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I haven’t taken the opportunity, in my lifetime, to speak about my caravanning experiences. Over the years, it’s just been something I’ve done every year without fail – part of my life, I suppose. But it strikes me that there are so few people who use caravanning as a form of holiday and relaxation. And I guess I don’t realise this because the people I come across in the touring caravan sites I use have all been caravanning for years. So I thought I’d write this blog to help people realise what a great form of holiday caravanning is.

I’ve been taking caravan holidays since I was young and for me, it’s become a way of life. Not to say that I live in my caravan – to the contrary, I have a lovely home in Shrewsbury. But for two weeks every year, I take my caravan, just me and the wife now because the kids prefer to go travelling with their friends, and we explore this wonderful British island of ours, stopping at touring caravan sites and meeting like new, interesting people the whole while. It really is a breathtaking experience each time, and I find it sad really that so many of us Brits have no idea how beautiful our island is.

Comments (0) Feb 06 2010

The memorial of holocausto is between the Postdamer Platz and the door of Brandenburg; one is an enormous grid of pillars of gray cement of variable heights. Peter Eisenman was designed by the New York architect; it is a monument dedicated to the genocide of Jews in Europe. The memorial one forms a true labyrinth on a uneven ground and symbolizes, according to its creator, an abstract representation of a field of wheat whipped by the wind… The memorial was inaugurated in May of 2005, after two years of works and numerous controversies. In him there is an underground information center in which the tragic history of the Jews is counted. Behind this great cement structure there are buildings that are renewing. They will be destined to you soothe banking, hotels of luxury and the embassy of the United States.

Comments (0) Oct 13 2009

Dubai is 150 km of Abu Dhabi. A little more in car by absolutely rectilinear, soporific, continuous and monotonous a freeway takes half an hour. Once the last towers of Dubai are left back, fills a feeling to us of emptiness, infinite territory… Only desert to where the view reaches and asphalt roads, completely new. Lives here somebody? Beyond the highway, of the desert? The landscape marches past quickly after the lowered window of the Mercedes takes that me to the hotel where I lodge. Akim, the conductor, prefers to work at night due to the eternal traffic of Dubai. It could say that to lead during the fresh hours he is more pleasant, but not… We are at the beginning of June, they are the 02:00 in the morning and the temperature has not descended, or perhaps only a little. °C are 35 and the air is hot, is suffocating. We are not in tourist season and the hotels are empty, or almost. As of the autumn, the clients will begin to occupy these establishments, to everyone more luxurious. Abu Dhabi is looked like Dubai from this point of view, but it offers a perspective that hardly is in Dubai. The hotels are more extensive here, the sea is put in value in the first place and, with pleasing, a little is perceived the horizon if we inclined a little. The question is inasmuch as time? Commercial towers, hotels, restaurants and centers are constructed to an amazing and unavoidable speed. Modernity seizes progressively of the surroundings.

Comments (0) Oct 12 2009

Fatty’s Pizzeria & Pasta

106 S Ridge Street Breckenridge, CO 80424     970-473-9802

Fatty’s Pizzeria is located just a block off of Main Street in Breckenridge. The main bar area/dining room has a ton of memorabilia of sorts hanging from the walls.

This is another of the dining rooms….

My companions and I ordered Artichoke Dip as an appetizer.  This was awesome! The artichoke hearts were blended with a mix of cheeses and herbs and served with several fried flatbread wedges.

We also got some of the Cheese Bread ( I did not try this but it looked really good.  The kids loved it!)

For dinner we ordered several Pizzas:

Pepperoni & Cheese on traditional white crust

Pepperoni, Sausage and green olive on Wheat crust

Supreme Pizza on wheat crust:

This is the pizza that I ate.  The crust was traditional hand-tossed, and was somewhat soft instead of chewy or crispy.  The sauce was mild but the ingredients were fresh and it had a decent amount of cheese.  The slices were big and filling!

Overall Impression: Decent pizza, but nothing fancy.  Our server was great about getting drinks refilled, etc.

Comments (0) Sep 07 2009

Just in time for Labor Day: Famous Dave’s BBQ Sauce. Make this famous BBQ sauce right in your own kitchen. Sweet, spicy, and citrus flavored, no wonder Famous Dave’s BBQ is loved by so many.
Recipe courtesy of RecipeSecrets.net
Ingredients:
2 slices hickory-smoked bacon (thick cut strips)
1/3 cup chopped Vidalia onion or other sweet onion
1/4 cup water
3/4 [...]

Comments (0) Sep 06 2009