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April, 2010 Newsletter

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	Welcome: Presenting the "Best of the Best" Each month, the editors at Travel Onion select a cross section of posts from the best travel blogs around the world and deliver them to you as a sampler of what can be found daily on our website and blog. Our newsletter offers a variety of posts from entertainment to sightseeing, from dining to family travel É covering the globe and featuring the best travel writers from Paris to Tokyo . If you like what you see, please pass this along to a friend. Visit Travel Onion >

Soba, Tempura and Ashitaba

If there is one thing that Oshima is famous for it’s the Ashitaba (Angelica keiskei) which is a famous Japanese relative of the common parsley, a herb. The name literally means “Tomorrow Leaf” and it got its name for it’s extraordinarily fast growth rate. If you harvest a leaf for your breakfast, it will have grown out again by next morning. Or so my botanically inclined friends tell me, I will have to try a planter of this in my garden some day soon.

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Listen to a Londoner: Sarah Orrick

Listen to a Londoner is a weekly interview post with people who live (or have lived for a while) in London. If you fit the bill and want to be interviewed, give me a shout at littlelondonobservationist@hotmail.co.uk. Always looking for new volunteers. Sarah Orrick, 24 If you can find another native Kentuckian in London, you earn a cookie. Sarah came over in September 2008 to earn a Master's degree in International Politics and Human Rights, and enjoys working for a children's charity in Kentish Town.

LLO: How long have you lived in London and where are you from originally? SO: I'm from a tiny village on the border of Kentucky and Illinois, smack middle in the bible belt, land of fried chicken and all things unhealthy. I came here in September 2008 and never looked back.

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Who Gets The Tip?

When you get an all-round great meal in London, it's custom to show your appreciation for an excellent evening with a small tip to the staff. But have you ever thought - who gets the tip? Is it the waiter? The chef? The owner? Or maybe their bank? but when a different waiter whisks past and snatches the bill. Who gets the tip?!Since October, businesses can no longer use tips, service charges, gratuities or cover charges to pay the national minimum wage, but the government is concerned that most consumers are still uneasy asking waiters where their tip is going when a different waiter whisks past and snatches the bill. Who gets the tip?!

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Historic Cafes in Paris

The Paris cafe is an institution. No trip to the City of Light would be complete without visiting at least one. Most cafes keep continuous hours, making them a perfect spot for a full meal, an afternoon coffee or an aperitif. Rows of snugly placed tables and chairs sit facing the street as if beckoning passersby to an upcoming performance of Parisian street theatre. Locals have their favorite neighborhood haunts-each one offering a different vibe. Why not experiment and find yours? Start with these tried-and-true options, many of which have been an important part of Parisian culture for upwards of a hundred years.

La Closerie des Lilas La Closerie des Lilas, located in Montparnasse, is named for its beautiful enclosed lilac garden. In fact, the cafe (which opened in 1847) claims to have established the reputation of Montparnasse because of its proximity to one of the most famous balls of its time, the Bullier Ball. In the early 20th century, literary giants such as Hemingway, Miller and Apollinaire and artists including Cezanne and Picasso mingled with the bourgeoisie.

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Spoken by Local Editors: A New Travel Resource

Welcome to the Travel Onion blog! Everyone sees a different layer of a city and the blogs we've featured on Travel Onion give you the opportunity to see a new and unique perspective on your chosen destination. We have local editors curating each page, selecting the best blogs and ensuring each blog is useful, current, and exciting. These local experts know the best of what is going on right now, pointing you to events and exhibits calendars and reviews of restaurants they ate at or shows they saw last night. For example, Heather Stimmler-Hall, our Paris City Editor, is an American-born journalist and private Paris guide, whose website Secrets of Paris has subscribers from over thirty countries. Amy Melrose, our Washington DC City Editor, keeps a frequently updated and resourceful blog of all of the free events happening around DC. And here, the Travel Onion blog, is the place where the best of the best posts from around the world are highlighted. Let us know what YOU think - which posts are most useful? Which are the most unusual and fun to read?

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IN THIS ISSUE

Listen to a Londoner, Historic Cafes in Paris, Who gets the Tip? Spoken by Local Editors: A New Travel Resource

Featured Editor

Dana Rosenzweig, the managing editor of Travel Onion, is a 2009 graduate of Yale University. Dana has traveled extensively through North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia.

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