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Sunday, June 29th, 2008Legends notwithstanding, the astronomical clock was not made by a man who was blinded after the work was done, who in turn spitefully broke the clock mechanism before his death.
Records credit the idea and design to a physician/rector/professor of astronomy and math at Charles University named Iohannes Andreae dictus Schindel (Jan Ondrejuv known as Sindel). [...]
Trudeau’s Cruise.
Sunday, June 29th, 2008The Trudeaus are off to sea … a new experience to add to our travel adventures!!!
A 10 day cruise on the “Pacific Dawn” sailing to 4 ports of call around the south pacific region.
Anticipation was high, we’ve heard a lot about it! Couldn’t wait to get into that mile of food…
As you all know on [...]
San Marino, Palazzo Pubblico
Sunday, June 29th, 2008This Neo-gothic palace was built in 1894 by architect Francesco Azzurri on the foundations of the original Romanesque Parva Domus Communis which was probably built at the end of the 14th century. The building, where official State ceremonies take place, is the seat of the Republic’s main institutional and administrative bodies: the Captains Regent, the [...]
Bula Fiji
Sunday, June 29th, 2008The land of the emerald island and turquoise waters. Where life is not governed by time; only by sunshine…
The dreams of white sanded beaches was soon to come true. All we had to do first was endure the small flight from the cold New Zealand to Fiji and we would soon be losing the hoodies [...]
Temple of the Golden Buddha.
Sunday, June 29th, 2008This temple was very near the Hualamphong Train Station.
As you enter there is a big temple in the middle and the ticket office is on your left. I bought the ticket (though nobody was controlling the entrance) and climbed the steps at the left up to the small pavillion where the Golden Buddha is.
It is [...]
The Temple of Olympian Zeus
Saturday, June 28th, 2008According to tradition, the establishment of the sanctuary goes back to the time of mythical Deucalion. In ca. 515 B.C., Peisistratos the Younger, began the construction of a monumental temple which was not finished because of the fall of the tyranny in Athens. It was finally completed by the Roman emperor Hadrian, in AD 125. [...]
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