Squidoo City Guide Blog

Announcing the brand new Squidoo City Guide Blog!
We'll be featuring some our best lenses, new and popular lensmasters, tips on how to make our city lenses better and much more. We're also developing a new website that will bring user created pages about cities, towns and villages from around the world. And the foundation for the web site will be the great lenses right here at SCG.
We've also created a custom search engine that will feature our member lenses in the search results. All of our member lenses are automatically included. You can see it here. Vote for your lens, add comments and more.

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Featured City Lens

We frequently feature an outstanding city lens at the Squidoo City Guide blog. Here's the blog post for the latest one.

Or you can go stright to the lens.

Freedom Fest in Pendleton SC

Freedom Fest in Pendleton South Carolina is an old fashioned Patriotic community celebration that is fun for the whole family. We have Games For The Children with prizes, Great Food including watermelon wedges, Live Music, Bingo with the Mayor, Bake...

Featured Cities

A regular feature of the Squidoo City Guide blog, our Featured City Lenses are outstanding examples of lenscrafting. Here's the whole list.

If you would like to have your lens considered for our Featured City contact me.

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Cities From Around The World

Parry Sound, Ontario Canada

Parry Sound, Ontario is located about 9 hours from Cleveland, Ohio. I know this because every year of my childhood I traveled to Parry Sound for vacation. We stayed in the cabins at Point Pleasant which is now just a marina and camped at Hutches Have...

The Last Drop, Edinburgh

The Last Drop is a traditional Scottish pub in the centre of Edinburgh's historical Old Town, to be found at 74/78, The Grassmarket, near The Royal Mile. It is a place of wooden beams, a friendly atmosphere, fine ales and quality food. The...

Visit Amsterdam

By Sharon Stajda, Visiting the Netherlands means plenty of gorgeous scenery and friendly people, but the small world-class city known as Amsterdam has many of its own features not to be missed by travelers. Many visitors book a trip to this northern E...

Sights and Sounds of Haikou City!

Haikou, situated at the north of Hainan island, is the capital of Hainan Province of the People's Republic of China and has an estimated population of 830,192 [Source: Wikipedia - 2006], therefore by far the largest city on the island. Named "Haikoup...

The Beauty Of Paris, France!

Paris the city of light. Welcome here and enjoy a quick trip to Paris through this lens. Even though I was born in Lyon, France as I mentioned in my Lens about Lyon, I have lived in Paris for 5 years during my acting years while attending the Charl...

SCG On tagfoot

tagfoot.com is a brand new, no-nonsense social bookmarking site. And I'm bookmarking all of our members there. Most of us were introduced to Tagfoot by lensmaster N376 and a lot of Squidoo lensmasters are signing up for this powerful new site. Learn more about Tagfoot.

Browse through our SCG members bookmarked on tagfoot.

Join tagfoot now. Now you can join tagfoot and see what it's all about. It's still in Beta, but it's growing fast and you should be a part of it. If you bookmark SCG member lens there, be sure to let me know.

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Lens Of The Day Recipients

These are our member lenses that have been bequeathed the coveted Lens Of The Day distinction. Congratulations Lensmasters!

The Last Drop, Edinburgh

The Last Drop is a traditional Scottish pub in the centre of Edinburgh's historical Old Town, to be found at 74/78, The Grassmarket, near The Royal Mile. It is a place of wooden beams, a friendly atmosphere, fine ales and quality food. The...

Bournemouth - Seaside Beaches Holidays Sunshine

If someone was to mention Bournemouth to you, what would come to mind? If you live outside of the UK, probably not a lot, since Bournemouth isn't on the list of main attractions that you find in the tourist brochures, especially for visitors from the...

Visit San Francisco

Sometimes when you live close to a big city, you forget to take the time to enjoy her beautiful qualities.  San Francisco is full of gems, some hidden.  Listed here are a few lovely places to go when you visit San Francisco. I'll start off w...

Oktoberfest in Munich | Bavaria | Germany | Beer | Food | Costume | 2009

Oktoberfest 2008 in Munich may be over, but there's no time like the present to start planning for Oktoberfest 2009. Having lived many years in Munich myself, I found that the Oktoberfest is an inescapable reality you can either love or hate. It cel...

