Virtual Tripping

Elvis Presley’s Graceland’s, Part 2.

Mark — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:47:05 +0000

I was so impressed by the first post that I did, I felt it was important to carry on showing you guys this magnificent place. Being able to do these posts makes me realize that there is so much to learn about this world and the people and natural life that live in it, so here we go. This is my second post about the king of rock and roll, Elvis Aaron Presley’s, home, Gracelands. This of course was not just the home of Elvis, but his family. If you would like to learn more about Elvis and people in his life click on this link, Elvis and Me.

Elvis Aaron Presley was born on the 8th January 1935 and went on to become one of the world’s most famous american singer, actor. He became such an icon that he need to be protected where ever he went. This man became known as Elvis, The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll or The King.
It all began back in 1954, when this young man was found and started singing country and rhythm blues, but he went on to sing so many different types of music ie rock and roll, gospel, blues, country, ballads and pop. But even though he became so successful, it was the 1973 global live concert, which was staged in Aloha, Hawaii and was shown to at least one billion viewers and an extra 500 million on delay. This concert remains the the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. Elvis went on to make even more history with selling records between 600 million to one billion worldwide. And with 14 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, also being named one of the most outstanding young men of the nation 1970. He really was an amazing person.
Sadly on the 16th August 1977, this world icon died at home in Gracelands, due to health problems and prescription medication, that he was on ended up leading to his death at just the age of 42 years old.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Graceland’s crossing.

This is a panoramio picture taken of another part of Gracelands garden.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Elvis’s daughter Lisa Maria Presley’s swing set in the garden.

This is a panoramio picture taken of a sign, explaining about Elvis Presley and Gracelands.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Elvis’s pink cadillac car at Graceland’s.

Virtual-Tripping is pleased to announce a visit to Gracelands, Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley’s Home, Part 1.

Mark — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:00:15 +0000

After our success with Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, Virtual-Tripping has decided to do a post on the King of Rock and Roll’s home, Elvis Presley’s Graceland’s. If you ever get the chaance to visit this place you really should grab it with both hands, Graceland’s is an experience that will be remember for life. You will find this magnificent at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard, which is in the Whitehaven community, which is about 12 miles or 19km from the maintown and it is less than 4 miles or 6 km from the northern border of Mississippi. Graceland’s is a huge mansion and has a 13.8-acre (56,000 m2) estate.
This mansion is now a museum and it was opened to the members of the public around 1982, and Graceland’s is now on the National Register of Historic Places list which was placed on the 7th November 1991 and declared a National Historic Landmark on March 27, 2006.
The very sad news that hit the world on the 16th August 1977, when the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Aron Presley died, he was buried at Graceland’s in what is now known as the Meditation Gardens, also buried there is his mother Gladys and his father Vernon Presley, and also his Grandmother was also buried there.
What a place and what a memory you will have. It really is an amazing place, you really must see it. I hope you enjoy the pictures below and click on the links to find out more about Gracelands and Elvis Presley.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the Welcome to Graceland sign in Mephis, Tennessee.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the gateway to Graceland.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the front to side of Gracelands, Elvis’s is home.

This is the rear of Gracelands taken from panoramio.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the Living room in Gracelands.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Elvis Presley’s family graves.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Elvis’s Guitar Pool.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Elvis Presley’s Plane.

This is the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe, Part 2.

Mark — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:46:16 +0000

What do people see when visiting the Danish capital city Copenhagen. Apart from seeing the town centre and the river lakes which go through the city and some well known building’s like the Old Stock Exchange, the City Hall and the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen has parks and two of these parks are the oldest two amusement parks in the world.
These parks are the World-famous Tivoli Gardens and the pleasure garden which you will find on the right in middle of Copenhagen between the City Hall Square and the Central Station. You will of course find that some of the rides are also very old like roller coaster and the oldest ferris wheel. To find out more about these parks, please refer to wikipedia.

If you ever get the chance to visit this city, you will find some top class Michelin star restaurants, which makes Copenhagen the city with most Michelin stars in Scandinavia. Also this city is becoming well known for it’s food, locally and internationally. Because of this you will find some high rated restaurants, sandwich bars, coffee shops and pubs, with traditional and international cusine. I have learn’t that the best known Danish dish is the Pålæg and smørrebrød, which are open sandwiches. But of course the most popular cusine known world wide is the one and only Danish Pastry, which are found all over the city in bakeries, coffee shops, hotels, restaurants etc. So you can not leave copenhagen or Denmark without trying a Danish Pastry. If you are going to try a pastry, then do not forget to try a Danish Beer, the most well known of all is Carlsberg.

There are plenty of things to do within this city, Museums, theatres, pubs, clubs, historic buildings and modern buildings, shops, boat rides, cycle rides, bus or coach tours, National galleries, supermarkets, musical and cultural events, as well as concerts, firework displays and local entertainment. It maybe a coldish country, but the people are warm at heart. Again to learn and find out more about Copenhagen please refer to the link at the bottom of this post.

