Keeping up with the Jones in the town of Newport was serious business during the era of the industrial barons of America’s Gilded Age from the 1880’s to the early 20th century. It was the playground of the wealthy such as the Vanderbilts and Astors who all built elaborate and opulent mansions trying to outdo […]
Tucked away in the north east corner of the USA are the New England states and these were to be the locations of our search for the fall colours. The USA has 51 states and to really confuse us foreigners it also has states which are in fact not real states but are states of […]
Imagine discovering one of the greatest archaeological finds in history. In 1974 a farmer in China did just that; discovering the Terracotta Army of over life size 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses. We were lucky to be in Toronto when the Royal Ontario Museum was having an exhibition of […]
