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Photo of the Week – Grapes of Bordeaux
More Details: Photo of the Week – Grapes of BordeauxVisiting Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou in St. Julien was a neat experience since we got a private tour. But, of course, my eyes go to the grapes and the vines. Thinking how these little round things will produce a wonderful liquid for us humans to enjoy… This picture is to not me about perfection in photographic technique but…
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Photos of the Week – Sights of Chile
More Details: Photos of the Week – Sights of ChileI loved Chile from a 3-month stint there 20 yrs ago before I went back in Dec 2009. I have written about what I saw, did and felt in other entries in my blog so I won’t repeat myself, but I continue to long to go back even after spending all of 2010 in Chile… …
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Right in My Hometown… Atlanta – What to See
More Details: Right in My Hometown… Atlanta – What to SeeSomeone suggested on a blog I read that reading a blog about a place written by a local can be better for a visitor than a blog about the place written by a visitor. I agree that a local can give a unique perspective though I still like hearing a visitor’s perspective about a place. …
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Chandeliers of The Hermitage
More Details: Chandeliers of The HermitageWhile I am not obsessed with chandeliers and the like, I noticed after getting home from visiting St. Pete (as I call it), how many pictures of chandeliers I took at The Hermitage (and of the ceilings). They are definitely elegant but their designs were not too stuffy. Not being a connoisseur, but still having…
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Photo of the Week – The Aged Streets of Old San Juan
More Details: Photo of the Week – The Aged Streets of Old San JuanOld world charm in the new world. Streets that have seen a lot of history and major empires fighting for them. Old San Juan’s charm lies in its setting by the water, in its history, and in its well-preserved architectural jewels (including the “adoquines“, the cobblestone used to pave the streets a few centuries ago). …
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Exploring Some of Copenhagen, Denmark
More Details: Exploring Some of Copenhagen, DenmarkMy trip to Copenhagen involved 9 people from three different starting points. My aunt and uncle from Miami drove to Tampa to meet the rest of the group (minus me) there. Then the group was flying from Tampa to Atlanta to then connect with me at Hartsfield to catch the flight to Copenhagen. Needless to…
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Visiting my First Eastern European Capital: Bulgaria’s Sofia
More Details: Visiting my First Eastern European Capital: Bulgaria’s SofiaAs I wrote in other entries about the trip to Bulgaria, the main purpose of my visit to Sofia was to attend a wedding. Around the various events, though, I had time to check out the city, of about 1.2 million residents (15th largest city in the European Union as of this writing) by walking…
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Who Says Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire? The Smokey Mountains
More Details: Who Says Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire? The Smokey MountainsI went to Gatlinburg to spend a week with family touring the area. By far, it is the Great Smoky Mountain National Park (GSMNP) that has been my favorite part of the trip. The towns around here are geared to tourists, which makes sense, but they seem to cater more to the tourist shoppers or…
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Visiting Old Cairo – and Feeling Cairo
More Details: Visiting Old Cairo – and Feeling CairoI am fortunate to have visited Cairo two times: once in 1998 and then in 2007. The first with friends and the second for work. However, while we hit some of the key places to see in Cairo in the first trip, one grave mistake was not to explore Old Cairo… Old Cairo is the…
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A Very Southern City – Dunedin
More Details: A Very Southern City – DunedinWell, by southern I mean “geographically”. It was the southernmost city I visited in New Zealand and I was expecting it to be frigid but, mercifully, it was not. In fact, we had some really beautiful days though one morning we had minor rain. Dunedin with about 130,000 inhabitants is quite a pleasant town to…
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How I Found the North Island of New Zealand Different than the South Island
More Details: How I Found the North Island of New Zealand Different than the South IslandWhen I planned my trip to New Zealand, I decided based on my interests and what was on offer to spend more time in the South Island than in the North Island. However, this does not mean the North Island lacks places to explore. I left the visit to the North Island for the last…
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Along the Great Ocean Road and within Melbourne
More Details: Along the Great Ocean Road and within MelbourneDistances in Australia are enormous and, perhaps, they feel more so because there are a lot of vast empty lands in the middle (as opposed to us in the US where we have Kansas in the middle!). Yet my trip to Melbourne from Sydney felt short indeed as it does not require traversing the country. …