Mount Olivet is name for Methodist churches. I followed Mount Olive road for maybe 10 miles today, past the church building and cemetary arriving eventually at the door of the Horn Camp school house, which I had visited last year. Once in you are treated to a vision of the good old days of the one room for 8 grades schoolhouse, active between the 1880s and 1952, now filled with collections of farm Read on...
One of the best ways to experience the west coast of Sweden is to do some hiking. J finds a trail to a place that sounds interesting - King Tryggves grave on the island of Tryggo. The island is not connected to the mainland but Im told you can walk across at low tide. High tide today isnt until 5pm so we should be fine.
Turns out the information isnt quite correct and we need to wade across but t Read on...
Hier au soir rien de rare, un peu fatigu, je ne sais pas pourquoi, peut tre la journe de navigation, pas le courage de retourner dans le centre pour manger, je vais au resto, juste ct de lhtel, 50m, je voulais manger lger, et le boss me propose mouton grill, je lui dit que je nai pas assez faim, il me propose une demie portion, pour un demi prix. Jai bien eu droit la demie portion, sur laquelle Read on...
The Potash Road includes the paved Utah Hwy. 279 (West of Moab, Utah) to the Potash Mine main facility by the Colorado River. Then the private mine dirt road continues South West where the BLM rough dirt road goes upward through the Colorado River overlook; then up to the Canyonlands National Park. The Potash Road officially ends at the junction of The Shaffer Trail and the White Rim Trail in the Read on...
Wawel Royal Castle - Zamek Krlewski na Wawelu. Built in for Zygmunt I. Historic Centre of Krakw. UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 1978. The Schloss (Zamek Kr6lewski), on the broad Wawel hill at the S.W. end of the old town, was founded in the 14th cent, by Ladislaus Lokietek, and restored by Casimir the Great and Sigismund I. (after 1500), but later conflagrations and other injuries have l Read on...
A tour bus ride though the Romanian countryside and forests brought us to Snagov and its famous monastery. The monastery is located on an island in Lake Snagov. This necessitated taking a tour boat to the island. The monastery itself is small, but of a decidedly Eastern European design, with four distinctive towers. It was built in the fifteenth century, replacing earlier structures dating back to Read on...
We are 12 months on from our last visit to Sheffield. October 2020 and the country was at a turning point. TFB was still experimenting with the Tiers for Fears plan based on geography. South Yorkshire would soon join others in the Tier 3, closing all but essential retail and pubs. Christmas would eventually be literally scrapped. The vibrant area around Eccleshall Road was bizarrely quiet. The opt Read on...
Well, it didnt look good this morning with rain from the get go. So, we took our time at the chalet before leaving in hopes it would clear, but no It just kept drizzling and was forecasted to get worse. Finally, we set off. As expected, rain and more rain. For one brief moment the clouds midway on the tall, tall mountains gave us a glimmer of some pretty sights, but then the clouds enshrouded us Read on...
Our plane was over an hour late while waiting for a connecting plane from Toronto. Instead of an eight hour flight, it was more like nine and a half. Thankfully I bought the seat by emergency exit and I had ample room for my legs, and I think I managed to get a little bit of sleep. No one came to check that I knew how to operate it in an emergency (troubling), but I read the instructions and was a Read on...
So what brought us to Chirk Marina? A shortage of paint that is what brought us to the marina. You cannot buy some colours of paint for love nor money. Ducksback paint for fences - any colour apart from grey . What did we want grey of course . Is it right to blame Covid? I guess we will never know . Are the factories producing paint short of workers due to Covid? Are materials hard to source? Is i Read on...