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They say that carnivals usually bring violence, fighting, too much excess, party without limits and loss. Of course, the long tradition of carnivals have so many stories that it’s impossible to tell them all, good or bad. Carnivals around the world are the precise tim to let go and cheer up to carry on celebrating. Perhaps the most colourful traditional celebrations, the carnival ones, are those that unite everyone in a party of dancing, music and colour.

In the same way, carnivals are a singular moment when all cultures unite and can show the most colourful side of their traditions, all of them represented in light and costumes. Once again, wrapping the body with festive or allegoric costumes make communities discover unusual celebration experiences and, generally, the costumes refer to particular regions, the history of the place and the great character of the party itself.

What costume do you choose in order to be part of the carnival? Perhaps in an Italian carnival, an essential item is the beautiful mask, that you can find in all types, sizes and colours. Then dress with lively colours, whether it’s red, blue, yellow or green and a tunic or a light garment will be the best things you can use to be part of the celebration on those dates. Florence is one of the cities that offers best options when it comes to purchasing an adequate costume, a unique and interesting one. You have to arrive in good time though, if you’re thinking of sorting out your whole costume in Florence itself.

In the same way, an open attitude to adventure can be your best way to get to know new people, explore new options of fun and, who knows, maybe some romance too. A chance like the one where you use a costume and a mask allows you to become someone else, become a different person and modify your personality according to the carnival character that you are. Don’t doubt in experimenting with your personality when you’re dressed up and ready for the party. In Florence, everything in possible. This beautiful city still preserves the charm of its past centuries that has conquered so many travellers from around the world.

Once in Florence, you’re just a step away from one of the most successful and famous carnivals in the whole of Italy, no less than the Carnival of Viareggio, in the town with the same name. It will take you only an hour and a half to arrive there. The carnival is divided in four Sundays and a Saturday. The dates are the 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th of February and Saturday 3rd of March. You can buy the whole packet or simply go on the dates that are best for you from Florence. The train trip is very comfortable, you’ll enjoy beautiful views going towards the fun that awaits in Viareggio. For more information click the following link: http://www.viareggio.ilcarnevale.com/

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Get apartments in Florence and travel to the famous Carnival of Viareggio. Days of light, colour and fun await you in this typical Italian celebration.

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Florence is known for its history. Many people know the Renaissance and the monumental amount of classics that emerged from this magnificent city including: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Dante. But Florence also embarks on modernity, and many attractions go beyond the traditional, while offering locals and tourists, many ways to enjoy the nightlife, contemporary art and current band concerts, among others.

Florence is also a city of students from all over the world, which makes its nightlife to be diverse and vibrant. Over the current sounds, clubs and bars are changing transmissions according to the interests of their young and giddy audience. Like other cities in Italy, fashion and style are part of everyday’s life, in this emerging youth scene, which is not afraid of taking risks with the most “hipster” of the moment, and fashionable sounds Pitchfork recommended. Bars, clubs and zones “underground” are at your disposal without exploring with some curiosity and enthusiasm.

You can spend whole nights traveling from cocktail to cocktail and from bar to bar, tasting tapas and food from the most exotic and diverse type. Unlike other European cities, spontaneity is a typical resource in Florence, it is not enough to make a safe plan on how to end the night, a target can lead to another and so unexpected you embark on an intense and colorful festival. Much information is at your disposal in bars and streets, from flyers, fanzines, posters, can be guided by the secret routes and modern Florence.

One of the classic places for concerts in Florence is the Palasport, where some of the most interesting bands of the moment are presented in spectacular concerts. People like Marilyn Manson, Eric Clapton, The Cranberries, The Cure, Bob Dylan, Iron Maiden, have offered concerts at this legendary concert place.

Among the most important clubs you can visit, there is the H202, where techno music is the daily bread. In the H202, you will find a very young community of local and international students who do not lose the opportunity to leave everything on the dance floor until four in the morning. Another inevitable choice of the night in Florence is the Meccano club, with two endless dance floors, ambient lighting and fanciful cocktails, this disco guarantees house music, techno and R & B. During the summer one of its tracks are outdoors, where you have access to a night of dancing fresh and inviting. The non-stop action continues on Tenax, another temple of techno and progressive house. In addition to huge dance floor, Tenax are some of the best alternative concerts in the city.

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Get apartments in Florence and enjoy its young and modern scene. The clubs, bars and nightclubs are the best in Italy: party nights and endless action guaranteed.

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Pop icons usually dissolve quickly. Only some are still standing strong in the height of their career, still thrilling their crowd despite the years, creating sound dreams on the radio, that’s gone, that’s not there anymore, but which brings so much nostalgia. George Michael has known how to maintain himself, despite the years, as an interesting pop figure, with wide silences and distances, which has known how to make of his career an elegant pop trip, without falls or major stumbles. To think of it in another way, for example, when was the last time you heard something about George Michael, positive or negative? Well that’s the distance that places an artist in a unique position, where without recharged compromises he can have the freedom to carry on creating and being fabulous.

