Montreal is unique in North America, combining the New World modern with the romantic charm of historic districts and a European air Gallic lifestyle, evident in the cafes and the city’s dynamic nightlife.
Although skyscrapers downtown are testament of the economic influence of the second largest city of Canada, visitors are most likely attracted by the promise of rides in a cart on the cobbled streets of old town near the St. Lawrence River.
Montreal is on an island between Rivière des Prairies and Saint Lawrence River. When Jacques Cartier discovered the island in 1535, it was already inhabited. Until Paul de Chomedey arrived in 1642 to found the Ville-Marie, the first European colony has been already abandoned. Cross on the Mount Royal, which is visible from most of the city, marks the place where Maisonneuve planted a wooden cross to thank that the city was spared by the floods in the first winter.
French revolt against the British in the economy led to the “silent revolution” between 1950 and 1960, culminating in the crisis of 1970 and the referendum about royalty from 1980 to 1995.
As a result, French became the predominant language at work and a number of companies in Quebec have become active in global market forces. Approximately 65% of people claim that French is their native language, making Montreal the second most populous French-speaking city after Paris.
But in Montreal there is a cosmopolitan mix of immigrants around the world, who contributed to the rich cultural heritage and lively atmosphere in the city. This is most evident during one of the largest festivals in Montreal, International Festival of Jazz in Montréal, when tens of thousands of music fans fill the streets of every day.
Elegant buildings of Old Montreal, which was the heart of the city until the late nineteenth century, are now full of shops, bars, hotels and restaurants.
The best time to visit Montreal is summer, when even the nights are muggy and the whole city seems to spend. Autumn that reveals the leaves color is the right period to visit the Laurentians forest.
Posted on June 27th, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment »
Bermuda Triangle is known to be a triangular area bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the extremities of Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Legend says that many people, boats and planes have disappeared in a mysterious way surrounding. Its size varies from 500,000 sq. miles to three times more depending on the author’s imagination. As some people say, the mystery is known to date since Columbus times. Even so, estimates vary between 200 and 1000 incidents in the last 500 years. Howard Rosenberg says that in 1973 the U.S. Coast Guard has answered over 8000 requests for assistance in the area and that more than 50 ships and 20 aircraft sank in the Bermuda Triangle in the last century.
Many theories have been given about Bermuda Triangle to explain the extraordinary mystery of the disappearance of these vessels and aircraft. Evil aliens, residue crystals from Atlantis, evil men with other weird technologies are the favorites among writers of fiction prose. Strange magnetic fields are the favorite explanations of technical minds. Weather conditions such as hurricanes, tsunamis or earthquakes and many other natural causes are the explanations given by skeptical investigators.
There are skeptic persons who say that the facts in the Bermuda Triangle don’t confirm the legend, that there is no mystery that needs solving, and nothing to be explained. Number of wrecks in the area is not huge considering the size, location and traffic in the area. Many of the ships and planes that have been identified as missing in the Bermuda Triangle were not there at all. Investigations have not shown yet any scientific evidence of the existence of an unusual phenomenon involved in disappearances.
The modern legend of this place appeared shortly after five military aircraft have disappeared on a mission during an awful storm in 1945. The most logical explanation for this disappearance is that the Charles Taylor pilot compass has been damaged. Training planes were not equipped with navigation tools that should have worked well. The group was disoriented and simply ran out of fuel. No mysterious forces were involved except the mysterious effect of gravity forces on the aircraft without fuel.
So, the Bermuda Triangle mystery has become a real one just because of the mass-media who has passed without investigating speculation related to something mysterious that is happening in the Atlantic Ocean.
Posted on June 15th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
New York is a galaxy of adventure, elegant in the same time, exciting and bizarre. It is a city that moves so fast that you need energy even to sit.
About New York there have written thousands of books, have been created hundreds of movies, but nothing compares with direct meeting with the City.
