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My two visits to Cobh in July were somewhat constrained because it rained most of the time.
Cobh,known from 1850 until the late 1920s as Queenstown, is a tourist seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and is home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area draws on the maritime and emigration legacy of the town - including its association with the RMS Titanic.
Facing the town are Spike Island and Haulbowline Island, and on a high point in the town stands St Colman's Cathedral, one of the tallest buildings in Ireland and seat of the diocese of Cloyne.
Manhattanhenge is a phenomenon where the sunset aligns perfectly on east-west oriented streets of Manhattan.
Evening light over a historic building in Stockholm, Sweden. Warm lamps and statues stand out against the deep blue sky. Captured with Nikon Z6 and 40mm Z lens.
Location: Neufchâtel-en-Bray, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France.
The heart shaped Neufchatel cheese is made here. Legend goes that French farm girls fell in love with English soldiers during the Hundred Years War and started making heart shaped cheeses to show their love.
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Location: The George Sand Hotel Restaurant, Rue Quintefol, Loches, Indre-et-Loire, France.
This old 15th century post house is where George Sand (real name Aurore Dupin), the rebellious, cross-dressing, cigar-smoking, scandalously acting woman writer and famously one time lover of composer Frederick Chopin, stopped to change horses in order to continue her journey to Paris.
It is perfectly located between the chateau and the river Indre and with its covered terrace makes it a delightful watering hole whatever the weather.
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Location: The 20,000 acre royal Sandringham Estate, Norfolk, England.
There has been a dwelling in this location since Elizabethan times, including Sandringham Hall, built in 1771 by architect Cornish Henley.
The hall and estate became royally owned in 1862 when Queen Victoria purchased it for her son Prince Edward (the Prince of Wales and future King Edward VII) as a home for himself and his new bride, Princess Alexandra.
However, two years after moving in the prince found the hall's size insufficient for his needs, and he commissioned A. J. Humbert to design and build a new high-end gaff. This task was completed in 1870 resulting in the red-bricked building seen today, renamed Sandringham House. A new wing was added later and part of the house had to be rebuilt in 1891 following a fire caused during the preparations for the Prince of Wales' 50th birthday.
Sandringham House was once described as 'the most comfortable house in England' and has been a favourite private home through four generations of British monarchs.
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Dramatic light highlights Eilean Donan Castle during a moody, spring day in Scotland.
Eilean Donan is a small island in Loch Duich in the western Highlands of Scotland. The island is dominated by a picturesque castle which is familiar from many photographs and appearances in film and television. The castle was founded in the thirteenth century, but was destroyed in the eighteenth century. The present buildings are the result of twentieth-century reconstruction.
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Dublin Castle is currently an Irish government complex, conference centre, and tourist attraction. It is located off Dame Street in Dublin, Ireland.
The castle complex also hosts the Chester Beatty Library, in a purpose-constructed facility, with a café, the Garda Museum, in the Treasury Building, and the Revenue Museum.
The former site of the "dark pool" on the Poddle was remodeled into a garden, with a water feature that commemorates fallen Gardaí, and a helipad.
Until 1922 it was the seat of the British government's administration in Ireland. Most of the current construction dates from the 18th century, though a castle has stood on the site since the days of King John, the first Lord of Ireland. The Castle served as the seat of English, then later British, government of Ireland under the Lordship of Ireland (1171–1541), the Kingdom of Ireland (1541–1800), and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1800–1922).
After the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, the complex was ceremonially handed over to the newly formed Provisional Government led by Michael Collins. It now hosts the inauguration of each President of Ireland, and various State receptions.
The castle was built by the dark pool ("Dubh Linn") which gave Dublin its name. This pool lies on the lower course of the River Poddle before its confluence with the River Liffey; when the castle was built, the Liffey was much wider, and the castle was effectively defended by both rivers. The Poddle today runs under the complex.
This "Home on the Water" is moored up in the Canal Basins in Stourport-on-Severn, a unique Georgian canal town in the heart of the Severn Valley in rural Worcestershire, England.
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Small Street with old buildings in the old center of Marsala, Trapani district, Sicily, Italy -
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The best-known dock in Liverpool is the Albert Dock, which was constructed in 1846
Liverpool is a city in North West England. Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. In the 19th century, it was a major port of departure for Irish and English emigrants to North America. Liverpool's status as a port city has attracted a diverse population, which was historically drawn from a wide range of cultures and religions.
Several areas of the city centre were granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO in 2004. The city celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2007, and was jointly named the 2008 European Capital of Culture.
Liverpool is closely associated with the arts, in particular music. The popularity of the Beatles and other music groups from the Merseybeat era contributed to the city's status as a tourist destination. The city has the second-highest number of art galleries and national museums in the United Kingdom, with only London having more.
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Matthias Church was originally built in Romanesque style in 1015. The current building was constructed in the florid late Gothic style in the second half of the 14th century and was extensively restored in the late 19th century.
