The beautiful country of Germany holds many treasures for the visitor; here are a few of our favorites.
It’s hard to avoid chocolate when you’re visiting Belgium and especially so in Bruges, where there are chocolate shops galore. As if it weren’t enough to be tempted by hundreds of chocolate shops, hot chocolate drinks are also widely available on menus around the city. One tea room that we highly recommend is De Proeverie, […]
Somewhere in Samoa Samoa or the Samoan Islands consist of a group of nine islands in the South Pacific about halfway from Hawaii to New Zealand. Only the western half of the Samoan Islands archipelago is part of Samoa. The eastern half of the islands, known as American Samoa, belongs to the United States. The […]
Г‰ com certeza uma casa Portuguesa! Bless your soul if you’re into churches. In central Portugal is the village of Fatima, with its national shrine in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima. Roman Catholics have made pilgrimages to Fatima since 1917, when three shepherd children reported seeing the Virgin Mary there six […]
For over nine years, Neil and Joan Malling have been spending their summers cruising the canals and rivers of Western Europe aboard their now thirty-one-year-old Dutch motor-cruiser, the “Estate.” This year they are again sharing their experiences. This is the first of their 2010 articles.
The Vancouver Aquarium is a public aquarium, which officially is called as the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre. This aquarium lies in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vancouver itself is a major tourist destination and due to the Vancouver Aquarium, which is again a major tourist attraction, the city draws millions of visitors […]
rudnogorsk mining Rudnogorsk is located in the province of Irkutsk in Siberia and is best known for open and underground mining and milling iron ore. With a population of approximately 4,500 inhabitants, the city mainly supports the mining plants. Since Rudnogorsk is located in Siberia, the miners normally experience adverse weathers conditions.
IMG_5310 The Axe Historique or Historical Axis is the line of monuments, buildings, and thoroughfares that run from the center of Paris – from the Louvre and along Champs-Élysées and Avenue de la Grand Armée all the way to the outskirts of the city at La Défense. This axial line has been carefully maintained to […]
Fabulous Mosque… Istanbul is the city on which civilizations and empires have been built. It straddles Europe and Asia and its location on the Bosporus Strait has made it one of the most coveted cities in world history. The Bosporus Strait, after all, links the Black Sea to the Sea of Miramar to the Aegean […]
Every time I travel to the Amalfi Coast I am swept away by its beautiful beaches, its incredible seafood, and the kindness of the people who live in houses built into the sheer cliffs. But it was only on my last trip that I discovered a plethora of hiking trails. The trails wind back through […]
