Basel ~ For the love of Art, History & Gastronomy
BASEL, for the love of Art, History, & Gastronomy For years the Swiss city of Basel has been closely associated in my mind with two famous and fabulous exports, Art Basel and Roger Federer. If you are an art connoisseur, you know of the first export, and if you love tennis, you are for sure a…
Cook Islands, South Pacific home to famous Manihiki black pearls!
Cook Islands COUNTRY ROLL No 42 : Cook Islands, South Pacific paradise located between Tonga and French Polynesia. Second largest producer in the world of black pearls, the famous black pearls of Manihiki! Photo GuideTropical.com Stay tuned to BonVoyageurs.com for more Countries of the World as we share our joie de vivre from around…
Three Gorges Dam river cruise !
Three Gorges Dam river cruise. Read our previous posting at “Yangtze River Cruise and the Yangtze Gold One!” Chang Jiang Huang Jin Yi Hao is the name of our cruise ship; it means Yangtze Gold One in Chinese, who don’t use the term Yangtze. For them, it’s Chang Jiang, the Long (or is it Eternal) …
Strangers in Paradise … Ketchikan, Alaska
Ketchikan Imagine a paradise for salmon fishing … thousands of pink salmon running upstream through miles of fresh creek water which flows into their spawning grounds in Margaret Lake. The creek runs through Tongass National Forest, the largest forest in the U.S. which happens to cover most of southeast Alaska, and is just…