There are quite many museums about civil emergency services. After I visited the amazing National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield and the very nicely done Civil Defense Heritage Gallery in Singapore, I also visited the Stockholm Police Museum (Polismuseet Stockholm)…
I am sure you know all the details (non-fictional and dramatic ones) about the tragic end of the RMS Titanic latest after the Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet romance movie of 1997. If you travel to Belfast, however, you can…
The 2010 Youth Olympic Games boosted the focus on Singapore as a sports nation. The small nation is producing world class athletes in select sports like Badminton. There is a significant Paralympic community as well. Thus, I was very interested…
Halls of Fame are very popular in the United States. Finally, there are likely Halls of Fame for almost every topic. When I drove from Indianapolis to Chicago in late August 2019, I passed an advertisement on the Interstate for…
On the third day of my Weird Al Yankovic & Grass Court Tennis trip in July 2019, I had time to explore the Foxwoods Resort Casino area in Mashantucket, CT. One part of this Native American Reservation ground is the…
The city of Tarpon Springs on the Nothern edge of the Tampa Bay area is famous for sponge fishing. Gamers and arcade enthusiasts, however, do their pilgrimage to Replay Amusement Museum, which hosts old pinball as well as video game…
One amazing feature of Washington D.C. is the massive number of museums driven by the Smithsonian Institution: they are typically well driven and very educative and on top of that offer free entry. While tourists typically focus on the “Big…
The Vulkaneifel region Southwest of Bonn, Germany, is still a quite active vulcanic region. Thus, all around there and in the area, there are spots of activity. Vulcanic eruptions are very rare, but there are some other interesting natural spectacles.…