Braunau on the Inn

26 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  9 minutes

City center © Stadtamt Braunau am Inn/cc-by-sa-3.0

City center © Stadtamt Braunau am Inn/cc-by-sa-3.0

Braunau am Inn (English: Braunau on the Inn) is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, the capital of Braunau am Inn District. Located on the border with Germany, it is the largest town in the Upper Austrian Innviertel region. The population of Braunau am Inn is at 16,000. The municipal area comprises the cadastral communities of Braunau am Inn, Osternberg, and Ranshofen.   read more…

Theme Week East Anglia – Bury St Edmunds

26 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Abbey Gardens and Cathedral © geograph.org.uk - Robert Edwards/cc-by-sa-2.0

Abbey Gardens and Cathedral © geograph.org.uk – Robert Edwards/cc-by-sa-2.0

Bury St Edmunds is a market town in the county of Suffolk, and formerly the county town of West Suffolk. It is the main town in the borough of St Edmundsbury and known for the ruined abbey near the town centre. Bury is the seat of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, with the episcopal see at St Edmundsbury Cathedral.   read more…

Port Canaveral in Florida

25 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Cruise Ships Reading Time:  7 minutes

Disney Wonder at Port Canaveral © flickr.com - Rennett Stowe/cc-by-2.0

Disney Wonder at Port Canaveral © flickr.com – Rennett Stowe/cc-by-2.0

Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo and naval port in Brevard County, Florida. It is one of the busiest cruise ports in the world with nearly 2.8 million multi-day cruise passengers passing through during 2010. As a deep water cargo port, it has a high volume of traffic. Over 3,000,000 short tons (2,700,000 t) of bulk cargo moves through each year. Common cargo includes cement, petroleum and aggregate. The port has conveyors and hoppers for loading products directly into trucks, and facilities for bulk cargo containers. The channel is about 44 feet (13 m) deep.   read more…

Theme Week East Anglia

25 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  8 minutes

Burghley House in Peterborough © flickr.com - Anthony Masi/cc-by-2.0

Burghley House in Peterborough © flickr.com – Anthony Masi/cc-by-2.0

East Anglia is one of three constituent parts of the East of England – a first level region. The name has also been applied to the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles. The region’s name is derived from the Angles – a tribe that originated in Angeln, northern Germany. The region comprises four areas of local government: the administrative counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, northern Essex and Cambridgeshire, the unitary authority area of the city of Peterborough.   read more…

The Montego Bay on Jamaica

24 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Montego Bay © flickr.com - Annsabananna

Montego Bay © flickr.com – Annsabananna

Montego Bay is the capital of St. James Parish and the second largest city in Jamaica by area and the fourth by population (after Kingston, Spanish Town and Portmore). It is a tourist destination with duty free shopping, a cruise line terminal and several beaches. The city is backed by picturesque low mountains.   read more…

Cluj-Napoca, in the historic region of Transylvania

24 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

City Centre © Alexmandru

City Centre © Alexmandru

Cluj-Napoca (German: Klausenburg; Hungarian: Kolozsvár), commonly known as Cluj, is the second most populous city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (324 km / 201 mi), Budapest (351 km / 218 mi) and Belgrade (322 km / 200 mi). Located in the Someşul Mic River valley, the city is considered the unofficial capital to the historical province of Transylvania. In 1790–1848 and 1861–1867, it was the official capital of the Grand Principality of Transylvania.   read more…

Sunny Beach on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast

23 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Sunny Beach © Ванка5/cc-by-sa-3.0

Sunny Beach © Ванка5/cc-by-sa-3.0

Sunny Beach is a major seaside resort on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, located approximately 35 km north of Burgas in Nessebar municipality, Burgas Province. To the south Sunny Beach has grown together with Nessebar and Ravda, to the north with Saint Vlas. Sunny Beach is known for its intense nightlife with numerous bars, pubs and clubs and especially popular among younger people.   read more…

Theme Week Istanbul – Hagia Sophia

23 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  9 minutes

© Dennis Jarvis/cc-by-sa-2.0

© Dennis Jarvis/cc-by-sa-2.0

Hagia Sophia (“Holy Wisdom“) is a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum (Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul. From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.   read more…

Port Royal on Jamaica

22 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Port Royal Cays © NASA World Wind

Port Royal Cays © NASA World Wind

Port Royal is a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1518, it was the centre of shipping commerce in the Caribbean Sea during the latter half of the 17th century. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692 and a subsequent tsunami, and fires. Severe hurricanes have regularly damaged it. Another severe earthquake occurred in 1907.   read more…

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