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Moving through the Scottish Borders on a bus isn’t the ideal way to see it for sure. However, sometimes in traveling you have to do the best you can with the time you have available. Sure, I would have preferred to rent a car and take about a week driving around…
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It had been snowing on and off all day. The air was crisp with cold. The lights of Prague glistened off the frozen terrain as afternoon faded to evening. People strolled about in the old city, snug in their coats and scarfs. Through the windows of restaurants, diners sat warm and…
Posted by in Uncategorized Originally posted on Victor Travel Blog:
? Sanya Marriott Resort & Spa. Hainan Island, China. Today, China is experiencing a tourist boom even in the outermost provinces. Hainan Island is the smallest and most remote province of the Celestial Empire, and it is as different from the Chinese mainland as Beijing is from Shanghai. Gorgeous…
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? Templar’s convent and castle in Tomar, Portugal. Upon arrival at the Lisbon airport on January 5th, we stayed there only long enough to claim our baggage; a very eventful 10-day car trip around Portugal’s cities awaited us. Our GPS navigator calculated a course and we moved to a…
Posted by in Uncategorized Christopher Martin Photography There were two mule deer bucks nibbling on roadside grass that I came across last weekend. They were between the two Kananaskis Lakes and they ran up the hillside to the forest edge when another car passed by. This brought them into the morning sunshine which illuminated them wonderfully. One of the…Read more »
Posted by in Fabulous Photos, history, Uncategorized Ketchikan, Alaska is known as the salmon capital of the world. I saw a tumbling creek where the salmon spawned I actually saw more salmon in Skagway than Ketchikan. July through August are the best times to watch the salmon jump. It’s also the time when bears, eagles, and other wildlife that love fish will…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized Christopher Martin Photography Last weekend I came across this grizzly bear late in the day along the Kananaskis Trail (Highway 40). He first came out of the forest on the high side of the hill and traveled through this patch of fireweed before slipping back into the woods. He was in the trees briefly before…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized Originally posted on Have Bag, Will Travel:
Almost as soon as we returned to the car and drove away from Knock it started to rain and by the time we reached the city of Galway we were very glad of underground parking facilities at the hotel so that we didn’t get soaked through getting to…
Posted by in Uncategorized Originally posted on Ferrell's Travel Blog:
Wild goats (Hebrew ya’el) are mentioned in a few Old Testament passages (1 Samuel 24:2; Job 39:1; Psalm 104:18; Prov. 5:19). This animal is often identified with the Ibex. The ibex, a type of wild goat, is still found in Southern Palestine, Sinai, Egypt and Arabia; it was…
Posted by in Uncategorized Originally posted on Ferrell's Travel Blog:
From Tel Megiddo one has a good view of the Jezreel Valley. Our panorama is composed of three photos made from the same spot at Megiddo. The Jezreel Valley lies before us to the north (and slightly east). Nazareth is located in the mountains of lower Galilee. The…
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