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Grand Ole Opry Vacation Package

Nashville is the place to be for country music fans. The city offers so many museums and tours to keep you busy. With this package, you can have the convenience of bundling! Stay for three nights in your choice of over 85 hotels, visit the Grand Ole Opry, and attend the Grand Legends Bus Tour. This is a chance you don’t want to miss.

Romantic Getaways & Honeymoon Package

Looking for a romantic getaway with your significant other? With this vacation package, you can stay in Nashville for two nights and experience stress-free activities with a personal chauffeur! Take a carriage tour around the city where you are able to relax and take a break from your day-to-day life.

Downtown Nashville Vacation Package

The four-night Downtown Nashville Vacation Package includes activities that make sightseeing fun. Start with the Segway tour that includes several landmarks. Next, it is time for a trolley ride (观光 车 ) where you will witness the beauty of Nashville all lit up at night. Your trip also includes four nights of lodging so you will be able to rest comfortably during your time spent here.

Gaylord Opryland Resort Country Christmas

The Gaylord Opryland Resort County Christmas is stuffed full of holiday fun. It includes admission onto the Discover Nashville Inclusive Bus Tour as well as three nights of lodging at your choice of Nashville hotels.

In a coffee shop in Lagos, Nigeria, the visual artist Ekene Ngige was meeting with some colleagues when he had an accidental moment that would change his career.

Ngige knocked over his cappuccino, making a mess of the notepad in front of him. He quickly noticed that the drink created random patterns on paper, so he thought: what if he used coffee to create art?

Ngige said, “It was supposed to be a mistake, but I loved the mistake. ”Back in the studio, Ngige began mixing instant coffee with water, creating a jelly-like paste that allowed him to paint with it—first drawing with a pencil and then layering it with different shades of instant or ground coffee mixtures, and sometimes adding the whole coffee bean.

He continues painting realistic portraits(肖像)of people and objects. Ngige says on average, it takes him about two weeks to a month to finish a coffee portrait. He says his paintings may depend on what the event is at that moment, or may sometimes be inspired by his emotions.

Through his works, the artist shares a message of peace, encouraging people to forget their differences and embrace peace. “The best part of creating art is being able to reach the whole world, ” he says. “I have had calls and messages from all around the world, from people that have been touched by the topics of the paintings I make. It warms my heart. It makes me feel that Iam fulfilling a purpose. ”

A large, self-sustaining, floating research lab, as big as an island, could be the next big project in ocean cleanup.

The 8th Continent, as it’s called, has won the Grand Prix Award for Architecture and Innovation of the Sea, and is designed to allow the operators to live, work, eat, sleep, and study full-time there. The 8th Continent is a water lily-like ocean station that’s tied to the bottom of the sea but designed to float in the ocean current.

The chief designer said, “It is shaped into a living organism that is fully self-sustainable and held to host some activities along with its chief mission of cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers a 900, 000-square-mile area, given a typical feature by high-density of plastic waste, and is being cleaned by large nets that use the ocean currents to help collect plastic waste.

“I look into marine species, animals and plants. And I study how they really interact with the water environment, how they can obtain energy and how they work with nutrition,” said Senior Designer Lenka Petrakova at Zaha Hadid Architects in London.

The three long legs of the station collect the passing plastic waste and tidal(潮汐的) energy to change them into electricity. Sitting on top are three research and education centers under three tall greenhouses including gardens and a water desalination(海水淡化) plant. There are the living and working areas, where collected waste is sorted and recycled, while the underwater draft spire(尖塔) will contain a viewing platform. At the moment, it’s a big dream, but the design is still charming and beautiful to see.