If, for example, you have the case of someone like Lady Gaga, it’s a different matter. Lady Gaga is, undoubtedly, talented but it seems that her reign is sustained by thousands of Twitter accounts, Facebook visits and Youtube. Of course, all of these are means in which social networks work efficiently, but little to they have to do with the original artist texture. Lady Gaga is of course the media product of today, a machinery of meanings and connotations that are incredibly post-modern. If Slavoj Zizek used to go out with her, allegedly, go figure. George Michael, however, maintains the charm and the magic that once held him as one of the 80s best singers, because it has to be said that with him, it’s not just a pretty face and elegance but also a particular style in his voice, that whispers, traps and wraps one sensually.

It has to be said that during the start of George Michael’s career, with the band Wham! together with Andrew Ridgeley, George created some of the best hits of the 80s, like ‘Wake me before you go-go’ or ‘Careless Whisper’, a romantic song with a sensual and sexual saxophone tone that, surely, warmed up thousands of love beds around the globe. Wham! only recorded three albums in its short time between 1983 and 1986, but it sold over 20 million copies of their work. George Michael, on the other hand, always captivated the world with that wonderful smile, tender eyes, toned muscles and sexy movements, both men and women. Today, the already mature but not least sexy George Michael is on tour with ‘Symphonica: The Orchestral Tour’, which has been taking him around different points in Europe and the UK. If you want to see George Michael like never before, this is your chance. What better experience than to listen to ‘Careless Whisper’ with a symphonic orchestra in the background. For more information on this tour, as well as tickets for the concert in Florence, visit George Michael’s official webpage: http://www.georgemichael.com/

Alexa Ray

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To have an orgasm is probably one of the greatest feelings in the world, it is almost an inexplicable and unmatched sensation we experience when we have sex. But, this is not always the case for women; sometimes for them it is not that easy to reach an orgasm and in order to overcome this difficulty, there are basic techniques that can be performed.

The exercises presented below are not only for women, not only for those who have difficulty reaching orgasm. These exercises are recommended for everyone, because they may improve sensitivity in the intimate area of the body, while strengthening the muscles to work better.

Likewise, men should do these exercises because they help to better control their ejaculation and achieve a delay of the same, allowing more time for pleasure and enjoyment with their partners.

The key to a better orgasm is to exercise the muscles involved in the sexual act; the pubococcygeus muscles, and Kegel exercises take care of that. It’s not as difficult as it sounds, but with a little practice and training on our pubic area, we will be better prepared for orgasm in an easier and more enjoyable way.

To strengthen this area of the body and strengthen your muscles, you should contract your pelvic musces for a few seconds, two or three, and then relax them. Repeat the same exercise several times a day. To contract our pelvic muscles, we should do as when we are coughing or sneezing, but the contract must be prolonged for some seconds.

If you repeat this exercise every day for a few minutes (10 or 15) you will notice a change in your sexual performance. Also this will avoid future genitourinary problems.

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If you rent apartments in Florence you will be able to enjoy a beautiful city that will inspire you to love and sex. Practice these exercises and you will feel much better in bed with your partner.

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At this point in history, Madonna is probably one of the most important figures of the last hundred years. And this is not an exaggeration. Since her beginnings in the tough and competitive city of New York, where pop was just an effervescent movement along with thousand of more radical performances in the Lower East. Madonna is not a star to appear from nowhere, on the contrary, she was everywhere. She came to New York in 1977: where Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, Blondie, Talking Heads reigned, but Madonna was a Punk Rocker Madonna, like Sheena, like Judy.

From “Everybody”, a tune that tells everyone to dance and form a band, to”Like a Virgin”, where her scandoulous and daring dances shocked the MTV ceremony before a stunned and hungry audience avid for more and more. Madonna released her first single when she was 25, a rather advanced age compared to fast food teen stars that sell in the pop market. Madonna from the beginnings wanted to take you to bed. There were no teens involved, or girl to corporation woman either. Her story was about dancing singing and rockin’ out. Madonna was Rock n Roll, the experimental band Sonic Youth, even dared to publish a tribute album with the name Ciccone Youth

It is necessary to review the  entire career of this pop goddess to know that indeed,  she knew how to do things right and her boundless ambition led her to be one of the most prestigious singers, along with a significant business knowledge, which she has managed in the manner of David Bowie who constantly transformed his image remaining in stardom nearly four generations later

If it’s homage you’re looking for, The Celebration is now one of the best “unique” Material Girl tribute bands in Italy. With a potent sound and awesome staging set up, The Celebration leaded by singer Freaky Bea and a virtuoso band with lots of attitude brings you Madonna’s greatest hits on stage,. If you love nostalgia, pop culture and vintage eighties, it’s your thing. You can learn more of thisperformances in Italy and learn more about this unique group by visiting their official website

http://www.thecelebrationshow.it/.

