Tagged With "Concord Temple"

Thanks! Haven't been to Concord for years, even though my daughter and other family live near by. Time for us to stop and visit!

I love visiting small towns, and Concord looks charming! Thanks for sharing your visit with us.

Great pics. We were there this past August and were very impressed with the Eiffel Tower. It was truly fantastic accomplishment and the views are spectacular. The day we were there we had pre-purchased our tickets online, but did not use them. The morning of our scheduled day it was pouring down rain and we were tired, so we stayed in bed. Later in the morning the skies cleared and we went over to the tower. Since we missed our time we had to purchase another two tickets. it was still worth...

Thanks, Pheymont. Even we who imagine we know the city have gotten a whole new perspective. Point of view is everything! And, having been up the tower once long ago, I'm again struck by how much higher it seems looking down than it appears from the below or from a distance.

Thanks! Certainly true also about how different it can appear at different angles from below, as in Dr. Fumblefinger's blog here the other day!

Airbus, which recently filed design patents for a huge follow-on to the A380 also has its mind on smaller and faster. Last week, they filed for U.S. patents on technology and design for a plane that would fly at more than 4 times the speed of sound...

It is vacation time with The Amazing Ms. D.  and we are on the way to Boston. Truthfully this is the first time i have been to Beantown on vacation in several years and I am looking forward to it.   On the way in we decided to stop in the...

When the Eiffel Tower was built, as the centerpiece of Paris’ 1889 Universal Exposition, not everyone loved it. The writer Guy de Maupassant mocked it as a "high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders," and novelist Leon Bloy called it a "truly...

The Tuileries gardens, stretching parallel to the Seine from the Louvre to the Place de la Concorde, are a favorite stroll, or a great place to stop and rest and read, or even nap. But no nap if you find yourselves as fascinated as we were with the...

Paris' famed Champs-Elysees went car-free for its entire 2km length today with thousands of strollers out. From here on, it'll happen once a month.

DrFumblefinger shares the view from a room he and his wife enjoyed while visiting the Villa Athena in Agrigento.