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The Best of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
On day 4, April 12, 2011, of our East Caribbean Cruise, with the morning scattered showers forecast, the “Oasis of the Seas” docked at 9:00 am at the port of Charlotte Amalie in Crown
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Christchurch – the “Garden City” of New Zealand
Walking on streets with names like Worcester, Gloucester, Peterborough, or Lichfield, punting on the tree-lined and meandering Avon River, touring the English-style gardens, walkways and cycle paths under magnificent trees, or driving past a
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A Pilgrimage to Italy (Part II)
We motored south of Italy to a town called Lanciano, world famous for the 8th century AD Eucharistic Miracle, i.e., a doubting monk celebrating the Holy Mass saw the host changed into living piece
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APilgrimage to Italy
A spiritual journey or a religious vacation to sacred sites and destinations commonly known as pilgrimage may be life-changing, faith-healing or faith-deepening. Our pilgrimage to grand Catholic Italy is more than a religious vacation,
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Nassau Revisited
Just in a day you’ll get to know the spirit and culture of Nassau in the Islands of the Bahamas, a priceless destination of subtropical beauty and relaxation. Since the banning of American travel
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Oasis of the Seas
a “floating nation” As cruisers of the “Oasis of the Seas” sailing through the blue waters of the Caribbean on warm days of April we became new citizens of a floating nation at sea.
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Tasmania – “A World Apart, Not a World Away”
Where would you experience breathing the purest air in the world? Or living for a day in the unspoiled environment of a vast parkland? Nowhere else but in Tasmania, known as the “island of
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Bahrain, the “Kingdom of the Two Seas”
International attention was focused on BAHRAIN on the 17th of February 2011 due to political uprising for freedom and equality that led to the arrest of 800 people with at least 4 dead and
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LOURDES – “Source of Life”
For a five-hour journey to Lourdes from the Gave of Austerlitz in Paris we boarded the “TGV” (Train a Grande Vitesse – French word for “high-speed train” which normally travels between 270 km/hr and
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Auckland, the “City of Sails”
No other city in the world with a waterside location has more boats per capita aside from the hundreds of yachts often dotting the harbour than New Zealand’s city, AUCKLAND, earning this place the
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