Tagged With "Giant"
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, May 10, 2015: Northern Ireland
Wonderful photo's of a beautiful part of the world.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, May 10, 2015: Northern Ireland
Brings back many great memories! The Giant's Causeway is truly spectacular.
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Re: A Visit to Ireland: (Part 9) The Giant's Causeway
Yeah it really is a beautiful part of the world. If you get a chance, try and get to Clare's Cliff's of Moher. Also unspoiled and breath taking!
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Re: A Visit to Ireland: (Part 9) The Giant's Causeway
Hello fifitrix 100. Welcome to TravelGumbo and thanks for your comment. We have yet to find a place in Ireland we don't like! And the Cliffs of Moher are truly spectacular. Our write-up on them is at this link if you're interested
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Jan. 23, 2014: Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Ontario
Do the modern Canadian folks still use the original names that the indigenous people used for local places ?
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Jan. 23, 2014: Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Ontario
Sometimes we do, Garry. Like Lake Minnewanka, Kakabeka falls, and so on. But more often Anglicized names are used, or translation of native names into English (eg. "Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump"). What say you, Ottoman?
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Jan. 23, 2014: Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Ontario
I've been to a few places where the aboriginal people have been pushed aside for the Concrete Jungle of Western or Anglicised living. I do feel a touch guilty - but ......
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Jan. 23, 2014: Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Ontario
Hi Garry RF and DrFumblefinger. Thanks for you interest on today's pic of the day...the Sleeping Giant. Garry, in Northwestern Ontario (and many other areas of Canada), aboriginal names are used quite commonly. In Thunder Bay, many medical clinics, schools, recreational centers, and so on have an aboriginal name, not to mention the many towns and landmarks in the area that also have aboriginal names. A major piece of Northwestern Ontario's history involves the fur trade (which of course the...
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Jan. 23, 2014: Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Ontario
Passing through Towns in Australia and North America (incl. Canada) I like to stop off and take a few photo's of places that have been named after places in the UK. In Chester PA. I was asked "Do you have a Chester too?" - " Yes and a Jersey, York, Boston, Washington, Dover, Bethesda, Birmingham and a few more " Didn't know you had a Fort William until I was watching a "Who Do You Think You Are" TV show recently. A female Celebrity was tracking her ancestral trail from the UK.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, May 10, 2015: Northern Ireland
I recently came back from a 3 day trip to Northern Ireland, and loved it. The weather was unusually sunny (but very cold) while I explored one of the most beautiful coastlines in Europe. Northern Ireland has become quite...
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Sequoia National Park: Home of the World's Largest Trees
DrFumblefinger walks among the giant trees of Sequoia National Park. The sequoias are the most massive living things on the planet.
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New Vienna attraction: Tiny twin pandas
The happy moment turned out to be double as videos revealed that Yang Yang had given birth to two baby pandas.
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The Prater, Vienna: Austria's Playground for Everyone
While in Vienna, Samantha and her husband spent a few hours checking out Austria's playground, the Prater. The giant Ferris Wheel is the draw to the park, but there is so much to see and do.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Jan. 23, 2014: Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Ontario
Thunder Bay's 50 million ton city mascot is known as the Sleeping Giant, the panoramic Sibley Peninsula, a formation of mesas and sills that juts out on Lake Superior and forms the body of water that is Thunder Bay. When viewed from the City,...
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Texas celebrates really stinky tourist attraction
Galveston's Moody Gardens has a beauty that both attracts and repels: it's a Giant Corpse Flower with a terrible smell that gave it its name.
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Re: The Prater, Vienna: Austria's Playground for Everyone
The inscription on the memorial translates as The Master dedicated one of his most beautiful songs to the Vienna Prater, In the Prater, the Flowers Bloom Again.
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The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias (Where Gumbo was #383)
Gumbo was visiting the largest grove of Sequoia trees in Yosemite National Parks. Sequoias are the largest living things on the planet.
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Green Giant statue, Blue Earth, Minnesota
DrFumblefinger visits a statue of the Jolly Green Giant in the small prairie town of Blue Earth.
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The Whispering Giant, Winnipeg Beach
DrFumblefinger visits the Whispering Giant, a cedar wood-carving in Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba.
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Re: Green Giant statue, Blue Earth, Minnesota
On a cross-country drive, several years ago, my wifenand I ate lunch right under the Giant.
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A Visit to Ireland: (Part 9) The Giant's Causeway
How can you resist visiting a geologic formation created by giants? I couldn't! Situated on a five mile stretch of Northern Ireland's rugged Antrim coast, the Giant’s Causeway is well worth going out of your way to see. In...
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Jolly Green Giant, Minnesota
Samantha shares pictures of the Jolly Green Giant statue in Blue Earth, Minnesota while on a recent trip through the Mid-West.
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My wife and I ate lunch in the shadow of the Jolly Green Giant in Blue Earth.
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Re: Jolly Green Giant, Minnesota
Set realistic expectations. This is a cute statue of a giant green man. As a retro type of road trip roadside attraction it is excellent! You are provided a ladder to climb up to the Jolly Giant feet
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Exploring the Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California
DrFumblefinger cruises down the Avenue of the Giants, a 31 mile stretch of highway known for its massive redwood stands.