San Antonio in Texas

10 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

The Alamo © Daniel Schwen/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Alamo © Daniel Schwen/cc-by-sa-4.0

San Antonio is the seventh most populous city in the United States of America and the second most populous city in the state of Texas, with a population of 1.4 million. It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000 to 2010, and the second from 1990 to 2000. The city is located in the American Southwest, the south–central part of Texas, and the southwestern corner of an urban region known as the Texas Triangle.   read more…

Theme Week Brittany – Concarneau

9 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Aerial view of Ville Close, harbour and town centre © Ronan Voltz

Aerial view of Ville Close, harbour and town centre © Ronan Voltz

Concarneau (Breton: Konk Kerne, meaning Bay of Cornwall) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.   read more…

Mladá Boleslav northeast of Prague

9 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Old Town Square with Old Town Hall and Marian column © Sokoljan/cc-by-sa-3.0

Old Town Square with Old Town Hall and Marian column © Sokoljan/cc-by-sa-3.0

Mladá Boleslav is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, on the left bank of the Jizera river about 50 kilometres (31 miles) northeast of Prague.   read more…

Interlaken in the Bernese Oberland

7 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

View of Interlaken and Thunersee from Schynige Platte © Andrew Bossi

View of Interlaken and Thunersee from Schynige Platte © Andrew Bossi

Interlaken is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland, a well-known tourist destination in the Bernese Oberland. Interlaken is located between Lake Brienz to the east and Lake Thun to the west in the area called Bödeli. The town takes its name from its geographical position between the lakes (in Latin inter lacus). The Aare River flows through the town connecting the lakes.   read more…

The BBC Broadcasting House in Westminster

6 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, London Reading Time:  5 minutes

© Zizzu02/cc-by-sa-3.0

© Zizzu02/cc-by-sa-3.0

Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main building is in Art Deco style, with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame. It is a Grade II* listed building and includes the BBC Radio Theatre, where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience, and lobby that was used as a location for filming the 1998 BBC television series In the Red.   read more…

Vilsbiburg in Bavaria

6 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

City Square © Mathias Plonka/cc-by-sa-3.0

City Square © Mathias Plonka/cc-by-sa-3.0

Vilsbiburg is a town on the river Große Vils, 18 km southeast of Landshut, in the district of Landshut, in Bavaria. Vilsbiburg has 11,000 inhabitants. Vilsbiburg lies in the center of Lower Bavaria and is part of the Alpine foothills. The river Große Vils runs through the town center. Vilsbiburg is about 55 miles northeast of Munich.   read more…

Long Beach in California

5 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Greater Los Angeles Area Reading Time:  7 minutes

Downtown Long Beach © himefrias

Downtown Long Beach © himefrias

Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the United States and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,000. In addition, Long Beach is the second largest city in the Greater Los Angeles Area after Los Angeles and a principal city of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area.   read more…

Theme Week Munich – Schwabing and Maxvorstadt

5 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Architecture Reading Time:  5 minutes

Richard Wagner Street © David Kostner

Richard Wagner Street © David Kostner

Schwabing is Munich’s most versatile district being home to various theaters, museums, a university, the largest park in Europe, and shops that cater to those with money to burn. Schwabing’s highlight is the Englischer Garten, with endless bike and hiking trails, the Eisbach stream, and the makeshift concerts that are put on for people’s enjoyment, which makes this district the perfect place to end a day of sightseeing or a date.   read more…

Kongsberg in Norway

4 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Mint and silver works © Bjoertvedt/cc-by-sa-3.0-no

Mint and silver works © Bjoertvedt/cc-by-sa-3.0-no

Kongsberg is a town and municipality in Buskerud county. It is located at the southern end of the traditional region of Numedal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsberg. The town was founded in 1624 under the name Konings Bierg by Danish-Norwegian king Christian IV as a mining community. It was granted its royal charter of trade—amounting to official township—in 1802. The municipality of Kongsberg was established on 1 January 1838 (see Formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipalities of Ytre Sandsvær and Øvre Sandsvær were merged into the municipality of Kongsberg on 1 January 1964.   read more…

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