With online shopping is becoming a mainstay in consumer culture, it takes a brave entrepreneur to open a brick-and-mortar store. But Goh Ling Ling, the creator of eponymous luxury handbag label, LING WU, is not your typical retailer. Having gained recognition by those in the know for her ultra-soft exotic skin handbags, the designer – whose creations are also sold on consignment at major department stores – took a bold leap to open a showroom nestled in leafy Chip Bee Gardens.

“I opened Le Salon because I realised that my customers wanted a more personal experience when it comes to shopping,” the designer explains. Tucked away on the second floor of a walk-up apartment, Le Salon is a living-inspired creative space that houses not only the LING WU label but other under-the-radar brands from independent makers, such as home fragrance brand A Dose of SomethingGood, fine jewellery by Alexandra Alberta, vintage accessories from Dark Horse Vintage, minimalist jewellery from Pyar and luxury cashmere art scarves from Trebene.

Taking the apartment theme to heart, wares are displayed on shelves and tabletops. Customers are invited to sink into comfy sofas, sip a hot beverage while browsing the curated selection of artisanal accessories. Ling is a self-confessed vintage lover and has amassed a handful of vintage furniture procured throughout the years. In her 1,500-square foot showroom, you will find a 1960s Aage Christiansen leather sofa sharing the living space with a pre-loved ghost coffee table topped with art books, hooped shells and conches collected by Ling and her children.

Nearby a vintage starburst clock bought for $5 at a Melbourne flea market sits alongside an Art Deco console table displaying vessels of scented candles and fragranced art objects from A Dose of Something Good. Despite its residential feel, the showroom is open to walk-in visitorsfrom Mondays to Fridays between 10am and 6pm.

Appointments can alsobe arranged for Saturdays. We won’t blame you if you feel likestaying here for hours, whether it is to browse Ling’s curated selection of artisanal accessories, have a chat with the friendly designer or to simply soak up the tranquil ambience.INSIDE STORY Le Salon is a treasure trove of vintage gems. Take your time to browse through a selection pre-loved Tiffany & Co. accessories alongside ultra-soft cashmere scarves. If that girl in the large-format photograph hanging over the vintage dining set looks familiar, it’s because the print is a Helmut Newton photograph of a young Jodie Foster.

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Different types of Holiday ratios for disabled person

It is the way to provide the greatest trip with lots of enjoyment and entertainment. They provide the Holidays for disabled travelers in Australia and provide the staff. Each and every person can take care according to the specific level. For each traveler unique staff member is appointed. Here the ratios indicate the number of staffs working over here. The ratio is divided into different types.

1:4 Ratios: In this ratio, the people can be independent to do their own work. They do not need any support from accommodation and family or friends.

Personal care and meals: they will independent with their own activities like toileting, taking bath and brushing teeth. They know how to manage the public and have ability to eat. They have confidents in selection of foods and meals. They can manage in spending money with minimum.

1:3 Ratios: Here the people do know to do their own job. They are dependent with their staff and family members. They want support for daily needs like brushing teeth, taking bath, dressing etc. they don’t know about the selection of dress or foods. They cannot manage the public place and need some support to walk.

The Leisure option holiday guarantee

The leisure option gives the well prepared planned. They do not cancel the plan due to minimum number of travelers. They are fully educated and maximum number staffs are have the own map about the holiday trip. The travelers in Australia are very lucky to have the wonderful places. The fees are described in the advertisement and it is according to the level of travelers. The visions of holiday trip are safe and provide accessible travel. The mission creates the holiday program for the disabled people. They are supports the physically challenged person and carry them in the wheel chairs. They provide safe and secure guards. Both the children and adults can take travel in the holiday tour. The leisure take interest in protect the disabled children.

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The variety of landscape pattern is reflected most clearly in the ever-changing shoreline of Lake Vanern: now following a straight line along a fault, now fringed by clusters of skerries, now shaped into a delta by alluvial deposits, now extending in a wide bayformed bytheaction of wind and water.

The towns of central Sweden have their various specialties: Norrkoping is a textile town, Linkdping manufactures machinery and motor vehicles, Orebro is devoted primarily to the leather industry, Karlstad and its surrounding area have numerous sawmills and large cellulose factories using the vast timber resources of northern Varmland, which are floated down the rivers in rafts or transported by land. The smaller country towns handle the agricultural produce of the surrounding area and perform an important function as markettowns -a role which broughtthem early prosperity, reflected in the imposing secular buildings and old monastic houses to be seen in many of these towns.

Although Goteborg (Gothenburg), situated in western Sweden in convenient proximity to the open sea, has developed into the country’s leading international port and its second largest city, Stockholm, on the eastern side, is not only the geographical midpoint of Sweden but the focal point of all traffic in the Baltic. It has thus taken over the role once played by Visby (Gotland) in the heyday of the Hanseatic League. The intricate landscape of forests and lakes does not seem at first sight a favourable area for the establishment of a capital city; but the situation had one decisive advantage, since it was only at this point that a road running up the east side of Sweden from south to north could find a means of passage along a ridge between the much indented Lake Malar and the tangle of skerries off the Baltic coast. Moreover, in the middle of the waterway that had to be crossed here there lay an island which provided not only a defensible situation for a medieval town but a means of watching overtraffic both by waterand by land.

