Rosary Garden

... pizza for lunch and then posted our postcards from the Vatican post office.  Shells couldn’t resist buying some Vatican museum rosary beads and also some with the Pope on the decorative bead box! We walked around to St. Peter’s cathedral ...

... rooms. Within an hour of being there we found ourselves in the church praying with the girls who were doing their evening rosary. "Work your machete Jelli" Being in the Mission was a rude awakening to our usual routine of sleeping in, eating french fries ...

... of the city from the cupola was stunning but spoiled somewhat by the smog. The roof boasted a souvenir shop crammed with postcards, rosary beads, holy pictures, holy key chains and other religious artefacts to numerous to mention. When we descended to the ...

... of God can also be seen in the 99 names of God found in the Koran, recited perhaps by those walking the market with their rosary beads: The Just, The Forgiver, The Only One, The Last, The First, The Highest, The All-Knowing, The Supreme Glory, The ...

... refused entry due to indecent dress.  I lent her one of my scarves, and next to me the Catholic praying on his rosary commented that I was a good person.  I just know that I'd be massively irritated if I'd stood in line for half and hour ...

... however I regained my driving confidence along the way. I found that I drove much better unaccompanied and without the clicking of rosary beads from my navigator. Later in the afternoon Margaret was relaxing on the porch when she noticed that a lamb had ...

... the garden and shooting small pellets throughout the compound and shattering all the windows and doors on most of the buildings. The garden was set ablaze and most was destroyed. What remained was the front half of the Virgin Mary Statue that had been ...

... 20 lanes spread across four separate roads. A strip of land divides each road. One could build a substantial house and garden on each without disturbing anyone. The monitor blinks a 30 second countdown for pedestrians crossing the middle section though ...

... and pagodas, the ginormous town gate and the head abbot's temple where we encountered our first raked gravel garden. After sunset we settled into our temple lodging. We stayed in a comparatively cheap temple called Haryo-in. There were ...

... a Bethlehem market, with stands selling all items necessary for ones Christmas Nativity set - right down to the vegetables to 'plant' in the garden.  It was a semi-Christmas market - and I was happy to peek at it!  We entered the San Jose Chapel ...

... that price. Anyways, I'm happy to report that it probably was the best mango I've ever had. Thankfully! We continued through the garden to the Place de Concorde. This is where the king used to behead prisoners. The guillotine is no longer there, ...

... filled with simple brown monastic garb with a white piece of rope to tie around (or under) the belly and a black wooden rosary attached to it. And these are supposedly the least interesting parts of this monastery. Mom tells me of rooms filled with ...

... . The restoration work was said to have progressed slowly but the facade, the main building, the walkway and the observatory roof garden were faithfully restored after one and a half years.   At present, the fort houses the DOT office, an open-air ...

... between monks. Protestants actually don’t believe that this place is Jesus’s tomb but that his tomb resides in the Garden of Gethsemane on a mountain shaped like a skull. Coming to this place made me realise that the Catholics seems to have ...

... our way toward the grand, stately park far in the city's northwest (technically Palermo), where we walked past some a Japanese garden, a planetarium and an impressive amount of statues-the largest of which sat at a major, major intersection near the park ...

... year, thousands of tourists and pilgrims travel to Fatima, and its fame is due to the visions of Our Lady of the Rosary by three shepard children. Between May and October of 1917, the children witnessed several apparitions of her. The last witness on ...

... boat and soaking us and all of our stuff, people were being sick and the lady sat in front of me was clutching her rosary beads and muttering prayers under her breath. I looked around me and the only person who seemed completely calm was the man who had ...

... holiday destination like no other.   Right across the coastline of Davao City lies the Island of Samal, named as the Island Garden City,  a place of harmony and serenity, it is located at the heart of Davao Gulf. This idyllic place has ...

... taxi to the Sundays Sanctuary Resort and Spa - our home for the next 15 nights. It is a very nice place hidden in a tropical garden. We had a 'mountain (building site) view' room - a little rustic, but clean and spacious - a design based on earth and ...

... none of the students would be on time anyway. But when we turned up at 8.05am, hot and sweaty, the whole library garden was full of  students, wearing their rucksacks and their best clothes. The girls were wearing some gorgeous dresses, and most of ...