This is Melbourne Park and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Australia.
By Mark on January 28, 2012
25 years at Melbourne Park: Australian Open 2012
Winter Sound System 2009 @ Melbourne Park
This is a picture taken from flickr of Melbourne Park.
Welcome to a post on Melbourne Park, this happens to b a sports venue in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. And as it is also the host to the main Australian Open tennis tournament since 1988, the competition is held annually in January. Before the tennis took over it used to be the venue and the home of the Melbourne Tigers basketball team. But this is a special sports park, because, it can also and has adapted to host other events, like, ice skating, concerts, cycling as well as swimming and motorsport. The venue is run by Melbourne & Olympic Parks, which also runs the adjacent Olympic Park Stadium. Where as the Yarra Park section of the Sports and Entertainment Precinct is run separately.
This is a picture taken from flickr of court 2 at Melbourne Park.
This is a picture taken from flickr of a music concert at Melbourne Park.
As i said above this venue really is adaptable, while it is best known for being a tennis venue, it is surprisingly how many other events do take place here Melbourne Park. There are plenty of different sports and musical events throughout the year. You will find that alot of popular international performers, will head to Melbourne Park, because this is the largest venue that the city has to offer, apart from the venues like, the Docklands Stadium in the Docklands and the nearby Melbourne Cricket Ground, which are both hugely expensive. Also there used to be the Two Tribes dance festival was held there annually aswell. But it looks and appears to be a brilliant place to visit for you are into Sports or Entertainment. Also you will find the main tennis stadium which is known as the Rod Laver Arena, but you will also find other tennis courts like the Melbourne Multi Purpose Venue, known as the Hinsense Arena and also there is the Margaret Court Arena, there are other tennis courts to, but these appear to be the main ones. So the park includes the major tennis complex which has three outdoor show courts, five indoor courts, and more than twenty outdoor courts, and all of them are used by professional players and can also be used by the public to hire.
This is a picture taken from flickr of people at Melbourne Park heading towards a concert or something.
This is a picture taken from flickr of people at Garden Square, Melbourne Park.
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Welcome to the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, North America on Virtualtripping.com
By Mark on January 27, 2012
This is a picture taken from flickr of the Regina, Mosaic Stadium, home of the Roughriders football team.
Welcome to the city of Regina it is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Regina is now the second-largest city in the province, behind the largest city of Saskatoon, it is also a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. And to no surprise it is governed and run by the Regina City Council. Regina is a cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox, Dioceses of Regina and the Anglican Diocese of Qu’Appelle.The locals of Regina are known as Reginans and the city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Sherwood No. 159. A while back in history, the city of Regina used have the seat of government of the North-West Territories. Back then the seat was shared with the current provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, and of the District of Assiniboia. The name Regina, came from daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Louise, who was the wife of the Marquess of Lorne, and he was the Governor General of Canada. Who named the city in 1882 after Victoria Regina.
This is a picture taken from flickr of The Queen City.
This is a picture taken from flickr of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building.
So here is some of the history of this city, well it started differently, to other planned cities in the Canadian West, it appears that this was a natural area and that man took on himself to create an area that became the city of Regina, this was known as a tabula rasa, without topographical features other than the small spring run-off Wascana Creek. So the people of that day, decided to take advantage of such opportunity by damming the creek to creating a decorative lake to the south of the central business district, they then constructed an the elaborate 840-foot or 260 miles long Albert Street Bridge which went across the new lake. The city then grew and became more and more important, when it was offered the opportunity to become the new province of Saskatchewan, capital in 1906. The main attraction of this city is the Wascana Centre, which was made around the focal point of Wascana Lake, and has the Provincial Legislative Building, inside aswell as the campuses of the University of Regina, the provincial museum of natural history, the Regina Conservatory (in the original Regina College buildings), the Saskatchewan Science Centre, the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery and the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts. So you will find plenty to do and see within this city, including places to eat, drink and be merry, and you will find plenty of places to stay and as i have said above, plenty of attractions to be found to.
This is a picture taken from flickr of Regina City in the Snow.
This is a picture taken from flickr of Saskatchewan Legislature, on Lake Wascana.
So what else is there to se and do, well if you head outwards from Regina to her Residential neighbourhoods, you will notice that they are largely indistinguishable from those in other western Canadian cities, you will find some beautiful natural or man-made sites from several precincts beyond the historic city centre, which are a must to see, namely the Lakeview and The Crescents both of which lie directly south of downtown. There is alsoto the north of the central business district, an old warehouse district, is is where you will find shopping and residential development, there. This is nothing like what you would find in other western cities of North America, where they will have the shopping malls and big box stores. So this is a very interesting and beautiful area to visit in Canada.
This is a picture taken from flickr of the Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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This is a post on St. John’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
By Mark on January 25, 2012
ST. John\’s Episcopal Church Richmond Va.
St. John\’s Church Richmond, VA
So what is this post going to teach us, well article is about St. John’s which is an Episcopal church, you will find this building on 2401 East Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia. This is a very important church to the city of Richmond, as it is formerly been made up from several earlier churches, and these churches have now created a big church, which is known as St. John’s. But the reason why it is so special is because it is the oldest church in Richmond, and was built by Colonel Richard Randolph in 1741 and giving its name to the Church Hill district. But on top of that it really is an amazing church, because it has become well-known for two important conventions in the period which lead to the American Revolutionary War, and also where Patrick Henry gave his closing speech at the Second Virginia Convention with the famous quotation “give me liberty or give me death.”