In the layout of present-day Stockholm the port and industrial installations are agreeably unobtrusive, while the city’s extensive new residential districts thrust outwards in all directions into the hilly and wooded surrounding countryside; and out in the SkargSrd, the endless scatter of skerries, the people of this great capital city have a magnificent holiday and recreation area where they can find peace and relaxation in the intricately ramified waterways and on a host of lonely little islets.

Immediately north of central Sweden lies Bergslagen, a region of rather mixed character, still preserving many relics of the busy mining industry which once brought it prosperity. Elsewhere there are great concentrations of modern heavy industry, including the steelworks of Sandviken, Domnarvet and Kvarnsveden. Similar contrasts are found in the two neighbouring towns of Falun and Bor-lange. And not far away, in Da lama, is an oasis of prosperous traditional country life, the area around Lake Siljan.

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A more distinctively Swedish region begins at the low ridge of hills which runs southeast across Sklne from the rugged and sharply pointed Cape Kullen and re-emerges on the Danish island of Bornholm. The landscape in Smaland, still in the latitude of Jutland though it is, has an authentically northern stamp. Its rump of gneisses and granites, worn down by Ice Age glaciers, rising to barely 400 m (1300 ft), is still largely a sparsely inhabited expanse of forest and moorland. In earliertimestheabundanceoftimber in this region led to the establishment of a busy glass-making industry; the industrial towns of the present day have developed around the junctions of the extensive railway network.

From the north Lake Vattern thrusts into the Smaland hills like a wedge, its straight shoreline reflecting its situation in a tectonic rift valley. At its southern end are Jonkoping and the smaller town of Huskvarna, at the geographical midpoint of Sweden. To the south of Jonkoping is the Taberg, a hill of high-grade iron ore which can be extracted by opencast working.

Of the coastal regions flanking SmSland, Halland, to the west, has been particularly favoured economically by the important railway line from Skcine to Goteborg. Blekinge to the south and the Kalmar region on the east have extensive morainic deposits, so that the forests usually reach right down to the coast, which is much indented by fjords.

Central Sweden is a much more open and hospitable territory and has a milder climate, although its coastal region is less open. Goteborg (Gothenburg), on the west coast, has an excellent natural harbour on the funnel-shaped estuary of the Gotaalv, but the coastal strip is narrow and rocky, so that the town was compelled to expand on to the surrounding hills and to build its industrial suburbs in the narrow side valleys.

On the east side of central Sweden is Stockholm, sheltered by an almost impenetrable girdle of skerries and accessible from the sea only through a labyrinth of concealed channels. This intricate landscape pattern is continued on the inland side of the city by Lake Malar with its thousand inlets and islands, and it is further protected by a dense ring of forest. Still farther inland are extensive areas of open country which the farmers of the Svear were able to develop; and this situation, cut off from the coast, may have helped to determine the independent and apparently aloof disposition of the Swedes.

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In the latitude of the Lofotens begins northern Norway, with its numerous islands emerging from the sea like the peaks of a submerged mountain range and the alarmingly narrow passages between them. Ensconced in its fjord is Narvik, the ice-free port which ships the iron ore of Swedish Lapland, brought from the mines on the “ore railway” over a pass 593 m (1 945 ft) high.

In the most northerly part of Norway the fjords, flanked by the sheer rock faces which terminate the featureless mountain plateaux, are rather broader. Hammerfest, the most northerly town in Europe, is still 100 km (60 miles) short of the North Cape. One of the most interesting places in this area is Bossekop, on the Altafjord -almost the only point at which the two elements in the economy of the most northerly part of Europe, fishing and reindeer-herding, are found together.

Everywhere along the much-indented west coast of Norway rear up the Scandinavian mountains. Although there are a number of convenient routes through the mountains there are relatively few contacts between the west coast of Norway and the interior of Sweden. Northern Norway is too exclusively turned towards the sea, and the economically unproductive swath of mountain country (parts of which, to the north, are still used as grazing for the Lapps’ reindeer herds) is too broad to encourage communication between the two regions.

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Around Oslo lies a region of varied and attractive scenery, occupied by an active and industrious population which, particularly on the southern and southeastern slopes of the Norwegian mountains, can look back on long farming and mining traditions. The Setesdal is particularly renowned for its trim farmhouses and its rich traditional costumes. The prosperity ofthe agricultural population of Telemark is now based on a highly developed stock-farming system in which the Alpine pastures in the higher areas of the region play an important part.

