Blog Archives: Travel
World Tour: Milan, Italy
Milan's cathedral is one of the grandest Gothic cathedrals in the world; it took six centuries to build and was just (relatively) recently completed in 1965. It's the first cathedral I've been at where you can walk right on the roof of the nave.
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World Tour: Grenada
Grand Etang Lake is in the crater of an extinct volcano in Grenada.
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World Tour: Berlin, Germany
The Berlin Wall separate East and West Berlin for nearly 30 years. One of the largest remaining sections, along a popular walking trail near the river on the east side of Berlin, is now a public art gallery, with each segment of the wall by a different artist.
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World Tour: London, England
Hampton Court Palace, south west of London, is best-known as the home of Henry VIII in the mid 1500s. In the next century, William III began rebuilding and expanding the palace, intending for it to rival Versailles, but work halted in 1694, leaving a combination of Tudor and Stewart architecture.
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World Tour: Boston, Massachusetts
One can instantly tell that the Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The building is said to have no walls that meet at right angles. It houses MIT's Computer Science department.
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World Tour: Athens, Greece
The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens was built completed in 438 BC and stood in tact for nearly 2000 years. In 1687 ammunition stored inside the building was ignited during fighting between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.
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World Tour: Leuven, Belgium
Arenberg Castle was built in 1515 and has been home to several dukes in the intervening years. Today it's the heart of the Catholic University of Leuven, serving as the main building of the Faculty of Engineering.
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World Tour: Surfer’s Paradise, Australia
Surfer's Paradise is about an hour south-east of Brisbane on the east cost of Australia. It's the most heavily developed of the several towns and cities along the Gold Coast. Few people surf in Surfer's Paradise, instead opting for quieter places with better waves a few kilometres south, such as Burleigh Heads.
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