{"id":2744,"date":"2010-12-09T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2010-12-09T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:18:15","slug":"some-notes-winner-of-passports-with-purpose-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/some-notes-winner-of-passports-with-purpose-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Notes &#038; Winner of Passports with Purpose Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Mumbai - Bombay, India by MsAdventuresinItaly, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/msadventuresinitaly\/5246006721\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5010\/5246006721_65830c8824.jpg?resize=500%2C381\" alt=\"Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Mumbai - Bombay, India\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Thanks to everyone<\/strong> who Tweeted, shared on FB and supported Passports with Purpose. It means a lot to me, and even more I know to who will receive the aid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you haven&#8217;t spread the word, or donated, you won&#8217;t win the gift certificate I was offering, but you still have time to participate! Visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.passportswithpurpose.com\/donate\/\">Passports with Purpose<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As for the winner of the Amazon.com USD$25 gift certificate, according to my random number generator:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Random # generator\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture-2.png?resize=131%2C141&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"141\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2746\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/some-notes-winner-of-passports-with-purpose-giveaway\/picture-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture-3.png?fit=518%2C111&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"518,111\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Picture 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture-3.png?fit=518%2C111&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2746 aligncenter\" title=\"Picture 3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture-3.png?resize=360%2C77&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture-3.png?w=518&amp;ssl=1 518w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture-3.png?resize=300%2C64&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>is Erin, from Olive Notes. Contact me with your details!<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>I just got back from a trip to <strong>Edinburgh <\/strong>(3 years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/08\/peebles-scotland-nomad-family-haggis\/\">my first trip to Scotland &amp; Edinburgh<\/a>), enduring some of the coldest weather I&#8217;ve felt in some time, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself! Nothing like a snow covering to make everything glittery, and a Christmas fair and a Ferris wheel don&#8217;t hurt, either. I can&#8217;t wait to share some pictures with you.<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help myself &#8211; <strong>I started a new sub-blog<\/strong> right here on this domain, called &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/whatisee\">What I See&#8230;.at Ms. Adventures in Italy<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>It isn&#8217;t all Pretty &#8211; beyond Food &amp; Photography<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; you won&#8217;t find beautiful food &amp; travel photography there, nor recipes. You will still get a eyeful of things I see and do in my life here in Italy, things I haven&#8217;t felt right to share on this blog. I kept it separate in case you&#8217;re fine with just recipes, food &amp; travel :).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a different RSS feed, and email subscriptions are available for those posts, too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What I See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/whatisee\/\">https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/whatisee\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>RSS: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/WhatISeeAtMsAdventuresInItaly\">http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/WhatISeeAtMsAdventuresInItaly<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/whatisee\/index.php\/valentino-at-gap-the-worst-american-italian-fashion-fusion\/\">hoodie mullet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/whatisee\/index.php\/elisabetta-canalis-one-degree-of-separation-from-george-clooney\/\">Ms. George Clooney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/whatisee\/index.php\/the-dirtiest-ugliest-toilet-seat-on-a-train-ever\/\">the dirtiest toilet seat<\/a> are some of the first posts.<\/p>\n<p>This blog will keep going strong &#8211; I have several posts ready to go, just in time for the holidays, and of course Edinburgh is waiting, too!<\/p>\n<p>***********<\/p>\n<p>I finally have a Christmas tree! Though I normally don&#8217;t spend my holidays in my apartment, I wanted a tree this year. I&#8217;ll post pictures soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who Tweeted, shared on FB and supported Passports with Purpose. It means a lot to me, and even more I know to who will receive the aid. If you haven&#8217;t spread the word, or donated, you won&#8217;t win the gift certificate I was offering, but you still have time to participate! Visit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/some-notes-winner-of-passports-with-purpose-giveaway\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-event","category-me","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uB1-Ig","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2717,"url":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/passports-with-purpose-help-travel-bloggers-build-a-village-in-india\/","url_meta":{"origin":2744,"position":0},"title":"Passports with Purpose: Help Travel Bloggers Build a Village in India","author":"Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy","date":"November 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Part food blogger, part travel blogger, that's hopefully what you've come to expect from my site, Ms. Adventures in Italy. 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