Statue of Stephen I of Hungary in the foreground.
I wonder if Elsie Sandes would make of a Chinese restaurant?
Soldiers’ Homes in Ireland were founded and directed by Elise Sandes, a Tralee native with a passion for bringing God’s word to soldiers and sailors. It should be noted that her organisation still exists.
The ordinary British soldier was not particularly observant in spite of the mandatory religion enforced every Sunday in the Church parade. The attractions of the garrison town were obvious: drink, prostitutes and gambling. These ‘elements of evil’ were not confined to large cities: Sandes Homes were built in many Irish towns, including Ballincollig County Cork, Newbridge, County Kildare and Cahir, County Tipperary.
‘To provide a home for the soldiers of this garrison, where they can feel that they will be free from the influence of those elements for evil which ever beset a soldiers’ path in every large city.’
Location: Cranford St Andrew, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.
The dovecote here is believed to date from the 15th Century and contain 16 rows of nesting boxes (440 in all). This one has a wonderfully preserved, conical Collyweston stone slate roof. Along with fishponds, deer parks and rabbit warrens, dovecotes were an important part of the manorial economy. They were a reliable source of meat and eggs for the medieval manor or later farm estates. In medieval times the right to build a dovecote was restricted to the Lord of the manor but by the end of the 17th century some lesser land-owners or tenants had dovecotes.
The dairy farm is now a guest house known simply as the Dairy Farm Guest House and is a charming 17th century thatched house with oak beams and inglenook fireplaces set in the rolling Northamptonshire hills.
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The travertines, once the premier tourist photo of Turkey, are an evaporated shadow of what they once were.
Many of the pools are now dry and this amazing site is not nearly as photogenic as it once must have been. (I had to zoom in to capture a few with lovely blue water).
Of course, that hasn't stopped nearly every hotel in the village from siphoning off water for their pools which (at least off season) appear nearly unused. And it also shouldn't stop you from stopping by on any trip to Turkey. Still an amazing site, fun to visit, and the impressive ruins of Hierapolis are worth the hike up from the village below.
Cedar Key is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. The population was 702 at the 2010 census. The Cedar Keys are a cluster of islands near the mainland. Most of the developed area of the city has been on Way Key since the end of the 19th century. The Cedar Keys are named for the Eastern Red Cedar, Juniperus virginiana, once abundant in the area.
The old-fashioned fishing village is now a tourist center with several regionally famous seafood restaurants. The village holds two festivals a year, the Spring Sidewalk Art Festival and the Fall Seafood Festival, that each attract thousands of visitors to the area.
In 1950, Hurricane Easy, a category 3 storm with 125-mile-per-hour (201 km/h) winds, looped around Cedar Key three times before finally making landfall, dumping 38 inches (970 mm) of rain and destroying two-thirds of the homes. Luckily, the storm came ashore at low tide, so the surge was only 5 feet (1.5 m).
Hurricane Elena followed a similar path in 1985, but did not make landfall. Packing 115-mile-per-hour (185 km/h) winds, the storm churned for two days in the Gulf, 50 miles (80 km) to the west, battering the waterfront. All the businesses and restaurants on Dock Street were either damaged or destroyed, and a section of the seawall collapsed.
After a statewide ban on large-scale net fishing went into effect July 1, 1995, a government retraining program helped many local fishermen begin farming clams in the muddy waters. Today Cedar Key's clam-based aquaculture is a multimillion-dollar industry.
A local museum exhibit displays a reproduction of one of the first air conditioning installations. The system, with compressor and fans, was used in Cedar Key to ease the lot of malaria patients.
Cedar Key is home to the George T. Lewis Airport (CDK).
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Belarus is a traditional and charming unique country, often overlooked by tourists like Gavin Manerowski. Travel into landlocked Belarus through sweeping marshy areas and thick forest where deer, wild boars, and buffaloes reside, you will find crystal of the city’s main attraction lies in its more recent past.
John F. Kennedy Park - This promenade on the water’s edge is a favourite place for locals and visitors to relax. The bandstand is located near the spot where Queen Victoria stepped ashore in Ireland for the first time in August 1849. During the summer months regular band and music recitals take place there. The 2 cannons in the promenade were returned from the Boer and Crimean Wars in 1899 and 1854 respectively.
I set my alarm for 5.30am this morning. On a Sunday. Madness! But sunrise was 8am and I needed two-and-a-half hours to get into position: 30 minutes for ablutions; a 45 minute drive; an hour long walk (partly in the dark) and 15 minutes to get set up. But it was all worth it. And my first latte of the day back in civilisation was positively orgasmic!
John F. Kennedy Park - This promenade on the water’s edge is a favourite place for locals and visitors to relax. The bandstand is located near the spot where Queen Victoria stepped ashore in Ireland for the first time in August 1849. During the summer months regular band and music recitals take place there. The 2 cannons in the promenade were returned from the Boer and Crimean Wars in 1899 and 1854 respectively.