they need to survive. When scientists at Rutgers University managed to isolate this chemical in 1944, they accidentally found the first antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis, saving countless lives.
Today, there is general agreement on the need for the development of new antibiotics because our most trusted drugs began to fail—bacteria have learnt how to survive our antibiotic attacks. Sometimes, a potentially useful chemical can be found right in environments around us. But many scientists argue that we should also be exploring the natural world for novel bio-chemistry, an approach known as "bioprospecting".
"70% to 75% of all antibiotics come from nature, " notes MarcelJaspars, a natural product chemist
at the University of Aberdeen. "It strikes me that we should be looking more deeply into how nature makes these molecules and how we can actually find antibiotics. "
Everyone wants actually the same thing in life and that is to exist and flourish(辉煌). Living a long and fruitful life is a difficult thing to do when a person can't coexist with other people in harmony. Living in harmony not only helps others but it helps the person living the harmonious life. Avoid controversial topics with people. There are certain topics like religion and politics that can make another person embarrassed immediately. This is especially important if you are
very communicative.
Focus on the common things you have with other people rather than the differences. But too many times a person can focus on what other people do not like or believe, and this can give them a negative opinion of others without even trying to find some common ground on which they do agree.
Do not drift off or try to think of what you are going to say in response. You will be surprised how much people appreciate someone who is really listening without judging or arguing.
Let them understand that there are certain conversation topics and actions that you do not tolerate. It is up to you to set them and make people know and follow them. However, do not be argumentative about setting them.
Some people just cannot get along no matter what measure you take to make a relationship work.
So just stay out of these people's way and let them live their own lives apart from you.
A. Listen to other people when they talk to you.
B. Then, how do you live happily with others?
C. Making boundaries is not selfish, so voice your limits.
D. Establish proper boundaries with people in your life.
E. Most people can find at least a few topics on which they agree.
F. Decide how much you are willing to listen to other people.
G. It is best to talk about movies or anything that does not lead to a conflict.
The young couple looked dusty, tired and worn out. 1down the window, I asked, "Where are you2? " The woman replied, "We were supposed to meet our mate there, with the car, at the crossroads. " My husband and I3each other and nodded our agreement in giving them a
4. We opened the trunk and they put their packs inside.
Although talking was difficult with the steep and5road, we discovered that the wife came from Edmonton, Canada and her6was from the Netherlands. They had been out on the7 for four nights, seen about 12 bears, not much8because of the smoke from the big wildfire in Glacier National Park. We were having9problems with the poor air quality. We10how my husband and I had backpacked along that same trail many years ago and our own11of searching for bears.
I asked them if they wanted any more help from us, 12 they said they could manage themselves. They had13 to go back to her mom's in Canada, regroup, and then14 round the world for a year, maybe Bali, New Zealand, but they weren't15 sure yet. For now, they were looking forward to16 their friend and getting a special pizza because they had17 a lot before about how good the pizza was.
I gave them each a big "bear" hug, with blessings ( 祝 福 ) for a18 journey. I put some cash into the young woman's hand,19 her "Get some pizza! Our treats. " I smiled, thinking of them 20pizza and good wishes from kind strangers—my husband and me.
As early as in the Song Dynasty, "takeout" services were already available. In Zhang Zeduan's popular painting Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, there is a restaurant boy who has just come out of the shop with "to-go boxes" in his left hand and tableware ( 餐 具 ) in his right, still (wear) the shop apron and seeming to deliver the food somewhere. That image(believe) to be a reflection of the original takeaway boy. In ancient times, there were three ways to order food. The first is servant order. Send a family retainer ( 仆人 ) to go to a restauranthe can make an order. When the food is ready, there is someone who (particular) delivers the food to the customer's home, and then gets paid. The second is agreed delivery. Sign a long-term(agree) with the restaurant. The store,every agreed day, will pack the food well and send it to the customer's home. The last one is door-to-door selling. The sellers from restaurants sell the food door to door, especially in the entertainment places like theatres, are crowded with many people. The to-go box, wenpan (warm tray), (consist) of two layers of porcelain( 瓷 ). When (use), hot water is injected into the interlayer of the plate (keep) the dishes warm. In this way, the dish is still warm when it arrives at the customer's home.
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During the Tomb Sweeping Festival, apart from visiting to tombs, I spend a week helping my family pick tea. It was extremely hard job. I started out with picking early in mornings and went back later in evenings. Which I suffered most was the pain in my back and legs, but it was an unforgettable memory, an experience to remember the hardship of life. Do this job is not easy. Tea is to be picked and then collect together for being processed in a machine. It is getting easy to process tea via machines than by hand. Besides, there is no need to sell tea to factories for money any more. We just make them for ourselves. Chinese tea is nice and I often drink it with great satisfactions.
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A Cycling Tour
