Sunshine Travel Service

01/16/2025

Castle Hotels :-)

01/12/2025

11 JAN 1599 Jacob van Neck's fleet leaves Bantam, Java in modern day Indonesia with 1 million pounds of pepper and cloves and a further half a ship full of nutmeg, mace and cinnamon.

01/09/2025

12/28/2024

28 DEC 1065 New church devoted to St. Peter the Apostle is built by Edward the Confessor, later called the 'west minster,' consecrated in London (rebuilt mid-13th century)

Edward the Confessor depicted during the construction of Westminster Abbey

12/27/2024

The guard towers of this popular Romantic Road city are visible above the rooftops from the balcony of my favourite room in my favourite hotel in this lovely city :-)

12/17/2024

17 DEC 1903 The Wright brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The flight did experience delays, and one bag was lost :-0

12/14/2024

14 DEC 1287 During St. Lucia's Flood in Northwest Netherlands, the Zuiderzee seawall collapses with loss of over 50,000 lives. Fifth largest recorded flood in history.

This photo is much more recent, 1953

12/13/2024

Love the Irish street music in Galway :-)

12/11/2024

For my Wisconsin Relatives :-)

12/11/2024

I got Sunshine on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside....

10/29/2024

29 OCT 1268 Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the German Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed with Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily

10/28/2024

27 OCT 312

On This Day in History

Roman Emperor Constantine as depicted by Raphael having his Vision of the Cross

312 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross

10/05/2024

This was Las Vegas in 1947.