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Many may not know or realize that the 7th of July was World Chocolate Day. How amazing would it be if you could combine travel and chocolate and have an extremely unique holiday to celebrate this?
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Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is situated within the Stuttgart Region, and the district is part of the administrative region (Regierungsbezirk) of Stuttgart.
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Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg), also known as the "Versailles of Swabia", is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its total area, including the gardens, is 32 ha (79 acres)—the largest palatial estate in the country. The palace has four wings: the northern wing, the Alter Hauptbau, is the oldest and was used as a ducal residence; the east and west wings were used for court purposes and housing guests and courtiers; the southern wing, the Neuer Hauptbau, was built to house more court functions and was later used as a residence.
Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, appointed Philipp Joseph Jenisch to direct the work and construction began in 1704. In 1707, Jenisch was replaced with Johann Friedrich Nette, who completed the majority of the palace and surrounding gardens. Nette died in 1714, and Donato Giuseppe Frisoni finished much of the palace facades. In the final year of construction, Eberhard Louis died and the Neue Hauptbau's interiors were left incomplete. Charles Eugene's court architect, Philippe de La Guêpière, completed and refurbished parts of the New Hauptbau in the Rococo style, especially the palace theatre. Charles Eugene abandoned the palace for Stuttgart in 1775. Duke Frederick II, later King Frederick I, began using Ludwigsburg as his summer residence in the last years of Charles Eugene's reign. Frederick and his wife Charlotte, Princess Royal, resided at Ludwigsburg and employed Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret to renovate the palace in the Neoclassical style. Thouret converted much of Ludwigsburg's interiors over the reign of Frederick and later life of Charlotte. As a result of each architect's work, Ludwigsburg is a combination of Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, and Empire style architecture.
The constitutions of the Free People's State and Kingdom of Württemberg were ratified at Ludwigsburg Palace in 1919 and 1819, respectively. It was the residence for four of Württemberg's monarchs and some other members of the House of Württemberg and their families. The palace was opened to the public in 1918 and then survived World War II intact. It later underwent periods of restoration in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s and again for the palace's 300th anniversary in 2004. The palace had more than 350,000 visitors in 2017 and has hosted the Ludwigsburg Festival every year since 1947.
Surrounding the palace are the Blooming Baroque (Blühendes Barock) gardens, arranged in 1954 as they might have appeared in 1800. Nearby is Schloss Favorite, a hunting lodge built in 1717 by Frisoni. Within the palace are two museums operated by the Landesmuseum Württemberg dedicated to fashion and porcelain respectively.
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The German city of Ludwigsburg hosts the largest pumpkin festival in the world, held annually from early September to November. Bringing in more than 400,000 pumpkins grown in southwest Germany, the city arranges them based on a theme that varies year by year. The festival includes more than 450 species of pumpkins, some of which are edible and others that are solely used for display purposes.
Themed Displays
The annual Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival has a different theme each year, with pumpkins stacked together to create shapes unique to a subject. In 2011, the pumpkin garden was transformed into a "Jurassic Park," with pumpkins arranged in the shape of dinosaurs. The 2010 festival was island-themed, featuring pumpkins arranged as an octopus, a mermaid, a lighthouse and other sea creatures. In 2012, the festival was Switzerland-themed, with pumpkins displayed to resemble the Swiss flag, livestock and the Alps. Thousands of pumpkins are stacked together to build each year's unique creations.
Food and Drink
The German festival offers an array of pumpkin-flavored dishes, including pumpkin soups, "maultaschen" (ravioli), risotto, strudel and spaghetti. Visitors can also order pumpkin-flavored sparkling wine. Previous festivals have offered various types of the gourd-like squash, including the "Blue Banana," the "Speckled Hound," the "Little Blue Hungarian" and the "Japanese Microwave Pumpkin," all of which can be used for cooking. For those interested in making their own dishes, the festival shop also sells pumpkin seed oil, marmalade, chutney, seeds and cookbooks.
