Berlin is the city that makes my heart skip a beat. The buildings and streets define and narrate my lifelong obsession with my ancestral home (Germany) and its history like an interactive storybook. First, Berlin was the cultural center of the Weimar Republic era (between WWI and WWII) when the painters, filmmakers, musicians, architects, scientists,…
Tell me if you’ve heard this before: “Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste. I’ve been around for a long, long year, stole many a man’s soul and faith. And I was round when Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain, Made damn sure that Pilate washed…
A kremlin, the fancy Russian word for fortress, is not an entirely rare sight across Russia but only one has the distinction of being THE Kremlin. Moscow and its Kremlin were founded in the 12th century. Prior to the 1900s many people lived inside the Moscow Kremlin walls just as they would in any village. Soviet…
In the Heart of Transylvania is Harghita County, home of the Szekelyfold. The Szekelers are a group of Magyar/Hungarian origins who formed a battalion of frontier guards that defended the land against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Ages.
Something bit me in Transylvania, and that is no joke. I kept a close eye on the painful new swellings and watched for any strange symptoms but they have healed, and now… I guess I’m… fine now. Before I begin, I found a video on Youtube that someone else filmed of Sighisoara that truly shows…
LA HISTORIA (History)Spanish civil engineer Don Gavino Gutiérrez went looking for guavas in the early 1880s, and instead found what became Ybor City. With dashed hopes of creating a new home base for his tropical fruit preserving company, the lack of guavas made the trip a disappointment at first. He reported this to two of…
Downtown Tampa is roughly defined by everything south of 275 and FL-618, to the bay and along the Tampa Riverwalk. Its settled origins began with the construction of Fort Brooke in the 1820s, and being called the Village of Tampa in the late 1840s when the town squares still used today were being platted out.…
Tampa Heights was Tampa’s first suburb, directly north of downtown. It started as a small six-block area bordered by Florida, Central, Oak, and Henderson Avenues but the name now refers to a much wider area that was once known as the town of North Tampa. Today, Tampa Heights is considered anything north of downtown between…
Tampa’s Hyde Park is a lot of things; a historic district, a quiet 1800s farm turned Victorian residential neighbourhood, a high-end shopping district, and a center for luxury, art, and international flair. It stretches along Bayshore Boulevard and the Hillsborough Bay, with W Kennedy Boulevard at its north and westward to S Armenia Avenue. Some…
An easy ten-mile mountainous drive from Denver will take you into the community of Morrison, to the Red Rocks Geological Park and, what this park is most famous for, the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. You could also take the Red Rocks Shuttle from Illegal Pete’s or the Thirsty Lion Gastropub in Denver, to the park, and…
Hoosier Pass is a high-elevation mountain pass along Colorado’s Highway 9 that connects Breckenridge to Alma, in the Mosquito Mountain range of the Rockies. It has the highest altitude of the TransAmerica bike trail that runs from Virginia to Oregon, coming in at 11,539 feet. Some sources list 11,542 feet but I am going by…
Boulder, Colorado has received dozens of accolades and awards for being the happiest, healthiest, greenest, most liberal, most queer, most outdoor adventurous, most bike-friendly, most walkable, and best educated city, just to name a few! Boulder is located in the Boulder Valley between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, bordered by the Flatiron Mountains…
Denver, Colorado is the “Mile High City” with a spooky blue stallion guarding its airport, namesake of the Denver omelet, inspiration for the Shining hotel, one of the original Wild West towns, and has an underground tunnel system below the city that is shrouded in conspiracy theories… you know this place is going to be…
Denver’s Berkeley neighbourhood sits immediately south of Berkeley Lake Park and Rocky Mountain Lake Park. It is roughly bordered by Sheridan Boulevard to the west, Federal Boulevard to the east, and spans southward to W 38th Street. Tennyson Street is the main strip, running from north to south through the neighbourhood. An early morning solo…
On a recent trip to Denver, we set out to visit the city’s most hip and rapidly developing neighbourhood, RiNo. This area includes the older communities of Globeville, Elyria-Swansea, Cole, and Five Points. Check out this gallery of old photos and to learn more about these communities. Over the past few years, this part of north…
We have diligently been trying to eat and sip our way through the town of Blue Ridge, Georgia this past year or so. I’m almost embarrassed to say that even after this much progress, there are so many places we still have not reached. In our defense, we do a lot of other things, but…
The Copper Basin, also known as the Ducktown Basin, is a geological feature in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains. It is surrounded by the Cherokee National Forest and sits on the Tennessee-Georgia state border.Originally Cherokee territory until the Treaty of New Echota was signed in the late 1830s, the Copper Basin became a major…
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