Normandy’s D-Day Beaches and Interesting Museums
Visiting Normandy France and the D-Day sights from World War II.
Visiting Normandy France and the D-Day sights from World War II.
Seville’s Flamenco Museum: Dancing Anger and Ache in the Heart of the City By Hunter Styles It is evening in downtown Seville. With bated breath, a seated audience fills the inner courtyard of the Museum of Flamenco Dance. The ceiling, at the top of the building’s atrium, is echoingly high. The walls are a smooth…
By Hunter Styles A pause arrives, a breath in the music, and we witness the sudden pause in the dancer too – a wavering of the hip, the slightest thrust in chin or chest. Heartbeats, gaze rises, steps echo. A bead of sweat drops and disappears. For a moment, underneath the colored cloth, the hot…
By Hunter Styles Flamenco: A Deep Well of Music Travelers familiar with the Andalusia region won’t be surprised to find Moorish influence woven into the design as well. Those who have walked within the Alhambra, Granada’s expansive fortress, or the Mezquita, Córboda’s cavernous mosque, may recognize in flamenco, too, traces of this unique heritage. In…
By Elizabeth Bagley Drinking and marijuana have never really interested me, so on the plane over to Amsterdam I wondered what else I might want to see and do. I browsed through my guidebook looking to see what the city offers and here I discovered the world’s largest flower auction. Fourteen million flowers are auctioned…
Dallas: The Big D Offers Museums Galore and Even Places to, um, Walk! By Sony Stark Visiting Dallas Texas is like taking a crash course in cultural anthropology. No longer do you need to travel to Beijing to see great works of Chinese art or Venice, Italy, to ride a gondola or Napa Valley for…
Cambodia | A visit to the land mine museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Washington, DC: Rhonda Bidart describes the many interesting exhibits at the sixteen museums that make up the Smithsonian Institution.
Balboa Island, near Newport Beach California, is less known and well worth finding for beachy fun and Duffy boats.
Steeplechase horse racing in the Mid-Atlantic states, attending the race and learning the fine points of horse jumping and pageantry.
Berlin is focused on sustainable travel an emphasis on not wasting food, there is a museum called Futurarium about the future sustainable Berlin.
Taking a tour of England’s Lake District including Lake Coniston, hiking the gentle mountains, and enjoying the food and people.