It was a beautiful day, so we headed inland to a well known hiking spot. Pantalica is a prehistoric settlement that was listed as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2005. The civilization found here dates from 13 to 7th century BC. The main part of the settlement that is still visible is the cliff […]
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The west side of Sicily is famous for its salt pans. These areas are large man-made shallows where salt has been produced since the time of the Phoenicians. Pools of gradually decreasing depth were built to bring in salt water and allow evaporation to occur thus leaving the valuable salt behind. We toured one of
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We are spending a week in Nice, France. Beyond soaking up the sun after a few weeks of rain in Britain, we are here for the opera. Kathryn Lewek has the titular role in Lakmé at Opéra de Nice and we didn’t want to miss her performance. To the world she is a headline making
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As many of you know we are in the UK for a few weeks, and are currently in Scotland. To be more specific we are in the city of Glasgow, the second largest city in Scotland, after the capital, Edinburgh. We were in Glasgow for only a couple of days, but we did a bunch
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We recently went to the WB studio’s Harry Potter exhibit where they filmed and prepared all 8 movies. On the bus ride there (the bus was a double decker bus!) we watched thrilling scenes from the movies and some upcoming movie trailers on the in-bus television as well as hearing about WB studios!!! When we
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Today we attended the 156th family reunion/picnic of the Bull family. William Bull and Sarah Wells met and married in what is now Orange County, NY and built their homestead there. The Bull Stone House still stands and is owned by the family association. In fact the house has only been lived in by Bulls
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Our Connecticut adventures brought us to the Pez factory! We were lucky enough to visit during a weekday while the factory was in production. They are currently working on orders for Christmas and we watched them box up 12 packs. The factory has a fun bingo game to play while looking at all the dispensers.
Last Friday we went to Ocmulgee mounds and it was quite an interesting visit. Ocmulgee mounds is located near Macon, GA. The contract to establish the park was signed in 1936 by President Franklin Roosevelt naming the park, Ocmulgee National Monument, though in 2019 the park was renamed Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. Before the
On Tuesday of last week we visited the Museum of Aviation at Robbins AFB. We went with several other full time families who are staying in the same campground as us. I was really interested in this trip because I thought it sounded pretty interesting and cool. Right when we pulled up I already had
The USS ALABAMA is an American battleship that served in WW2. It was the last of the South Dakota class fast battleships made and served from 1942 to the end of the war. After the war it was retired to Washington State until it was supposed to be scrapped. Instead some people raised enough money
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