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Wayfarer Rally * Hermit Island, Maine Getting There Was Half The Fun - 2 by Ton & Connie Jaspers ... |
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| Another reason why I wanted
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go to New York. ... |
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| Typical Brooklyn
architecture? Brooklyn, another classic Dutch name:
Breukelen,
where our Dutch Proctor spar dealer lives. And here is typical Dutch first name for you: Jan-Kees (Eng: John-Cornelius), pronounced: Yankees. Note that this "Yankees" is a not plural. ... |
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| The mother of all roller
coasters, today it is an official National Landmark - and
about the
only thing worth visiting! The rest of the world famous Coney Island fairground is in dire need of a total overhaul. ... |
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| The boardwalk. venue of
many
famous movies and songs. Remember Clark Gable? ... |
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| A good thing I saw this
after I
had my hotdog. Think of it... 59.... Yuck! Only in
America. ... |
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Here is the reason why
we went
to Coney Island in the first place: Lunch! There are two
once in a
lifetime things a man has to do in New York: 1. Have New
York Pizza on
Broadway and 2. have a real New York hotdog. The best
are made by
Nathans on Coney Island. And it is true, I never had a
hotdog like this
one before, it was worth the long wait. It was even
better than the
"Franske Hotdogs" from Denmark (my favourite before this
one).
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Stillwell Terminal, the
worlds
largest terminal facility and recently beautifully
restored. Covered
with thousands of terracotta tiles. The roof
of the new train shed,
in
classic European style, is covered with 76,000 square
feet of thin-film
photo voltaic cells, delivering a whopping 210 kW
(nominal) or 250,000
kWh annually. The station does not need external power,
it even feeds
back in to the grid despite the enormous amount of train
movements. I
should know who the architect was ... Just a sec
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