Hour Glass

... some sightseeing around the area, including a visit to the Alaska Native Heritage Center. On Thursday, it's a Knik Glacier Tour - a 3 ½ hour tour on glass enclosed airboat. On our last day in Alaska, we'll ride Turnagain Arm. We are hoping to have ...

... beach and hung out watching the surfers take on the huge waves. We then headed South again to our next overnight stop in the Glass House Mountains. We passed through this on the way up and were really impressed so we decided to stop over and climb a ...

... Reichstag, where l lined up for almost two hours in the cold watching the sunset to catch the free lift up to the top of the famous glass Dome to see the best view of Berlin. It was worth the wait...the view was great, and as l sat at the top it helped ...

... ! Haha). After the demonstration, we wandered around in their shop for a bit, then went down to the glass museum to look around for a while. About half an hour before we were supposed to meet, Katy and I strolled through the town to look for shops, but ...

... when people were dividing crumbs to keep from handling the shame piece. And here I am eating everything like a tourist. Ok, blowing glass time. Elna shows us how her amazing lamps are created, the bulbous glass shape bulging in a steel cage. She makes ...

... stage. At the other end of the room is Elna at work. Two furnaces on full heat, an array of metal poles, glass beads, tools, assistants and a small audience are surrounded by the most amazing building I have ever seen. Recently renovated, I’m told ...

... to see the seem it now has down the middle! In Venice, we've also had Bellini's at Harry's bar... gone to the glass factories in Murano... toured the little islands around Venice... and tonight we're off to dinner at Harry's Dolce, which just happens ...

... , though, and many of these items are not even really made of Murano glass. We went into one shop, which was an officially verified glass seller and the prices were far more expensive than in the other places, but the stuff looked a lot nicer . I felt a ...

... bottom was smaller than the one we went on in Tasmania but much cleaner.  Nevertheless, you still lose colour and clarity through glass and also that feeling of being in the fishes' domain.  But a big advantage is that Gray can see better so it ...

... listening to it shatter. We keep working on the routine, practicing the small parts to the eventual whole. Megan makes a snaps glass, a wicked beast suitable for only the finest of liqueurs. Anna (mum) has amazing control and makes wicked glasses, near ...

... Meanwhile, as we were talking, Jon's glass of beer, that just happend to be sitting on the counter, explodes.  Glass everywhere.  The 3 of us are in complete shock, but the bartender is unfazed as he explains this happens once a week, and ...

... large shards of glass protruding out from the sand like a little demon waiting to inflict some unnecessary pain. I managed to avoid all the glass, but i always wondered why no one else seemed to care that there was glass in the sand? A few times i noticed ...

... is in the Schwarzwald, but today we went deep into the Schwarzwald. Our first stop was about an hour away. We went to a place called Dorotheesomething, it's a glass blowing museum and shop. Grandma! We went there on our trip to Europe! I'll post pictures ...

... of purchases.              Further along the canal was a large blue glass structure in a plaza.  Looked like a fallen star.  The canal we were following ran into a larger canal.  ...

After spending some time again in the pool, we decided to head down to Glass Beach. We had heard a lot about Glass Beach but the first time I remember hearing about it was from Huell Howser on the show California's Gold years ago.  The ...

... have a/c, a fan, gives towels and sheets, a clean shower, and lockers. Wow. It even gave me a free map and a venetian glass candy.) Anyways, once I settled in, I took out to explore the city on foot. There are signs everywhere to indicate the direction ...

... , necklaces, vases, lamps, sculptures, animals, bowls, and much more. Paul and the kids keps finding workshops with glass blowing demonstrations. Completely fascinating and precise art turning sand into a bulb of glass into a prancing horse or colourful ...

... pieces, pieces of glass as I was soon to discover.   My final night at Casa de Nelly was spent with half a glass door. What happens when a door continually sticks on the rails, refusing to slide without great force and great force leading to me ...

... the awesome experience I had today at the glass blowing factory. We left Prague at 8 am and drove about a hour and a half to the north to the Glass factory. The factory specializes in unique pieces and things of the delicate manner. The men ...

... boat when I was standing next to him.  "Hands here.  You drive," he said.  In Murano, we watched a glass blowing demonstration where three men all worked together on one project with their long glass blowing tubes, moving the hot ends in ...

... a couple having wedding photos with the bridge and gondola as backdrop. Amanda bought a bottle of Limincello in a hand painted venetian glass bottle. We caught the ferry from Rialto to Acede mia and walk around to Customs point past artists and the Peggy ...