Alexa Ray

Nothing better than renting apartments in Florence and visit Lucca, just minutes away by train or bus and enjoy this event. If you’re a Madonna fan, this show is for you. Do not miss it!

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The direction of music changes with time and the years. In some way, today, music touches everyone in a direct or indirect way. All contemporary sensorial experience implies that sound is present, from art in all its shape to every day life, which also isn’t exempt from thousands of different sound experiences: melody, noise, rhythm; at hand to all ears. Sound also generates movement. Hundreds of frequencies all together in the universe generate more changes and transitions of matter, which with light generate life, death, blossoming and falls. Our daily experience is with sound as it is visual, probably over all other sense. The stimulations that reality generates in this way are processed as joint experiences of which we have to find a meaning and interpret towards where reality is leading us to. And despite being disperse, locked into our own little worlds, the human condition helps us share all of this.

Music also occupies a great part of our internet experience. Because of that, we’re not just willing to the presence of text and visual information with graphic design, art, video which generally shoots up our interaction on the net.  All of this accompanies daily life, it pronounces us and makes us pronounce ourselves. On the other hand, the same net has known how to take advantage of the new means of sound reproduction to be able to carry on commercializing with music and sound in general. Today, any genre is available on the internet, as are programmes to share files, which allow the global information exchange to be realtime, allowing us to share sounds from any part of the globe. The different platforms and social networks allow music to be in constant movement and effervescence.

There might not be a better place for pop music than the internet. That’s how many musical and audio commercial products can promote themselves at hair-raising speeds. Let’s say that more information doesn’t mean knowledge or experience. This way, people like Lady Gaga can manipulate a single and get thousands of users in a fraction of a second and convert a song into an instant hit. What guarantees the quality of this product, its attributes regarding a pop song, is not necessarily its value as a music piece but, now, the amount of views or re-tweets that it gets on the net. The more movement a product has, bigger its impact will be. What’s curious as well is that now we’re all active participants of these advertising processes, we risk at the time of posting, twittering or uploading information onto blogs. The trap of sound, like that, gets everywhere and in a thousand ways.

On the other hand, the real experience of the classic genre of Opera can only be lived in a concert or a live performance, and it’s truly indescribable. It distances itself from the previously states phenomenons and it is, undoubtedly, an interior exploration that can’t compare to other live shows. The Anual Opera Festival in Florence runs until the 13th of August and you can’t miss it. For more information visit this website: http://www.festivalopera.it/

Alexa Ray

To enjoy good music, nothing better than getting apartments in Florence and enjoying this beautiful city and its indescribable music.

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The world of erotic literature is very big and we have works that are exclusively textual and other ones with illustrations that help our imagination fly. But only a few works stand out from the rest and stay fresh along the years. That’s the case of ‘Lolita’, the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian writer with an American passport that revolutioned the erotic literary genre.

Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 and died in 1977 in Switzerland. In the 40s he arrived to the United States with his wife to escape the Second World War. That’s why the novel ‘Lolita’ takes place in the United States and it’s a clear reflection of the society of that time.

Published for the first time in 1955, the novel caused a stir among the public who wasn’t used to reading erotic novels. Some accused the author of creating a pornographic piece, although society finally accepted the story of Lolita when, in 1962, it was brought to the big screen by the director Stanley Kubrick. It was the very same Nabokov who wrote the script for the film, giving the story of love and sex the most appropriate touches.

This cinematographic and literary success allowed the author to live the last days of his life in a beautiful hotel in Switzerland. But for the public and for those who studied this type of literature, this novel was a turning point and today it’s considered one of the best works of erotic literature.

Lolita tells the story of the passionate and forbidden love between Humbert, a European professor located in the States, and a little 12 year old girl, Lolita, his wife’s daughter. The whole plot is told by the professor from prison and it’s more suggestive than explicit, which generates more excitement for the reader.

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This book is ideal to read in twos in a beautiful European city. Rent apartments in Florence and get ready to live, through words, a passionate story.

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When we are talking about Kung Fu, obviously we think to the Chinese martial arts as a fighting style and maybe not many of us know that a part of Kung Fu techniques were also used  to improve virility, erection strength or to have multiple orgasms. I refer now to Sexual Kung Fu which for around 3000 years, in Taoism tradition is applying as a safety method of delaying ejaculation.

Basically, Sexual Kung Fu is a method to transform the sexual energy into a living or a spiritual energy, which makes you to feel good as long as possible before having ejaculation. To be able to do this, there are few advices to follow.

