MOVING THE WATER FOR FUN AND PROFIT PART 2
THIS ALL started yesterday with my watching the Jack Nicholson/Faye Dunaway movie Chinatown and Wife Dottie’s photo of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Here in Part 2, we’ll see whether the flick … Continue reading
MOVING THE WATER FOR FUN AND PROFIT PART 1
THESE TIDBITS grew from my watching the Jack Nicholson/Faye Dunaway flick Chinatown and, coincidently, unearthing a photo by Wife Dottie of the Pontcysylite Aqueduct in northeast Wales. That is, the … Continue reading
TO ALL OF US, SHE IS “OUR LADY” PART 2
OUR CELEBRATION of Notre Dame’s resilience and beauty continues today in Part 2. We travel down the Seine on a Batobus, get cathedral specifications from 1874 and 1937, and read … Continue reading
TO ALL OF US, SHE IS “OUR LADY” PART 1
WE WERE ALL horrified by the Notre Dame Cathedral fire of April 15, 2019. Yet we also celebrate Our Lady’s inherent resilience and beauty. Here are photos of Notre Dame, … Continue reading
TEGERNSEE—A TOUR OF TIMELESS ART
TEGERNSEE IS IN the foothills of the Bavarian Alps. This lake isn’t very large, about 4 miles by less than a mile, its Alpine-fed water eventually reaching the Danube, known … Continue reading
A TASTE OF LONDON’S ORANGES AND LEMONS PART 2
WE’VE ALMOST COMPLETED the first half of our visits to London’s historic churches prompted by the nursery rhyme “The Bells of London Town,” aided by Baedeker’s London and its Environs, … Continue reading
LET’S TASTE LONDON’S ORANGES AND LEMONS PART 1
WHAT BETTER WAY to tour London than visiting its historic churches in song. Let’s sing an earlier version, though I suspect you’ll find parts of it familiar. Here’s our tour … Continue reading
MEMORIES AND TIDBITS FROM A COOK’S PART 2
YESTERDAY’S MEMORIES and tidbits involved driving south from Paris, dining in Vienne, dancing in Avignon, and recalling an imaginary friendship in Tarascon. Today in Part 2, let’s have a Nice … Continue reading
MEMORIES AND TIDBITS FROM A COOK’S PART 1
I WAS LEAFING through one of my old travel books, Cook’s Traveller’s Handbook Riviera and Pyrenees, 1923, and its descriptions prompted memories of my own travels more than 60 years … Continue reading
HOW NOT TO HAVE A PRESS JUNKET PART 2
PLANNING AND INAUGURATION OF India’s Vande Bharat Express had complexities galore, more than enough to warrant yesterday’s SimanaitisSays. Today in Part 2, there are energy concerns, both in propulsion and … Continue reading
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