As seen through this collage of favorite pictures, you can see that Costa Rica represents a myriad of colors and shapes. The animals and the plant life present a feast to the eyes with their colorations. As a rainforest area, it is unique in its terrain and topography. As part of the Ring of Fire on its Pacific coastline, it is still subject to active volcanic activity, including earthquakes and lava flows. Many tourists come to visit Arenal and other active volcanoes and to be part of the ecotourism movement.
London is a magnificent city and so once again , the reader is invited to look at those special places of interest included in "Dear Diana: Travel with me to London." As in the other five books of the "Dear Diana" series, travel is personalized and shared with those who have not traveled yet or those who do not want to read lengthy tour books. While this book on London covers highlighted places of interests and shares impressions and opinions , it is short read to help with the understanding of London's special qualities.
Tallinn, Estonia, is a delightful surprise for any traveler. It is a beautiful city in a small country with a great history influenced by the many cultures that have been crossing through its borders over the centuries. The city itself is diversified with modern businesses, restaurants, shops, and many historical areas amidst change and restoration. At its heart is the old city of Tallinn, restored in most of its major areas and attracting many world tourists. The Baltic Sea beckons us to visit Finland, and the scenery is beautiful from many vantage points.
Dear Diana:Travel With Me to Southwestern Germany takes the reader to an area south and east of Frankfurt, Germany. We visit areas where the Romans and other Early European groups of people trod, including the ancient town of Trier, known for its Roman artifacts and we go farther east to Weimar, site of the infamous concentration camp from World World II known as Buchenwald. Germany is a country filled with with old history, fairytale castle ruins and beautiful countryside as well as important modern history. It is a modern European country and a stronghold of financial stability today.
Arizona, 1910 Dear Diary, It will take more than threats—and one overbearing rancher— to drive me away from my rightful property.—When I inherited this isolated land near the Mexican border, I knew running it would be difficult and dangerous—very different from my privileged life in Louisiana, where I was the genteel Miss Trilby Lang. But I certainly didn't expect that my neighbor, Thorn Vance, would be challenging me at every turn. Or that his brusque, ruggedly appealing ways would prove a dangerous temptation that I'm finding harder and harder to resist. Now, with trouble sweeping the territory, I need his help. But how much will I risk putting myself in the hands of a man who's used to getting exactly what he wants?
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“These letters reveal how I remembered I had wings, and that I could fly – not because I had them, but because I had the courage to use them.” The ageing Arabella Gallina is struggling to pack up her family’s centuries-old coffee plantation house in Costa Rica. Receiving a visit from her son James, she discovers that his daughter, Isabella, is facing challenges in far-away England. Reluctantly at first, Arabella begins a correspondence with her granddaughter that eventually allows them both to make sense of the inevitable pain that life delivers to us all. Pen Pal Feathers is the multigenerational story of a remarkable family, a magic realism narrative that winds through Europe and the Americas and encompasses the full sweep of the 20th century. It reveals the powerful bonds between generations and how those bonds shape our lives – how enduring familial love can supply the wings that enable us to fly.
Pour yourself a drink and walk the gangplank into the adventures of George Jackson, a retired naval officer and master mariner. Engrossing, irreverent, and full of life, I Didn’t Make Admiral is a collection of stories told with love, self-awareness, honesty, and a great sense of humour. George comes of age on the West Coast of Canada in the 1940s, finds his English rose while serving with the British Navy, introduces their children to the freedom of the ocean and islands, and does another 27,000 nautical miles under sail in his later years. With light, lively prose, this memoir gives you a taste of the navy and family life during the twentieth century set against the backdrop of privilege, poverty, and social position. Whether he was sailing over the waves in a ship or beneath them in a submarine, George’s lifelong affair with the sea and deep appreciation of family, friends and country come through on every page. George never did make Admiral—but along the journey he learned that was never really the point.
