From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:52 PM

A brief slide show of some downtown Washington DC scenes, including Pennsylvania Avenue and the Capitol. 2007

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:52 PM

The Hotel Harrington at 11th and E Streets, NW, in downtown DC, is definitely the best buy in town. Its rooms are funky and sometimes even funny-looking but they are clean and the clientele is very nice. You really can NOT beat the convenient location, within walking distance of the White House,...

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:52 PM

i love downtown

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:52 PM

My first real world piloting of a real aircraft - Cessna 172P during 30mins sightseeing flight over Medulin/Pula, Croatia. Take off and landing (Medulin airport - LDPM) was performed by a local pilot - a very nice guy. I was sitting at a co-pilot seat and after having little chat about my few ye...

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

Flight from Toronto to Frankfurt

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

view of downtown newark from an apt window

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

This spectacular narrated Night Tour takes you over Waikiki... add on a romantic Dinner Cruise to complete your evening! Taking Romance To The Skies is more than a slogan at Heli USA. This fun, romantic night tour is the ultimate evening — Waikiki style! Surrounded by Hawaiian-themed music...

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

a vid taken from my ol' digital camera of a helicopter ride through the Honolulu skyline on a vacation in September of 2005

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

Montanha Diamond Head Hawaii

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

Starting at Trindade, down Porto main square - Avenida dos Aliados - passing by Sao Bento train station, up Rua Sa da Bandeira and finishing at Bolhao Market, listening to a techno tape recorded by the Portuguese DJ Carlos Mananas, back in the early 90’s at the disco Cais 447. Video made by Nuno...

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

Looking the other way across the river from Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia. Vila Nova de Gaia, or simply Gaia, is a city in Portugal. It is located in the Porto district, south of the city of Porto on the other side of the river Douro. The city proper has a population of 178,255 and the municipality...

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

Jurčičeva ulica v Celju ob reki Savinji. / Jurciceva street in Celje, Slovenia right at the banks of river Savinja.

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2006, the estimated population was 53,248. However, the Pensacola metropolitan area, comprising Escambia and Santa Rosa co...

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

Here is a short video of the Lagoon of Obidos on the Silver Coast Portugal and its beach of Foz do Arelho. Enjoy it!

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Lyon forms the second-largest metropolitan area in France after that of Paris, with a population estimated to be 1,783,400 in 2007. Its urban region (Region Urbaine de Lyon), represents half of the Rhine-Alpes region population with three million in...

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

Originally a simple security valve at the Coulouvreniere hydraulic factory, this water fountain has, over the years, grown to be the symbol of Geneva. In 1891, it was transferred to the Rade, to become a major tourist attraction. However, it was not until 1951 that it was provided with an autono...

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

This is the river Aare that runs through Bern, the capital of Switzerland. The official language of Berne is German. The local Swiss German dialect is Bernese German, spoken by most of the inhabitants. Due to the presence of a large part of the federal administration, several embassies and a fai...

From: Check My City, Travel Guide, City Guide, Hotel Booking on Thu, Sep 02 2010 1:51 PM

The climate of Riga is in between maritime and humid continental. The coldest months are January and February, when the average temperature is -6C but temperatures as low as -20C to -25C can be observed almost every year on the coldest days. Due to the proximity of the sea autumn rains and fogs ...

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In 1630, Puritan colonists from England founded the city on the Shawmut Peninsula. During the late eighteenth century Boston was the location of several major events during the American Revolution, including the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. Several early battles of the American Revo...

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With many colleges and universities within the city and surrounding area, Boston is a center of higher education and a center for medicine. The city’s economy is also based on research, finance, and technology principally biotechnology. Boston ranks first in the country in jobs per square mile a...