Breakfast at the La Quinta was the best. It was like any other hotel breakfast but, just like any other kid, I LOVED the waffle maker. The waffles were in the shape of Texas! I want a waffle maker that makes waffles in the shape of WV!!
We didnt have as far to travel today, which was refreshing after our long travel day yesterday. This part of Texas was a mostly flat, farming community
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First settled by the Recollects in the early 17th century, started as a with a small church dedicated to Saint Roch, the patron saint of dogs. Sam told us how each year people bring their dogs to the church to have them blessed.
By the first half of the 20th century, was first, a shipbuilding hub, then the home to manufacturing, retail, and theatre – a street in Qubec City.
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We travelled also before we joined TravelBlog. We have started to digitalise photos from those trips and we are planning to write about some of them. Now the turn to a trip Ake made to North Cyprus in 2006.
North Cyprus was invaded by Turkey in 1974 and has since then been occupied by Turkey. This situation has left North Cyprus somewhat isolated from the rest of Europe. From what I understand, Read on...
Part of the riverside site where the gardens are located was originally a botanic reserve. It was established in 1828 to provide food for the early penal colony.
Macadamia Nut - This tree planted by Walter Hill in 1858 is believed to be the worlds first cultivation of the macadamia.
F. Jemmy Morrill and the brolgas sculpture - Queenslander Lindsay Daen created this bronze sculpture. It is on pe Read on...
When youve grown up thinking anything past Bristol counts as the North, spending over 9 hours, on 4 different trains, makes you realise just how much more North there actually is in England! Thankfully, the whole journey (Plymouth to Bristol, to Birmingham, to Carlisle, to St Bees) went smoothly to plan, with just the very last train teasing us with its inability to keep the engine running (blocke Read on...
Had to take the hire car back today so decided to drive into the city, hand it in and then do some more city sightseeing before taking the bus back to the campsite.
Satnav took us straight to the car hire place. So glad Bob thought to bring the spare Satnav with us. Our old one which we use in the car, as we have a big vehicle version for use in the motorhome to hopefully avoid being taken down a Read on...
Widok na wschd z przełęczy na wysokości ok. 2700 m n.p.m. jest wprost fantastyczny. Widoczna czerwona linia skał to Wielka Rafa, natomiast gry w tle to Mt. Ellen. To zdjęcie jest akurat z 15 lipca 2018 roku, czyli poprzedniej wycieczki w tamte okolice.
Wzdłuż południowej granicy Utah z Arizoną rozciąga się jeden z największych chronionych obszarw w Stanach: Grand National Monument. N Read on...
We leave Nice and head south to an island called Porquerolles. We take tram two then tram one to get to the train station Nice Ville. The train takes us to Toulon. In Toulon we take a train to Hyers. In Hyers we take a taxi to the port at Tour Fondue. At the port we take a ferry to Porquerolles. The island town is small, we walk to our hotel which is five rooms above a restaurant. We spend two nig Read on...
According to mythology, when Lord Krishnas wife Rukmini requested her husband for the idol of Balkrishna, the child form of the Lord, Shri Krishna entrusted Vishwakarma with the task of designing the idol. Vishwakarma made a beautiful idol of Balkrishna with the holy saligrama stone and gave it to Rukmini for worship.
The idol, in the course of being worshipped by hundreds of devotees at Dwaraka Read on...
Making the most of the lovely sunshine we set off first to the stately home only a couple of miles from the campsite .. Stansted Park. First thing we spotted was that the house was not open until 1pm and it was a good 2 hours short of that. Second was that this is really a enterprise with garden centre, farm shop and the first gardens we came to, taken over by a very busy restaurant, tea room. We Read on...