Huntsville Pure Texas

Adventure Awaits You:  Conroe, Texas

Montgomery Texas:  Birthplace of the Texas Flag

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23 US Cities That Go All Out for Christmas

In Search of the Northern Lights

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13 of the Most Interesting Historic Towns in North Carolina (Important Places for Your Next Adventure!)

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6 Important Tips for Decorating a Christmas Tree

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Known as the City of Discovery 

The Secret Coast…….Ocean Springs, Mississippi, serves as a great home base, especially if you like art.  The late, former painter Walter Ingilis Anderson, a preeminent 20th-century Southern artist, lived in Ocean Springs.  See his work at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art.  Walter’s brother Peter was a renowned potter and the annual

Peter Anderson Arts and Crafts Festival                                                                            is a major Gulf Coast event…..”We’re like Mayberry                                                                        with culture.”.

Big Sun and Small Crowds:  A Small Town That’s Big on Art/AARP Magazine — Oct/Nov 2023

A GLIMPSE OF OCEAN SPRINGS ART CULTURE

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LUCILLE BALL DESI ARNAZ MUSEUM

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Templar heritage in Europe

Who were the Knights Templar?

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Inveraray Castle. An Iconic Scottish Visitor Attraction.

Inverary–Archibald Campbell

Earl of Hay and third duke of Argyll rebuilt Inverary Castle and founded  Inverary  New Town, a pioneering effort in town planning that  was largely implemented by architect Robert Myine during the era of the fifth duke

Scotland:  A History–Edited by Jenny Wormald

Clan Campbell Tour

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7 Places You Can Visit in London That Were Meaningful to Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth II

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A STORE AT THE HEART OF THE CORVETTE LEGACY

National Corvette Museum

With jaw-dropping exhibits on the history of the Corvette, virtual thrills in the Corvette Racing Simulator, elevated dining in the Stingray Grill, shopping in the Corvette Store, experiencing the performance of a new Corvette or high-speed karting at the NCM Motorsports Park, and seeing the assembly process of the C8 Corvette at Bowling Green Assembly Plant, our Corvette Campus offers something for everyone.

Plan A Visit

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FLORIDA CAVERNS STATE PARK

Panama City Area Florida:     Blue Hole Spring

                          Cavern State Park                              3345 Caverns Road
Marianna FL 32446

This park has a sunny pleasant swimming area and provides a chance to  experience a spring cavern as well as a natural bridge all created by a sink.  There are other underground caves but most of these are submerged which is expected in places as low as Florida—so obviously this are is at least a bit higher and contain Florida’s only large cave system, which in fact have been in use since prehistoric times.  Blind cave salamanders, which are eye-less and a strange white,  still do inhabit the caves.

Marianna

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20 Top Dog-Friendly Vacation Destinations for You and Your Best

Travel Buddy

Mental and Physical Activities for Dogs

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Explore Alhambra Palace Architecture and Design

It was well before dawn when I set off on foot through

Granada’s

oldest neighborhood,

El Albaiein,

an intricate brocade of cobbled streets overhung with fragrant jasmine trees.  The first glow of sunlight revealed the titanic walls and turrets of the palace-fortress complex called Alhambra looming above me on a spectacular crag.  Poets have rhapsodized about the structure’s fairytale beauty since the finest craftsmen of the Arab world built it nearly 800 years ago.  For over two centuries in the Middle Ages, it was the crown jewel of the

Emirate of Granada,

which stretched across

Spain’s Mediterranean Coast

from modern day

Gibraltar

past the snow-capped

Sierra Nevada.

Smithsonian  Tales of Andalusia By Tony Perrottet

Sept/Oct 2023

Andalucia Small-Group Tours – Get The Free Trip Itinerary

Alligator Reef Light House’s building was delayed by a Civil War—The USA’s in 1861 especially after Florida joined the South in their with drawl from the union.   After the war things were slow to resume in the defeated south and it was 8 years after that that it was completed.  They used a steam engine that lifted the beams and a pile driver—-each blow drove the beams one inch into the coral rock leaving a sure and long lasting foundation  which has endured more than a hundred years (completed 1873 at a cost of $185,000—which due to bad weather and bad working condition was $85,000 than had been first estimated).

The Perfect 5-Day Islamorada, FL Travel Itinerary – AFAR

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Three Tuns  

4 Broad St.

Hay on Wye, Wales

This building  which contains a Grade II Pub  is reputed to be the oldest building in the town of Hay on Wye and was devastated by fire in 2005.  A couple of local are said to have saved the day and the pub, saving many features including crunch tress beams, a dog-leg staircase (which was a period feature) as well as a large fireplace.

Michelin in Eating Out in Pubs (2013)

lists typical offerings as

Black Mountain smoked salmon

followed by

Ginger cake with poached pears

An insider’s guide to Hay-on-Wye

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Things to Do Around Winter Springs

Restaurants in Winter Springs

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Visit | Covent Garden

Covent Gardens  in the north east of  Trafalgar Square  

where begins the maze of narrow streets and alleys is where we find Covent Gardens.  Here in the ancient heart of London has been markets for over 300 years—-but the place was originally a Covent garden that rest here until that anti convent English ruler—Henry VIII dissolved the gardens along with all the church etc he took issue with.

Today the center of Covent Gardens lies a cobble stone plaza (compliments of

Inigo Jones)

It also includes a superb steel and glass market pavilions constructed  in the 1830’s for stalls to hold flowers, fruit and vegetables.  This market was eventually moved to south of the river

In the 1980s the Garden was changed from market to an area of restaurants,shops and cafes.  It has also become a venue for street performers.

Covent Garden Street Performers Recorded live

Covent Garden | Shopping, Dining and Culture Destination

London in November: A Rich Tapestry of Experiences Awaits

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20 Best Vacations for a Group of Friends

 

It sets high above the city of Edinburgh — in an area that has been inhabited and fortified (though nothing near as fine as you see now) back to pre-history—–the base it sets on is part of an ancient volcano—which has a long slanting incline that runs about a mile

The Royal Mile

at that  — down to another Castle—this one much newer and it’s origins was a church (Holy Rood) that set here from much earlier times and whose ruins can still be seen on the grounds).

But back to the castle– has  a bit different place that that for executions and even a prison— American Sailors during the War of 1812  and Nazi prisoners during WWII to name a few.

St Margaret’s Chapel, the oldest surviving building in Edinburgh, stands high on Edinburgh Castle’s upper level.

It was built by King David I for his mother

Queen, later Saint Margaret after she passed away.  This in memory of his mother who would become a saint in 1250.

New Advent

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Screams Halloween Theme Park is the ultimate Halloween experience

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Have you?

–and if you haven’t

some direction if you might be interested:

Been divorced————-Las Vegas Strip – Plan Your Future Trip Today

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