Some 400 km (250 miles) north of Oslo is the old town of Trondheim, which, like Oslo, has round it a region brought into cultivation by peasant farmers, though on a smaller scale. High up in the hinterland of Trondheim is the little mining town of Reros, where rich deposits of ore have yielded more than 100,000 tons of pure copper over the past 300 years.

From Stavanger to Kirkenes the Norwegian west coast with its succession of fjords extends for some 2000 km (1250 miles), offering scenery of breathtaking magnificence. On this coast is Bergen, the largest town in western Norway, but which has remained a purely coastal town with no real hinterland. Its economy revolves around fishing, the fish industry and the fish trade. To the west of Bergen are the Norwegian North Sea oilfields, now producing large quantities of oil and natural gas. Bergen is connected to Oslo by a boldly engineered railway line over
the mountain plateaux which reaches a height of 1300 m (4265 ft). In recent years industry has been successfully established at a number of points on Norway’s long west coast: thus the abundant supplies of water power in the Sognefjord (Hoyanger) and Hardanger-fjord (Odda) have been harnessed for use in the manufacture of aluminium, and an active smelting industry has grown up around the copper and pyrite mines in the Sulitjelma area in northern Norway.

In southern Norway the developing town of Stavanger has specialised in the fish-canning industry, and in recent years its shipyards have built drilling rigs and platforms for the North Sea oilfields, while oil refineries have been established to handle the abundant supplies now flowing from the oilfields.

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Camping permits are required in a growing number of parks, especially those that receive heavy use, as well as some private areas. There are still a large number of places in the country where you can camp without a permit, however. Since permits can be introduced at any time, it’s always best to check directly with a park regarding current regulations before paying a visit.

Sometimes a permit may be or must be obtained in advance. This can often be done by mail and occasionally by phone. In other cases a permit has to be applied for in person at the start of your trip, or picked up at that time. If you’re visiting a large forest or park this could involve a little inconvenience, as you may have to travel out of your way to reach the necessary facility. In a popular park you might have to wait in line for the permit. Try to get it ahead of time whenever possible.

Sometimes the reason for requiring permits is to limit the number of campers in a wilderness area, or within different regions of a large park. There may be a chance that your permit request could be turned down, which is most likely if you’ve chosen a popular trail or time period. Apply early if you can.

Permits in some parks require that you specify exactly where you’ll camp each night for the duration of your trip. For other permits you need only designate a general area, or you may be entitled to camp just about anywhere within a park’s boundaries.

Usually there’s no charge for a permit, although on occasion a nominal fee is charged for making an advance reservation. Many state parks and private areas do charge a camping fee, however, and this is sometimes on top of an entrance or admission fee.

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It’s possible that several different models or designs of a product may be adequate for your needs. Just make sure the item fits properly, when size is an important factor. A good salesperson should be able to assist you in sorting through alternatives, and may be able to help you arrive at a decision.

A good guidebook will provide useful and often valuable information about the area you’re interested in, including trail data and camping information. Many guidebooks are oriented toward a particular activity like hiking or canoeing. The focus is also usually on a limited geographical area, often a single park or wilderness area, although there are guidebooks which cover an entire state. A guidebook may or may not come with good maps. When maps aren’t included you’ll have to obtain them separately.

Before visiting any park or area of interest it’s wise to call or write directly to ask for current information, including camping regulations (while these are listed here in Part II, rules are always subject to change). If you haven’t been able to get hold of a map from other sources, request one, along with any other printed information that is available.

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If you’re going with an organized group, presumably the destination has already been chosen by others. When it’s up to you to decide where to go, this may take some time, and it occasionally requires a little research. Yet the process of trip-planning can also be rather fun and exciting.

Part II of this book offers a comprehensive listing of areas throughout the country where wilderness camping and backpacking are permitted. Select one or several locations which sound appealing and would be convenient for you to visit.

Your next step is to obtain a map or maps of the area, and also perhaps a guidebook, if available. Guidebooks and maps may be obtained from outdoor specialty stores, some sporting goods stores, bookstores, or by mail order. Current guidebooks for many states are listed in Part II under Camping Resources.

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You may want to consider borrowing or renting equipment rather than buying it at first, if those are available options for you, especially if you’re uncertain of your commitment to wilderness camping. Most people who go camping or backpacking more than once or twice want to have their own equipment, but at the beginning renting or borrowing are worth considering. Outfitters and some organized groups also supply equipment for trips, and this service can be attractive to a beginner.

When you’re ready to purchase gear, try to locate a store which specializes in top-quality outdoor equipment, and has knowledgeable salespeople who are also experienced campers. Check the yellow pages under Camping or Backpacking if you don’t already know of local stores. Most of the items you’ll need to buy or obtain have been covered in Chapters 2 through 6.

Avoid rushing the process once you’re in a store. A substantial amount of time may be required if you’re outfitting yourself completely. Ask about their return policy, which will vary considerably from one establishment to another. Try to buy from a store that will accept merchandise back as long as it’s in resalable condition (in case you find out at home that something doesn’t fit correctly, or is somehow the wrong choice).

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