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Sunday Special – Northwestern Ontario
Today’s place is where I am currently visiting – Northwestern Ontario. I pondered making a post about Thunder Bay but I did that a few years ago here. So today I’ll expand on the area surrounding the city I was born and raised in. The Canadian province of Ontario is, more or less, divided into…
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Sunday Special – Ephesus, Turkey
A city beyond old, Ephesus was built around the 10th century BCE. It has seen much through the various ages including Bronze, Archaic, Hellenistic, Classical, Roman and Ottoman. Located in the Izmir province of Turkey it is close to the city of Selcuk. It was a main port in centuries past and was a key…
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Sunday Special – La Brea Pitch Lake, Trinidad & Tobago
Not a place that is traditionally considered pretty, nonetheless, Pitch Lake in Trinidad’s southwest city of La Brea is something of an unusual natural occurrence. It is the world’s largest “pitch lake” – there are only three in existence – and is filled with approximately 10, 000, 000 tons of pitch (asphalt). Guided to it…
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Sunday Special – Hadrian’s Wall, England
The reach of the ancient Roman Empire was quite an expanse. At the time of Emperor Hadrian (117 – 138 CE) parts of what is now modern-day north Africa, Turkey, Europe and England were under Roman rule. In hopes of preventing invasions from the northern “barbarians” and to maintain his northernmost border Hadrian had the…
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SUNDAY’S SPECIAL – CAMINO DE SANTIAGO DE CAMPOSTELA
The Camino de Santiago de Campostela – “The Way of St James”. A long name for a long pilgrimage. Referred to simply as “The Camino” this age old pilgrimage begins at the Pyrenees Mountains in southwestern France and winds its way across the landscape of northern Spain on it’s most popular route. Twisting its way through green fields,…
