2010 Year in Review


2010 Year in Review

Highlights:

  • February and March I was busy with the inspections of Embassy Sanaa,Yemen and the Embassy in Abu Dhabi and Consulate in Dubai.
  • In April/May we visited our friends Steven and Fran Carignan in Vienna, Austria and travelled with them by train overnight to Venice, Italy and to Budapest, Hungary by boat. Doris and I travelled by train from Vienna to Salzburg, Austria; and other trips to Bratislava, Slovak Republic; and Prague, Czech Republic.
                                                                                                   
Gondola ride on Venice Canal

Mozart Statue in Vienna 

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Slovak Theater
Salzburg Store Selling Decorated Eggs 















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  • In June we visited Morris Island and Fort Wagner with the Low Country Explorers. Morris Island was heavily fortified to defend Charleston Harbor, with the fortifications centered on Fort Wagner. On January 9, 1861, the first shots of the American Civil War were fired from cannons by cadets of The Citadel at the Star of the West as the ship tried to resupply Fort Sumter. It was the scene of heavy fighting during the Union Army's campaign to capture Charleston, and is perhaps best known today as the scene of the ill-fated assault by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, an African-American regiment. The regiment and this assault, where it suffered over 50% casualties, was immortalized in the film "Glory".

          

  • In October we took a Mediterranean Cruise from Istanbul to Monte Carlo with stops in Kusadasi (Ephesus), Mykonos and Santorini in Greece; Messina and Taormina, Amalfi coast; Sorrento and Capri, Amalfi, Rome, Florence, Cinque Terre, Italy; Sanary sur Mer and Castellet and Monte Carlo in France with three additional days on the Cote d'Azur (French Rivera) visiting Nice, Cannes, Antibes, St. Paul-de-Vence; Villefranche sur Mer and Villa Ephrussi de Rothchild.

Istanbul Grand Bazaar
 
Virgin Mary House in Ephesus























 
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Town Square Taormina
Above Messina
   















Cinque Terra
     
Florence
    













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Villa Rudolfo Ravello
Amalfi Coast
  













Isle of Capri

Sorrento 
   
















Feudal Village of Castellet



Central Market Sanary sur Mer 

 














Monte Carlo Harbor

Docked at Monte Carlo
       











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In Barcelona Antonio Gaudi's masterpiece Sagrada Familia (Holy Family Church)

Nativity
Exterior Towers
       
Crucifixion

 
  • For more information and photos see:
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In November we visited Mepkin Abbey for the 8th Annual Creche Festival featuring the Jean and 

Alexander Heard Collection
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