Tagged With "Father Damien"

So there really was a "Big Kahuna". I thought it was just a slang expression.

Somewhere I've got a snapshot of a very young me with a tiny lady holding an object who had insisted my friend take our picture in the garden together. It was in the village of Petra, Majorca and she officiated at the small museum commemorating Junipero Serra's birthplace. I was spending the summer on the island and every student educated in California knows his name almost as well as their own. The address of my high school was El Camino Real, Father Serra's road from mission to mission and...

Interesting tour DrF. Other than a living museum does the mission have a function today ? Very comprehensive collection of photos and well described too. There must be a long and interesting story to these missions - other than teaching religion. Fascinating history of a new country. Thanks.

Thanks the comment Garry. Yes the mission still functions as a place of worship. But the main place of worship is the new basilica which is right next door. Today it is mostly a museum.

  Duke Kahanamoku (August 24, 1890 – January 22, 1968) is a legend in the world of surfing, but this was only one of his many great achievements.   Duke (aka "The Big Kahuna") was born in Honolulu and grew up in Kalia, Waikiki (near...

          The Vatican's Pieta, by Michelangelo.   Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia , home of Michelangelo's David, will put on a exhibition temporarily titled "The great masters of contemporary art...

On their quest to visit all 50 state capitol buildings, Samantha and her husband feel a spirit of 'aloha' in Honolulu.

  Congratulations to ace traveling sleuths, PortMoresby and TravelRob, for recognizing Mission San Juan Capistrano!  That's indeed where Gumbo was.  Jonathan L also suggested the Los Angeles Mission, which I've never visited but...

A major new museum of modern and contemporary art, housing the collection of Francois Pinault, will open in Paris's historic Bourse de Commerce.

Samantha shares her emotional yet wonderful visit to her granmother's home town of Dresden, Tennessee on what would have been her 107th birthday.

Samantha shares more pictures from her tour of the only open air Capitol in the US, the Hawaii Capitol.

In a pandemic-induced cash crunch, British Airways is looking to sell some of the art hanging in its offices and lounges.

A former guest house of the famed porcelain factory has become arguably the world's most expensive overnight stay.

The Modern Contemporary Museum, a fixture in Amsterdam, is opening a new site in Barcelona this week.

Palermo Cathedral is one of the Arab-Norman cathedrals for which the region has received UNESCO recognition. It has a fabulous exterior that is well worth seeing

I love honesty in advertising!  When a place as historically famous as Mission San Juan Capistrano tells you it's "Worth a Visit", it's not only a believable claim but likely one of the most understated in all of California.

Once again, as has happened several times in recent years, diligent cleaning crews at an art gallery have cleared up what seemed to them obvious trash, and to the curators valuable art.  

Dateline: Weston-Super-Mare, England, August 24th 2015  Housed on the site old Tropicana swimming lido built in 1937 that once boasted the largest outdoor swimming pool in Europe and which has been unused since 2000 we now have the latest "must see" spectacle in Europe.