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All Inclusive Holidays to Cuba are popular, but do yourself a favour and check out this adult only hotel which is a really romantic destination in Guardalavaca.

Undoubtedly one of the top all inclusive holidays to Cuba can be had at the Paradisus Rio de Oro in Guardalavaca. It is one of the best Sol Melia Hotels anywhere and it sits on a low rocky cliff overlooking Playa Esmeralda. Formerly a family hotel it has just been converted to to an adult only resort. To say it is in the luxury class could be very true and a number of influential people rate it as the top luxury hotel in Cuba.

The Paradisus Rio de Oro sits in beautifully manicured landscaped gardens, which is always something that guests remark upon. Within the gardens you will find well built and attractive two storey blocks which house the rooms, and also the more exclusive casitas, which consist of two apartments with separate terraces and outdoor showers.

You will enjoy the rooms, all of which are very large and very well kitted out. They have separate living areas from the bedroom, good balconies and very large bathrooms. The second floor rooms have higher ceilings than those below, and if you book a corner rooms, then the balconies are bigger.

If your pocket stretches to it, and this is an amazingly romantic honeymoon destination, then book one of the two huge oceanview villas, which are very private as well as having their own swimming pool. You won’t find better accommodation anywhere in Guardalavaca.

The whole ambience is that of a very luxurious hotel. When you walk around the paths surrounded by lush vegetation, weaving around the ponds you will see private sitting areas everywhere with hammocks slung between the trees where you can idle your time away with a good book and an amazing cocktail.

There are many all inclusive holidays to Cuba, but there isn’t an all inclusive hotel with the quality of cuisine you will find at the Paradisus Rio de Oro. You will get a far better selection of restaurants for a start, but be careful because a couple of the specialised restaurants are in high demand so early booking is advised if you want to eat there. By the way there are five restaurants, which are The Buffet restaurant open for all three meals, the Beach Restaurant with lunchtime BBq’s and snacks, then the Cuban, Mediteranean, Japanese, and Gourmet Restaurants all fine a la carte dining . If you love seafood then you will love the restaurants at the Paradisus Rio de Oro. You can eat lobster most nights!!

There is a snack bar BBQ by the pool, and three other bars, so the leisure drinkers are well catered for as well!!

The main beach which is lovely, is accessed down some stairs built into the cliff, and there are three small beaches in coves which you get to through the gardens, and they are almost like your own private beach here, because guests don’t seem to find out about them. The Paradisus Rio de Oro has rightly been described as the most beautiful resort in Cuba, as well as being one of the top luxury hotels in Cuba. There are a lot of little touches to make you realise that you have made a great choice here. This would make the most marvellous romantic honeymoon destination, especially as it has now been converted to adult only. The staff enhance the Paradisus Rio de Oro, with extremely good and courteous service, where nothing seems to be too much trouble.

If you like all inclusives, then the Paradisus Rio de Oro is undoubtedly the top in all inclusive holidays to Cuba. It is romantic, luxurious, and best of all adult only.

It’s fascinating how simple quotations can convey insightful, fun and complex ideas.

Here are some fun quotes for the Holiday season. Over 50 fun holiday quotes from people ranging from Phyllis Diller and Andy Rooney to Charles Dickens and John Lennon. Humorous and insightful thoughts on Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and atheism to traditions, spirituality and family. For more quotes on subjects ranging from love, happiness and wisdom and information on the inspiring public art project Dialogue, please see: http://www.DialogueProject.net. Enjoy!

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HOLIDAY QUOTATIONS 2007

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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

(Phyllis Diller)

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish.

(Francis C. Farley)

The three stages of a man’s life:

1. He believes in Santa Claus

2. He doesn’t believe in Santa Claus.

3. He is Santa Claus.

(Unattributed)

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

(Charles Dickens)

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

(Charles Dickens)

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,

We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,

And etched on vacant places

Are half-forgotten faces

Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.

(Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Christmas Fancies from Poems of Power)

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

(Agnes M. Pharo)

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

(Calvin Coolidge)

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

(Garrison Keillor)

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

(Hamilton Wright Mabie)

May this Festival of Lights bring blessings upon you and All Your Loved Ones.

May the Lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind.

May Love & Light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah.

May happiness fill your home as you celebrate the Festival of Lights.

(Unattributed)

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.

(Charles Lamb)

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring-not even a mouse:

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

(Clement C. Moore)

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

(Moshe Dayan)

How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!

(Charles Dickens)

I wish you a merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year;

A pocket full of money

And a cellar full of beer,

And a great fat pig

To last you all the year.

