Madeleine McCann: Selling Portugal And Imagining Pain
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
AMANDA PLATELL (Daily Mail): “It’s impossible to imagine the pain of Kate and Gerry McCann planning their first holiday with their three-year-old twins since Madeleine disappeared more than a year ago.”
Impossible? You can try…
Every moment of happiness which the rest of us take for granted - birthdays, holidays, Christmas - must serve only as a painful reminder of their loss.
But I, for one, applaud them for trying to give Sean and Amelie as ordinary a life as possible. The easy thing would be to give in to sorrow. The hardest thing is to go on living and loving for your remaining children.
Or so one would imagine…
TRAVEL VIDEO.TV: “Rejuvenating Portugal’s historic spas”
Very little is often heard in the news about Portuguese tourism. Except for the unfortunate circumstance about the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann, there is hardly ever any mention of Portugal in the global tourism arena. This may soon change.
How so?
Armed with a product that is full of promise, Portuguese tourism is now reaching out to the media with one very clear message: Portugal wants spa aficionados to consider Portugal as their next destination. Historic spa resorts across Portugal are being reborn for the modern traveler, the Portuguese National Tourism Office (PNTO) has claimed. As part of this effort, new luxury spas are dotting up across in the country that has always been thought of as “a garden by the sea,” with green inviting landscapes, and in some places the waters are known to be therapeutic.
Let us know when you see mention of Madleine McCann…
Posted: 7th, June 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (163) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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June 8th, 2008 at 7:03 am
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chenier
try
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/159180/the_man_flu/
June 8th, 2008 at 1:30 am
to i mean. not too. i can do english, honest.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:30 am
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Saul Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Sam, go to the Forums, the key word is Canada.
off too look, thanks .
June 8th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Sam, go to the Forums, the key word is Canada.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:24 am
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Saul Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Sorry Sam, check the forums, it can be very enlightening.
saul, i have i’ve no idea what’s up. clue?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Carmen Says:
June 7th, 2008 at 8:55 pm Web site de-moderating
By dint of harsh experience, I have come by a useful sure fire method to de-moderate a web site.
1. Never greet a new moderator to your web site. Remain distant and aloof at all times.
2. If you are forced to communicate, do so in less than five words.
3. Ensure that those five words do not contain any hint of welcome, thanks, or appreciation.
4. If asked how you would like the web site moderated, your reply should be non-committal and uninformative.
5. If you are doing essential repairs on your web site, do not inform your moderators, they will enjoy fielding dozens of anxious enquiries from paranoid posters whilst off line themselves.
6. Do not allow this feeling of well being to linger, flush it out instantly by moving to a UK server and failing to notify your moderators of the new guidelines for libel.
7. Allow many weeks to go by when you are not heard from at all. However, during this period you should set up as many new threads as possible, preferably utilising provocative words such as paedophile and masturbation which will ensure that your moderators are kept exceptionally busy checking obscene links.
8. If e-mailed requesting technical support, ignore the e-mail.
9. You should however, monitor e-mails between moderators.
10. If you become aware through such monitoring that a moderator is facing distressing personal circumstances, remain silent.
11. If you become aware that the last remaining moderator is sick, allow yourself a one word sarcastic response.
12. When you become aware that the sick moderator is going into hospital, confine yourself to a four word sarcastic response.
13. Do not enquire whether your three sick moderators are recovering, nor how on earth the fourth one is managing single handed.
14. Completely ignore all birthdays, Christmas and every other occasion on which a normal human being might offer a few words of appreciation for the hours devoted to his cause.
15. Finally remember the birthday of just one moderator and send your good wishes.
This method is guaranteed to free your system of at least one moderator. Repeat as necessary until you are left moderating the farcical George thread all by yourself.
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Carmen
Hi !
Thank you for your reply the other day.
Your help was very appreciated, I feel so much better.
I dont understand this post, very tired after work, but will reread it again in the morning.
I hope you are okay
xxxxx
June 8th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Sorry Sam, check the forums, it can be very enlightening.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:10 am
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Saul Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 1:05 am
‘You tell me.’
like i know now five minutes later. something to do with simpsons and a posh mud bath massage thing.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:08 am
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Happy birthday June ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
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yesterday, thanks!
