Expo 2025 in Osaka

16 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  5 minutes

Expo 2025 bid - Dōtonbori area of Osaka © flickr.com - Luca Florio/cc-by-sa-2.0

Expo 2025 bid – Dōtonbori area of Osaka © flickr.com – Luca Florio/cc-by-sa-2.0

Expo 2025 is a World Expo organised and sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which will be held in Osaka, Japan. It will take place for six months during 2025, opening 13 April 2025 and closing 13 October 2025, for a total of 184 days. This will be the second time Osaka hosts a World Expo, having previously hosted Expo 1970. The event will return to its traditional 5-year scheduling cycle after the 2020 edition was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The projected visitor count is approximately 28 million.   read more…

Monte Isola in Lombardy

15 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

© panoramio.com - ildirettore/cc-by-3.0

© panoramio.com – ildirettore/cc-by-3.0

Monte Isola (also known by the name of the main island Montisola; Brescian: Muntìsola) is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is one of I Borghi più belli d’Italia (“The most beautiful villages of Italy”).   read more…

Project 2025 or 2025 Presidential Transition Project

14 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

© project2025.org

© project2025.org

Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative to reshape the federal government of the United States and consolidate executive power in favor of right-wing policies. The plan was published in April 2023 by The Heritage Foundation, an American conservative think tank, in anticipation of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.   read more…

Mett bread roll

13 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  6 minutes

© flickr.com - Superbass/cc-by-sa-4.0

© flickr.com – Superbass/cc-by-sa-4.0

Mett, also known as Hackepeter (Northern Germany, Eastern Germany and Berlin), is a preparation of minced raw pork seasoned with salt and black pepper that is popular in Germany. It is frequently spread on halves of a bread roll, with raw onion optionally on top. Since the 1950s mett has also been offered as a buffet dish decoratively formed into the shape of a hedgehog, with raw onion “spines”. German law forbids mett being sold with a fat content exceeding 35%.   read more…

Inveraray in Scotland

12 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Main street © Holger Uwe Schmitt/cc-by-sa-4.0

Main street © Holger Uwe Schmitt/cc-by-sa-4.0

Inveraray (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Aora, meaning “mouth of the Aray“) is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Located on the western shore of Loch Fyne, near its head, Inveraray is a former royal burgh and known affectionately as “The Capital of Argyll.” It is the traditional county town of Argyll, and the ancestral seat to the Duke of Argyll.   read more…

Safranbolu in the Black Sea region

11 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  7 minutes

Old Goverment House © panoramio.com - rheins/cc-by-3.0

Old Goverment House © panoramio.com – rheins/cc-by-3.0

Safranbolu (Greek: Saphrampolis) is a town in Karabük Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is the seat of Safranbolu District. Its population is 52,999 (2022). It is about 9 km north of the city of Karabük, 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Ankara and about 100 km south of the Black Sea coast. The town’s historic names in Greek were Theodoroupolis (Θεοδωρούπολις, i.e. city of Theodorus or female Theodora) and later Saphrampolis (Σαφράμπολις). Its former names in Turkish were Zalifre and Taraklıborlu. It was part of Kastamonu Province until 1923 and Zonguldak Province between 1923 and 1995. The town lies at an elevation of 508 m (1,667 ft).   read more…

Orvieto in Umbria

10 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  13 minutes

© Chensiyuan/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Chensiyuan/cc-by-sa-4.0

Orvieto is a city and comune in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises dramatically above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone.   read more…

Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska

9 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks, Environment Reading Time:  12 minutes

Denali and Wonder Lake © BillC/cc-by-sa-3.0

Denali and Wonder Lake © BillC/cc-by-sa-3.0

Denali National Park and Preserve, until 1980 known as Mount McKinley National Park, is a United States national park and preserve located in Interior Alaska, centered on Denali (federally designated as Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America. The park and contiguous preserve encompass 6,045,153 acres (2,446,387 ha; 9,446 sq mi; 24,464 km²) which is larger than the state of New Hampshire. On December 2, 1980, 2,146,580-acre (3,354 sq mi; 8,687 km²) Denali Wilderness was established within the park. Denali’s landscape is a mix of forest at the lowest elevations, including deciduous taiga, with tundra at middle elevations, and glaciers, snow, and bare rock at the highest elevations. The longest glacier is the Kahiltna Glacier. Wintertime activities include dog sledding, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling. The park received 594,660 recreational visitors in 2018.   read more…

Hội An in Vietnam

8 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  11 minutes

Thu Bồn River at night © Nguyen QuocTrung/cc-by-sa-4.0

Thu Bồn River at night © Nguyen QuocTrung/cc-by-sa-4.0

Hội An, formerly known in the Western world as Faifoo or Faifo, is a city of approximately 120,000 people in Vietnam’s Quảng Nam Province, registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. Along with the Cù Lao Cham archipelago, it is part of the Cù Lao Cham-Hội An Biosphere Reserve, designated in 2009. In 2023, Hội An was registered in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network list.   read more…

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