“Alfred, work harder to let people know about your service: they need to know that you serve more than you try to get“.  Brannon’s final words about the business.

Several weeks have passed since the last blog post was served. To our loyal readers and those of you here for the first time, an explanation for the long silence is past due. It’s with great sadness that I inform you that Brannon Hall-Garcia vice-president of Sirromac Enterprises died of Cancer on June 13. Not only did Brannon play a significant part in the creation of the business through his encouragement and tireless support, he was also first and foremost a devoted friend, a best friend of many years.

A Great Passion for Art & Travel

Brannon embraced an insatiable passion for Art & Travel which made our partnership in the creation of Classic Curios Emporium & Classic Lifetime Travel a harmonious match. We shared this love of Art & Travel, making the process of planning and ‘fact finding’ always adventurous and festive. Brannon was very generous with his enthusiasm and knowledge as we visited museums, art galleries, auction houses, and antique shops. To add even more to our inspiration, we attended business seminars and classes to acquire the skills and tools in preparation of launching the business. Ebay University Classes, Trump University Intensive Seminar, The Synergy Marketing Group Summit (now the dynamic organization that provides our travel products through netTrav Inc), plus The ‘First Steps to Success’ a seminar presented by the world renowned Dani Johnson.

‘Who Traveled The World The Most?’

Hours totaling days, over the years, were spent sharing our travel experiences, particularly our love of the exotic, the art of travel, differences of  foreign countries  and their people.  We often enjoyed boasting, focusing on who had traveled the world the most. After much teasing, it was acknowledged that he had been to all the major cities of South America! But I always got the last word by reminding him that, my next trip to Southeast Asia would be my fifth! Then it was time to open the second bottle of wine. By the way, we were in the same ‘ball park’ with great opera houses and concert halls. What Fun!

Art & Travel Renew The Human Spirit!

There is much more that could be said. It is with great celebration that I dedicate this blog post to Brannon who sincerely wanted the business to be a success. His encouraging words will always resound with great depth. His final comment expressed to me about the business was “Don’t Quit. Don’t Quit. Don’t Quit.” There’s so much great stuff to be shared with like-minded people and those who truly desire to learn more about the renewing powers of Art & Travel. A few days later he made the comment that was used to open this blog post….

Quality Of Service Is The Key!

As my business education and growth of the company continues, it will always be a top priority to remember Brannon’s comments, and not forget that personalized service and attention to detail is the key. As the world society becomes more ’self serving’,  Self Service does not deliver a satisfying experience, when the product being served  is discovery,  joy, adventure, and renewal - in other words -  Art & Travel.

That which we GIVE Away, we always get to KEEP.

Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!

Together Everyone Achieves More!

Alfred
877-598-9650 / Travel@Sirromac.com

Comments and travel memories are welcome!

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Written by:  Alfred Clinton Morris 

You help people and planet Earth every time you book a trip through netTrav.

‘The New Paradigm in The Travel Industry Continues to Evolve’.

For those of you (our valued readers) who have been following the evolution of my travel service netTravPLUS, it must by now be evident that my service is  steps ahead of other on-line travel services. In addition to: personalized service, complimentary gifts,  lowest prices, the monthly vacation contest, and more (see list of services below), I am now very proud to announce that 2% of every dollar spent on travel, booked through our netTrav Portal, will be donated to sustainable development programs in developing countries and reforestation programs worldwide. Among them:

TreeLink

Mountainview Conservation and Breeding Centre &

Heifer International

Millions of dollars will be contributed over time to significantly help to preserve the planet that offers such an abundance of beauty and adventure that enriches our lives. CLICK the LINKS above and tour these beautiful sites. You will be inspired!

Full Service

I am dedicated to providing you with the highest standard of service and better than the best prices!

How very exciting to know that in addition to the services listed below, you will receive the very best assistance during a difficult time economically, as well as your travel dollars being used to also contribute to protecting the world environment, a world that gives us so much pleasure and inspires gifted artist to produce great work that so greatly enriches our lives!

Share with us our passion for travel! 
 Personalized Bookings.  The Exclusive ‘netTrav’ Travel Portal.  Platinum One Destinations Exclusive Memberships.  The Travel Lounge.  Complimentary Vacations and P1D Rewards Points.   Multiple Booking Engines Utilized.   Intro to Classic Lifetime Travel.   Powerful Wealth Building Opportunity.   Automatic Monthly Contest Entry.

Pay us a visit, take a tour of netTrav & Platinum One Destinations and discover that here, with netTravPLUS, you’ll have it all!

