What now seems an awful long time ago I used to like going on holiday to the Canary Islands, that agreeable part of Spain which is located just off the north-western African coast and in December 1983, before I was even thirty years old, I flew to Lanzarote with a group of friends with the intention of having a pre-Christmas party week in the sun.
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Tagged Arrecife, Canary Islands, car hire, Culture, Fueteventura, Iceland, Lanzarote, Life, Photography, Puerto del Carmen, Yellowstone Park
Budapest did not become a single city until the official amalgamation on 17th November 1873 of right-bank Buda and Óbuda together with Pest on the left bank. This was seen as a supremely symbolic event that marked a union between Western and Eastern Europe and the city became the second capital of Austria-Hungary.
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Tagged Budapest, City Bus Tour Budapest, Culture, Life, Margaret Island Budapest, River Danube, UNESCO Budapest
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Four Palaces and a Bar…
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“(Sardinia) reminds me of Malta: lost between Europe and Africa and belonging to nowhere. Belonging to nowhere, never having belonged to anywhere. To Spain and the Arabs and the Phoenicians most. But as if it had never really had a fate. Left outside of time and history.” D H Lawrence – ‘Sea and Sardinia’
After lunch we made our way towards the old town and the fortress set at the very top of the rocky outcrop. At the lower levels there were souvenir shops selling usual tourist trash and after ignoring these we tackled slippery steep stone steps worn down by the passage of time and feet.
At the top we paid our 3€ entrance fee and passed through the gates into the recently restored castle and centro storico where waiting for us at the top there was a breath-taking 360° panorama of the land and the sea.
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After the cramped alleys and the narrow streets the Market Place was in complete contrast – a vast cobbled open space with elegant gabled houses, shops and bars. The Renaissance town hall with its red shutters at one end and at the other the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) with its almost one hundred and ten metre tall spire (the second largest in the Netherlands after Utrecht) rising majestically into the sky like a needle.
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It was an interesting experience to go through the hidden door behind the bookcase and to climb the steep steps into the rooms where they lived and hid.
Imagine staying hidden and quiet all day without a mobile device and the internet!
The little guide book calls it a ‘Museum with a Story’ and this sets it out against other museums that do not have the same emotional connection.
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