Wordless Wednesday

 Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, Scotland.

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Wordless Wednesday - Belfast.

Titanic Memorial, Belfast.

Titanic Museum.

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Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday.

Mainland,Orkney Islands, Scotland. Mainland is the name given to the largest island.

Maeshowe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around 2800 BC. In the archaeology of Scotland, it gives its name to the Maeshowe type of chambered cairn, which is limited to Orkney.

Ring of Brodgar.

Graffiti is obviously not a new phenomenon! 

The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic henge and stone circle about 6 miles north-east of Stromness on Mainland, the largest island in Orkney, Scotland. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney.

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Wordless Wednesday Ephesus, Turkey.

 The Library of Celsus, Ephesus, Turkey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Celsus

I am very glad I didn't need to use the public conveniences after touring around!

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(Not so) Wordless Wednesday - The Banyan Tree.

 

The Banyan tree, La Haina, Maui, Hawaii.

It seems incredible that what looks like a group of trees is in fact all one!

Enormous is no understatement here: Spanning 1.94 acres—over the length of a city block—and rising more than 60 feet in the air, Lahaina’s famed banyan tree is a quarter of a mile in circumference and possesses 16 trunks, making it the largest banyan tree not only in Hawaii but also in the United States (and one of the most massive in the world).

While remnants of the town’s conflicted past remains—Lahaina is at once raucous and refined, booming with the gutsy spirit of its past residents—its early 19th century soul is best represented in the banyan tree itself, which matured with the help of a local Japanese gardening society and other Maui residents, who hung jars of waters on its roots. A member of the fig tree family—of which there are 60 types in Hawaii—Lahaina’s banyan tree’s root system is, in every sense of the word, a marvel: Descending from its branches, aerial roots drape towards the ground, where they take root, thicken, and form new trunks that allow the tree to grow vertically and horizontally, giving it a skulking look that brings to mind Southern Gothic. (To the outside observer, larger banyan trees—including Lahaina’s—appear to comprise several separate trees.)

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Wordless Wednesday

 Following on from last week, we visited  a home near the church at Poorvoo.

The lady who lived here kept one room as it used to be for visitors to see how they used to live. The bunk beds were built into the wall to save space.

She then invited us to walk around the grounds.

This car is her husband's pride and joy. She told us that back in the 50s - 60s he was a successful racing driver and won many trophies.

We were very surprised to see this gun in the field! She said it is another restoration project!

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Wordless Wednesday

I had mentioned to someone the other day that we had visited a place near Helsinki and have since realised I got the name wrong. That is what happens when you don't keep notes of where you have visited. It gave me the idea to use it for my Wordless Wednesday.

Finnish World War 2 cemetery near Poorvoo, Helsinki.

The church.

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Wordless Wednesday - Kilauea volcano Hawaii.

 

This is a vent with hot air escaping from the volcano. I can't remember how hot our guide said it was but many many times higher than boiling point. He said under no condition put hands or feet beyond the bars. Of course someone had to try it and it peeled the skin right off his hand. His guide rushed him off to hospital but I don't know what happened because he wasn't from our group.

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Wordless Wednesday - Day and Night.

 The Aloha Tower is a retired lighthouse that is considered one of the landmarks of the state of Hawaii in the United States. Opened on September 11, 1926, at a then astronomical cost of $160,000, the Aloha Tower is located at Pier 9 of Honolulu Harbor.

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Wordless Wednesday

 Wordless Wednesday - Japanese Gardens, Hawaii.

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