got these two pictures from one of the organizers of the Pre A- Meeting ( Pre A is the Porsche 356 manufactured through 1955 - model year since Porsche began to call them model A , B, and finally C) , which took place last weekend in Småland...
Received today this picture of Jesse playmate who in turn received it from Jonas as shown invest fully in the 356B as he raced historic racing with the 80's . Thanks Jesse and especially a big thank Jonas for the image - bow and goats. Whoever thought that...
week break porsche is one of the wonderful Gmünd - coupes are still present in the country. It was very very long ago it was on the road. But at the weekend so it appeared finally up again at an international Pre-A Porsche briefing held down in Småland....
San Juan is unique amongst Caribbeanisland cruise ports. It is a major city just like you find on themainland of North America or Europe. It dwarfs the other Caribbeanisland cruise ports....
Spring has finally come to thenortheastern United States. Leaves are on the trees and theflowering plants are in bloom.With the Spring, the northeasterncruising season begins. Ships come up from their winter bases inFlorida and the ships that stay the winter in the northeast start tochange their itineraries to include...
Ever since I was a child I can rememberthe French Riviera as being synonymous with luxury and glamor. Itwas the place where royalty and movie stars went to vacation. It wasalso the location for numerous films including Hitchcock's “ToCatch A Thief” and several James Bond movies.It wasn't until I...
This week the focus is on CarnivalGlory. The Glory has recently been through what Carnival calls theFun Ship 2.0 revitalization. Under this program, ships in theCarnival fleet are being augmented with new features and venues foundon Carnival's latest ships such as Carnival Breeze....
This week our primary focus is the Disney Dream of Disney Cruise Lines. The Dream was the third shipbuilt for Disney. But while she maintained the traditional oceanliner look of Disney's two earlier ships, she is a much larger ship. In addition, she was built at the Meyer Werft...
I have recently returned from a trip toEurope by sea. I traveled over to the United Kingdom on the QueenMary 2 and I returned on Royal Caribbean's Brilliance of the Seas. In between the two crossings, I did a cruise around the British Isleson Ocean Princess.If you have the...
Tuscany is a fabulous cruisedestination. It has beautiful countryside, historic cities and greatart. The only problem is that it is all inland.The vast majority of cruise shipsoffering cruises to Florence and Pisa stop at Livorno or Leghorn asit used to be called. It is an industrial port which suffered...
type="html">Last month was the 21stanniversary of the grounding of Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) off ofMartha's Vineyard Massachusetts. This accident required theevacuation of the passengers from the ship and severely damaged theship. I happened to be aboard during thatcruise. It was a typically pleasant QE2 cruise to Canada and NewEngland...
The first time that I saw Carnival Splendor was a few months after she entered service in 2008. She wasdoing a series of Caribbean cruises from Miami before heading aroundSouth America to her new home port, Long Beach, California. Thisyear, she returned to the East Coast to take up...
With a new baby expected any day now,many people are thinking about the British Royal Family. Accordingly, it seems fitting to look at the Royal Family's ship, HMYBritannia.The Britannia was built in the early1950s not to be a pleasure boat for the Royal Family but to assistthe monarch in...
When I was growing up, I rememberhearing of the Alhambra. It was most likely in connection withWashington Irving's writings, as his house was not far from ours. However, the image stayed in mind of this beautiful castle in Spain. This image was only reenforced as I grew older and...
Norwegian Cruise Line is in thespotlight this week. Its new ship, Norwegian Breakaway, is coming toNew York to take up residence. This is an exciting prospect asBreakaway appears to combine the innovativeness of Norwegian Epicwith the quality of a Meyer Werft ship.Norwegian has had two ships based in New...
Celebrity Eclipse is a superior cruiseship. She is one of five Solstice class ships built by Meyer Werftfor Celebrity Cruises. All of these ships are nicely designed withattention to detail. They also offer a very good array of diningoptions ranging from casual to healthy to classic fine dining. Inaddition,...
It is hard to believe that people arenot already lounging by the side of the pools or enjoying theentertainment on Quantum of the Seas. After the media preview heldlast week in New York City, I felt that the ship is out there sailingthe seas somewhere. In reality, however, that...
The reason why Norwegian Breakaway isan important ship tends to be obscured by her size, all of the newfeatures aboard the ship, the Peter Max painting on her hull and byNorwegian Cruise Line's decision to base its new ship, not in Floridabut rather in New York City. She is...
This week the focus shifts to PrincessCruises with an expanded and updated profile of Emerald Princess.I had enjoyed myself on EmeraldPrincess the last time I was onboard and I was pleased to find thatshe still presents a quite enjoyable cruise experience. Apparently,quite a few other people agree as the...
Southampton in southernEngland is a great place for cruise ship enthusiasts. Not only doquite a few ships call there during the warmer months but there areseveral places around the harbor from which you can get a good viewor photograph the ships. There always seem to be a few people...
Norwegian Cruise Line's private island,Great Stirrup Cay, keeps changing. Despite a hurricane last fall,Norwegian continues to make noticeable progress on its ambitiousplans to develop this Bahamian island into a vacation paradise. Newbeaches have been created and landscaping has been done to thefinished sections....
A really cool picture of Bjorn Waldegard back in the race Röforsloppet in 1970 with a Porsche 914 /6. And YES it was back record . Johan H for the image that your dad took at the event . ...
When we set our minds to achieve a goal, the result is usually amazing and unbelievable. This couple deserves an award. Two good heads are indeed better than one. ...
I said this would happen when I wrote a piece title: Pensioner, 71, sues ASUU. Read it Here and now it’s beginning to manifest. If ASUU doesn’t get their acts back to school soon, even their own students and those who were in support of their course would begin to...
Nina Davuluri became the first contestant of Indian heritage and the second consecutive contestant from New York to win the Miss America pageant Sunday night.Davuluri, 24, won the title as the nationally televised pageant returned home to Atlantic City.She succeeds another Miss New York, Mallory Hagan, whose tenure was cut short...
Sometime ago I wrote a piece titled: BB Messenger for Android hits Samsung Galaxy phones first, in Africa,Well, BlackBerry (former Rim in motion) has now finally set a date for the implementation of this. It's September 21 for actually the Samsung Galaxy and September 22 for Apple's iPhone.BBM for Android will...
How many woman does he have with children again?PDA should not stop just in dating, it should continue in marriage if the marriage is to last a life time.Most men enjoy this, sadly most women don't. They do during dating but after one or two kids in marriage, they...
Week 1 and Week 2week 3 and week 4We all worry about the effect an extra glass of wine has on our waistline — but what about on our skin? To find out if ditching alcohol can improve your complexion, we challenged Laura Hogarth, a 40-year-old mother-of-two from Falkirk,...
AFP is reporting that, Swaziland's King Mswati III has chosen an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant as his 14th wife, a palace spokesman said Tuesday, days before a much-criticised parliamentary vote."I can confirm that the king has introduced to the nation a new liphovela (royal fiancee)," said Ludzidzini palace...
It’s been claimed that a police officer disturbed the scene of Whitney Houston's death by moving a sheet which covered the dead singer's naked body to comment on how good she still looked.Mailonline reported that Beverly Hill police sergeant Terry Nutall 'knelt beside and leaned over' the singer, and...