Category: Travels
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Papua New Guinea Cultural Festival at DBTI: Part One
Before leaving Papua New Guinea, I took some photos of the native dwellings from various provinces and villages that students had been building on the playing field in preparation for the Cultural Festival to take place Saturday a week later. But more exciting still was the parade and dancing that took place on the day […]
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Four Days in Papua New Guinea
After returning to Sydney and repacking my suitcase, I headed north to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea on Thursday. Fr. Ariel picked me up at the airport. He is a classmate from back in the 2nd Grade at Don Bosco Technical Institute (now College) in Mandaluyong, Philippines. He spent time with me in Virginia in 2012 in […]
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Lake Tekapo & Hanmer Springs
I didn’t take this photo. I took it off the web, from a photographer named Trey Ratcliff. It is a photo of a stretch of road in New Zealand. It is exactly what we saw all the way from Queenstown to Christchurch. Pasture on both sides, the Remarkables towering in the horizon. If you saw it, you would […]
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Queenstown in July
Queenstown is a major centre for snow sports in New Zealand, with people from all over the country and many parts of the world travelling to ski at the four main mountain ski fields (Cardrona Alpine Resort, Coronet Peak, The Remarkables and Treble Cone). Cross country skiing is also available at the Waiorau Snowfarm, near Cardrona village. (Wikipedia) Of course, […]
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Back to Christchurch
We were in Christchurch last before the 2011 earthquake. I seem to have lost all my photos from that trip. I will have to dig them up from cold storage when I get home. We arrived after 2PM local time and took the shuttle into town. The city is recovering slowly. And I found some […]
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14 Hours Ahead
I know you all have been waiting for my first post. This is the first spot I’m spending two nights in a row where the Wifi is tolerable. So I’m going to try getting a couple of posts in. I first visited Australia in 2004. Long story involving the Dominicans, VMI, and Amsterdam–well, not really. The […]
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Final Stop: the Pontifical North American College
The Janiculum Hill is one of the best locations in Rome for a breathtaking view of the innumerable domes and bell towers that pierce the skyline of the multi-hued architectural museum. … The Janiculum … is the location of several foreign research institutions, including the American Academy in Rome and the Spanish Academy in Rome, the American University of Rome, […]
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Epiphany Parade
The Christmas Season comes to a close with the celebration of Epiphany, the 12th night of Christmas. The scriptural account of the visit of the Magi from the East is brought to life with the Cavalcade, a parade that goes back to 1417 and ended in 1494 when the Medici family was expelled from Florence. […]
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Tour of Florence
Back home we celebrate Epiphany, the Manifestation of the Christ Child to the nations through the visit of the Magi from the east, on the first Sunday after 1 January. Here however, 6 January is a national holiday. We had a hard time finding a church where we could celebrate mass, as they were all […]
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