Articles
How to pack your luggage just like your mother taught you!
By Jean Bernard Talon
As the month winds into those last lingering dog days of summer, I cannot help but reflect upon the travel habits of my fellow sunseekers and city-break culture vultures.
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Don't spread germs!
By Dana Gornitzki
Practising proper hygiene is an important part of proper social graces. Escalate a lack of hygiene to a possible pandemic, and you have a more pressing matter on your hands. Think this is something new?
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Basic Mobile Telephone Manners (film)
By Dana Gornitzki
Hello, dear reader, will you please turn your ringer off? And please stop sending text messages while we're at it - we're trying to have a conversation.
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Have baggage? Put it to good use!
by Katie Antoniou
With holiday budgets still squeezed tighter than a corset, many of us may not be putting our well-loved luggage to good use this year. But not to fear, the creative residents of the interweb have found a myriad of ways to convert your old trunk into something beautiful AND useful!
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The etiquette of exchanging business cards in Japan
Manners and social graces are a very serious matter in Japan. Here is a charming moving picture about the ritual of exchanging business cards.
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Airplane etiquette: part 2
by Emyr Thomas
In our first instalment of airplane etiquette, we discussed the importance of proper decorum at the airport, boarding a plane and taking a seat.
Here is the genteel continuation of key social graces for airplane travel:
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Airplane etiquette: part 1
by Emyr Thomas
Flying was once a glamorous and stylish affair: passengers wore their best outfits, families would come to the airport to wave them goodbye, and pilots and air hostesses were revered for having the best jobs in the world. To be able to fly also meant that you had arrived; you were one of the chosen few who could afford the privilege.
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Avoid social kissing. How la bise ban is changing greetings etiquette
By Dana Gornitzki
Baguette, fromage, beautiful wine, and – naturellement – ‘la bise’. It doesn’t get any more quintessentially French than that. Cliché, yes, but handsome fact – oh la la!
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Mile high connectivity? Please behave yourself.
By Dana Gornitzki
Just when you thought there was one place where one could find respite from the information highway, along came the capability to connect to the interweb above the clouds.
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Have a broken heart? Please take a seat.
Priority seating on buses and trains is usually reserved for the elderly, pregnant, disabled, or passengers traveling with small children.
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Diary Dates
Join Hendrick's Library of Delightfully Peculiar Writings for Unusual Book-worming shenaningans at the Brighton Fringe from May 17 - 27. As part of this literary residence, taxidermist Lee Paton will be hosting 'Stuffing Peter Rabbit', renowned gastronomic architects Bompas & Parr's will be creating a 'Literary Feast' and Damian Barr's now legendary Literary Salon returns.
Charm School
Thank you for welcoming MIEN Magazine's Charm School with such warmth and enthusiasm. We have enjoyed meeting so many charming ladies and gentlemen, and look forward to many more delightful sessions with you in summer/autumn 2012. We shall be hosting a lovely selection of classes and events, and would love to keep in close contact with you so we can update you with our news. Please do watch this space and sign up to our newsletter for more updates.
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