Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Palau

Palau /pəˈlaʊ/ 
Officially the Republic of Palau, is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles (3,200 km) south of Tokyo



Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Beauty and the Beach


"London-born photographer Chris Craymer takes photos that make us feel as if summer is already here. His attention to true emotion really transforms each picture into a realistic snapshot of a sweet summer adventure."


Friday, June 10, 2011

Switzerland

Basel  
English pronunciation: /ˈbɑːzəl/ or Basle /ˈbɑːl/ (German: Basel, pronounced [ˈbaːzəl])
Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. 
Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. With 830,000 inhabitants in the tri-national urban agglomeration as of 2004, Basel is Switzerland's second-largest urban area.
Located in northwest Switzerland on the river Rhine, Basel functions as a major industrial centre for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden-Württemberg and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: "Regio TriRhena". It has the oldest university of the Swiss Confederation (1460). Basel is German-speaking. The local variant of the Swiss German dialects is called Basel German.