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5 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Squamish is a small British Columbian town between Vancouver and Whistler. With a population of about 20,000, Squamish is technically considered a district municipality. Built starting in the 1910s, Squamish is about an hours drive from Vancouver or...
16 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments trumpman
Today's coin is part of the larger collection of old Greek coins I mentioned a couple days ago. Click here to read the story of how it ended up on my hands. First some photos: So, this little fella is made of copper, weights almost 9.62 g and w...
8 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment trumpman
Today I have for you what is probably my favorite foreign silver coin! A Kennedy Half Dollar, minted in 1964. These coins started to be made in 1964 as a memorial for his assassination and various versions have been minted since then. Later version...
29 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments trumpman
As promised in my latest post, today I have something really, really sexy for you . It's small, but shinny. And amongst one of the most expensive and precious items in my treasury! A Sovereign (British coin) back from 1966: It's funny. A coin sligh...
16 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments rodrimdq
Hi everybody how are you ? In this time i wanted to share with you a few photos of one of my trips to Buenos Aires, and in this case they are all about the flowers of the roses , in a public place there in Buenos Aires downtown, this park is free acc...
14 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SabineTheQueen
Motivation is crazy Motivation given to travel around the world isn't for everyone, like the James Bond's Opera. You want to be precious if you want to take the journey. To decide about the upcoming journey and its consequences, you'd better reconsid...
29 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Ghengis
In normal times, parks are a very popular place for locals and tourists alike. Nearly every city in Vietnam takes great pride in their parks. Tao Đàn Park not far from the city centre is one of the most popular in Saigon (the locals...
24 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Ghengis
Last year I took a road trip to a place called Buôn Ma Thuột, in Đắk Lắk Province, Central Vietnam. Buôn Ma Thuột is about 300Km (200 miles) from Ho Chi Minh City by road. I went the long way, of course, and probably travelled over 500Km! Đắk L...
22 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Ghengis
This is Cambodia, previously known as Campuchia. I could never understand why a country would change it's name, until I went back about a year ago, but that's a whole new post. I took a trip to Phnom Penh because I had been in the country for a c...
16 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Ghengis
Rubber trees are a really popular crop around Củ chi, an hour or so out of Ho Chi Minh City. After leaving the tunnels, we stopped and wandered around the plantation. We met one of the workers who was happy to have his photo taken. They score th...
