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There is no doubt that a major tourist attraction of Iceland are the Northern Lights. Since it is completely weather dependent and can’t be scheduled, you ‘take what you can get the day you go out. The moon was so bright and the air almost too clear, even though we drove about 45 minutes out…

Coming Soon: ‘In search of the Yule Cat’, a bucket list travelogue of the safest country in the world.

The island republic of Seychelles. It is composed of 115 islands found in the Indian Ocean, 1,000 miles from Kenya Africa and 700 miles northeast of Madagascar. This set of islands was known for centuries to traders who would sail past it. As is common the islands were ‘claimed’ by a number of countries. It…

The Great Qing, aka: The Qing Dynasty. It was the last imperial dynasty in China, lasting from 1636-1912. After The Qing Dynasty came the Republic of China. At it’s height it had a population of 400 million. In it’s history there were many emperors and world wide shifts. The flag is the Azure Dragon on…

Franco-Ontarians (French: Franco-Ontariens or Franco-Ontariennes if female, sometimes known as Ontarois and Ontaroises) are Francophone Canadians that reside in the province of Ontario. The first francophones to settle in Ontario did so during the early 17th century, when most of it was part of the Pays d’en Haut region of New France. It extended from Newfoundland to the Canadian Prairies and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, including all the Great…

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom’s land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. In 2022, the country’s population was about 5.4 million. Its capital city is Edinburgh, whilst Glasgow is the…

“The Arapaho (/əˈræpəhoʊ/ ə-RAP-ə-hoh; French: Arapahos, Gens de Vache) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming. They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota. By the 1850s, Arapaho bands formed two tribes, namely the Northern Arapaho and Southern Arapaho. Since…

Bedfordshire (/ˈbɛdfərdʃɪər,-ʃər/; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Hertfordshire to the south and the south-east, and Buckinghamshire to the west. The largest settlement is Luton(225,262),and Bedford is the county town. The first recorded use of the name in 1011 was “Bedanfordscir“, meaning the shire or county of Bedford, which itself means “Beda’s ford” (river crossing).…