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#TerryTravelsBWPhotos8 Czechia Over 100 historical monasteries here, with Brevnov that still has the oldest continuous tradition of brewing beer within this country Burp 😅 |
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Ayegui Spain On my way to Bodegas Irache where there is a public wine fountain where we can fill up our cups with free red vino There is a daily limit of 100 liters (26 gallons) which then the tap runs dry, but to flow again the next morning After i raise a toast; To Our Health" (A Nuestra Salud) |
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Whitsunday Beach Australia The sand here is 98% pure silica making it a blindly white plus soft surface and was historically used to polish jewelry The area is made up of seventy four tropical islands with only eight that are inhabited, allowing me to wander around with my camera |
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Bucharest Romania Finding the "relative" of the kerosene lamps that allowed this city to be the first in the world to be fully illuminated |
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Cordoba Spain Exploring the famous patios here, where private homeowners open up their residences to showoff their flower filled and ceramic decorated interior courtyards Besides Beauty a Function With the combination of the shade, stone, trickling water and the continuous plant evaporation, this all creates a natural cooling effect It drops the temperature inside the courtyards, working as a microclimate compared to the hot weather on the outside streets |
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Lisbon Portugal This monument honors the Portuguese co-pilots Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral who completed the historic first flight across the South Atlantic in 1922 It took 79 days to complete and Coutinho pioneered the use of a modified sextant fitted with a spirit level for the aerial navigation, as it was a vast featureless part of the ocean without landmarks Which explains why no one else dared to fly this part of the Atlantic |
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Trafalgar Square Lions The statues were cast in bronze using melted down cannons captured from the defeated French and Spanish ships from the battles fought here in 1805 So when you visit, you are looking at pieces of military history |
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New Zealand Yes the sheep get priority here even on the motorways jajajja With around 25 million wooly friends to the 5 million citizens, there are a 5 to 1 ratio so the odds are against you The Great Escape In 2004 a Merino sheep (does not shed) named Shrek escaped into the wild and hid in the caves for six years When he was finally caught and given a long overdue haircut it was 27kg (60 lbs) of wool which was enough to make twenty high quality suits for men All of this made Shrek an International celebrity, so with that in mind i do not mind waiting as maybe i get to witness the next "breakout" star 😀 |
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Bohemian Forest Here on the German Border there are entire villages that completely vanished from the maps, but as you can see not from my camera Over 34,000 abandoned buildings including centuries old schools, churches and inns were demolished (1959) to prevent potential escapees from using them as hiding spots near the communist side of the border (Berlin Wall was built in 1961) |
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Caribbean One of 7,000 individual islands, islets and reefs we have pulled into Did you know that Cuba is so massive that it is larger than all the other Caribbean islands combined I really enjoyed my time there, here is hoping they get through this latest setup and reopen for us tourists |
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California Pacific Coast Highway The State Route 1 is around 1065kms (660 miles) which makes it the second longest in the United States Built by Convict Labor The stretch of pavement around Big Sur took eighteen years to complete (1919-1937) because of its rock cliffs. The State used the local prison inmates as workers, which for their efforts earned a reduced sentence and a small daily wage Because of high casualty rate it marked the last time California used inmates to build any major highway system within its borders |
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Slovakia Learning that the local priests can be married and have families, providing that the wedding takes place before they are officially ordained |
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Canadian Winters During this season we are the largest area of the "white blanket" covered land on Earth The hardest hit city is St Johns Newfoundland (East Coast) which gets buried on average of over 335cms (11 feet) of snow each year |
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Algeria Heading to some of the Roman and Islamic ruins that are remarkably intact, mostly due to being buried by desert sands or built into some remote mountain locations |
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North Africa Walking the "double wall system" that was built thousands of years ago It was not filled up with water as a moat defense, but rather it served as a highly controlled security zone to trap intruders |