Posted in Travel on Nov 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Dubai continues to make enormous contributions to world culture, with its urban population of locals and ex-pats engaged in making new works of art, music, and performance, in a splendid setting and with an eye, or an ear and tongue, toward international dialogue in creative and exciting ways. It is a major creative center, fulfilling [...]
Posted in Travel on Nov 24th, 2009 No Comments »
If you’re planning a trip to Phuket, Thailand, soon you may have missed the Patong Carnival and the Chao Le Boat Floating Festival; however, there’s still time this December for the Laguna Phuket Triathalon and the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta. In fact, there’s a number of festivals throughout the year which make traveling to this [...]
Posted in Travel on Nov 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Sports in Dubai? For those of us that live far away from Dubai and I am sure for those who have never visited Dubai, sports is not the first thing that comes to our minds when we think of this city. Architecture and grand building is what most people talk about Dubai. They dream of [...]
Posted in Travel on Nov 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Phuket is a great place to go and really let loose, leaving the stresses of the workaday world behind, and focusing instead on the immediate present, and all the gifts it has to offer. It’s sometimes difficult to not be fully present in Phuket, where the call of the sea can make everyone dreamy, and [...]
Posted in Travel on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Here we are in Barcelona, via scooter by-the-way! We arrived early tonight from Valencia, and boy is our scooters sore. I think, perhaps, I should back up and start when we were in San Sebastian. But, that was a while ago. I’ll move it forward a bit to when we were in the southern Portuguese [...]
Posted in Travel on Nov 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Tom decided to break away from his group for a bit and try and check out some of the smaller art galleries of New York. He had gone there on a special academic field trip with his high school and that afternoon they had managed to get some free time. Technically they were being supervised, [...]
Posted in History, Travel on Nov 12th, 2009 No Comments »
The county of Lafayette Florida has an interesting history and is rich in cultural landmarks and historic buildings. Tourists staying in one of the hotels Lafayette visit the area to enjoy the rich cultural and traditions though they may be unaware of the interesting personality for which the county is named. This is the Marquis [...]
Posted in Travel on Nov 12th, 2009 No Comments »
I had a hangover, but I got up from my very comfortable and quiet bed, and realized that it was noon! Here I am in New York and I’m wasting my time sleeping off a hangover. I managed to put myself together within 45 minutes and headed outside. I started walking across the Williamsburg bridge [...]
Posted in Travel on Nov 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Baltimore is one of the United States’ historical cities and has had an interesting and dynamic role in much of the country’s development. Many of the landmarks and cultural icons present in the city testify to this and are a point of pride and also major attraction and point of interest for visitors. Other aspects [...]