Tag: history
group name: traveltalk
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February 06, 2007 02:19 PM EST --
One of the best trips I've ever taken was less than a year ago, when my partner and I spent a week in Florence, Italy.
Our vacation had an inauspicious start, when Air France lost our luggage. . . .
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October 21, 2006 04:10 AM EDT --
Ok. I'm going to give you a bit of my background so that when I go against the popular view and give Stonehenge a mere 3 stars, you will sort of understand why. Bare with me on this.
Ever since I . . .
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September 08, 2007 04:45 PM EDT --
South of Koge on Sealand, Denmark you can find this magnificient entrance to the castle Vallo Slot.
Vallo Castle is surrounded by a scenic moath, and you have to cross . . .
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August 14, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
This summer my sons and I went to Denmark, and while we were there we went to visit my grandmother. She lives on Sealand (The Eastern Island where Copenhagen is), while my father and my brothers live in . . .
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February 09, 2007 04:07 PM EST --
With a name like Valentine, you'd better be planning something extra special for the big red-letter day. Especially if you're deploying to Iraq before the next one rolls around.
For Lieutenant . . .
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November 20, 2006 04:48 PM EST --
I am a castle freak. I have a kind of internal radar that leads me to them if there is one within 50 kilometres. Such was the case on a recent weekend run to Ballarat, Australia. The end-goal was to be . . .
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August 21, 2007 11:37 AM EDT --
Glimmingehus is referred to at various places as a castle, a fortress, a keep, or a fortified manor. If you step inside, you will think you are indeed inside a full-fledged castle. So no matter which description . . .
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September 07, 2007 02:17 PM EDT --
Kronborg Castle in Elsinore (Helsingoer) is known around the world from Shakespeare's Hamlet, and in fact it is one of the most important renaissance castles in Northern Europe.
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September 01, 2006 06:34 PM EDT --
As any of you who have ever been to Colonial Williamsburg Virginia know the recreation of colonial life there is fantastic. There is another thing fantastic, they sure know how to tell stories. . . .
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November 09, 2006 05:55 PM EST --
Given the name Foteviken Museum, you would likely expect to find a building housing lots of Viking artifacts. You would be wrong. What this place is, is a Viking settlement. That's right. Just below . . .
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July 14, 2007 07:11 PM EDT --
On my Danish castle tour Voergaard Castle, which was founded in1518, caught my attention.
The atmosphere surrounding the castle and the numerous . . .
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March 16, 2008 05:17 PM EDT --
For a while now I had been seeing these cool gargoyles outside of Wisconsin Dells flanking a sign. Well, last summer we finally got to stop there to take a closer look at what they were all about.
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August 09, 2007 09:56 AM EDT --
During my trip to Denmark this summer, I noticed the amazing variety when it comes to the Danish churches, and I wanted to share a few of my photos with you.
Hoermested Church, . . .
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October 19, 2006 02:31 AM EDT --
Scarborough Faire is one of the premier Medieval/Renaissance/Fantasy Faires in the United States. Spanning 35 acres in Waxahachie, Texas, this is one of the biggest events of the year. Waxahachie is approx. . . .
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October 12, 2006 02:38 PM EDT --
Yes, there is a Stonehedge in America..
Not to well known is a Memorial built in Washington State, in honor of World War One Veterins, by millionare Sam Hill, located just 3 miles from his mansion . . .
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July 28, 2007 12:13 AM EDT --
MICHIGAN
From Wisconsin, I headed north. I was making my way up and around Lake Michigan with my next stop Mackinaw City. . . .
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November 16, 2007 12:26 PM EST --
The visitors approach the steps, climbing them one by one until they reach the thirteenth. They turn and smile for the camera. Click! As the sign on the stairs says, they are exactly one . . .
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October 14, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
There is very little in life that thrills me more than things Medieval, therefor it made me downright ecstatic to find that there was a nice little Renaissance Festival ( RenFest) right here in Skåne. . . .
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June 10, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
In Bangsbo, an area on the outskirts of Frederikshavn, in Northern Jutland, Denmark is a place called the Bangsbo Museum.
The Bangsbo Museum has been created at the historical manor house . . .
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June 10, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
When I was walking in the parks surrounding the Bangsbo Manor, in Frederikshavn, Northern Jutland, Denmark, I noticed how a few birds seemed to . . .
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