As the moment of ejaculation is related with muscle tensions at the inferior part of the abdomen and genital area, men should try to relax the mentioned muscles and breathe slowly, during intercourse. These will help to dissipate the energy from sexual area to the entire organism and will offer a great sensation of feeling good for longer time.

In cause of happening to be very close to the moment of ejaculation, when it can’t be stopped any more, the masters in Sexual Kung Fu advice to press just behind the genital organs in such a way to compress the sperm vessels. In the same time, men should powerful constrict the muscles from genital area, take a deep breath and try to focus the energy ascending, on the superior part of their body. In this way, the reflex of ejaculation will be abstained and maybe only 30% of the sperm will be ejaculated, the rest being absorbed back by the men body and transformed in positive energy.

Knowing that sexuality is the key point for this Chinese art, the masters in Sexual Kung Fu have developed a lot of different methods to focus the fantastic power of sexual energy in order to create a better physical health and a better vitality, as well as to refine the sexual impulse into a steady state of highlight energy.

On the other hand, Sexual Kung Fu is a way of delaying ejaculation or partially preserving the sperm inside the man body after intercourse, having the main goal to transform the men sexual energy into a spiritual one, improving in this way the pleasure of having sex.

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Now, I’m going to take my girlfriend and try to practice the sexual kung fu. I’m expecting to some fantastic moments … if you would like to know more, why not join us to Florence? We are going now to rent one of the apartments in Florence and prepare to have a great time in a romantic city!

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Tantric sex is a mystery to many, but practicing it, is not as difficult as it seems. It is actually quite the opposite, it allows us to enjoy new sensations, get to know ourselves better and discover countless benefits for our bodies (and souls) as well as our partner’s.

If you’re on vacation, perhaps this is the best time to get started in this sexual practice that will make you enjoy as never before. The important thing is that both sides of the couple are predisposed to enjoy sex from another perspective; here the male ejaculation is relegated to the background.

Bearing in mind the above, the sexual game begins and develops with a different intention. It is important that seduction starts long before you reach the bed. You can hug your partner, talking softly, saying nice things, and looking at her with love and passion. That way, the atmosphere warms up and gets ready for what will happen later. Once you are already in bed, concentrate on the parts of your bodies that are different from your genitals. Try exploring new erogenous zones on each other and try to control male ejaculation. This way the man learns to have orgasms without ejaculating, allowing him to enjoy more and have multiple orgasms in one sexual act. The woman also has to reach orgasm, but the most important thing is how to reach it, and not how many could she have.

The best thing about tantric sex is the way to orgasm, the way one looks for it, not the orgasm itself. When you finally reach multiple orgasms, the sensations experienced are much stronger and, both male and female, learn to enjoy sex in a deeper way.

Some tips to get started in tantric sex include: synchronizing your breathing with your partner, moving slowly and gently whenever you feel the orgasm is approaching while focusing on your breathing. Change positions several times during the act, to delay orgasm and to find new pleasure.

A relaxation technique for the man to use when he feels the orgasm is coming, is to put pressure on the perineum, which can be done by himself or his partner. The other is to put pressure on the frenulum of his glans. He can use these techniques to hold his ejaculation and have great orgasms.

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If you want to enjoy good sex with your partner and practice tantric sex for the first time, rent apartments in Florence surely the magic of the city will make you be more receptive to all sensual stimulus.

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Every era has its own social, economic, political and cultural characteristics, which help paint a picture of how life was like in years to come. Fashion, for example is a good indicator of the zeitgeist of any particular period of time. And just like fashion, so too does the concept of love change with the times.

Throughout the history of humanity we can observe how ideals have changed from the romantic to the pragmatic; such as during the 19th century, when marriage was seen as an institution and social duty. There weren’t many alternatives to marriage back then – far less than nowadays. Anybody who chose to remain single was seen as a public shame – men just as much as women.

It was during the 20th century that the idea of marrying for love became more accepted, helped along by literature, cinema and television. Today however, we find ourselves in an era where getting married is not necessary as proof of love, nor of how you feel about your partner – or even as a way of being able to have sex, or secure your social status.

In this day and age, we are marrying much later, once we have already established our adult lives, sometimes after we have even had children with our partner. Monogamy no longer seems to be the most important factor for maintaining a stable marriage. And marriage is no longer seen as “forever.” So – could it be that we are now in a post-romantic era, in which the concept of the relationship no longer universal, but something which is formed according to the individual?

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Regardless, this era of post-romanticism has its plus side. People can now speak for themselves, decide what kind of relationship they want, and whether marriage is a part of these plans. Make the most of your freedom in one of the most romantic cities in the world – rent one of the apartments in Florence

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