One Less Off The Bucket List
Move over, Melchor, Gaspar and Baltazar. Cynthia with Sophia the Camel have arrived.
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Do Not Forget
A Hanukkah-shaped headstone engraved with the message “Do Not Forget” in 3 languages marked the final resting place of many at the “Grave of Thousands Unknown” at the Dachau Concentration Camp. Dachau was built in 1933 after Hindenburg died and Hitler assumed leadership of Germany as Chancellor. Dachau was the first and became the prototype of all of Hitler’s concentration camps. People were punished at Dachau with imprisonment, starvation and cruelty for living a…
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Changing of the Guards
Changing of the Guards at Parliament Building occurs every hour on the hour 24, hours a day all year round. Only the best military trainees are accepted to do this difficult task of standing in heat, cold, rain and snow.
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Hill of Angels
A laconic baroque style structure, visible from almost every niche of the Bavarian town of Grossheubach, Germany dominates the scenery. The village wrapped around the foot of Engelberg Hill (Hill of Angels) on which stood Kloster Engelberg (Engelberg Abbey), a well known site of pilgrimages documented as far back as 1406. The Abbey has withstood many transformations through the centuries and is currently a Franciscan monastery. The center of pilgrimage is an early 14th century…
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A Spanish Isle Serenade
At the entrance to the Basilica de Santa Maria de Mallorca in the Island of Palma de Mallorca, Miguel Forteza serenades visitors with his beautiful rendition of “Alleluia”.
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Chinese Reconciliation Park
In the quiet back roads of the Delta in Northern California, caressed by the lazy flow of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Rivers, lies the town of Locke. This historic district is frozen in time as a chronicle of a period when “undesirable” immigrants, specifically the Chinese, were openly discriminated. It stands as an eerie testament to America’s anguished affair with its complicated diverse populace. Once a refuge for the poor, the tired and struggling to be…
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Old Faithful
You don’t have to wait an hour or so to catch nature’s spectacular water and smoke display. A small yet active geyser at Calistoga in Napa Valley will awe you with an impressive spittle of boiling liquid gushing from the deep core of the earth around every 15 minutes. It gets more frequent during wetter seasons.
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The Ballad of Molly Malone
In the midst of Dublin’s frenzy is the bronze statue of Molly Malone, a busty young woman in a low cut dress. The polished bronze glow of its bosom hints to its popular appeal to be “handsy” with her best features. Molly is the depiction of a fictional figure in a song about a fishmonger in this medieval city who plied the trade passed on by her parents. As in any old folklore, myths color…
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Sands of St. Pete’s Beach
Legend has it that quartz originating from the Appalachian Mountains, smoothened and moved over time by rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, were deposited by waves throughout Florida giving Gulf Coast beaches their unique soft white quality. Walter is seen here playing with the fruits of this wonderful geologic phenomenon.