http://www.douglas.stebila.ca Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/02/03/world-tour-milan-italy/ http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/02/03/world-tour-milan-italy/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:18 +0000 Douglas http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/?p=2428 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. ]]> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/02/03/world-tour-milan-italy/feed/ 0 http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/02/02/world-tour-grenada/ http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/02/02/world-tour-grenada/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:45 +0000 Douglas http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/?p=2425 Grand Etang Lake is in the crater of an extinct volcano in Grenada. ]]> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/02/02/world-tour-grenada/feed/ 0 http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/02/01/world-tour-berlin-germany-2/ http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/02/01/world-tour-berlin-germany-2/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:08 +0000 Douglas http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/?p=2421 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. ]]> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/02/01/world-tour-berlin-germany-2/feed/ 0 http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/31/world-tour-london-england/ http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/31/world-tour-london-england/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:04 +0000 Douglas http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/?p=2418 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. ]]> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/31/world-tour-london-england/feed/ 0 http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/30/world-tour-boston-massachusetts/ http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/30/world-tour-boston-massachusetts/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:58 +0000 Douglas http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/?p=2414 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. ]]> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/30/world-tour-boston-massachusetts/feed/ 0 http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/29/world-tour-athens-greece/ http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/29/world-tour-athens-greece/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:00:58 +0000 Douglas http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/?p=2410 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. ]]> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/29/world-tour-athens-greece/feed/ 0 http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/28/world-tour-leuven-belgium/ http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/28/world-tour-leuven-belgium/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:00:05 +0000 Douglas http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/?p=2407 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. ]]> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/28/world-tour-leuven-belgium/feed/ 0 http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/27/world-tour-surfers-paradise-australia/ http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/27/world-tour-surfers-paradise-australia/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:57 +0000 Douglas http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/?p=2402 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. ]]> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/27/world-tour-surfers-paradise-australia/feed/ 0 http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/26/world-tour-naples-italy/ http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/26/world-tour-naples-italy/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:00:07 +0000 Douglas http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/?p=2399 The Galleria Umberto in Naples is a glass-covered shopping gallery, with four wings that meet under a dome. It dates from the late 1800s; today there's a McDonald's right under the dome. ]]> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/26/world-tour-naples-italy/feed/ 0 http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/25/world-tour-head-smashed-in-buffalo-jump-alberta/ http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/25/world-tour-head-smashed-in-buffalo-jump-alberta/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:00:02 +0000 Douglas http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/?p=2391 Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a small cliff in southern Alberta over which first nations peoples drove buffalo to more easily kill them. I had wanted to visited this site since I was a kid reading Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need, in which he reports calling the tourist centre and being greeted with 'Head-Smashed-In, may I help you?'. He claims this was probably the highlight of his entire life, and I can understand why. ]]> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/archives/2012/01/25/world-tour-head-smashed-in-buffalo-jump-alberta/feed/ 0