Battle of Restigouche National Historic Site, Quebec
November 23, 2020
Gumbo learns a little more about the Battle of Restigouche and what importance that had in North America’s history.
Gumbo learns a little more about the Battle of Restigouche and what importance that had in North America’s history.
Gumbo was visiting Fort Frederick, now a state park in Maryland. George shares the history of the fort and provides us with a nice photo tour of its sights.
Gumbo was visiting one of Sri Lanka’s Portugese forts, this one a nicely preserved example on the country’s east coast in the small city of Batticaloa.
For tourists from Europe, England and Canada, who have been traveling to Cuba for years, the big change anticipated when Americans start to arrive has already started to happen. A report by Claire Boobbyer of Skift, the travel industry news and analysis site, says that visitors are already seeing price rises, shortages of rooms and crowding at popular spots, even before the expected changes in the U.S. ban on “normal” tourism ends. During the first 11 months of 2015, Cuba played host to over…
Colombia has found a 1708 shipwreck, believed to be the most valuable sunken treasure ever, off the coast of Cartagena. The treasure is worth $2 billion or more, and has been the object of searches and claims almost since the day the ship, the San Jose, was sunk by a British ship that was trying to take its cargo. Now that Colombia’s President has announced the find, can gold- and thrill-seeking scuba divers be far behind? Even the chance of a doubloon or two might be enough to perk up…
Britain announced Wednesday that it was increasing the usual 6 month visa for Chinese tourists to a two year visa, effective in January and for the same cost of 85 pounds. And Prime Minister David Cameron announced…
Traveling the world, one second at a time, and posting the daily second to YouTube (above) and at https://youtu.be/8-g1Xangxs8 This is the story of Jordan Simons…a man for whom it’s almost pointless to cite a nationality, because, as he…
The anonymous British street artist Banksy has opened an amusement park like no other in Weston-super-Mare, Somserset, England.
Much of Europe is blazing in temperatures in the 90s, but some people are obviously already thinking ahead to the winter…perhaps to take their minds off the summer.
Spanish authorities on the Balearic Islands vacation spot of Ibiza have arranged for a dozen British police to work with Spanish Civil Guards this summer
Gumbo learns a little more about the Battle of Restigouche and what importance that had in North America’s history.
Gumbo was visiting Fort Frederick, now a state park in Maryland. George shares the history of the fort and provides us with a nice photo tour of its sights.
Gumbo was visiting one of Sri Lanka’s Portugese forts, this one a nicely preserved example on the country’s east coast in the small city of Batticaloa.
For tourists from Europe, England and Canada, who have been traveling to Cuba for years, the big change anticipated when Americans start to arrive has already started to happen. A report by Claire Boobbyer of Skift, the travel industry news and analysis site, says that visitors are already seeing price rises, shortages of rooms and crowding at popular spots, even before the expected changes in the U.S. ban on “normal” tourism ends. During the first 11 months of 2015, Cuba played host to over…
Colombia has found a 1708 shipwreck, believed to be the most valuable sunken treasure ever, off the coast of Cartagena. The treasure is worth $2 billion or more, and has been the object of searches and claims almost since the day the ship, the San Jose, was sunk by a British ship that was trying to take its cargo. Now that Colombia’s President has announced the find, can gold- and thrill-seeking scuba divers be far behind? Even the chance of a doubloon or two might be enough to perk up…
Britain announced Wednesday that it was increasing the usual 6 month visa for Chinese tourists to a two year visa, effective in January and for the same cost of 85 pounds. And Prime Minister David Cameron announced…
Traveling the world, one second at a time, and posting the daily second to YouTube (above) and at https://youtu.be/8-g1Xangxs8 This is the story of Jordan Simons…a man for whom it’s almost pointless to cite a nationality, because, as he…
The anonymous British street artist Banksy has opened an amusement park like no other in Weston-super-Mare, Somserset, England.
Much of Europe is blazing in temperatures in the 90s, but some people are obviously already thinking ahead to the winter…perhaps to take their minds off the summer.
Spanish authorities on the Balearic Islands vacation spot of Ibiza have arranged for a dozen British police to work with