Gumbo’s Pic of the Day, Nov. 7, 2013: Bicycle taxi, Santa Clara, Cuba.
CUBAN BICYCLE TAXI Cuba- A surprise around every corner ! Santa Clara, Cuba has a Central “Town Square” in the typical Spanish style. It has Trees for shade and long benches for…
CUBAN BICYCLE TAXI Cuba- A surprise around every corner ! Santa Clara, Cuba has a Central “Town Square” in the typical Spanish style. It has Trees for shade and long benches for…
Here’s the Brooklyn Museum, in a night view that has the dramatic lighting of a linen-era postcard. The museum is a world-class collection that doesn’t get noticed as much as it should because it lives in the shadow of Manhattan’s…
t The Schatzkammer, or Imperial Treasury, is part of the Hapsburg Palace complex (adjoining the Swiss Court) in central Vienna. Here you’ll find the Crown jewels and other fascinating treasures of Austria (including an…
I enjoy watching sunsets and sunrises whenever I can, mostly because of their beautiful light. This particular sunset (above) was partially blocked by a thick convoluted mass of clouds below us, but the diffused and changing light were…
Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate is surely one of the world’s most-recognized landmarks, and symbolizes Berlin in the way the Eiffel Tower means Paris and the Parthenon means Athens. It’s been the ceremonial center for marches and…
Tombstone, Arizona has a very colorful past, rich in the facts and mythology of America’s Wild West. It was in this town that Sheriff Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holiday engaged in the “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” wherein these “lawmen”…
Today’s photo is a very appropriate way for me to introduce myself for the first time to TravelGumbo’s Friday Picture of the Day feature. So, it’s “Hi” from me, Mac, and “Hi” from them, my most magnificent three Sadhus.
Happy Halloween, everyone! Today’s photo comes from Ottawa’s Byward Market, an excellent Farmer’s Market in Canada’s National Capitol. The photo highlights a colorful display of pumpkins and squashes that were for sale, a typical…
Almost as if he were painting with plantings and water, the Impressionist painter Claude Monet spent years creating gardens and water features around his house and studio in Giverny, west of Paris and on the edge of Normandy.
Chartres is a great day-trip destination for those visiting Paris. An hour’s train ride from the City of Lights, Chartres’ main highlight is its magnificent cathedral (itself a UNESCO World Heritage Site).
CUBAN BICYCLE TAXI Cuba- A surprise around every corner ! Santa Clara, Cuba has a Central “Town Square” in the typical Spanish style. It has Trees for shade and long benches for…
Here’s the Brooklyn Museum, in a night view that has the dramatic lighting of a linen-era postcard. The museum is a world-class collection that doesn’t get noticed as much as it should because it lives in the shadow of Manhattan’s…
t The Schatzkammer, or Imperial Treasury, is part of the Hapsburg Palace complex (adjoining the Swiss Court) in central Vienna. Here you’ll find the Crown jewels and other fascinating treasures of Austria (including an…
I enjoy watching sunsets and sunrises whenever I can, mostly because of their beautiful light. This particular sunset (above) was partially blocked by a thick convoluted mass of clouds below us, but the diffused and changing light were…
Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate is surely one of the world’s most-recognized landmarks, and symbolizes Berlin in the way the Eiffel Tower means Paris and the Parthenon means Athens. It’s been the ceremonial center for marches and…
Tombstone, Arizona has a very colorful past, rich in the facts and mythology of America’s Wild West. It was in this town that Sheriff Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holiday engaged in the “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” wherein these “lawmen”…
Today’s photo is a very appropriate way for me to introduce myself for the first time to TravelGumbo’s Friday Picture of the Day feature. So, it’s “Hi” from me, Mac, and “Hi” from them, my most magnificent three Sadhus.
Happy Halloween, everyone! Today’s photo comes from Ottawa’s Byward Market, an excellent Farmer’s Market in Canada’s National Capitol. The photo highlights a colorful display of pumpkins and squashes that were for sale, a typical…
Almost as if he were painting with plantings and water, the Impressionist painter Claude Monet spent years creating gardens and water features around his house and studio in Giverny, west of Paris and on the edge of Normandy.
Chartres is a great day-trip destination for those visiting Paris. An hour’s train ride from the City of Lights, Chartres’ main highlight is its magnificent cathedral (itself a UNESCO World Heritage Site).