San Francisco’s Union Square will bloom with 80,000 tulips to mark the change of seasons on March 21 with its annual Tulip Day.
Tulip Day traditions go back to 1929 with a festival in Holland, Michigan, itself a tulip center, In San Francisco, the event is sponsored by JP Morgan Chase and the Union Square Alliance.
The flowers, grown in the U.S. from Dutch bulbs will not only be on display, but available for visitors to pick a free bouquet of up to eight flowers for themselves or to give.
A visit to a historic Spanish fort on the Caribbean side of Panama, built to help protect Spanish gold as it transited from Western South America to Spain.
A stop at the historic Japanese Covered Bridge in Hoi An.
A unique collection of portraits Vincent Van Gogh painted while in Arles, of a postman and the family he befriended.
Samantha shares a couple of pictures of the South Dakota state sign on a road trip to Canada.
Once home to Britain’s Viceroy, it’s now home to the Indian Institute for Advanced Study
The man under the pigeon is Andre-Marie Ampere, the scientist whose name lives on in our fuseboxes
These stairs at the Museum of Lyon History looked like a shortcut to the end of my own history.
A lovely lunch in Lyon’s old quarter, accompanied by a ham-and-cheese crepe and a small beer for less than €20
