Let’s start with the British Museum and their largest draw–the Rosetta Stone. At 9:30am, the doors opened and this stone was mobbed by Asian tourists, faces planted in their camera/phones filing by taking selfies. After the place cleared, I moved in for...
It must be Glasgow because it’s December 9th. These vistas are becoming mixed in my memory but first thing it’s off to Kevingrove Museum where I begin with a completely unanticipated organ concert. It’s raining and foggy of course here in Glasgow....
My first sight of Ireland on the SE coast as we enter the Irish Sea. We arrive at Liverpool about 10am and take on a pilot which escorts the freighter into a locks. Tides here are 30′ which I cannot believe–greater than Alaska. The Atlantic Sun is so...
At 8:30pm my cab driver drops me over to 6708 Baynes St. in Halifax which is a container shipping area just north of town. Cables fly wildly with containers (“cans”) whipped about. A huge ramp lowers from the ship (left with yellow stripe) and I walk on...
The Town Clock–Halifax, Nova Scotia VIA Rail, in a four hour hop, takes me to Montreal where I discover beautiful murals in the Central Station, McDonalds, notwithstanding. There are four of these murals–this being the East panel; the station was built in...
Toronto has this big tower–huge–about three times taller than the Space Needle and unlike the Space Needle, this one will be hard to climb. They want $30 bucks to ride up the elevators and denied me access to the stairway when I asked, so I decided...
