Posted: 2009-01-12 05:37 PM
I made a mistake in my comment on your report. The Persian gardens I am dreaming of to see are in Iran, another country difficult to travel in.
Christl
Muchas gracias for the comment and stars to my report on Leptis Magna. I have to say that this must have been the most breathtaking and stunning ancient city I have ever seen in my life. It was huge and some of the spots really stimulated my imagination. It was really like walking in a large city with many places to see; the avenues, the market, the main square, the theatre, the stadium, the circus, the harbour, the baths, the cathedral... Oh, yeah.
Posted: 2009-01-10 07:52 PM
Jorge, that train was an experience for itself. But to climb the Mt. McKinley is difficult, although I met a young woman who camped on the Denali, thank heaven she hiked around the place where she put up her tent, because a bear found it very interesting and nearly destroyed it. It is really some kind of a mountain. and the park is beautiful.
Christl
Posted: 2009-01-10 07:02 PM
Jorge,
that photo is fun. Did you like Fairbanks? I have been there, don't ask me when. I went to Alaska only to see Mt McKinley. I was lucky to see the mountain for two hours, although I stayed in the park for a week!
Christl
PS.: Please, I would like to see a portrait photo of you.
Posted: 2009-01-10 03:00 PM
Oh no. Jorge,
I am not a methodical traveller. I only had more time than you, I spent 6 weeks up there, therefore I had time enough to see the Orkneys, the Shetlands, the Faeroer Islands and a bit of Scotland. It was the hottest summer since 200 years and the English pound was at its lowest. Very good.
Christl
Posted: 2009-01-10 11:06 AM
Hi, you didn't see the Standing Stones of Stenness, an impressive Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney on a promontory at the south bank of the stream that joins the southern ends of the sea Loch of Stenness and the freshwater loch Loch of Harray. And: Ring of Brodgar (or Brogar) lies about 1.2 km (3/4 mile) away to the north-west, across the stream and near the tip of the isthmus between the two lochs Lochs of Stenness and Harray, a Neolithic henge and stone circle, constructed around 2500 BC, contemporary with Stonehenge. The henge of 60 stones, only 27 remained standing at the end of the 20th century. The stones are set within a circular ditch carved out of the solid bedrock by the ancient residents. The surrounding area is full of other standing stones and round piles of earth atop prehistoric tombs, making a significant ritual landscape.
Christl
Posted: 2009-01-10 07:36 AM
Oh Jorge, yes, I remember. That chapel made a deep impression on me. My Father didn't return from war, we never got to know where he died. It was the time when I still thought of what might have happened to him and if he was a prisoner of war how he did survive.
Christl
