Category Travel
Getting Older With The Lions
On this Flashback Friday we revisit September 27, 2014, with thoughts that started more than 30 years before that. In some ways our visit to London this summer was a write-off. It was the last day before our flight home, and I had planned to take in a few sights, it having been a long […]
The Duke
I remember learning in school how he beat Napoleon at Waterloo. Somehow I missed that he also served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, twice. Nor had I realized that technically he was Irish. Of course, back in 1769, when the Duke of Wellington was born, Dublin, and all of Ireland was firmly British, […]
The Fountain
Thought I would do something travel-related today. give everybody a break from politics. This fountain is at the base of the old Water Tower in Mannheim, Germany. When I lived in the country it was a city I always intended to visit, if for no reason other than to see their hockey team in action. […]
Remembering The Dead
On this Flashback Friday we go back to a post from September 6, 2014. At the time I visited this German war cemetery I never dreamed that three years later I would be living in Germany. It is a solemn place and a stark reminder that there were no winners in the First World War. […]
Seven Sisters – II
Today a photo essay, following up on yesterday’s post, I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.
Seven Sisters – I
If you go to East Sussex, England, these chalk cliffs are considered a “must see.” I’d never heard of them before this year, but I’m usually happy to go with the flow. I’ve never been a fan of pebble beaches – sand is more my thing. Still, standing at the bottom of the Seven Sisters […]
Maybe Not What You Think
The cliffs are white, but this isn’t Dover. These are the Seven Sisters, as seen from Seaford Head, a local nature preserve in Sussex, England. Admittedly, it isn’t that far from Dover, and that body of water is the English Channel. I must admit, I had never heard of the Seven Sisters, though I realize […]
This Year’s Pigs
They’ve become emblematic of the German city of Lippstadt. Three wooden pigs, roped together, that inhabit the pedestrian mall in the city core When I first met them, more than a decade ago, I thought they were a rather quaint idea. Something mostly to amuse children, they can be pulled down the street. You never […]
Images of Sunrise 2024
What would August be like if I didn’t share new photos of the sun rising over the Atlantic Ocean at Old Orchard Beach, Maine? This year I was up early enough to be on te beach for the sunrise each day, but most days were either overcast or foggy. Today’s photo essay is a sampling […]
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