Activities
The Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival features various autumn-themed activities. Using a spoon and a carving instrument, visitors can choose to carve their own pumpkins or watch sculptors transform them into artwork. On Saturdays, you can listen to live music while drinking pumpkin-flavored sparkling wine. Families with kids can let their children roll around in the "playground," a large pen filled with hay. Past festivals have hosted costume contests and pumpkin-carving competitions during the week of Halloween.
Annual Events
On one day each fall, the festival includes a race featuring canoeists paddling across a lake using boats made from hollowed-out pumpkins. The annual race takes place on the lake across from Ludwigsburg Castle. With the pumpkins frequently weighing more than 200 pounds, they are difficult to keep afloat. Ludwigsburg also features an annual competition to find Europe's heaviest pumpkin. On the last day of the festival, which marks the end of the season, the winning pumpkin is smashed after being on display for weeks.
#TravelTuesday with #GoProGirl @ordinarytraveler Hi! I’m Christy. I’m a #photographer and serial wanderluster who runs the popular adventure travel blog, @OrdinaryTraveler, where I share my photography and #traveltips. Of all the destinations I’ve traveled, the #CookIslands is definitely one of my favorite places. I took this shot on One Foot Island during a snorkel tour in Aitutaki’s stunning lagoon. The ocean is my happy place and I always have my #GoPro in hand to capture the underwater world. I took this photo on my #HERO4Silver. It was an extremely windy day and the water was choppy, so Burst Mode was key in order to get a good over/underwater shot! #
Dragon beach is a kind of forgeten paradise of Phu Quoc Island
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Udabno is a small village in the semi-desert of eastern Georgia, located near the impressive David Gareja monastery complex. We stayed at Guesthouse Gareji, a pleasant and peaceful place run by a kind and welcoming couple. The rooms are simple but comfortable, making it a great base to explore the area. At first, we weren’t sure where we could get something to eat, but with a view over Udabno, we quickly spotted a nearby restaurant. The first one, marked by a large logo, is Udabno Terrace, with Oasis Club just behind it—two popular spots for dining and accommodation. Udabno Terrace is a charming restaurant and guesthouse run by local Svanetians. It’s known for its warm hospitality, delicious traditional Georgian dishes such as kubdari (spiced meat bread) and khachapuri (cheese bread), and its beautiful open veranda overlooking the steppe. Svanetians are an ethnic subgroup of Georgians from the mountainous region of Svaneti in the northwest. They speak their own language, Svan, which is related to Georgian but not mutually intelligible. They are known for their strong cultural identity and close-knit community. Oasis Club is a lively combination of restaurant, hostel, and seven wooden cottages, located in the heart of the Georgian semi-desert. The restaurant serves a unique blend of Georgian and European cuisine, prepared by local chefs from Udabno. On weekends, the venue often hosts live music by local performers. Both locations offer a unique experience and serve as excellent bases for visiting the David Gareja monastery complex.
Udabno is a small village in eastern Georgia’s semi-desert, close to the remote David Gareja monastery. We stayed at Guesthouse Gareji, a simple but pleasant place run by a warm and welcoming couple. Just a short walk away are two popular spots: Udabno Terrace, a friendly restaurant and guesthouse known for its home-cooked Georgian meals and sweeping views of the steppe, and Oasis Club, a lively venue offering food, music, and cabin stays. One of the highlights at Oasis Club was the cozy evening campfire—perfect for relaxing under the stars after a day of exploring.