The largest city in the world is in the northeastern United States, to the Atlantic coast in the estuary of the Hudson River, being situated on islands both Manhattan and Staten Long as well as on the mainland.
Tourists can accommodate to the four-star Flatotel, the two star Hotel Riverside Studios, four stars Vincci Avalon, these are some of the best options available for the New York hotels.
To eat, you can opt for one of these restaurants: Lutece, Hard Rock Cafe International, The Four Seasons, Sarda’s Tom’s Restaurant or The Rainbow Room.
New York is an expensive city, a city of fashion and souvenirs. There are many shops and huge shopping centers.
For those who just want to run a city bus to make their purchases, try Greenwich Village, especially in the area near the intersection of Broadway and Prince streets. The neighborhood is one of the most beautiful in Manhattan.
Posted on April 10th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Ocean Breeze Waterpark is situated in the Virginia Beach, being the only water park from surroundings. The fact of being located just a couple of miles from the ocean , makes the 19 acre park being popular as long as tourists are welcome in the area.
There are slides that cater to the adventurous and many others for travellers who are ready to get wet. But children aren’t allowed on every slide, they should go at least with with parents or somebody else, just an adult.
So, tourists go through this attraction on a tube. The water is a little bit rough, but it has something good at it, featuring waterfalls.
The first slide is Bahama Mamma, available for tourists who want a thrill. This slide is known to be the fastest and the most furious from all in the park.
Another is the Paradise Pipeline which propels travellers through the inside of a pipe before shooting them into a pool.
These slides are for children, as well as for adults. While children are having fun playing , their parents could relax in a private cabana and watching them.
The park is fun for a happy family with positive aspects, while other thing this park didn’t do as much as it should to cater to parents of smaller children. The park is not so hard to be found, so go ahead and make your own vacation as long as you can.
Posted on August 16th, 2009 by admin | 1 Comment »
Greenwich Village is one of the mos visited districts from New York. At first, it was a plantation of tobacco situated near the Manhattan Island and whose name was given by the British naval commander, Sir Peter Warren.
In the 18th century, this commander has bought a farm surrounding. In 1822, people have begun to more here when the yellow fever outbreak of New York city appeared. People have definitely tried to escape this bad conditions of disease. In that moment, Greenwich Village has rapidly flourished, there appeared new banks and businesses around.
The city was very populated by artists and writers who were discussing in the bars of the Greenwich Village about the political ideals.
Today, the Greenwich Village is considered a large residential area, located in the western part of Manhattan being one of the most visited from New York city.
In this village a lot of streets are narrow and they are not even numbered, only named. The Greenwich Village residents are very glad for the city to have such a famous history which nowadays is home for ex-celebrities, actors and actress. Neither restaurants or clubs don’t miss to this great image of the city.
Posted on July 31st, 2009 by admin | 3 Comments »
Puerto Morelos is a place where tradition of fishing for a living continue to exist even today, while the tourists popularity continue to grow up. You can make such a beautiful holiday for yourself and your family, even though you’re poor or rich because the prices of here are not so high. Even the atmosphere is on your tastes. 
A great square in the center of Puerto Morelos is offering visitors many stores, a dive shop and several restaurants along the path where you can eat. Pelicanos is a perfect restaurant which offers you a nice sight of the Caribbean and also excellent preparations. The beach of the town has a rustic style, and if you want to go fishing there are several small boats to go with. You can get a lot of photos from there and if you have the chance you can even take a ride with these boats in an excursion to the reefs around.
Even nwoadays, this town continue to expand itself. Be sure that modest homes, hotels and cottages will never miss.
For people who want to get there, the easiest way is to follow coastal highway (307) south toward Tulum on the International airport from Cancun and be sure signs from the town will come to you and show the way. After that, you have to turn left and continue more 20 minutes on the freeway. Then you will see that Puerto Morelos town is in the north part of “Riviera Maya”.
