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Travel Blogs from Philadelphia
Palestine, Perth and Philadelphia Freedom
As usual another reluctant early start to the day; I will need a holiday when I get home!
A long day is planned. So I breakfast and hit the road. Philadelphia is as every local lells me a very consolidated city, you can walk everywhere.
I walk past the AVIS car hire and take photographic evidence of the non existent signs. I head off to the old town, along the way I walk through a street that is a jeweller's row, door to door jewellery shops both sides of ...
Welcome to my travel blog.
So technically this is my first entry into my travel blog, but consider it a prelude of sorts. This blog will be to keep my family and friends updated on my whereabouts and happenings during my semester abroad. I'm going to Bologna, Italy but you will see pictures and posts from all over Western Europe and Tunisia. I'm planning on doing a lot of travel during my free time. I'm ...
Liberty, Independence, Rocky and E. A. Poe
... a dirt-walled fortress) and George Washington's headquarters, where he and Martha lived during that winter. However, besides the house that Washington used for his headquarters, there is almost nothing original in the area. During the height of the encampment, there were thousands of huts, a blacksmith shop, a commissary, etc. Within 10 years after the troops departed, everything was removed so the farmers could farm once again.
After Valley Forge, it ...
The Luckiest Baggage Tag Part 2.
... about airport waiting and I am trying to make this interesting. The time is now roughly 200AM EST and we are still on the plane waiting at the gate for a "few last minute items" This is now past the point where I had now missed two connections to Athens from Munich. We had sat at the gate for so long that there was an acrid smoke of anger and exhaustion hanging in the flight cabin. Finally the crew decided that they had to give people ...
Philadelphia Eagles!!
... our entrance into heaven. Outside, we found the train station to be in the perfect location. We could see the bleachers over the north entrance of Lincoln Field (probably about a quarter mile walk or so) standing high and triumphant. Just next door was the Wells Fargo Center, where the Flyers and the 76ers play, and across the street stands the Citizens Bank Par where the Phillies play ball.
Since we could not ...