We have brought Mia on to help you - ask her questions, clarify information. Whatever you need, Mia will do her best to help you out. Try it out! Just strike up a conversation with Mia by giving her your name. Simply type the phrase ‘my name is’ followed by your name in the text bar provided. Her vocabulary is quite extensive and Mia learns quickly. She’s especially well informed about Feng Shui and our Feng Shui products! She’ll also ‘hold her own’, conversing about life in general! Make sure that your speakers are on.

You definitely may find Mia entertaining and knowledgeable!

Click Here to chat with Mia now at The Feng Shui Shop.

 In the spring of 2007, Certified Feng Shui works of art, imported directly from South Asia, became a part of the product line at Classic Curios Emporium. We are very proud to offer these authentic handcrafted works of Crystal, Jade, and Porcelain statuettes, figurines, and jewelry at affordable prices! Mia is waiting to answer your questions about: The Jade or Crystal Dragon, The Lion, Crystal Globes, The Beautiful Quan Yin, The Buddha, love, wealth, health, success, The Zodiac, and a lot more!

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>	Book your own travel with netTravPLUS, and Get Paid For It!

‘New Paradigm in The Trillion $ Travel Industry Evolves’.

Whaaat!! This is the response heard very often to the fact that, yes, you may plan and book your own travel (air, hotel, cruises, & vacation packages) and receive up to 80% of the commission and other services at NO CHARGE. Well, we are still ‘bursting’ at the seams with excitement, but the reason now is that the enhancements to our travel service netTravPLUS, are now available.

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It’s an honor having Our Blog acknowledged by EcomBuffet in their monthly newsletter!

‘Bursting’ with anticipation of exciting change!

Well, we are ‘bursting’ at the seams in anticipation of the exciting enhancements to our travel services to be released very soon. It’s for this reason that  our Blog Posts have not been published more consistently. We are  also positioning ourselves to offer  more information to enable you, our  special readers to make better informed travel decisions, and featuring Platinum One Destinations (P1D).

Stay tuned for a blog that will provide  insightful information regarding trends and  laws enabling you, the traveler/adventurer,  to receive better service at more affordable prices!

What would you rather pay - retail, wholesale,  or just taxes?

Here it is, a special note: Are you considering canceling/postponing a vacation due to the ’weak dollar’ (in some foreign economies) and the rising cost of oil? As we prepare our systems to offer  lower prices & better service, why not enter our Monthly Vacation Contest - your chances of winning are very high!

You could very well win a vacation  at a ‘luxury resort’ and only pay the taxes, or take a  Caribbean Cruise and only pay taxes/port fees.

 Find a better way to get away and  enjoy!

The choice is your’s. Why pay the retail or   even the wholesale price?  You will be automatically entered each month - and it’s FREE. It doesn’t get better, unless money is not an issue! 

In the Spotlight

Our Blog was in the Spotlight!  We are very excited that blog.ClassicCurios received special recognition by EcomBuffet in the February issue of their monthly newsletter (distribution -  more than 27,000 subscribers). EcomBuffet is a leading web marketing and Internet solutions firm, operated by some of the finest SEO (Search Engine Optimization) experts in the industry!

Classic Curios Emporium continues to grow and expand it’s Travel Services (Classic Lifetime Travel), and being in this spotlight is a great boost to our determination to provide products and services that are far beyond the ordinary!

Jennifer Horowitz  Director of Marketing, has stated the following in The SEO Newsletter:

“I thought this Blog was worth pointing out - blog.ClassicCurios.com/.

He (Alfred Morris) has really put a lot of time and creativity into the Blog. He is using photos that really embrace the Blog and really personalizes it with great travel stories. When I looked at the Blog, I really connected with it and it made me remember my travels to France. Eliciting an emotional response from visitors is hard to achieve, and he really succeeds in doing that.

Every Blog in every industry is different , and this one is perfect for what he is trying to accomplish. He is truly sharing the travel experience with people!” 

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The Season of Rebirth and Renewal.

Spring!

We wish you all a warm & beautiful Spring Season for many years to come!

 
Hand Crafted Genuine Jade Ship.

Add a New Voyage to Your Life’s Journey… Spring is the season that is a time of rebirth and renewal. But clearly this word generates a large variety of thoughts and images, and evokes a wide range of emotions. In the Northern Hemisphere there are regions in the south, that are warm and ’spring-like ‘all year long, where many varieties of exotic flowers are always in bloom. When we are celebrating spring here in New York City, our neighbors living on the other half of the earth, are enjoying the beauty of the Fall Season.

