Tagged With "Natchez Trace"
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Re: "Mind Your Manners!" VisitBritain Warns Hoteliers
TatToo. I cant find any trace either. Could this be another invented story ? I love TravelGumbo because it sends me an Email as soon as some one adds new words to a Post. It tells me what they said too. Then the contributor removes it because they had second thoughts. But the Joke is still in the Email !! Thanks MrX
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Re: Celebrating Natchez, Mississippi’s 300th Anniversary
I've met some of the nicest people in my visits to Mississippi. Not been to Natchez yet, but the writing of Greg Iles and Marilyn Jones have really moved it up my bucket list! Thanks for this interesting piece, Marilyn. I learned a lot!
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Re: Celebrating Natchez, Mississippi’s 300th Anniversary
Thank you DRFUMBLEFINGER. Over the years I have visited several Mississippi locations and you're right: friendly people and beautiful areas to explore. Natchez is one of my favorites.
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Re: Coastal California: Pigeon Point Lighthouse
When I lived in So California, an acquaintance was an avocado farmer. He informed us that at the time about 10% of the avocado crop was stolen each year -- probably higher now. The most stolen crop in America, and impossible to trace I love old lighthouses and their setting on the roughest places on the coast. Thanks for sharing this one with us, PM.
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Nashville, Tennessee.....the Elvis tour continues!
Until I attended my first medical meeting in Nashville, I'd never thought much about visiting this mid-sized city, an oversight on my part. Nashville's a fun destination in many ways, especially if you're a fan of Country music. I...
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Brooklyn's Prospect Park Greenmarket
By a quick count, I’ve photographed markets in nearly three dozen cities in the U.S. and Europe; they’ve often appeared here on TravelGumbo. And yet the market I visit most often, and where my wife shops almost weekly, hasn’t found...
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Svartisdal, Norway, Part 2
Bob Cranwell continues his tale of visits to the Svartisdal region in Norway, and some of the potential perils of hiking around this beautiful piece of geography.
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Syracuse's Greek Temple Cathedral, Sicily
Gumbo was visiting a most unusual cathedral. Built as a Greek temple about 500 BC, it was already over a thousand years old when it became a church.
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Home of the Gold Rush: Sutter's Fort and Mill
JonathanL takes us on a dive into California history including how the Gold Rush began and why Sacremento is the capital.
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Hikers plan to 'leave no trace' in Switzerland cleanup
Swiss organizations are getting together to involve more hikers and others in cleaning up mountains, lakes and rivers.
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Dispatches from Ikaria: Part 4
Professor Abe's fun and insightful series on visiting Ikaria concludes this week. Be sure to check out the great story and accompanying photos
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New protection for ancient artifacts
A new high-tech method gives valiuable objects an invisible signature that can trace it back to its home if stolen.
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Prague's St Vitus: Old and New
PHeymont takes a look at how one of Europe's oldest cathedrals came to have so much stunning modern art.
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Cherokee Trace Wild Animal Park, Texas
Enjoy a family outing with wild animals as Marilyn Jones visits with her granddaughter.
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Glasgow's Unlikely People's Palace
Built as an oasis of culture in a sea of slums, one of Glasgow's important museums is still fighting for its life in an era of budget cuts.
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Berliner Dom: Cathedral of Empire
Many of the cathedrals and major churches of Europe can trace their foundations back a millenium or more, and their present buildings on those foundations for six or seven hundred years. But Berlin's Dom, or Cathedral, while in the same location as...
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Lownathwaite Lead Mines, North Yorkshire
Ian Cook shares photos of a most unusual landscape. As he said, "The beck in Gunnerside Gill flows through a landscape that looks like something from the Lord of the Rings; an orcish encampment perhaps or the abandoned halls of some race of long-dead Men."
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Wetting My Whistle: Berkeley Springs water tasting
Stephanie Kalina-Metzger shares her experience as a water judge (tasting, not swimming or diving) in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
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Art and Survival in the Tassili Plateau
Bob Cranwell explores the heart of the Sahara -- a life filled with hardship, sand dunes and camel. A trip highlighted by the remarkable sights of Tassili n’Ajjer, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Visiting an ancient monastery in Egypt
Join Marilyn Jones on a visit to a 1500-year-old monastery that keeps alive the traditions of Coptic Christianity.
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Have thieves hacked your hotel lock?
A worrying announcement by a cyber-security system that hotel locks can be hacked. That's how the company lost a laptop.
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Vicksburg's McRaven House has history...and ghosts!
Marilyn Jones visits a historic house in three parts from three eras...each with its own tale of supernatural visitors.
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Whitney Plantation, Louisiana: The Story of Slavery
Whitney Plantation is different: it is not about the gracious life of the ante-bellum South; it is about the lives of the thousands of slaves who paid for it.
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Chester Cathedral, England
Chester Cathedral isn't the oldest, largest, or most famous but PHeymont calls it one of the most beautiful...and with a most fascinating history.
