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Photos from the Destination Highlight: Aquarium and Crystal Caves Excursion - Thursday May 18th, 2023 - Our first day in Bermuda. These are pictures of the beautiful Gibbs Hill Lighthouse on Bermuda. We were not supposed to stop there, but made a quick visit on our way back to the ship. Here is information on the lighthouse that I borrowed from the site: "The 117-foot lighthouse was built in 1846 of cast iron – the oldest of its kind in the world, and one of only two cast-iron lighthouses still in existence. It overlooks the South Shore and Little Sound, offering views of both the City of Hamilton and the Royal Naval Dockyard." I did not have enough time there to climb the tower - next time. The Excursion description: "Discover Bermuda's architecture, natural wonders, Aquarium, and breathtaking Crystal Caves on this comprehensive journey across the island. Board your bus for a scenic drive around the picturesque Harrington Sound, admiring its beautiful bays and coves. See stunning pink sand beaches and the incredible barrier reef. View the distinct pastel-colored homes of Bermuda. Then, you'll visit Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, & Zoo, where you'll see cockatoos, sea horses, and over 75 different species. Admire the famous pink flamingos. Descend into the incredible Crystal Caves, viewing the natural stalactites and stalagmites." On board the Celebrity Summit for the Ten Night Bermuda & Charleston, SC Cruise (May 15 through May 25, 2023). The cruise embarks from Cape Liberty (Bayonne, NJ) with an additional stop at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
The plan was for a trip to Elephant Rock to enjoy the view and to have dinner on the site whilst enjoying the beautiful sunset. What happened was that we all just stood around, taking photos, talking. There was no place to sit other than in the bus. It would've been nice to have some proper picnic provisions as envisioned. We were not encouraged to walk off very far (our guide seemed to be apprehensive for the safety of the foreigners in our group) No one ate from the packed hotel dinner. The sky was beautiful. The colours were amazing once the sun actually set: brilliant hues of reds, oranges, purples and blues.
Location: Antenna America Date/Time: May 30 (Sat), 3-5PMAntenna America is a premier destination spot for micro brewery fans in Japan. Many craft beer fans travel for miles to visit here, due to availability of world class beers that you cannot find anywhere else in Japan. They import directly from the breweries in the U.S. in order to offer fresh beer at affordable prices. Antenna America will host a Yelp Event exclusively for Yelpers. They will offer several types of craft beers so that you can taste the differences. We will play fun games with interesting prizes, so stay tuned.Theme: Time travel to the wild wild west. Dress code: Become a cow girl or boy. Wear jeans, cowboy hat (if you have one), boots, etc. No firearms please.Food/Drinks: Antenna America will provide a special selection of beers for free. We hope you will discover your favorite beer. If you still want more, additional beers will be available for cash. RSVP: Please click on this event link and RSVP through Yelp. You are encouraged to bring a guest who may want to learn about Antenna America. Space is limited, so RSVP early.Day of the event: At the registration desk on 1F, we will hand a name tag. Be prepared to show your Yelp profile from your Yelp App.SYOY!
Taormina is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century. It has popular beaches (accessible via an aerial tramway) on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high salt content. Taormina can be reached via highways from Messina from the north and Catania .Just south of Taormina is the Isola Bella, a nature reserve. Tours of the Capo Sant' Andrea grottos are also available. Taormina is built on an extremely hilly coast, and is approximately a forty-five minute drive away from Europe's largest active volcano, Mount Etna.A stay at Taormina is not just a seaside vacation. This area, rich in charm and history, must be experienced in a spirit that is outside the ordinary, and for one simple reason: here, everything is extraordinary. Every stone is a thousand-year-old piece of history, the glorious sea reflects Taormina's beauty, as it shapes and marks the passage of time, and the places that enchanted the Greeks create to this day a vibrant and exciting ambiance. But trying to describe in words what makes Taormina unique is truly difficult.
Taormina è un comune di 10.991 abitanti della provincia di Messina. E' uno dei centri balneari di maggiore rilievo di tutta la regione. Il suo aspetto, il suo paesaggio, i suoi luoghi, le sue bellezze riescono ad attirare turisti provenienti da tutto il mondo.Situata su una collina a 206 m di altezza sul livello del mare , sospesa tra rocce e mare su un terrazzo del monte Tauro, in uno scenario di bellezze naturali unico per varietà e contrasti di motivi , splendore di colori e lussureggiante vegetazione.Il clima è dolcemente mite.Molto belle le mezze stagioni , Primavera e Autunno infatti vantano un clima idealmente mite.La storia di Taormina è sicuramente costellata da molteplici dominazioni, e questo è possibile vederlo passeggiando per le strade del centro storico che mostrano i segni lasciati dai vari popoli passati per Taomina. Essendo situata al centro del mediterraneo la Sicilia fu sempre una preda ambita per la sua posizione strategica di passaggio.Taormina essendo situata sulla parte est e in posizione fortificata su una collina permetteva già da allora di controllare buona parte della costa ionica e ha sempre rappresentato un ottimo punto di fortificazione e controllo nelle strategie di guerra. Dopo aver attestato l'esistenza di una sede di siculi ( antichi abitanti dell'isola, detti anche sicani) presso Taormina, per certo vi passarono e vi lasciarono le loro tracce I Greci, i Romani, i Saraceni, dunque gli Arabi, i Bizantini ,I Normanni , Gli Aragonesi , e per ultimi i Borboni.Un soggiorno a Taormina non è semplicemente una vacanza al mare. Questi luoghi, pregni di storia e di fascino, chiedono infatti di essere vissuti con uno spirito diverso da quello comune e la ragione è semplice: qui tutto è fuori
dall'ordinario.Ogni pietra reca in sé una storia millenaria, il mare meraviglioso su cui Taormina riflette tutta la sua bellezza, condiziona e scandisce lo scorrere del tempo ed i luoghi che furono l'incanto dei greci trasmettono tutt'oggi un'atmosfera vibrante di emozioni. Ma tentare di descrivere con le parole ciò che rende unica Taormina è davvero difficile.
