Former Southern Railway depot at Bryson City, North Carolina. Built about 1890 on the Murphy Branch. The station is at mile post 65 on the Southern Railways former Murphy Branch. Now used by the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad for excursion train service and the gift shop. NC033p1
The objective today was to ride the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. The line operates an excursion train through the m Read on...
Van La Foret Fouesnant naar Locmariaquer in de Golfe du Morbihan bekend om zijn indrukwekkende prehistorische monumenten, zoals de alombekende Alignements van Carnac.
Die lieten we even links liggen, vanwege de verwachtte overvloed aan bezoekers. We zagen ze trouwens al eens 45jaar geleden toen nog zonder massatoerisme.
Het is hier nu wel hoogseizoen, en het wordt warm. 30° onderweg. Zo heet mo Read on...
SUN, 26 JUN 2022 – Day 2: PARIS - Free time this morning followed by guided sightseeing that features the Arc de Triomphe, les and a visit to the Courtyard of Les Invalides. This evening, enjoy dinner and cabaret at the famous Lido. (B,D)
Uncle Larrys note: The Eiffel Tower is cool, but photographs are able to do it justice. The Palace of Versailles and the Moulin Rouge, on the other hand, are Read on...
Vodice for us was not just any town along the coast. It is the home town of our good friends Ana and Tomislav and their families. We stayed there on and off between August 23 and October 24, experiencing it as a bustling tourist town and as a small local coastal town, where its citizens live as a tightly through the off season months. Vodice has during peak season more than 40000 inhabitants. Once Read on...
On 22nd September we checked the weather forecast and learned that it might rain in the afternoon. We planned to do the country & coastal walk; I wore raincoat and mark took his umbrella. We took eastwards direction from our hotel. Our walking course was started from Narrow Cliff continuing from Cliff Road. We walked past Tolcarne Beach, Lusty Glaza Beach and reached Porth Beach – we saw those b Read on...
From closest to us to furthest, we stopped at Spotts Beach, Smith Barcadero, and Eden Rock, which has turned into our second favorite. Spotts Beach yielded a Southern Stingray and 6 turtles in the just over an hour time. When we got out we were asked by another couple if wed seen anything, for they had not, and were suitably disappointed on their penultimate day on the island.
Smiths is a family Read on...
Having been here three times previously, there are no big surprises in store on the food horizon. No doubt, New Orleans has a rather unique and tasty cuisine. And generally, most of their regional specialties are dishes that I really enjoy. Here is a rather brief description of my gallop through the great food here. Starting with oysters, my first night will be spent at Acme Oyster House, since th Read on...
Our arrival into CDG was smooth. I used to not care for CDG airport, but have good at navigating it. We easily made it over to the Croatia Airlines flight to Split with plenty of time to spare. It was good to see the Air Baltic flight to Riga in the same terminal.
This was our 4th flight on Croatia Airlines, and I really like the service. This was Croatia flight 475, an aircraft. It was a smooth Read on...
We were up at the crack of dawn to catch our 7am flight from LA to Seattle. It didnt happen that way. We got to the airport, stood in line forever for Starbucks (I dont regret it), finally boarded our plane and sat there for about 45 minutes as Delta announced we were waiting for pilots, that they had no pilots and were searching for more pilots, and finally, our flight had been cancelled. But the Read on...
The school and university years had ended so we set off for a two week jaunt in Thailand. We landed in Phuket and were driven an hour or so north to the small beachside town of Khao Lak. The coastal area around the town had been hit harder than any other parts of Thailand in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. The official death toll was around 4,000, but the ever reliable Wikipedia reports that due to l Read on...