The Jewish Quarter is considered to be the inner part of Budapest District 7. It was here that Jewish people started settling down in the late 18th century (the medieval Jewish Quarter the on the Buda side was decimated during the battle between the European allied forces and the Ottomans in 1686.)
Budapests rapid urbanization and economic development at the time presented plenty of business oppo Read on...
As was decided the night before, the alarm went off at 5.00am. All that was left to do was to visit the loo, shut the windows on the caravan, grab the iced coffee from the fridge, disconnect the power and of course check the tyres were all still inflated, before we were out of there promptly at 5.15am. All was quiet in the caravan park. Even the wind was quiet. We exited as quietly as we could.
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Happy New Year - Blwyddyn Newydd Da to everyone . To anyone who reads my ranting and raving . And it has been a year of more ranting and raving than travelling . Looking back at 2020 it started well. We felt uplifted after Christmas in France . Yes we would do it December 2020. We even felt cold but happy to be in Gabby in February overlooking Hadrians Wall . And then it all went downhill .
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According to Historic Texas, members of a Baptist Church from South Carolina moved and settled in what became the Sardis Community in Cherokee County in about 1848. In 1854 they organized the Sardis Baptist Church. Their early baptisms happened in the Neches River and also Boxs Creek. Little is known about their first Sardis Baptist Church building. The second church structure served as a church a Read on...
Medellins annual Flower Festival is one of Colombias most important regional festivals. Every year the country celebrates its success and the stars of the show are always the silleteros, who have their very own parade.
The silleteros in the festival are flower vendors. They spend the rest of the year farming small plots of land on the misty mountain slopes around The City of Eternal Spring — Me Read on...
How quickly things can change ? How often does it happen that you have a plan and something happens that changes everything ? It must have happened to us times many over the years . Coming home from Venice - the volcano in Iceland erupts and an easy couple of hours flight home turns into an epic train, car and ferry journey home . The Greek sailors striking meaning no way out of Greece and the wai Read on...
We drove to the East half of the Saguaro National Park, again getting there before it opened. It was CROWDED with Guess they try to get it in before the heat of the day. We did a 1 miles hike out to a lime kiln ruin and a mile back, and saw just one sparrow and 2 small unidentified birds, possibly gray vireos. All in all we preferred the other half of the National park. We are very grateful for Read on...
Just for the record, I never had or wanted a proverbial bucket list that has so popular with travelers. I a list of places I wanted to go. Visiting all fifty of our states was almost by accident, until the total reached the low forties or thereabouts. Trips to places around the world were never planned more than eight to nine months ahead. Much of this I owe to my travel buddy Mike. He rarely want Read on...
After more than one hundred and fifty years the Moretti Caselli Studio is still working; Maddalena, who represents the fifth generation, carries on the family tradition.
As soon as she was the right height – level – she started to work seriously, or almost, reproducing her drawings with small scraps of coloured glass.
Some more years went by, but passion and desire to learn increased, and s Read on...
Hier au soir en tudiant ma route pour Rome, la conclusion a t que plus de 400km sans autoroute, et si la route est dans les mmes conditions que celles du matin je vais passer la journe dans la voiture, je ne suis pas press, et pour couper plus au moins au milieu, il y a Prouse.
Sur Booking, je trouve un bed and breakfast, 1km du centre, une jolie villa trs style romane, un beau jardin tout fleur Read on...