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Información práctica sobre Paraty en mi blog: Destinos: Paraty
Practical information on Paraty from my blog: Destination: Paraty
Contested Destination features photography, drawings, and video by six artists – Gina Osterloh, Betsy Lin Seder, Jeannie Simms, Gabie Strong, Kristine Thompson, and Carrie Yury. All of the artists are former students of artist Connie Samaras, a full professor at University of California, Irvine, whose exhibition Tales of Tomorrow is currently on display in Armory’s Caldwell Gallery. Contested Destination has been organized by Armory chief curator Irene Tsatsos with Connie Samaras.
Contested Destination is an evocative look at ideas of precedents and homage, an alternatively organized matrix of time, and what Donna Haraway calls “reinscribed history,” all through the lens of artworks that evoke performance and performativity. The show includes:
photographs by Gina Osterloh from All of Our Edges, a series that depicts an obscured figure in a monochromatic environment and reflects the tension between blending into and remaining distinct from an environment or an external presence;
a series of photographs entitled Fool’s Gold (from the Elephant series) by Betsy Lin Seder, which lavishly represent that glittering mineral while evoking feelings of ambiguity, aspiration, and loss;
I’ll Keep Merapi’s Lava Away from the People, a video by Jeannie Simms that features women teaching or mimicking the dance-like movements of one another; the work is from her Readymaids series, which consists of videos made collaboratively with women inside a maid-training agency in Java, Indonesia;
video by Gabie Strong, entitled Memories of the Space Age, which shows a rocket being launched in slow motion; the title of the work distorts a sense of time by implying nostalgia for something that arguably has not happened yet, and the imagery literally slows down something as its accelerating;
a photograph of Kristine Thompson integrating – or ingratiating – herself into a photograph of artist Ana Mendieta as part of a series of works in which she responds to the work of deceased artists who addressed issues of self-portraiture, sentiment, and the relationship of their bodies to specific sites;
drawings by Carrie Yury from a series entitled (My) Performance Anxiety, in which the artist addresses her conflicted relationship to performance art through a series of drawings of famous feminist performance art works, revised by having placed animal masks on their faces.
The Traveller
"They pointed me out on the highway, and they said
'That man has a curious way of holding his head.'
They pointed me out on the beach; they said 'That man
Will never become as we are, try as he can.'
They pointed me out at the station, and the guard
Looked at me twice, thrice, thoughtfully and hard.
I took the same train that the others took,
To the same place. Were it not for that look
And those words, we were all of us the same.
I studied merely maps. I tried to name
The effects of motion on the travellers,
I watched the couple I could see, the curse
And blessings of that couple, their destination,
The deception practised on them at the station,
Their courage. When the train stopped and they knew
The end of their journey, I descended too."
~ John Berryman,1914-1972 ~
The Wait
"It is life in slow motion,
it's the heart in reverse,
it's a hope-and-a-half:
too much and too little at once.
It's a train that suddenly
stops with no station around,
and we can hear the cricket,
and, leaning out the carriage
door, we vainly contemplate
a wind we feel that stirs
the blooming meadows, the meadows
made imaginary by this stop."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke,1875-1926 ~
Translated by A. Poulin
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Dr. Habil. Lothar M. Loske, a barely thirty-year-old engineer and clockmaker master, and not even a citizen of Frankfurt, persuaded the head of the supervisory board of the "Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke AG" (VDM) (United Metal Company) to build a sundial completely made of copper and to donate it to the city and citizens of Frankfurt! [Dr. Habil. – from the term habilitation – derives from the Medieval Latin habilitare, "to make suitable, to fit", from Classical Latin habilis "fit, proper, skillful", a degree developed in Germany in the 17th century (ca. 1652); initially, habilitation was synonymous with doctoral qualification]
{FRA trip 20-22JUN2013, Frankfurt, Germany layover}
Die Äquatorialsonnenuhr steht seit 2004 im Frankfurter Stadtteil Innenstadt auf einer Grünfläche westlich der Ignatz-Bubis-Brücke am Mainufer unterhalb der Schönen Aussicht
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Ruth's Career as a Flight Attendant – Happy Highlights –
The time has come for me to say a certain good-bye. I have decided to accept a Voluntary Early Out Program (VEOP) of the world's largest airline – saving another flight attendant from being cut involuntarily due to the corona virus pandemic – since our Company doesn't need 80% of us now. Upon leaving September 27, 2021, once exited, I turn into a retiree with full retirement benefits. So I worked my last trip March 1-4, 2020, not knowing – the Lord knew – it'd be my last, and very good.
