Tag: Cliché

Where NOT to go on holiday if you want to avoid looking tacky: From ‘cliché’ Paris to ‘overpriced’ Mykonos and ‘brash’ Miami, expert reveals the destinations to avoid

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Are you striving to be seen as an in-the-know jetsetter who explores the classy, cool or unheard of places around the world when sharing your holiday snaps online?

If so, you should avoid these cliché destinations, according to London-based popular culture expert Nick Ede.

He explained to FEMAIL how some locations have been ‘over-done’ on social media and rather than looking exotic and exciting, travelling to those areas will instead make you seem like you’re following the crowd.

That’s not

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Mythos and Cliché: The Fractured History of Los Angeles

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In his seminal study of Los Angeles in the boom and bust years from 1920 to 1940, Carey McWilliams memorably called Southern California “an island on the land.” Mostly he was talking about the weather. An area of approximately 275 miles, Southern California is often described as possessing the only Mediterranean climate in the United States. McWilliams disputed this; he found the region’s extreme temperateness “a

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