Tag Archives: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Images from the Railway Museum
I have never been to the Canadian Railway Museum. Visiting York last summer and seeing what Britain’s national railway museum has to offer has caused me to think that maybe I should see what its Canadian counterpart is like. After all, the railway played an important role in building the Canadian nation and remains an […]
The Rainbow
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring […]
Searching For Dracula – II
Dracula is everywhere in Romania, perhaps, the biggest tourist draw. Romanians would be proud of him, you would think. But they’re not. Oh, they’ll exploit his image and soak the tourists. The image of Dracula that you know from Hollywood movies and Bram Stoker’s novel is everywhere. But Vlad Dracul, 15th century ruler of the […]
Forgotten Heroes
One of the things I enjoy about vacation is just wandering around the community I visit. No set agenda, no plans to see any particular sight or building; just soak in the sights and sounds of the city. When doing that I occasionally notice things that aren’t in the guide books that intrigue me. A […]
Cats
Now I wish i had taken more pictures. It was a storefront in Ypres, Belgium. I can’t remember if the store was empty or under renovations, but the drawings of cats with accompanying quotes caught my eye. In English, they must have been aimed at tourists, saying things like “Cats are smarter than dogs. You […]
Sunrise
I am a morning person. Even when I am on vacation and have no need to rise early, I am still awake at the crack of dawn. And if I am awake, I might as well get up. When we are in Maine, which is our usual August routine, I frequently head down to the […]
Waiting for Summer
Another brutally cold day. Environment Canada tells me there is an “Extreme Cold Warning in Effect.” I’m thinking of summer vacation and the Atlantic Ocean at Ocean Park, Maine.
The Costs of War
When we toured the First World War battlefields in the Ypres area of Belgium last summer, the enormity of the human toll was apparent. The numbers are staggering. Daily casualty figures were measured in hundreds or thousands as more than a half a million men died in combat on Flanders fields in four years of […]
Traffic Signs
Once again today I am going to let the picture do most of the talking. It’s been posted on my home office desk for more than a decade. The signs are at Oceanwood, a Baptist camp in Ocean Park, Maine. I first noticed them when we were walking through the camp to take one of […]
Two Bad Boys of York
The sign in the pub window caught my eye as we walked past and I snapped a picture with my phone. I meant to go back and find out more, but that didn’t happen in the four days we spent in York last summer. Next time I guess. Probably everyone in Britain knows who Guy […]
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