My first flight to Germany, when I was a child, took 2 days, on a Constellation propeller aircraft in 1960 transporting military families like ours, hugging coastlines and stopping every so often along the way to refuel. Four years later, ending my father's tour of duty, I flew back to America on a jet airliner.
In working flights from the early 90's into 2020 I encountered unexpected joys, exceptionally difficult people, and potentially deadly situations; however, on 1 flight a passenger came to the jetbridge boarding door I was working on his hands... because he had no legs; he had to walk into the restroom on his hands, then ate his meals with those same hands. I said to myself that I wouldn't complain about anything ever again.
Never did any flight I was working on cancel; however, during one month of 4 transatlantic Frankfurt trips, the flight from the day before on 3 of my 4 return flights cancelled: we carried their relaxed, rested return (deadheading) crew, who had an extra full day in Germany to enjoy doing whatever they wanted to do, back over the ocean, working the totally filled flights while they sat, ate, and slept in passenger seats, 100% full airplane each time! I wished I also could have had an extra day, too, at least once!
In a quarter century I flew Germany about 1,000 times as Speaker (making the airplane announcements in German), usually once, sometimes twice, occasionally 3 times in a week, even worked – assigned as a reserve – 10 transatlantic flights in 15 days, 5 trips back-to-back non-stop; plus worked other international destinations, also 5 years domestic, mostly 3-day but a few 1-, 2-, or 4-day, and 1 prized 5-day trip. I will have accumulated 29½ yrs. seniority from my 20May1992 hire, acquiring lifetime memories, enjoying amazing friendships. This scenic journey down memory lane highlights my working trips of which I have pictures: 1 in 1994; 2 in 2001; 2 in 2010; after buying a smart phone, 252 the next day 11AUG2012 through 04MAR2020. Enjoy this mere 1% of a total of ~70,000 photos and occasional notes on working trips as a crewmember!
So, I know a guy who knows a guy and, long story short, I was able to get up to the top of the Capitol with my Camera. I tried to document what it's like as much as I could, but we were a little pressed for time, so please for give some of the low quality shots and the lack of shots of the interior of the dome as it's very dark back there, and very hard to take useful pictures without a tripod.
Click the next button to follow my ascent.
National Express 383 ran once daily in each direction between Edinburgh and Wrexham via an interesting route providing the only direct public transport links between several pairs of towns along the way. Leaving from Edinburgh in Scotland it went south on the A7 calling at Dalkeith, Stow and Galashiels, then south-east to Jedburgh and over the Cheviot Hills into England via the A68 at Carter Bar, before going on to call at Otterburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Durham, Darlington, Catterick, Ripon, Harrogate, Leeds, Bradford, then west across the Pennines to Oldham, Manchester Airport, Manchester, Warrington, Chester and finally into Wales to terminate at Wrexham at the end of a journey which took eleven hours and forty five minutes. The service ceased to run towards the end of 2012.
YJ06LFV is a VDL / Van Hool Alizee coach, seen here departing from Jedburgh bus station on 16th June 2010.
Magnificent view of the Church of Agios Nikolaos (St Nicholas), overlooking the Aegean Sea in the town of Ermoupolis, on the island of Syros, South Aegean, Greece.
It is known locally as the Church of St Nicholas the Rich because it was partly funded by donations from wealthy benefactors, including shipowners living abroad, and to distinguish it from the Church of St Nicholas the Poor in Ano Syros.
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Location : Melaka, Malaysia
We had a short vacation for the long weekend break during singapore national day holiday weekend. I am so glad i actually finished editing these melaka pictures already. I had a backlog of pictures from aussie and china yet to edit. Im getting lazy. Oh No!~ O well, will be posting 12 shots again mostly Melaka and our troops!~ stay tune!~
This picture is icon for malaka, its red building of a church called CHRISTCHURCH. Thats all i know!~ =P
Entering Bath at Newbridge on 13 Oct 2007, 66955 WX55TZS is one of the large number of 2005 B7RLEs delivered to Bath depot.
All have now been reallocated though 66937-43 only moved to Bristol but others are spread across the country with 66955 being sent to Glasgow
The destination doesn't provide much information though - it was common at the time
Floating & paddling down the canal on inflatable rafts.
From the Destination Unknown adventure race, held on Saturday, June 4, 2011, in Warsaw, Indiana.
The race was organized and hosted by Matt and Micah of Metzger Outdoors, and many friendly volunteers.