Tag: architecture
group name: travel
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November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST --
The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . .
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August 08, 2009 11:52 AM EDT --
Bremen located in northwestern Germany is a hidden gem. The old town, a small island in the Weser River, was surrounded by fortifications, a wall. Though the old wall had been removed the city council . . .
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September 27, 2009 07:02 PM EDT --
The "Swan River Colony" was established as a British colony for free settlers in 1829. Convicts did not arrive until 1850. Nevertheless, the first permanent building was a gaol. The . . .
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August 27, 2009 02:20 PM EDT --
It's summer in the city and we are watching the
world go by at the local Tampa Brewing Co.
Muvico complex and Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
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November 10, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
Tradition has it that Isfahan's Friday mosque sits on what was once a Zoroastrian Fire Temple. Now, I have been inside mosques that used to be Fire Temples, most notably the Maggak-i-Attari in Bukhara . . .
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April 05, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
We're laughing as we exit the Athens airport into sunny, 65-degree weather. My daughter Pam and I are chuckling over something silly I've just done. As we walked out of customs, a man . . .
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May 30, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
My latest China video-blog can be viewed here.
Enjoy.
Previous video here.
And you can see my China photos here.
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October 29, 2009 08:08 PM EDT --
PADOVA
GREAT food - all local dishes - a spiced ground duck on homemade pasta, octopus, radichicco risotto, polenta, so many hard sausages that only a photo will help you identify them - . . .
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April 12, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
You know, I've lived in the Dallas area for almost 10 years now and I've never realized how pretty the buildings and the architecture in downtown Dallas actually is. I mean, whoever puts . . .
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February 06, 2007 02:19 PM EST --
One of the best trips I've ever taken was less than a year ago, when my partner and I spent a week in Florence, Italy .
Our vacation had an inauspicious start, when Air France lost our luggage . . . .
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July 14, 2007 07:11 PM EDT --
On my Danish castle tour Voergaard Castle, which was founded in1518, caught my attention.
The atmosphere surrounding the castle and the numerous . . .
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September 25, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
No visit to Western Australia would be complete without seeing the Port of Fremantle. Last Friday, Mag and I traveled 19 km south of Perth to "Freo" ( what the locals call this town), Perth's port . . .
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May 27, 2006 01:49 PM EDT --
Girl at sunrise walking along the moat surrounding the world's largest religious monument, Angkor Wat.
Centuries ago, Cambodia was a great power and ruled over territory stretching from Vietnam . . .
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August 06, 2006 11:35 PM EDT --
Notes from my 2003 trip from Istanbul to Bombay, overland.
When I think of the Hagia Sophia I imagine her as she looked two hundred years after Justinian commissioned her. I imagine all the splendor thinkable . . .
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July 31, 2006 07:05 PM EDT --
St Jan
Tetin was the ancestral home of the Czech ruling family and the seat of St Ludmilla and St Wenceslas. Also closely related to Tetin is the myth of St Jan under the Cliff who is often represented . . .
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July 17, 2009 04:28 PM EDT --
in Vicenza, Italy
Andrea Palladio is the Italian Architect responsible for the classic look of the buildings in Venice and Vicenza, and from there all over the world. Sixteen villas . . .
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July 26, 2007 05:16 AM EDT --
For 4 1/2 years we lived in a beautiful house in upstate NY, in a little town called Sharon Springs. It is a charming resort town that was quite popular in the 1800's as a retreat for the well-to-do . . .
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February 21, 2006 06:22 PM EST --
Like a treasured gemstone in an antique setting, Old Drovers Inn shines brilliantly in the hunt country of rural Southern Dutchess County, New York. This 255 year old virtual museum . . .
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January 16, 2008 10:53 PM EST --
Here are some pictures I took in India over Christmas 07. These are from the Red Fort, in Delhi. I hope you enjoy them!
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June 19, 2008 03:09 PM EDT --
In about six weeks I will be on a plane headed for Germany to celebrate my Mom's 80th birthday. I am so excited!
Hunting for a good deal on plane tickets was a real eye opener. The ticket . . .
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