...She's Wearing Different Clothes Again...Who would have thought that going back to work in First Life after eight months on furlough would be so disruptive? But, as it says in the title, Tanji's on the road again, this time looking at one of the many seasonal Winter Wonderland themed locations that appear all over the grid at this time of year. I’m sure a lot of you will be familiar with the Calas Galadhon group of sims. For a long time the park has been a beacon of quality in terms of landscape and design and the parks owner-curators Ty Tenk and Truck Meredith should be praised for their contribution to life on the grid. I may have said this before, but they are members of a group of SL residents that I admire tremendously, people who build and host sims that they then make available to the public. Without the generosity of these people there would be no “Tanji’s Travels”. In his Profile Ty describes Christmas as his “favorite holiday sim” and this year’s offering is a treasure. "A Christmas Dream" begins with a fantastic confection of candy canes, ice bridges and illuminated archways. This leads you across the sky to the portal to the sim itself, but TAKE YOUR TIME and look around you, there are lots of witty little details to get you in the right mood for what is to come… Once you are at ground level theirs is no alternative but to take your time. This is a “no fly” sim, so you have to walk everywhere, which gives you plenty of opportunity to admire the Winter midnight scene around you. The location is centred on the Winter Pavilion, a lavishly decorated space with a central ballroom and two side rooms for more intimate gatherings. There also a comprehensive programme of seasonal performances posted here. In front of the pavilion is a very respectably proportioned skating pond, which has proved enormously popular with visitors to the sim. Don’t worry if you do not have skates or a suitable AO; at the western end of the pond there are poseballs for skating and an ice skate giver for Calas Galadhon Announcement Group members. This is a good location to set a Landmark for the sim as well, unless you want to make your way through that fabulous candy-cane causeway on each visit. Also at this location is the Balloon Tour which I would recommend to everyone, - you will see things you certainly would miss without the benefit of an elevated viewpoint. You might like to look out for the Nativity scene located in a cave behind the pavilion, or the Christmas Turkeys and reindeer “on the hoof”. I spent quite a while just walking around the sim, - keep your eyes open for amusing little “vignettes” of wildlife or seasonal items. A Christmas Dream is not the only seasonally-themed sim on the grid, but certainly one of the best executed; here's another slideshow of some of the highlights I mentioned And finally, the different clothes thing? Winter clothes of course!! Visit "A Christmas Dream" HERE
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Ella Lysette
12/14/2020 04:38:20 am
Fabulous pictures and brilliant description of a truly amazing location.
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