Travel Quiz 28

Ready to test your memory? Think you know where major historical buildings are? Okay, let’s give it a try. Where in the world were we when we took this photo? Easy, isn’t it. Even if one has never been in Athens, everyone who has ever taken even an introductory history class touching on the Greek […]

Travel Quiz 27 answer

Well, did you figure out where in the world this photo was taken? To recap, here is the photo we are talking about. The clue about the Mediterranean helped narrow the choices down, didn’t it. Okay, the answer: We are in France. Specifically: we are in Antibes, France on the Cote D’Azure between Nice and […]

Travel Quiz 27

Welcome back fellow travelers. Ready to try the next quiz? Study the photo. Do you recognize where it was taken? Hint: Click on the photo to enlarge it. Yes? No? Perhaps these clues will be helpful. Clue 1:  That is the Mediterranean you are looking out onto. Clue 2: The stone wall is part of the […]

Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo…Monaco…same thing, right? I am not positive, but I believe the following is correct. The principality of Monaco (part of France, but independent of France) is made up of three areas…the Port, Monaco-ville, and Monte Carlo. Monaco-ville is the area on top of the hills. The oldest part of the principality, it is where […]

Maui Hawaii

After driving through an area that looked like a desert, (at least to me it looked like a desert…what do you think?) we turned inland and found ourselves driving in a lush green forest. Welcome to the spiritual rain forest in Iao Valley State Park, on the island of Maui in Hawaii, USA. Yeah, there […]

Iguazu Falls part 2

Eighty percent (80%) of the Iguazu Falls are on the Argentine side. As tourists we get to be up close and personal with these spectacular falls as we walk the catwalks that hug the edge of the falls. Look one way and all seems innocent… Staying in the same spot, look the other way and… […]

Travel quiz 26

Where in the world? or Where in the world! No matter how you say it, the challenge is the same…. where in the world were we when we took this photo? Hint: Click on the photo to enlarge it. (You might notice some details that would be helpful.) Ready? Clue one: What is the bird […]

Travel quiz 26 answer

Think you know the answer do you… or did you give up and just want to know where in the world we took that photo? Either way the answer is… We were in England, the northern part of England, in the town of Barnard Castle (yes, that is the name of the town…not the museum) […]

Alhambra, Part 2

Continuing our visit to Alhambra in Granada, Spain… I am happy we reserved our tickets on line before arriving here in Spain. I say that because there were long lines of people (even before the gates opened for the day!) at the ticket booths. As we had booked on line we could move to a different […]

Travel Quiz 25 Where in the World

Welcome back fellow travelers. You know the routine by now. Examine the photo and take your best guess as to where it was taken. Beautiful, isn’t. But….where is it? (Hint: Click on the photo to enlarge it.) Clue 1: The shape of the archway is significant. Clue 2: The construction date? sometime in the 1300’s […]

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