Destinations

The Weymouth Seafood Festival 2014

I have written a short note about my newly adopted hometown of Weymouth on the southern English coast. Amongst the many delights that we have already experienced was last weekend’s Weymouth Seafood Festival.

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DrFumblefinger’s Ireland Series

1) Overview of Ireland   Road trip around Ireland:   2) Rock of Cashel 3) Kenmare 4) Ring of Kerry 5) Town of Dingle 6) Slea Head/Dingle Peninsula  and Galarus Oratory 7) Cliffs of Moher 8) Northern Ireland/Portrush 9) Giant’s Causeway…

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Hike of the Week: The Waters of Prospect Park

Think of a hike and you think of nature, right? And this hike in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park will look a lot like nature, but that’s actually a complete deception. Almost nothing in the entire park is “natural.”    When the then-city of…

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Cruising down the Nile (part 3)

In the late afternoon we reach the Ombos temple, or the Crocodile Temple, on the Nile’s east bank – that of “life”. This is a really beautiful temple with the frieze of the Pharaoh being anointed by Gods with the life giving waters of the Nile. Around…

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Sudeley Castle, witness to England’s turbulent past

Located in the small Cotswold village of Winchcombe near the city of Cheltenham in south west England, Sudeley Castle was built on the site of an earlier castle by Ralph Boteler, Baron Sudeley, using money he had ‘earned’ fighting in Europe in the Hundred Years’ War

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Madrid’s Atocha Station: Where Gumbo Was (#43)

No, not a king’s arboretum, or the Budapest palm house. And not in the Mid-Atlantic region. PortMoresby came closest when she suggested an airport, possibly in southern Spain. It’s actually the main long-distance waiting room of Madrid’s Atocha…

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Cruising down the Nile (part 2)

You are back on your vessel, so settle yourself down on the upper deck and just watch Egypt’s panorama unfold before your eyes!     Endlessly on both banks daily life shows itself to you and seems much as it has been over the past hundreds…

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Hang around in Morocco….

I am adding another couple of ancient pics from 1980. The first, one of the many typical “Kasbahs” (fortified dwellings) in Morocco. These can still be widely seen today and are…

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The Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Once known as the “Pearl of Asia,” it was considered one of the loveliest French-built cities in Indochina in the 1920s. Phnom Penh, along with Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, are significant global and domestic tourist destinations for Cambodia.

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Looking for Historical Landmarks !

When I was researching the history of the land my house is built on I opened up so much information. During WW1 the land was used for a temporary Army Camp. Many new soldiers were from Wales – 20 miles away – who spoke no English !

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The Weymouth Seafood Festival 2014

I have written a short note about my newly adopted hometown of Weymouth on the southern English coast. Amongst the many delights that we have already experienced was last weekend’s Weymouth Seafood Festival.

Read More

DrFumblefinger’s Ireland Series

1) Overview of Ireland   Road trip around Ireland:   2) Rock of Cashel 3) Kenmare 4) Ring of Kerry 5) Town of Dingle 6) Slea Head/Dingle Peninsula  and Galarus Oratory 7) Cliffs of Moher 8) Northern Ireland/Portrush 9) Giant’s Causeway…

Read More

Hike of the Week: The Waters of Prospect Park

Think of a hike and you think of nature, right? And this hike in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park will look a lot like nature, but that’s actually a complete deception. Almost nothing in the entire park is “natural.”    When the then-city of…

Read More

Cruising down the Nile (part 3)

In the late afternoon we reach the Ombos temple, or the Crocodile Temple, on the Nile’s east bank – that of “life”. This is a really beautiful temple with the frieze of the Pharaoh being anointed by Gods with the life giving waters of the Nile. Around…

Read More

Sudeley Castle, witness to England’s turbulent past

Located in the small Cotswold village of Winchcombe near the city of Cheltenham in south west England, Sudeley Castle was built on the site of an earlier castle by Ralph Boteler, Baron Sudeley, using money he had ‘earned’ fighting in Europe in the Hundred Years’ War

Read More

Madrid’s Atocha Station: Where Gumbo Was (#43)

No, not a king’s arboretum, or the Budapest palm house. And not in the Mid-Atlantic region. PortMoresby came closest when she suggested an airport, possibly in southern Spain. It’s actually the main long-distance waiting room of Madrid’s Atocha…

Read More

Cruising down the Nile (part 2)

You are back on your vessel, so settle yourself down on the upper deck and just watch Egypt’s panorama unfold before your eyes!     Endlessly on both banks daily life shows itself to you and seems much as it has been over the past hundreds…

Read More

Hang around in Morocco….

I am adding another couple of ancient pics from 1980. The first, one of the many typical “Kasbahs” (fortified dwellings) in Morocco. These can still be widely seen today and are…

Read More

The Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Once known as the “Pearl of Asia,” it was considered one of the loveliest French-built cities in Indochina in the 1920s. Phnom Penh, along with Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, are significant global and domestic tourist destinations for Cambodia.

Read More

Looking for Historical Landmarks !

When I was researching the history of the land my house is built on I opened up so much information. During WW1 the land was used for a temporary Army Camp. Many new soldiers were from Wales – 20 miles away – who spoke no English !

Read More