Searching for “Our Babe”: Halifax’s Fairlawn Cemetery and the Mystery of the Titanic’s “Unknown Child,” Part I
Halifax, the beautiful capital of Canada’s Nova Scotia province, offers no shortage of things to do, and most of them are in the compact,…
Dusty Books and Breast Milk: Iceland’s DIY Museum
What do you do with a discarded shoe factory in a small, self-consciously quirky, town with a long tradition of self-sufficiency, booming tourist population,…
“Appalling” and “Totalitarian:” Oslo’s Must-See Gustav Vigeland Sculpture Park
Because, for once, I didn’t do my history homework, I wandered into the Gustav Vigeland Installation at Oslo’s Frogner Park unaware that I was…
Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday, III
Happy Wednesday, everybody! Apparently, along with being wacky, whimsical, and wonderful, this Wednesday is also "Russia day" here at Through History-Colored Glasses. Purely by accident, the first two pictures I…
Magical views, eerie otherworldliness, and unexpected screeching: Visiting Mont-Saint-Michel by night
Gothic arches, stone walls, narrow passages, cavernous rooms, flickering lights...and periodic screeching followed by glimpses of enormous eagle eyes and sharp talons?
Building (literally) the Tudor dynasty: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII, and the Westminster Abbey Lady Chapel (Part I of III)
(I apparently had a great deal to say on this topic, so I decided to break up the post into smaller parts. Keep an…
Of Propaganda and Painted Ceilings: My Visit to the Old Royal Naval College
I really didn’t intend to spend the day in Greenwich.
Five reasons why your next trip should be to Scandinavia
There I was, sitting in the breakfast nook of a pleasant Stockholm hotel, listening to a group of North Americans explain why they had…
The Blue Lagoon and that whole “naked showering” thing.
The Blue Lagoon is a vast geothermal pool and spa outside of Reykjavik. Despite its wild appearance, it is not natural phenomenon. It’s man-made,…