There’s another aspect of spring to add, and that is, it’s a time generally for students to graduate and spring into new journeys, the beginning of new careers. Spring is chosen very often  as the ideal season  to plan weddings,  springing into new relationships. In addition, spring is also the season when  Summer Vacations are planned, as well as  many travelers planning  winter or fall vacations, and ‘get-a-ways’  in between, to destinations with ’spring-like’ climates.

The aroma of spring is in the air, how wonderful, the awakening of the trees & flowers, and the songs of  birds. This of course is unique, based on where you live. But the feeling of springing into a new beginning, an old or new adventure, the desire to ‘get-a-way’, is universal. How wonderful to find spring in our thoughts, fantasies, and travel plans throughout the year! 

Add a new voyage to your life’s journey and rediscover the awe-inspiring beauty on earth that abounds, waiting to enrich our lives!

Travel opportunities abound at netTravPLUS. Experience the new Travel Paradign and be among the first to benefit from the netTrav Portal.  It’s always spring at netTravPLUS.com!    

Enjoy Your Journey!

Alfred

877-598-9650 / Travel@Sirromac.com

Posts Coming Soon -  ‘Sharing Our Travel Adventures’, ‘Travel and The Imagination’, ‘Great Literature and World Travel’, ‘Tribute to My Brother Claude - his passion for art  & travel was an inspiration’. 

 ‘Travel Opportunities Abound’ - to be revisited

As the result of meeting recently with our company’s financial adviser at JPMorgan Chase, additional information pertaining to the economy and the impact on ‘vacation dreams’ will be added to the post, and will be published soon. We strongly believe that the information to be added may be found beneficial to our readers planning a vacation or events requiring travel.

We invite you to subscribe to Our Blog, and receive the announcements of many enhancements coming to our travel service at netTravPLUS.com. A New Paradign in the Travel Industry is evolving which will enhance your travel experiences.

Reminder:

The Monthly Vacation Contest

Drawing will be held on the fourth Friday.

Click to see the complete list of the outstanding prizes.

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The Last Day in Paris - wanting to return someday soon!

What an enjoyable moment it is to receive, as the travel agent, notice that your customers were fully satisfied with the travel arrangements made for their trip. I’m delighted to introduce Eric Birk & Bernadette Hoke, who are both established concert artists (organ & piano) living in New York City. It gives me great pleasure to post the Travel Journal - Part Three, of their first trip to Paris France.

Our last day in Paris……

had spectacular weather!  We began early at the Louvre, entering directly from the Metro station into the modern mall they have built beneath the museum.  We lucked out that the Louvre seems to have recently changed its schedule to be open on Mondays (closed Tuesdays), as our guidebooks conflicted.  In any case, since this was our first visit we mainly hit all the highlights:

1.  the winged Nike of Samothrace
2.  the Venus de Milo
3.  the Mona Lisa
4.  “La Grande Odalisque“ by Ignres
5.  their one Vermeer on display (”The Lacemaker” not far from where I got this wonderful photo out the window:)

We  then  made  a final stop at Galleries Lafayette (rotunda pictured below), which brings us to the end of our trip, and a commercial prop to wish you a Joyeux Noël!The next day clouds were back & it was time to get home, but we can’t wait to return to the city of lights– someday soon, we hope!Wishing you a bright and Merry Christmas, Eric & Bernadette.

 Part Two - Celebration in The City of Lights, Paris France.

What an enjoyable moment it is to receive, as the travel agent, notice that your customers were fully satisfied with the travel arrangements made for their trip. I’m delighted to introduce Eric Birk & Bernadette Hoke, who are both established concert artists (organ & piano) living in New York City. It gives me great pleasure to post the Travel Journal - Part Two, of their first trip to Paris France.

Novembre 2007

Continued from  (part 1)

Sunday–  Mass at St. Sulpice!  10:15 Prelude was Bach’s Prelude & Fugue in C (BWV 545), the Offertoire was L. Marchand’s “Basse de trompette,” during communion was Communion sur le répons “ubi caritas,” , and the Postlude was Toccata by J. Lechat.  After the postlude was the “Audition” (not that the organist needs to audition– this means music for listening!), when two movements (2nd & 3rd) of the Widor 5th Symphony were played, followed by improvisation.  

Afterwards, we got to climb the circular stairs to the “sud tour” (south tower) and greet Daniel Roth. He showed us how the organ’s combinations work and (rightfully) bragged about how, thanks to Widor and Dupré, the original actions and mechanisms survive as they were in 1862!  The organ sounded wonderful (except for the seasonally expected intonation irregularities) and he improvised for a full 10 minutes after the postlude and the conclusion of the “audition” following the 10:30 mass (which serves as a prelude for the low mass at noon). We had to wait a awhile but it was worth it to participate on the public side of the tradition begun by Dupré of greeting listeners in the organ gallery after mass.  [But we honestly can’t imagine entertaining at the console every Sunday after services with as much grace and joie de vivre as Mr. Roth!]

