Heute konnte ich wieder bis 10:30 frhstcken und nutzte das auch aus. Dann habe ich problemlos Santiago de Compostela verlassen und bin nach Sden gefahren. Am Grenzfluss zu Portugal gibt es den Monte de Santa Trega, der schon frh besiedelt war. Gegen eine kleine Maut konnte ich bis zum Gipfel fahren, von wo aus man eine gute Aussicht in Richtung Portugal, aber auch rundum hat. Hier trank ich einen Read on...
The road from Tok in Alaska to Dawson City in the Yukon is called the Top of the World Highway with good reason. The road, mostly gravel, climbs up and along a ridge for 66 miles to reach the gold panning hamlet of Chicken, population 17 in summer and just 3 in winter. One of the three is Martha, the postmistress, who actually lives even further into the wild, up her own 20 mile track. Until the l Read on...
Google the Giraffe . That is what the sign said . The instruction was writ large beneath a metal sculpture of a giraffe alongside the M6. What was that all about? You could hardly drive past without googling the Giraffe . It was a clever piece of marketing . We expected something like the Angel of the North . What did we get - a advertisement for a local company..
So why are we driving up the M6? Read on...
The bus journey to the hotel took about an hour to an hour and a half. Im glad that there was only eight of us on the bus as it meant we got to spread out. The driver was in full hazmat gear and roped off from us. It was weird leaving the airport and driving along the empty roads. Traffic must have really dropped off now there are so few international flights and I presume domestic flights still a Read on...
We started the day strategizing what we wanted the afternoon lesson to be for the group we met with last week. During that seession, we played the ‘bean game and it was understood by the women. But, they were asking good questions so we decided to try a new game with them. This time they would be placed into small groups and given a monthly budget. They needed to decide how to spend their money Read on...
Greetings in this, my third and final entry on my lovely little break on the Isle of Man. I shall relate my adventures on my third full day on the island, along with the day of my journey home. There is lots more to tell, and I visited even more of the island on my last two days.
After another good nights sleep in the annex, I walked again, this time only 20 minutes to a small village called The Read on...
Wednesday (June 7) marked 50 years since a mystery man known widely as D.B. Cooper (Dan Cooper was the name he used for his ticket) leapt from a Boeing 727s rear stair door with $200,000 somewhere over Southwest Washington. It remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in U.S. history.
It was 106 years ago Seattle got its very first professional hockey team, the Seattle Metropolitans, an expan Read on...
Wrexham a city ? I dont think so . We are too small to be a city without enough infrastructure . Wrexham city of Culture bid for 2025? Well maybe . That is different and many in the town cannot see the difference. City of Culture has now taken on a new meaning . You dont have to be a city. You can be a town, a village or an area which has opened up attempts to gain that title from Conway County Bo Read on...
Planning a trip to Panama City was a bit like doing a jigsaw; post pandemic, most tourist attractions are only open a few days a week and putting together an itinerary which incorporated everything I wanted to do was fiddly. Then, I caught covid and we had to change all our flights. The result – our only full day for sightseeing is a Monday, when everything is closed. No matter, we will spend th Read on...
We started bright and early and drove to the National Park. This park is a UNESCO world heritage site, and is the place of the first parliament in Iceland more than 800 years ago. For several hundred years the delegates, their families, and would meet for about two weeks in the summer. They camped and fished in the lake. The lake happens to be in the rift valley where the American plate and the Eu Read on...
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