(Old English Song)

At Christmas I no more desire a rose

Than wish a snow in May’s newfangled mirth;

But like of each thing that in seasons grows.

(William Shakespeare)

“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.”

(Theodor Seuss Geisel, “The Grinch”)

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.

(Andy Rooney)

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

(Oren Arnold)

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

(Ralph Sockman)

Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It’s always the next Christmas.

(Joanne Woodward)

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.

(Bob Hope)

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

(Louisa May Alcott)

Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.

(Hugh Downs)

Christmas is more than a time of festivities, family and friends;

it is a season of generosity, gladness and gratitude.

(William Arthur Ward)

There was the little boy who approached Santa in a department store with a long list of requests. He wanted a bicycle and a sled, a chemical set, a cowboy suit, a set of trains, a baseball glove and roller skates.

“That’s a pretty long list,” Santa said sternly. “I’ll have to check in my book and see if you were a good boy.”

“No, no,” the youngster said quickly. “Never Mind checking. I’ll just take the roller skates.”

(Unattributed)

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

(Sir Winston Churchill)

Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.

(Edna Ferber)

Calvin: Well. I’ve decided I do believe in Santa Claus,

no matter how preposterous he sounds.

Hobbes: What convinced you?

Calvin: A simple risk analysis. I want presents. Lots of presents.

Why risk not getting them over a matter of belief?

Heck, I’ll believe anything they want.

(Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes)

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the Holidays.

(W. C. Jones)

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.

(Francis Pharcellus Church, responding to a letter to the New York Sun

in 1897 from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asking, “is there a Santa Claus”)

The holiest of holidays are those

Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;

The secret anniversaries of the heart.

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we’ll be seeing six or seven.

(W. C. Fields)

A New Year’s resolution is something that
goes in one year and out the other.

(Unattributed)

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language

And next year’s words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

(T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding)

Christmas- that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance- a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

(Augusta E. Rundel)

The merry family gatherings- The old, the very young; The strangely lovely way they Harmonize in carols sung. For Christmas is tradition time- Traditions that recall The precious memories down the years, The sameness of them all.

(Helen Lowrie Marshall)

No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. But important lessons and a sweet tale that makes glad the heart of childhood live on, at least until our imagination creates something even better.

Your eagerness to know is wonderful! Have you ever scooped up a lost nickel, only to discover that it is a quarter? Santa is like that, a thousand times over. No, there is no Santa outside imagination. But why you were told about him is much better than if he were really real.

Santa is a playful fantasy full of hope and happiness, inviting you down the challenging path to true adulthood. Yes, he embodies good will and generosity and inspires children everywhere to appreciate the difference between Naughty and Nice. But there is so much more that you and your friends are just now glimpsing, hidden behind the tale’s knowing wink.

(Greg Perkins, The Objectivist Center)

Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.

(Richard Lewis)

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look out for the wall!’

(Dave Barry)

Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel,

I made it out of clay;

Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel,

Now dreidel I shall play.

(Unattributed)

When I realized that we [Jews] have something better [than Christmas traditions]. We have fire. Think about it. The whole spiel of Hanukkah is lighting the menorah to commemorate the miracle of the lamp oil that lasted for eight days. Little kids like myself were handed matches and told to light the candles. I remember standing mesmerized in front of the flames as my mother and father gave us our nightly presents. It felt so dangerous. And in my book, just like rock beats scissors, danger beats tinsel.

(Barbara Rushkoff)

A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Holiday dinner: “I don’t like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate.”

(Unattributed)

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

(Donald E. Westlake)

One good thing about Christmas shopping it toughens you for the January sales.

(Grace Kriley)

A Holiday candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.

(Eva K. Logue)

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

(Robert Lynd)

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.

(Joan Mills)

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.

(Andy Rooney)

What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic.

(Unattributed)

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

(Agnes M. Pahro)

The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people’s culture.

(Dr. Maulana Karenga)

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

(Shirley Temple)

Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.

(Grace Noll Crowell)

The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

(Joan Rivers)

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas

with a note on it saying, toys not included.

(Bernard Manning)

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

(Calvin Coolidge)

And in our world of plenty

We can spread a smile of joy

Throw your arms around the world

At Christmastime.

(Bob Geldof & Midge Ure)

And So This Is Christmas;

And What Have We Done?

Another Year Over;

A New One Just Begun;

And So Happy Christmas;

I Hope You Have Fun;

The Near And The Dear Ones;

The Old And The Young.

(John Lennon)

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

(Henry Vaughan)

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More quotes at:

http://www.DialogueProject.net

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