Posted on July 28th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
The Cristo Chapel has started to be built for the commemorating of a legend which says a miracle. In 1753 year,
there was a young man, a horse rider who in a moment has lost his control in a race and he felt down. After this accident, Mateo Pratts, the city’s secretary has prayed a lot to Our God to save the youth. Then, in that place the chapel was built, preciselly when prayers were answered.
Nowadays, this is a good point for tourists to visit this chapel in the old city, the Cristo Chapel and also to visit one of the most renowned historical monuments.
The altar of this chapel is composed of gold and silver which visitors can not touch, they only can see the altar through the doors made by glass. It is not so easy to visit this chapel because it is opened only two days per week.
This chapel is considered a small chapel located at the southern end of Cristo St. The legend an the history of this chapel celebrates practically the miracle that happened with that boy. But the real truth is that both of them, the boy and the horse fell to their deaths. Then the chapel has started its building to make sure that such a horrible accident would never happen again. The Cristo Chapel also maintains a great number of religious artifacts.
Posted on July 26th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
The Cathedral of San Juan is known to be the oldest building of this type built in San Juan. It’s building started in the 16th century, and it is also one of the most plain cathedrals tourists could ever see. 
This cathedral is situated midway through Del Cristo Street and surrounding there is a small plaza next to El Convento.
The building of this cathedral started more preciselly in 1521 whose construction has a Gothic style. Today, there are many different original components of the architectural building which still exist. These components are a vaulted tower, the gothic ceilings, a staircase in a circular form and 4 rooms.
But the Cathedral Of San Juan was decided to be renovated in a Neoclassical style.This renovation was finished in 1852.
This cathedral of San Juan, city which is also known as “La Ciudad Amurallada”, which translated in english means “the walled city”, attracts annually more than one million visitors from all countries of all continents.
Posted on July 24th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
Boston Common is known as the oldest park ever made in the United States Of America. The history of this place
returns in 1634, when this space was used for military purposes. The gallows were removed from here only in 1817. Starting with 1830 year, the grazing of cattle was forbidden.
But in the big part, the Boston Common is used as a park for tourists where they could recreate a bit their mind. The Boston Common has also a lot of historical monuments representing some of the most important events of its history.
Built in 1912, the Parkman Bandstand should have been honored to George F. Parkman, the person who invested around 5 million dollars for the reason to maintain the Boston’s parks. It have had as architect and sculptor Martin Milmore, in the 1877 year.
Another target of this park is the Brewer Fountain which was donated by Gardner Brewer in 1868 year. But there is also a similar copy of the fountain designed by another person,French artist Liénard. The fountain was built for the World Exposition in Paris, 1855 .
This park of Boston is home to one of the oldest graveyards of Boston.
It’s great to see a musical performance, a picnic in park, almost anything but a cow. They have been banned since the 1830 year. This is an event which is related to the Common, but it still not being commemorated with a plaque.
People who visit this place, should not forget this history, they should remember this with glory.
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by admin | No Comments »
The St. Patrick’s Cathedral is the largest Catholic cathedral from United States Of America and it also attracts tourists day by day, even at night.

The Cathedral is situated on posh 5th Avenue near Rockefeller Center. The old church which was original, was opened in 1815 on Mulberry Street. But during many tens of years, the population from the New York City continued to grow. In 1853, The Archbishop Hughes affirmed that the faithful citizens of the New York city must have another place to worship.
His plans were unexpected. The majority of people called this new project the “Hughes’ Folly.” The designer of this cathedral was James Renwick whose costs were around 850,000 dollars, but without the furniture. One of the most renowned cathedral was opened in 1879, 15 years later after Hughes died.
In a good way, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral has escapes by debts in 1911. In the same time, the cathedral’s image was improved and the total costs were around 4 million dollars.
Once tourists came here, they could attend one of several daily masses at the St. Patrick cathedral. Even pamphlets are available for visitors who come at the church, known as a guide for them. You will also find a gift shop where each visitor can buy books about the history of cathedral and many other interesting things about it.
Posted on July 20th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »