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Race Point Beach
Provincetown, MA
04/27/08
Humpback whales can be seen from the shore if you happen to arrive at the right time.
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Day's Cottages
Truro, MA
04/27/08
Operating since 1931, these 23 2 bedrooms and a kitchen cottages attract people even if their not staying there. A little store on the premises sells food and supplies should you feel the need.
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Marconi Beach
Wellfleet, MA
04/27/08
It was on one of the high sand dunes overlooking the beach that Marconi built his first wireless transmission station and sent his first wireless transmission to England. Most of that original site has been since claimed by the sea.
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Nauset Light Beach
Eastham, MA
04/26/08
Eastham has three fabulous beaches: Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Light Beach, and First Encounter Beach. All of them will not disappoint. First Encounter Beach has what might be the best sunset on The Cape.
The Nauset Lighthouse still guards the beach while the Three Sisters Lighthouses have been moved back too far to be of any use to navigation, but are still picturesque.
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Stoney Brook Grist Mill
Brewster, MA
04/25/08
Lonely Planet's Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard guide describes the Stoney Brook Grist Mill thusly: "This town-owned mill is one of the Cape's lushest and most tranquil spots. The water wheel still turns the machinery that grinds cornmeal, and a small museum has Brewster memorabilia.
Try to visit the adjacent open-air Herring Run during the time when thousands of herring migrate from the ocean to fresh water in order to spawn in the pond above the mill. Dates change annually, but mid-April to mid-May is a good bet."
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San Ramon Central Park
San Ramon is a lovely community in the valley east of San Francisco and Alameda along I680 between Walnut Creek and Dublin. It's a good location to be in if one has the time to do some exploring of that area of California.
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Agios Minás
This is the church whose blue dome and white bell tower dominates that well know Santorini photo. As soon as I landed and took the Teleferik (cable car) up to the town of Fira that stretches out along the spine of Santorini I showed people the picture and asked where I should go to take one of my own. When I got there I found that they had painted the church, the blue dome was now white and the white bell tower was now red. To make matters worse I would have to climb up the other, taller bell tower to take the famous picture and it was closed to the public.
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The changing of the guard
At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of Parliament in central Athens. The évzones (national guard) are not to be missed.
05/25/07
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Büyük Mecidiye Camii
(Grand Imperial Mosque of Sultan Abdülmecid, 1855) If you travel to Ortaköy, a small fishing village just south of the Boğaziçi Köprüsü (Bosphorus Bridge) that spans the Bosphorus and walk past the shops and restaurants down to the water you will find a beautiful mosque at the waters edge.
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Nubble Light
Nubble Light is one of the most photographed lighthouses in America. Located on an island off Cape Neddeck in York Beach, Maine. A must stop for those exploring the stunning southern coast of Maine.
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John Linton has been a member since 17 April 2008 and goes by ride0583.
Currently in sufferable.
I am a retired secondary teacher (32 years) who spent his childhood developing his skills as a military brat while the family moved from one location to another. I attended Gorham State College to avoid the draft, somehow graduated with a teaching degree in the Social Studies, was hired by the Westerly School Department in 1970, and have lived in Westerly, RI ever since. When people ask me what I do now I tell them "Nothing," but I do dabble in photography and travel whenever I can.
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