Udabno is een klein dorp in de semi-woestijn van Oost-Georgië, vlak bij het indrukwekkende kloostercomplex van David Gareja. We verbleven in guesthouse Gareji, een prima verblijf gerund door een vriendelijk echtpaar dat ons hartelijk ontving. De kamers zijn eenvoudig maar comfortabel, en het was een rustige plek om te overnachten in deze bijzondere omgeving. We hadden geen idee of we ergens konden eten, maar met dit uitzicht op Udabno zagen we al snel dat er een restaurant niet ver weg was. Het eerste restaurant met het grote logo is Udabno Terrace, en daar direct achter ligt de Oasis Club – twee populaire plekken om te eten en te verblijven. Udabno Terrace is een charmant restaurant en guesthouse, gerund door lokale Svanetiërs. Het staat bekend om zijn warme gastvrijheid, heerlijke traditionele Georgische gerechten zoals kubdari (kruidig vleesbrood) en khachapuri (kaasbrood), en een prachtig uitzicht over de steppe vanaf de open veranda. Svanetiërs zijn een etnische subgroep van de Georgiërs, afkomstig uit de bergachtige regio Svanetië in het noordwesten van het land. Ze spreken hun eigen taal, Svan, die verwant is aan het Georgisch maar onderling niet verstaanbaar is. Ze staan bekend om hun sterke culturele identiteit en hechte gemeenschapsgevoel. Oasis Club is een levendige combinatie van restaurant, hostel en zeven houten cottages, gelegen in het hart van de Georgische semi-woestijn. Het restaurant biedt een unieke mix van Georgische en Europese gerechten, bereid door lokale koks uit Udabno. In het weekend zijn er regelmatig concerten van lokale muzikanten. Eén van de hoogtepunten van Oasis Club was het gezellige kampvuur 's avonds – perfect om te ontspannen onder de sterrenhemel na een dag vol ontdekkingen. Beide locaties bieden een unieke ervaring en vormen uitstekende uitvalsbases voor een bezoek aan het kloostercomplex van David Gareja.
Visite a famosa Mesquita Santa Sofia e seus mosaicos bizantinos, encante-se com a riqueza do Palácio Topkapi, de onde se comandava o império otomano.
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As do most churches in the Philippines, the monastically thick-walled stone church of San Guillermo de Aquitania in Dalaguete gets dark especially in the late afternoon sun. What is strange here is that I am directly facing the East and not the West where the sun is. Why then the backlight aura when the sun is at the back? Perhaps the church was just too dark that any portal simply will usher light in... That the light was vertical and appeared to stream directly from the antique chandelier made me think that images can sometimes indeed be reverent to such a holy place.
(The heritage stone church was built in 1802 and finished in 1825. A major defense outpost during the pirate raids in the early 1800s, it is one of the remaining intact church fortress complexes in the Philippines. )
the Church of San Guillermo de Aquitania, Dalaguete, Cebu, the Philippines
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La villa d'Este di Tivoli è un capolavoro del Rinascimento italiano e figura nella lista dei patrimoni dell'umanità dell’UNESCO.
Photographed from our running bus.
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It is nearly impossible to describe the beauty you will encounter while travelling across Rocky Mountain in Colorado during early October! Thick aspens (Populus tremuloides) in patches with their golden leaves stand against lush green mountains. Ice peaks over 12,000 feet rising through the forest truly enhance the beauty of its landscapes.
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountain National Park in northern Colorado is one of the most distinctive of America's alpine area parks. It is home to a vast collection of 72 peaks that scrape the skies at over 12,000 feet and offers diverse geography that encompasses barren alpine tundra and thick, lush forests. While summer crowds help to make the park one of the top 10 most visited in the national park system, autumn provides a quieter time to enjoy the vibrant colors of the changing seasons. September and October typically experience dry, moderate weather, making for ideal visits.
Trees
The park's fall colors are most defined by the legions of white-barked aspen trees that line the valleys and mountains. Starting in late August, aspens in the highest reaches of the park begin their annual quaking, a term to describe the aspens unique leaves changing a golden-yellow hue. As the quaking progresses the park's high country becomes striped with color, appearing on fire from a distance. These trees become yellow in mid-September and provide crisp shades of gold and red into October. The colors contrast with the deep greens of the evergreen trees that make up the majority of tree species in the park. The peak season for fall colors comes in late-September and the changing colors generally last four to five weeks. Hundreds of elk migrate down from the high country to find a mate for the winter.