Now St. Johns has become a place that many tourists like to go and visit when in Richmond, the reasons being are because of above, but also because, there is a small souvenir shop which can be found within the churchyard, and this is where regular tours begin. So you will find that there is an active church with a ministry and congregation, but even so the tours still go on, and they begin with the tombstones, where some of are actually of archaic design, which have marking’s on the graves of many important or famous Richmond and Virginia residents and the tours ends when you reach the insideof the church where the background to the historic events preceding and during the Revolutionary War is described. Two very important individuals, who are buried at St’ John’s are George Wythe, who was the first law professor in the United States, aswell as a delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence. And then there is Elizabeth Arnold Poe, she was the mother of author Edgar Allan Poe, her exact burial spot is unknown, but a memorial marks the general area. so whether you are religious or not, this is a place of peace and tranquility and i am sure you will enjoy visiting this special church.
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Welcome to the country of Burkina Faso and her capital city, Ouagadougou in Western Africa on Virtualtripping.com.
By Mark on January 23, 2012
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♫ Burkina Faso National Anthem ♫
Driving around in Ougadougou
Travessia da capital de Burkina: Ouagadougou
This is a picture taken from flickr of the people of Burkina Faso.
So where is Burkina Faso and what have i learn’t about this nation, well it is also known as Burkina. This is a landlocked country in the west of Africa. This nation is surrounded by her neighbours, they are: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d’Ivoire to the southwest. Burkina Faso is quite a small country, it is in size is 274,200 square kilometres or 105,900 sq miles and there is an estimated population of more than 15,757,000. It used to be known as the Republic of Upper Volta, but it was renamed by the then President Thomas Sankara, on 4 August 1984, it mean’t “the land of upright people” in Mòoré and Dioula, which are the major native languages of the country. But the name today, for example, “Burkina” may be translated as, “men of integrity”, this from the Mòoré language, and “Faso” means “father’s house” in Dioula. The local people of the nation are known today Burkinabe.
This is a picture taken from flickr of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
This is a picture taken from flickr of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
So the history of Burkina Faso, says that this nation was populated somewhere between 14,000 and 5000 BC by what was hunter-gatherers in the country’s northwestern region. It then appears that farm settlements appeared between 3600 and 2600 BC. The central part, it in the olden years used to be principally composed of Mossi kingdoms. But it was around 1896, when these Mossi Kingdoms would become a French protectorate. It was around 1960, when Burkina Faso, finally was given independence from France, and it went through many governmental changes until arriving at its current form, a semi-presidential republic. The president being Blaise Compaoré. The capital of this nation is Ouagadougou and the country is a member of the African Union, Community of Sahel-Saharan States, La Francophonie, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and Economic Community of West African States.
This is a picture taken from flickr of a dish known as Burrito Special.
This is a picture taken from flickr of two people walking the street in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Now one thing that surprised me about this country is that it is well-known for it’s cinema of Burkina Faso, this has become an important part of West African and the African film industry. It all started in 1969, when they contributed to African cinema with the establishment of the film festival FESPACO (Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou), which was launched as a film week in that year. I was quite surprised to learn that alot of Burkina faso’s filmmakers are known internationally and that some of them have won international prizes. Also it appears that headquarters of the Federation of Panafrican Filmmakers (FEPACI) was inthe capital city of Ouagadougou. It apears that there was a decline and it had to be saved which it was in 1983. When the President Sankara helped it out, but then in 2006 the Secretariat of FEPACI was moved to South Africa, but the headquarters of the organization is still in the capital, Ouagaoudougou. Here are some of the best known directors from Burkina Faso they are: Gaston Kaboré, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Dani Kouyate. But you will find that even some of the international known filmakers like, Ouedraogo, Kabore, Yameogo, and Kouyate also produce and make popular television series, such as Bobodjiouf.
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Equatorial Guinea and Gabon host the 2012 African Cup of Nations, (football), on Virtualtripping.com.
By Mark on January 22, 2012
2012 Africa Cup of Nations Trailer HD
This is a picture taken from flickr of Ghana 2008: Nigeria Vrs Ivory Coast.
Welcome to a post about the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, this is a football competition which is held in the continent of Africa. This is the 28th tournement in the Africa Cup of Nations, and is the major football competition in Africa, it is organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). This year the tournement is being held by two countries they are: Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. They won the rights to hold this tournement after defeating the countries of Nigeria, along with winning bids over Angola and Libya. There had been other bids from other countries like: Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Senegal, but they were all rejected. The Confederation of Africa, made history, they sorted out the hosts of three successive tournaments which were all chosen at the same time; Angola was chosen to host in 2010, Gabon/Equatorial Guinea were chosen as hosts for the 2012 cup and the third country to host the competition in 2013 edition, was Libya, but sadley due to the Libyan Civil War, they decided to move the tournement to South Africa. They also got Nigeria to host, just incase one of the other countries were unable to host the competition.
This is a picture taken from flickr during the 2008, Ghana tournement.
This is a picture taken from flickr of View of the Cathedral from the Port in Malabo.
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.