Guanaja Honduras Guanaja is the second largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras, smaller than Roatan but bigger than Útila. It is part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef system, which is the second largest reef system in the world after Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The main town of Guanaja is actually located on one of […]
LYS JAUNE ГЂ MГ‰TIS Grand Métis is a small village in the Gaspé peninsula of eastern Quebec, situated at the confluence of the Mitis and St. Lawrence River.[1] The main attraction of Grand Métis is the magnificent Jardins de Métis, the historic Reford gardens. In 1919, Elsie Reford inherited her uncle’s estate and created a […]
ElMo Ravine Elysian Park is a hilly middle-class neighborhood of Los Angeles about two miles north of the Civic Center district. It was founded in 1886 and has been shrinking in size ever since. A chunk of the district was taken to build the Pasadena Freeway and another chunk to build a training facility for […]
Petra The Czech Republic has made great progress economically and otherwise since its emergence from behind the Iron Curtain. And tourism in this country has really blossomed. The Czechs have certainly had a rough century. Originally a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the country merged with the Slovaks to form Czechoslovakia after WWI, only to […]
Condé-sur-Noireau is a busy town in the French province of Normandy that is very close to the town of Vire. Condé-sur-Noireau is located on the fringes of the Calvados and Orne regions. The town is perhaps most famous for being the birthplace of Cesar Dumont d’Urville (or Jules Dumont d’Urville). This passionate and dedicated seafarer […]
mi_tierra_002 Catarina is a small town about 10 miles southeast of Masaya, Nicaragua. Located near Volcán Masaya National Park, Catarina offers a spectacular lookout point of the crater lake, Laguna de Apoyo (Lake Apoyo), atop a cliff along the lake’s edge. The lake is a favorite swim spot for many tourists and there are a […]
FISH LADDER Ballard is a neighborhood in Seattle’s northwest with a Scandinavian heritage, originally settled by northern European seafarers as a fishing community. Today, Ballard features a number of attractions including the Nordic Heritage Museum, which depicts and traces the lives of the early Scandinavian settlers. The museum recreates a farm in the old country […]