Intensity of Fall Colors
Aspen (Populus tremuloides) are among the most colorful and wide-spread color-changing trees in Rocky Mountain National Park. Experience suggests to us that aspen produce more or less colorful leaves from year to year, and that these differences seem to relate to weather patterns, soil fertility, and the amount of moisture they received during the growing season.
Ecological mysteries of fall colors-
Recently scientists put forward an intriguing alternative explanation for intense fall colors in some trees (Ecol. Lett. 6, 807, 2003). Mountain birches in Norway may use intense fall colors to signal leaf-chewing insects not to infest them. The intensity of color seems to be an indicator of how much chemical defense compound the tree can produce. In the case of the mountain birches, an inchworm (geometrid) moth lays eggs on the trees in the fall. The following spring the eggs hatch, and the moth caterpillars eat the trees' leaves. Trees that can produce larger amounts of chemical defenses to make their leaves unpalatable receive less damage. The trees with the most intense leaf colors in the fall also have the least damage the following spring, suggesting a direct relationship between chemical defenses and intense colors. Over time, perhaps the moths have learned to avoid laying eggs on trees with the most highly colored leaves!
Its not know whether the same thing happens in Rocky Mountain National Park's aspen or other trees. We do know there are many different representatives of the inchworm or geometrid moth family in the park. However, whether you enjoy fall colors because they are beautiful or because they may reveal scientific secrets, Rocky Mountain National Park offers an excellent opportunity to experience a glorious autumn.
The colors of the Rockies are truly singular
The colors of the Rockies are truly singular, that is, they are all yellow. Gorgeous expanses of yellow aspen (Populus tremuloides) color the mountain sides, contrasting firmly with the dark green spruces and firs. The orange, red, and purples of the east seem absent.
The autumn colors in leaves are produced by an interestingly subtractive process. In summer, green chlorophyll masks the colors of several other pigments that exist in leaves, pigments that, like chlorophyll, assist with photosynthesis. These yellow, red, and purple pigments - carotene, xanthophyll, and anthocyanins - produce the bright fall colors, but only after the chlorophyll wanes as temperatures cool and days shorten. As autumn proceeds, even these hardier pigments ebb, and leaves become brown, gray, or black.
Sources:
traveltips.usatoday.com/fall-colors-rocky-mountain-nation...
www.myrockymountainpark.com/park/fall-in-rocky-mountain-park
Buremberg castle, together with the city walls, is considered to be one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortifications.
Historical medieval city Bayer Germany.
The image features the magnificent Osaka Castle in Osaka, Japan. This castle is a prime example of Japanese architectural prowess. With its multiple tiers, each adorned with gracefully curved roofs and gold accents, it stands as a symbol of historical grandeur. The robust stone foundation provides a sense of strength and durability, highlighting its defensive capabilities. The white walls of the castle create a striking contrast against the vibrant blue sky, making it an eye-catching sight. Surrounding the castle, lush trees and well-maintained gardens add to its picturesque appeal, enhancing the overall ambiance.
Osaka Castle is not just a visual marvel but also a significant historical landmark. Built in the late 16th century by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it played a crucial role during the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Today, it stands as a testament to Japan's rich cultural heritage and history. The castle's interior has been transformed into a museum, offering visitors a glimpse into its storied past. Exhibits include artifacts from the feudal era, detailed dioramas, and historical documents, providing an immersive educational experience.
Visitors can explore the castle grounds, which include beautiful cherry blossom trees that bloom spectacularly in spring. The surrounding park offers a tranquil setting for leisurely strolls, picnics, and photography. Osaka Castle is a must-visit destination for travelers seeking to immerse themselves in Japan's history and culture. Its impressive architecture, rich history, and serene surroundings make it a standout attraction in Osaka. Whether you're a history buff, an architecture enthusiast, or simply looking for a scenic spot, Osaka Castle delivers a memorable experience.