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Hackers lock out hotel guests, extort hotel
An Austrian luxury hotel pays a Bitcoin ransom when hackers take over its electronic key and registration systems.
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Celebrating Natchez, Mississippi’s 300th Anniversary
Marilyn Jones takes her family along to visit storied Natchez, about to celebrate its 300 years of history.
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Aug. 6, 2019: Cardiff Castle, Wales
Join Marilyn on a visit to Cardiff Castle, home of the Marquesses of Bute, until they gave it to the city of Cardiff.
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Verona: Visit for the Sights, but Skip Juliet
Jonathan L takes us through Verona, trying to avoid the crowds on a national holiday.
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St. Mungo: Glasgow's Gothic Wonder
PHeymont visits Scotland's oldest cathedral, a Gothic wonder with a significant back story
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Dec. 18 2013: Milan's Bronze Typist
Soldiers in statues wave swords, lawyers hold statute books, and rulers brandish proclamations: Why not immortalize a journalist working at a typewriter? We were startled when we first saw this on our one-day stopover in Milan. It's probably the...
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Apr. 9, 2016: Roman graffitti at the Pont du Gard
Almost any monument or structure that lasts more than a few years becomes a graffiti target. The Pont du Gard has been one for a thousand years!
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Thinking Of Going On A Camping Trip? Read This
If you are thinking of taking the trip of a lifetime, you should consider camping as one of your vacation ideas. It does not matter if you are thinking of hiking the best trails in Norway or going to the local campground like Alabama Hills , the memories of your camping trip will last a lifetime. Use these tips to help ensure you have a safe and exciting adventure. Your sleeping bag should be seasonally appropriate. If you're camping in the heat of summer, a sub-zero bag just isn't...
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France: Vegans nabbed in butcher attacks
War between vegans and meat-eaters has been reached a stage of open violence in France.
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Re: Palm Springs Air Museum, California (Where Gumbo was #104)
Another simple photo that inspires lots of chat. I too was wondering who first caught Miss Angela's eye. But then ... gentlemen never kiss and tell ! Love the artwork, something the stuffy Brits would never allow ! The USAF had a base at Burtonwood UK. Close to Liverpool where I now live. The aircraft would fly almost non-stop. New crew and re-load. Not even stopping the engines. (Tales from my Dad) The hundreds of American personnel would hit the bars in Liverpool on R+R. The local men...
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Re: Where in the World is Travelgumbo? (#265)
A portrait of a man whose business is associated with our mystery location. Know the man and you will probably trace him to the location of Gumbo.
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Re: Jan. 5, 2019: Vincent's Room, Saint-Remy-de-Provence
Vincent Van Gogh is my all-time favorite painter. Extremely gifted people sometimes are perceived and act as being on the fringes of mental instability. I really didn't appreciate his painting until I saw the originals which just are incredible when compared to 2D images. I did trace some of his footstep in Arles (which is a fantastic place to travel) and I was extremely disappointed when our bus tour to the Netherlands skipped the Van Gogh museum because we ran behind schedule.
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Tenement Museum: Immigrants' Lives, Past and Present
While Samantha and her husband were in NYC they toured the Tenement Museum. Here is some information and pictures from their tour.
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Arbaer: Visiting Iceland's not-so-distant past
Reykjavik's open-air museum is on a farm that was worked for hundreds of years, but the museum's focus is on the 19th and 20th centuries.
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U.S. hints at rules for international visitors
White House advisor suggests visitors will have Covid vaccination and test-and-trace requirements.
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U.S. sets Nov. 8 for border re-opening
U.S. land borders will re-open along with the return of international air visitors, but there are still questions to be answered.
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America's Car Museum, Tacoma, Washington
This Tacoma museum is a must for auto freaks, even with some disappointments in how its hundreds of cars are displayed
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Rotterdam names its names
Rotterdam streets will soon have their histories available by QR code on the street signs.
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Montmartre Museum: Atelier and Village
In Paris, PHeymont visits a museum that is as much about its neighborhood as it is about the artists who made the neighborhood famous.
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The Paterson Museum, New Jersey
Paterson, New Jersey has a richer history than most people know, but not all of it is to be seen at its local museum
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Saint Maurice: from Empire to Europe
A church built as an emblem of empire, of Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine now calls itself a 'European parish' for all
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Oooops! Crews crush dinosaur tracks
Careless management or careless crews: either way, construction vehicles damaged the site they were supposed to be helping preserve.
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Maker's Mark Distillery, Loretto, Kentucky
Jonathan L visits a traditional Bourbon distillery
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Broccoli Lane, London
Adrian Boswell has made a name for himself, and for a London Street with his outlandish attachment to broccoli
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Lowell National Historical Park
A look at many aspects of American industry and working life at one of the key sites in their development
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Eberbach Abbey, Rheingau, Germany
ProfessorAbe visits a historic abbey which has been a major German wine producer for centuries