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Last October I popped over to Saarbrücken for a weekend, gong there to see the Völklinger Hütte — A UNESCO World Heritage Site that, from a distance, seemed pretty cool. It turns out I found it rather boring — and I wrote a note to a friend about what I thought:
Today I am in […]
I spent last weekend in Essen with a friend.
The raison d’être for the trip was the Zollverein, a coal mine that has been turned into a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I’m that kind of weird.
Last October I visited the Völklinger Hütte near Saarbrücken, a steel mill turned UNESCO World Heritage Site. I […]
Posing before the famous gate.
In addition to the obvious attraction, Hiroshima is also well known for the Itsukushima Shrine, a Shinto shrine with a floating gate on the nearby island of Miyajima. Reportedly it is one of the three most beautiful sites in Japan.
The Itsukushima Shrine gate.
I popped over there […]
Although I actually have a dark horse candidate for my vacation this fall that’s still under consideration, I want to point out two spots that forced a trip to Alberta, Canada to one of the top spots on my list.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump—with a name like that, I’m not really sure I have to explain […]
Today I added to my UNESCO World Heritage List with my visit to the Mammoth Caves National Park in Kentucky.
The last UNESCO World Heritage site I visited was just a couple weeks ago when I was at home in Weimar; the site previous to that which would actually count, as a tourist, was the […]
So today is Sunday, and I thought I would write about the religious aspects of my trip to Armenia.
It’s kind of funny that although I don’t really pay a lot of attention to religion, I sure spent a whole lot of time inside churches and other religious sites while visiting Armenia. I did this, […]
A decent Dutch portrait includes everything seen here.
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Kinderdijk
Originally uploaded by elmada.
I am happy to report that RealMT and I are both alive in the Netherlands. We had an excellent time in Prague and then, catching an early flight, flew to Amsterdam Saturday morning.
Today we were forced, due to a lack of luggage storage lockers at the Amsterdam […]
Friday I headed down to Nuremberg with Rui.
Nuremberg is one of those cities I’ve always associated with the end of World War II because of the trials held in the city.
Never having studies the rise of the Nazis that closely, I had not realized that Nuremberg had been especially selected for the trials […]
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TQE : That Queer Expatriate I'm an American living in Berlin, Germany -- which makes me an expatriate, not an ex-patriot. Before landing in Germany, I've lived in Denver, Colorado; Laramie, Wyoming; Bloomington, Indiana; and Weimar, Germany. If you want to write to me, feel free! The username is elmadaeu on the gmail.com service.
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