The gardens stretch from the Louvre to the Place de la Concorde. Beautifully designed and maintained.
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"And Jesus stood still."
Down the long, dusty road on their way from Jericho to Jerusalem, almost two thousand years ago, trod Jesus with his motley band of twelve disciples, followed by a huge crowd.
They were all hot and sweaty. The dust clung to them. They were weary, but Jesus was at the height of his popularity, and the great crowd of people pressed close to him. They were jabbering endlessly. Asking questions. Seeking favors. They could be heard a mile away.
"Hey, what's all the noise?" blind Bartimaeus asked his friend as they sat by the roadside begging.
"I don't know," answered his friend with a puzzled tone in his voice.
"Let's ask someone," they agreed.
"It's Jesus," a passerby informed them.
"You mean Jesus of Nazareth, the fellow they claim can heal the sick and the blind?" Bartimaeus excitedly asked.
"That's the one," the man said, "and I'm on my way to see him. Good-bye."
The crowd came closer and closer. Excitement filled the air. The noise became intense.
"I can't believe it," shouted Bartimaeus to another friend. "This just has to be my lucky day. I've got to get to Jesus; I know he can heal me."
"Hey, Bart, there he is," cried Bartimaeus's friend, "but how will you ever get his attention?"
Dignity was dismissed. "This is it," said Bartimaeus, "I may never see Jesus again and I desperately want to be healed."
So, seeking to drown out the noise of the crowd, Bartimaeus yelled at the top of his voice, "Jesus, have mercy on me! O Lord, son of David, have mercy on me!"
"Cool it, man! Shut up!" retorted some of the crowd. "You're making too much noise. You don't stand a chance of getting to Jesus, so just relax and quit your stupid yelling!"
But Bartimaeus was all the more determined to get to Jesus. He couldn't see, but he could yell. He cried out all the louder. Hear his voice rise above the din of the crowd. It rings out like a great clarion call, "Jesus, O Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! Jesus, O Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
And Jesus stood still.
And the crowds stood still.
And a great calm settled down over them all.
The winds and the waves couldn't stop Jesus. Neither could angry mobs. Crowds of people couldn't stop him either. But a lone, blind beggar could—and did.
And Jesus with his great heart of compassion asked for Bartimaeus to be brought to him.
"What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked.
"Lord," Bartimaeus replied, "please give me my sight." And Jesus did!
"Go your way," he said, "your faith has made you whole."
-from I Hate Witnessing by Dick Innes
He saw , heard and responded in His grace to one man's desperate desire to see.
He still does so today.
"With those who first watched and waited for God to step from the heavens and into an unlikely stable, we are reminded on the feast of Epiphany that we, too, are a world straining in the dark, waiting for a great light. Like those who first journeyed to set their eyes on the child born to die, we labor through long nights, often finding ourselves out of place, in the dark, and straining to see more. But in so doing, Christ himself can transform our watching and our waiting, our lives and our deaths, bringing light where death stings, tears discourage, and darkness haunts. "I wait for the Lord," sings the psalmist, "my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord, more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning" (Psalm 130:5-6). The night is long, but the light is real. "
-Jill Carattini
Picture is of the Mission House along Farquhar Street Penang. 1876
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I mentioned earlier that the subway is a great place to get some photos of Dubai. If you are lucky, you'll find yourself in the last car of the train and the window will be clean.
I shot this image over the shoulder of a few other tourists... I debated whether or not to shoot some images with just the buildings, but I think the guy making a picture with his point and shoot tells a better story.
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The Acheen Street Mosque or Masjid Lebuh Acheh is an old mosque located at the heritage enclave of George Town. It was also called the Mesjid Jamek as well as Masjid Melayu Lebuh Acheh. The mosque was founded in 1801, making it one of the oldest mosques in Penang. The founder was Tengku Sheriff Syed Hussain Al-Aidid, an Acehnese clan leader who moved to Penang at the invitation of Captain Francis Light, and settled at what became Acheen Street.
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