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The Windy City is Mighty Pretty....
... when all the ground had been bought up, it was noticed that places where the rail tracks ran and where there were lower buildings - there was "air" ripe for development above, so many of the huge skyscrapers are built on columns over said tracks and smaller buildings.
Everything was the biggest and/or best "in the world". Mo then talked to us about the Shakespeare Company in Chicago - as she said "and the Chicago Shakespeare Company is the ...
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... the Targ history of Aegon's conquest as told by a maester of the Citadel, mentioning Visenya and Rhaenys, their three dragons, all the major houses of the seven kingdoms and including the start of the Baratheon line. The Hugo Awards turned out to be quite entertaining. John Scalzi was MC and he's a great speaker and very funny. No teleprompting required! The first part of the evening was entertaining purely for my ...
From the Big Easy to the Windy City
... hop of Chicago as a city, we instead got to experience a different side to the touristy parts, and got to spend a bit of time with our lovely host which was also nice. The city is really nice, I can see why everyone recommended it so highly to us, the skyscrapers are impressive, the proper city landscape we had seen in ages, and we also got to see lake Michigan which we hadn't even realised was there in the city until only recently! The perfect three day stop off between two hellish 24hr bus journeys! Wilso ...
Connaught Final
Today we got up early to watch the Connaught Final (throw-in 8am Chicago time), however our plans were thwarted by a $20 cover charge per person in the Irish bar. So we headed back to the apartment and streamed it on the internet instead. Our brunch plans were delayed slightly by some technical difficulties downloading anti-virus software (sorry!) so by the time we got seated in Orange we were all starving – which was lucky as the portions ...
Love Affair with Everywhere--Bucket List
... list...guess i gotta keep going :) so much left to see in the world!! Argentina Austria Bahamas Bahrain Belgium Bermuda Cambodia Canada Chile China=PRC and Hong Kong Costa Rica Czech Republic Dominican Republic Egypt England France Germany Greece Hungary India Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Mexico Monaco The Netherlands Panama Peru Poland Qatar Scotland Switzerland Thailand Turkey United Arab Emirates Vatican ...
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