Tag: “Nakagusuku Castle”

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  1. St Vitus Cathedral

    St Vitus Cathedral, Prague Castle

  2. Chatter Me Up

    This shopkeeper saw me taking pictures of Hikone-jo at sunset and called me over to his store. He gave me some tea and a kind of bean-paste confectionery to sample, and showed me some of his own pictures (which happened to be hanging on the wall and for sale).

  3. Clean Moat, Happy Moat

    Japan's reputation for cleanliness is not unfounded. Here the groundskeepers at Hikone-jo pick debris out of the castle moat water.

  4. Prague Castle

    Prague Castle (Czech: Pražský hrad) is a castle in Prague where the Czech kings, Holy Roman Emperors and presidents of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic have had their offices. The Czech Crown Jewels are kept here.

  5. Portovenere

    Portovenere (sometimes, in English, Porto Venere) is a small town located on the Ligurian coast of Italy in the province of La Spezia. It comprises the three villages of Fezzano, Le Grazie and Portovenere, and the three islands of Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto.

  6. Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa

    Just outside of Birmingham, Alabama sits the sleepy community of Ross Bridge in Hoover. In the middle of it all is the Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa.

  7. The Melancholy Dane

    Finding Shakespeare in Denmark

  8. Surreal Beauty: The Disintegrating Remains of the Khrapovitsky Estate

    About forty-five minutes from the small Russian city of Vladimir sits the remains of the Khrapovitsky Estate, a former glorious monument to the wealth and megalomania of the Russian nobility, now disintegrating into the weeds.

  9. Banff National Park

    Canada's oldest national park, Banff National Park was established in 1885. A jewel in the Canadian Rockies 120 kilometers (80 miles) west of Calgary, Alberta.