After mass, we had to find dejeuner (lunch), and eventually wound up at a café just a block from the Seine in Saint Germain-des-Pres, where Bernadette had an omelette and Eric got onion soup with bread and cheese in it, followed by a chocolate crepe.  

Then we went to a museum, the Musée d’Orsay, where many works by impressionist painters & sculptors are displayed.  It is in a former train station, and it was free!

You can see that the building is as beautiful to behold as its contents!

Then it was off to find St. Clothilde, where Franck, Tournimiere and Langlais all played.  You would think there was some sort of anti-publicity conspiracy: no one we asked had ever heard of the church. (Hotel concierge, newstand clerk, etc.) Imagine!– the church where Franck played!  We finally found it with an address gathered from our hotel concierge via internet, and when we arrived, there was a rather intense neighborhood pick-up soccer game in progress on the front plaza.  On entering, we saw a brilliant basilica church with no mention of any music program or who the current organist is.  (One plaque mentions Franck.)

From there, we walked to find the Church of the Madeleine and seek out dinner possibilities and witnessed some lovely autumn vistas around the Seine: 

-Right Bank on the left (the Louvre) & Notre Dame & Left Bank on the right-

Monday: The Louvre 

End of Day Two - written & photographed by Eric Birk.

We hope you’ll also enjoy the hyper-links provided, particularly the ones offering great moments with Daniel Roth at the magnificent Cavaille-Coll Organ. 

Part Three will be added Tuesday,  February 26.

Reminder: Monthly Vacation Contest Drawing will be held on the fourth Friday.

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Is Paris France  still the most Popular Travel Destination? 

What an enjoyable moment it is to receive, as the travel agent, notice that your customers were fully satisfied with the travel arrangements made for their trip. I’m delighted to introduce Eric Birk & Bernadette Hoke, who are both established concert artists (organ & piano) living in New York City. It gives me great pleasure to post the Travel Journal - Part One, of their first trip to Paris France.

Well, we finally got there…

After spending however many years playing French Music (organ and/or piano), and admiring French Art, Cooking, et al… we made it to Paris to celebrate Bernadette’s 50th Birthday. Starting on Friday, Nov. 2 with a meal to end all meals at L’Elysées du Vernet - Hotel Vernet that had us in gastronomic ecstasy with every bite, we had four days of beautiful autumn weather and fit in as much of the main sites of interest that we could. Friday– Shopping at Galeries Lafayette, where it’s Christmas early–just like at home, and general walking around the 8th arrondisement window-shopping and seeing “the Champs”– what must be the world’s widest street, the Champs Elysees (Elysian Fields in English). Very near our hotel was the Arc de Triomphe at the Charles deGaulle Ètoile.
[It was cloudy that day, so this picture is from Monday.]

Saturday — We hit the cobblestones still a bit jet-lagged and only a little hungry for petit-dejeuner (their first meal which barely translates to “breakfast” both linguistically and nutritionally) followed by treks to Notre Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower and scouting out services to attend on Sunday in St. German-du-Pres (St. Sulpice). Notre Dame was magical (that’s where Bernadette sat down under the yellow leaves to take lunch in the upper right photo at the top of this message), and we have photos to prove it!– what else would explain why we couldn’t get one clear photo of the windows?

We wanted to make sure we got to church on Sunday at the right time, so we went by St. Sulpice (where Widor, Dupré, Grunewald, and now Daniel Roth and Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin (Cauchefer-Choplin biography) have been the only titular organists since 1862!) and found that they are in the middle of major restoration. But it is still so awe-inspiring in person. Unlike many churches in Paris, this was not built in the gothic style, but was built with neo-classic arches and towers and does not have the dark windows, fitting for the church of the “holy sepulchre” (the empty tomb of Christ)! The light is like a misty presence from all of the windows. Just as we arrived the sun came out for the first time while we were in Paris! So we got the picture at the upper left of this message and this window. This window has three Delacroix murals (on either side and the ceiling) around it.

End of Day One - written by Eric Birk.

Part Two will be added  tomorrow, February 22.

We hope you’ll also enjoy the hyper-links provided, particularly the ones offering great moments with Daniel Roth and Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin  at the magnificent Cavaille-Coll Organ.

  Awe-inspiring beauty abounds

     waiting to enrich our lives!

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