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Squidoo City Guide Discussion

The Squidoo City Group is groing quickly. We have lots of plans in store. Tell us what you think, what you'd like to see, ask us a question.

Our 500th Lens!!

We've just hit the milestone of accepting our 500th lens to the Squidoo City Guide. Thanks to all of our members for their great lenses about cities, towns and villages from around the world.

And a special congratulations to Lensmaster Evelyn Saenz

Wardsboro 4th of July

This small Vermont town fair began back in 1949 when community members were brainstorming ideas to raise money and has turned into a celebration that brings people back year after year. Some people look forward to building floats and others watchi...

North American Lenses

Sin City: The Las Vegas Guide

Las Vegas is the fastest growing city in North America, and one of the most popular travel destinations. Here are some tips to guide you through the wide range of casino, hotel, resort, golf and other entertainment attractions offered for the whole f...

Puerto Vallarta Mexico...Tips On Where to stay - What to do - And So Much More ...

By Sharon Stajda, Puerto Vallarta Is a wonderful Mexican city that is fronted by the blue Pacific Ocean, and backed by the lush, green tropical Sierra Madre Mountains. The people are friendly and charming, always helpful and accommodating. The minute...

The Big Apple: The NY City Guide

When most people say "New York City" they are really referring to the island of Manhattan, a borough of NYC.  When most people visit New York, this is where they go.  The area is small compared to the State, but the history is a r...

Going To New York --- A few Good Tips

By Sharon Stajda, The Twin Towers stood for all that New York was, and is. But mere buildings aren't, and will never be the life force that makes up New York City. Its the very ground it stands on, and the people that walk that ground that makes New Y...

Detroit Michigan - Things to do on your visit to Detroit

Spirit of Detroit       The $40,000 bronze statue created by Marshall Fredericks, which some Detroiters call the Jolly Green Giant because of its green patina, was commissioned in 1955, and dedicated in 1958, and is perhaps the city's...

Featured SCG Lensmasters

Here's some of our favorite lensmasters. They all have a bunch of great lenses.

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  PatinKC
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  GypsyPirate
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  relache
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  sheywood
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  genglo

The Freshest Lenses

These lenses are the most recently updated and current ones of the bunch.

Uxbridge, Middlesex, Stow, Ohio : A City Guide, Sonora, California, Slough, Berkshire, England, Fargo Local & World News on Hurrican!

International Lenses

Squidoo lensmaters are from all around the world. Here's some of our international city lenses.

London, England - A Guide

For a bird's-eye view of London, take a spin on the London Eye, the Ferris wheel overlooking the Thames. Don't miss landmarks like Big Ben, the Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Globe Theatre. Spend a day at the Tate Modern or shopping al...

Tuscany - The Lure Of Lucca...

By Sharon Stajda, Tuscany is home to the town of Lucca, an exquisite example of Romanesque architecture displayed in all of its glory throughout the town. The cathedrals of San Michele and San Martino is two of the best examples of the Romanesque ar...

Leicester City

Leicester city is located in the East Midlands, England. The city is the largest in the East Midlands and forms the central city in the county of Leicestershire. Currently the city has a population estimated at around three hundred thousand people an...

Hasselt, Belgium... A Great City To Visit...

By Sharon Stajda,   Hasselt was founded in the 7th century. Located on the Helbeek, which is a tributery of the Demer river. The name Hasselt came from the word Hasaluth. Which means hazel wood... Located in the Limburg Province approximately 75 km...

Things I love about Brisbane

This lens is out there just to give you an idea of why this city is the best city in Australia.  It must be because people flock here from interstate for holidays and many of them never go back.  I have lived away for the past 5 years and h...

USA Lens Series

Our good friend and fellow Lensmaster Poddys has begun a series of lenses on USA Cities. They are excellent sources of information, fun to read and a great place to add a link to your city lenses. This list will display the latest additions to his series.

You can find links to all of his USA Lenses in his tagfoot bookmarks.

Join tagfoot here.

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Be A Proud Member

We love for members to show of their membership. Here's a couple links back to the Squidoo City Guide that you can add to your lens. Just highlight the blue text, cut and paste into a text module on your city lens. And thanks for the love.

This lens is a member of the
Squidoo City Guide



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This lens is a member of the Squidoo City Guide

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