For dinner, we went to our last fancy restaurant of the trip at The Yeatman two star Michelin restaurant which is in the Yeatman hotel. The view from this hotel and restaurant is spectacular overlooking Porto. Even if you don’t want to spend the money to eat here, I would highly reco...
The first morning after breakfast we went to the Russian Orthodox Church, just down from our hotel, white with green and blue domes and spires. We entered just as something had finished and entering we were pushed this way and that by the stream of people leaving. Mostly elderly hard faced...
We made the travel arrangements pretty quickly. The weeks went by. Finally, on the 19th of September we found ourselves with our pals in their beautiful home in one of the world’s greatest cities. We bunked with them for four days, enjoying our time with them immensely, and in their co...
There are the records of the travels of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims, in particular those of Hsüan-tsang (journeyed 629-645 CE). There is also evidence from surviving iconographic representations of Mañju’srii and other Bodhisattvas in the form of sculptures and murals. There is ...
I journeyed down with Ana from London via train to meet with Robin Badderley – a friend from my BSc year in 2010 – to spend 4 days on the sun soaked and wine drenched beaches of Sete. We spent our days – kicking back to some incredible sets dished up myamisof Giles Peterson. Mos...
The flight made Yuri Gagarin one of the most famous people back then since he was the first man to have ever journeyed outside the planet. The government had a federal space budget of $2.4 billion in the year 2009. In 2011, the government spent about $3.8 billion for their space ...
The two letters signaled that the boys would take the Union Ave. bus to downtown Cleveland. They exited the vehicle at the corner of E. 4th and Prospect, and from there, they journeyed toward Lake Erie, a voyage through the jungle of brick and asphalt and concrete. ...
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. Genesis 20:1 Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar, ...