The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches. Today, it’s the Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This is the oldest cathedral in the Americas – begun just 20 years after Christopher Columbus stumbled across the West Indies, while searching for Japan. This shot…
I received a media release this week from Carnival this week (on behalf of its eight cruise lines) proudly touting the official opening of Amber Cove, a purpose-built port at Puerto Plata, on the Northern coast of the Dominican Republic. And my immediate thought was to wonder how ‘real’ the experience would be, at a…
“…I am not a particularly good photographer – but I am an enthusiastic taker-of-pics”
“The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want.” Today’s quote, of course, is biblical – it’s Jesus speaking, from the book of Mark. The same line also comes up in Matthew, and in John – but in those versions, we don’t get the “and you can…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. Dominica is an island country in the Caribbean; Dominican Republic is ALSO an Island country, in the Caribbean. So what’s the difference? Well, lots, actually! The Dominican Republic covers about half of the island of Hispaniola – it shares the island with Haiti – and is…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is up to Q – so we’ve chosen Quiet Reflections. To start the week off, a church bell in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. We stayed in the Zona Colonial (Old Town) of Santo Domingo over Easter 2015, and it was an interesting insight into a deeply Catholic country –…
The theme for our travel pics this week is N for Night Scenes. For Friday, it’s a Good Friday scene in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. The sun had just gone down on Good Friday in Zona Colonial, the old centre of the oldest Catholic city in the ‘new world’. Shirley…
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