Archive for July, 2008
Next Entries »Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway
Monday, July 14th, 2008A lesser known wonder of the world is Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, an area of around 40,000 interlocking basalt columns. It looks anything but natural, but was apparently the result of a volcanic eruption in ancient times. Here’s an overhead shot of the Causeway Coast from Google Earth. The Giant’s Causeway itself looks like this: [...]
The world’s fifth largest country Brazil.
Saturday, July 12th, 2008As in the title Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and the largest country in South America. Even though it does not have a huge population to with it. The population of Brazil is roughly 186,757,608 which for the size of the country is small. It is also the largest speaking Portuguese [...]
Edinburgh Scotland’s Capital
Sunday, July 6th, 2008The city of Edinburgh actually began as a fort named Castle Rock. But in the 7th century, it was caputured and taken over by the English,they went on to name the fort as Eiden’s burgh, burgh is an old word for fort. In the 10th century the scots managed to retake the fort and land [...]
Murzuq, Former ‘Paris of the Desert’
Saturday, July 5th, 2008When I was young, I used to spin the globe and stop it with the end of my finger. Wherever I put my finger was where I was supposed to go when I grew up. I tried this little trick with the globe in Google Earth, and found myself in Murzuk, a small town in [...]
The capital city of the Welsh Dragons, Cardiff.
Friday, July 4th, 2008Wales is a small country connected to England, Great Britain. The capital city of Wales is Cardiff, (Caerdydd). Now Cardiff as been around a long time since the year 75 CE, when the Romans settled in Britain, they created a fort for the Britannia empire, but when the empire fell around the 5th century the [...]
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.