The Pluto Story and the Lowell Observatory

    The Pluto Story and the Lowell Observatory

    During our Great American Tour we visited several places that has something to do with science. One of them was Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, the home of Pluto. NASA’s New Horizons close-up image of Pluto (NASA New Horizons). The entrance of the...
    Echo in Tihany and the Legend – must try

    Echo in Tihany and the Legend – must try

    Tihany’s signpost is the famous Benedictine Abbey. Records from the early 19th century say that words shouted from the Echo Hill return from the northern wall of the church building. The earliest Balaton guide-book, issued in 1848, says that guests in...
    48 hours in Eger, the historic Hungarian town

    48 hours in Eger, the historic Hungarian town

    Eger: Eclipse of the Crescent Moon Mr. Green got a homework for summer (yes, that can happen in Hungary). He had to read the novel Eclipse of the Crescent Moon. The historical novel (by Géza Gárdonyi) takes us back to the mid-16th century, into the era of the 150-year...
    Bucket List for our Great American Tour project

    Bucket List for our Great American Tour project

    The Great American Round Trip Project Bucket List We are very excited to share our great American tour project that we have been planning for many years. The dream has now about to become true! Selected items from our Bucket List: Las Vegas, NV Hoover Dam Grand Canyon...