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Triesti has landed in the beautiful isle of Japan and what better way to shoe... I mean show it's awe to one of its myriad of gems than take a moment and appreciate the Sakura flowers in Tokyo.    

Traveling in the Mediterranean it's easy to skip this 8 mile island. The sister island of Malta sits just north of the mainland. It couldn't be helped but to take some photos and have some fun with our Shell model landing on the hilltop of Gelmus in the capital, Victoria. On this tiny island of roughly 30,000 inhabitants one can also notice a small skate park, although no skaters were present at the time we took the photos. With its' all year round blue sky weather there is lots of potential to develop and promote skateboarding along it's aquatic sports and scuba diving activities held almost around the entirety of the island.

Most of us know that maintaining a house is often arduous as it is, but only some are aware of the fact that a typical house normally carries a lot of pollutants which are ignored. NASA’s finding suggests a couple of plants that can do the job we cannot do ourselves, that is purify the air of our homes. Among the toxins these plants are able to absorb are benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, ammonia, xylene and toluene, and although a combination of plants is ideal to purify, according to our own experience some are really easy to grow and require only a little maintenance.  Some of these house plants include Peace lily, English ivy, Red-edged dracaena, Spider plant, Boston fern, Snake...