#travel
J'adore Edith Piaf, Milord.
♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-12-20 02:58:01 GMT
Édith Piaf was born OTD in 1915 cromwell-intl.com/travel/franc… #travel #France #history
Traveling to Russia is not a good idea unless you're MAGA.
♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-12-19 03:44:01 GMT
The Russian Empire's national anthem "God Save the Tsar" was first performed OTD in 1833 cromwell-intl.com/travel/russi… #travel #Russia #history
Boulangerie 2024
Unlike one of my all-time favorite photos of a Boulangerie with its wares, and reflections of a passerby,
this store caught my eye for its entire essence, architecture, from street sign to graffiti, now a shuttered landmark.
Below is that 'vintage' image I took with this stuff called chrome - Fujichrome and Kodachrome.
Joyous holidays!
Hope it is nutritious, delicious, peaceful and healthy. Looking at the calendar... Wow! Hope we all enjoy some goodness.
More new & vintage #photography of #Paris in my album (Flickr) @ https://flic.kr/s/aHsk6hHYg7
Or on my own site @ http://www.fenichel.com/fenfotos.shtml - with a dozen more collections of #travel photos.
#Fenfotos #Paris #Boulangerie #architecture
#quote from #JamesHorak, he sums it up nicely:
“If #time #travel is possible, will be possible, has ever been possible it is with us now.” - James C. Horak
We will officially have time travel technology in about 150 years.
These “drones” that you see now disable and take away nuclear weapons. They are losing them en masse.
We have been working for several years to ensure that this timeline continues to exist.
This is the era where Turks were on the rise abutting the Roman Empire, which had already split into Roman and Byzantine parts because of papal corruption, because the papacy and the imperial government were parasitically attached to each other, one of the reasons why a Roman emperor moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople, and the papacy refused to recognize the move as legitimate (9th century, The Great Schism). Eventually the Turks would best the Byzantines but also had sights on Rome, too.
♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-12-13 22:06:00 GMT
Pope Celestine V resigned the papacy OTD in 1294 after just 5 months in office, to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit cromwell-intl.com/travel/franc… #travel #history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uM6DVY3w6I
Inside A REAL #Psychic’s #Mind : #Intuition, #Karma And #Astral #Travel | #Tamanna-C. | TRS 462
More Amsterdam at Night...
Staying on the theme of #movement, there's also a lot of #color and #light (including red light) here... A vibrant city, daytime and after dark.
More Photos of Amsterdam @ http://www.fenichel.com/AmstPhotos.shtml
aNoord-Holland - Enkhuisen / Volendam / Utrecht / Haarlem - @ http://www.fenichel.com/Enkhuizen.shtml
#MyPhoto #Amsterdam #Fenfotos #Netherlands #Enkhuisen #NoordHolland #photography #travel
There are some folks that don't have to pretend to be time travelers. ;-)
♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-12-09 03:48:00 GMT
Baron Miklós Istvánffy de Baranyavár et Kisasszonyfalva, born OTD in 1538, served as Palatinal Governor of #Hungary from 1582 to 1608 cromwell-intl.com/travel/hunga… #travel #history
Personally I'm happy just to be outside and enjoy the nice view.
Collecting data from the most extreme places on Earth can require the skills of the most extreme outdoor enthusiasts. Surrounded by glaciers and roughly 6,400m (21,000ft) above sea level, Willie Benegas spotted a pop of green moss wedged in granite. "Wow, this is an odd place for moss to be," he observed. In 2011, Benegas, an extreme mountaineering guide, was 500ft (152m) above the steep, exposed terrain of Mount Everest's Camp 2 and – despite having summited Mount Everest over a dozen times – he still found himself "impressed". Using a sterilised cloth Benegas scooped the moss into an envelope to be transported to a lab on another continent.
Benegas collected the moss samples for the non-profit Adventure Scientists, which acts as a matchmaking service between outdoor enthusiasts and scientists. "Scientists like to have samples taken in locations where it's difficult – sometimes damn near impossible – to get funding [to go]," McDermott says. "I was flabbergasted [Adventure Scientists] were even willing to try."
"Climbing is selfish," says Hari Mix, a mountain climber who collected data for Adventure Scientists during his Himalayan expeditions in 2012 and 2013. "There's no real point to it. I was looking for ways to add meaning or some kind of contribution to my trips."
In Washington State, John Soltys, a long-time volunteer for Adventure Scientists, says data collection bestows a sense of "purpose" on his family's alfresco activities. Soltys stumbled upon Adventure Scientists in 2013 while on a camping trip to Berkeley Park in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington State. Soltys's young children became "absolutely mesmerised" by the scurrying pikas – mountain-dwelling, mouse-like mammals. Soltys scoured iNaturalist, a social network for sharing biodiversity finds. There, he found Adventure Scientists, which was also utilising the platform to collect data on pikas. His family now volunteers with the nonprofit 100 times a year, he says. "Yeah, we're doing that crazy stuff," he says.
Well, good for them, I suppose. Sounds a bit too much like work to me. The "point" of being outside is to be outside and not at a screen thinking about stuff. Having a checklist of activities to do would be a big Nope, but hey, anyone who wants to climb 6,000 metres to collect some moss... more power to 'em, I say.
Seljuks are Turks, not Persians, FYI.
♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-12-08 01:28:00 GMT
Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, the Persian #Sufi poet, was born OTD in 967 cromwell-intl.com/travel/turke… #travel #Turkey
♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-12-07 04:14:00 GMT
Today is the feast day of Saint Nicholas of Myra, on the southern coast of today's #Turkey cromwell-intl.com/travel/turke… #travel #history
Being a political humorist should be one of Vincente's credits.
♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-12-02 03:48:00 GMT
Vicente Fox Quesada was inaugurated as president of #Mexico OTD in 2000, in Mexico's first peaceful transfer of executive power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election cromwell-intl.com/travel/mexic… #travel
Last #travel post for a little while. Here's one about #Malta with a dash of #design thrown in for good measure.
I wish I had some more Ribena...
https://astrorhysy.blogspot.com/2024/11/meandering-in-malta.html
More travelly-fun times, featuring the Alhambra and the nearby IRAM 30m telescope. Lucky for me I completely avoided all the flooding.
#Travel
#Photography
#Spain
#Granada
https://astrorhysy.blogspot.com/2024/11/galivanting-in-granada.html