June 8th, 2008 at 1:07 am
goodnight chenier, and have a good day tommorrow
June 8th, 2008 at 1:06 am
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yampster Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 12:53 am
‘Only June might be truer than you think ;)’
sorry yampster, lost me ascribe it to the wine (better that than being seen as thick anyway).
June 8th, 2008 at 1:05 am
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sam Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 1:03 am
145
Saul Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 12:50 am
‘Let me lead you to the Rasul Mud Temple.’
you know what google comes up with when you input rasul mud temple?
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You tell me.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:03 am
145
Saul Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 12:50 am
‘Let me lead you to the Rasul Mud Temple.’
you know what google comes up with when you input rasul mud temple?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:01 am
I shall take up Saul’s kind offer of the mud temple, and say goodnight to one and all.
Someday I will be mature enough not to rattle presents in the hope of working out what’s inside the wrapping paper.
But not just yet…
June 8th, 2008 at 12:56 am
143
chenier Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 12:47 am
;Thank you; I feel thoroughly consoled.
I’d probably be even more consoled if I knew what Man Flu is’
that is the same as womens’ flu but it’s usually three times worse and totally incapacitating. they seem to suffer somewhat terribly with it by all accounts.
‘and I could get these bloody zlotys to go in the slot…’
i don’t think i can help you there, i’m not sure where the slot is.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:53 am
144
sam
Only June might be truer than you think
June 8th, 2008 at 12:52 am
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sam Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 12:46 am
follow doctors advice, lots of rest and plenty of fluids. beer, wine, vodka, anything along those lines.
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Why thank you; what an excellent idea!
I may have the Great British Common Cold, but I can certainly stave off many other conditions with the judicious application of alcohol and mud….
June 8th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Let me lead you to the Rasul Mud Temple.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:49 am
140
chenier Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Well, I’m usually concerned when people I like and respect are thoroughly pissed off.
This bloody weather is not helping, either…
i was hoping it’d be nice this w/e, but it’s still only june and maybe it’s to be expected.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:47 am
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Saul Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 12:44 am
Console yourself that it is not Man Flu.
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Thank you; I feel thoroughly consoled.
I’d probably be even more consoled if I knew what Man Flu is, and I could get these bloody zlotys to go in the slot…
June 8th, 2008 at 12:47 am
good night annie, are you back in the u.k yet ?
June 8th, 2008 at 12:46 am
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chenier Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 12:42 am
‘And thank you, Sam; I appear to have acquired the Great British Common Cold, to go with the Great British Summer we are having, so I may postpone the celebrations until I am in better fettle.’
oh that’s no good. follow doctors advice, lots of rest and plenty of fluids. beer, wine, vodka, anything along those lines.
‘Not, of course, that I am in any way worried about Gloria’s return…’
oh dear, yes.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Well, I’m usually concerned when people I like and respect are thoroughly pissed off.
This bloody weather is not helping, either…
June 8th, 2008 at 12:44 am
Console yourself that it is not Man Flu.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:43 am
nite everyone
June 8th, 2008 at 12:42 am
And thank you, Sam; I appear to have acquired the Great British Common Cold, to go with the Great British Summer we are having, so I may postpone the celebrations until I am in better fettle.
Not, of course, that I am in any way worried about Gloria’s return…
June 8th, 2008 at 12:42 am
What a serious lot you all are?? Anorak or not - you will still get wet - why be so CONCERNED ?
June 8th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Chenier, you can run, but you can’t hide.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:39 am
I see that Carmen’s ‘resignation’ post, 104, has vanished. Strange, indeed.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:38 am
130 - Christine ??????????
June 8th, 2008 at 12:38 am
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Saul Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Happy Birthday Chenier, here is the usual bag of 10 Zloty pieces. Enjoy.
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Thank you very much Saul.
My theory is that if I dig deep enough into the mud Gloria may overlook my entirely well meaning reportage of the gallivanting and the cavorting.
Not to mention messing up her research on the location of sarcasm.
I shall throw myself on the mercy of the Court and plead that it would not be kind to decapitate me on my birthday.
We hippos take it one day at a time…