This is a panoramio picture taken of a waterfall in Copenhagen.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the City Hall in Copenhagen.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the China house at night in Tivoli, copenhagen.

This is a panoramio picture taken of a castle in Tivolia Christmastime-night, Copenhagen.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the Royal Opera in Copenhagen.

The capital city Copenhagen in Denmark is worth a look.

Mark — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:37:19 +0000

This is a post about the Danish capital city, Copenhagen in the north central of Europe. Emma and her sister are going to visit the city in November, 2009. They are both looking forward to the visit and seeing this magnificent city. So I thought it would make some sense for me to write about Copenhagen, so here we go. Being the capital city it is of course the largest city in Denmark, also this city expands into an urban area with a population estimated at 1,167,569 in 2009, and the metropolitan area with a population of 1,875,179 in 2009. If you have never visited this country before you would not have known that Denmark is a mainland area, but also it contains many islands, Copenhagen is situated on the Zealand and Amager islands.
I would agree with what was written wikipedia that Copenhagen is the best city to live in and visit. This city being so close to the lakes, the fresh air is wonderful and it is not a overly busy city if you compared it to the larger cities inthe world like Peking (China), Tokyo (Japan), London (England) and Washington D.C (U.S.A). But that means that you have lesser chance of picking illnesses etc. Also this city is one of the world’s most environmentally friendly cities, this is because the lakes are so clean that the Danish people will go for a swim in them and they are a very healthy population with alot of the citizens walking and cycling to work. If you want to learn more about this capital city and it’s country, please refer to the links at the bottom of this post.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the lakes of Copenhagen, Denmark.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the Copenhagen Fortress from the air in Denmark.

This is a panoramio picture taken from Copenhagen at night.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the Dragon Tail bridge between Denmark and Sweden.

This is a panoramio picture taken of a part of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Porthkerry Park, Beach and Viaduct near Barry, Wales have come to Virtual-Tripping.

Mark — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:33:22 +0000

This is a post about Porthkerry Country Park, you find this place which is a large public park on the welsh coast near the city of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales alongside the Bristol Coast, England. Where England and Wales depart from each other in the southeast of Wales and the southwest of England. You will find the Bristol Channel. This area is a natural ite where you will find fields, pathways, ponds, forests, nature trails, farm animals, a pebble beach and a golf course. It is a real natural enviroment.
But the one thing that sticks out a mile as got to be the architectural, Viaduct(bridge), where you can see trains crossing over daily. It is a huge bridge and has got to be one of the centre parts of this area. The history of this bridge was that between the 19th and 20th centuries, it was used by the coal industry to transport coal from the valleys to the port.
Also if you ever have an opportunity to visit Porthkerry, you must go to the beach, it is an excellent place to see nature at it’s best, but most of all go and see the Bull Nose rocks at the edge of the beach. And for all you active people out there, you can walk from Porthkerrry to Cold Knap on Barry Island on a clear day, it would not take you to long to get there and back. So if you have a chance go and visit, there are places to stay at including the Egerton Grey Country house in Porthkerry and other places as well.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Porthkerry Beach, Barry, Wales.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the Bulls Nose at Porthkerry Beach, Barry, Wales.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Porthkerry Park.

This is a panoramio picture taken of another part of Porthkerry Park.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Porthkerry Viaduct or Bridge and Train.

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Virtual-Tripping passed Western Australia’s, William Bay National Park.

Mark — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:22:41 +0000

Why I was surfing Google Earth I came across this area on the southern coast of Western Australia near the town of Denmark. Established in the year of 1971, you will find that this is more of qa natural park rather than a entertainment park. Beautiful sights and scenes of Greens Pools which is located between the towns of Denmark and Walpole, Western Australia.
Green Pools is a beautiful sandy white beachwhich is surrounded by large granite boulders they help to stop the swell of the Southern Ocean reaching the shoreline. The large granite boulders are the Elephant Rocks and the pictures below show what they are like.
The closest major city near William Bay National Park is Perth, Western Australia, it is 369 km or 229 miles southeast of Perth.
It really looks a great place if you are a beach fan.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Greens Pool, Williams Bay National Park on the south coast of Western Australia.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Tower Hill in William Bay National Park.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Lights Beach in Western Australia.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Waterfall Beach road.

Virtual-Tripping lets you come to see the English city of Sheffield.

Mark — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:49:40 +0000

This is a post about the city of Sheffield which is situated within the metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England.
The name Sheffield actually comes from River Sheaf, which goes through the city. I have often known Sheffield as an industrial city and alot of the larger cities in the north of England, survived mainly on industrial work. You may or may not know that this city is one of the largest in the that make up the English Core Cities Group. And with the population of this country growing it will probably not surprise you that the estimated population, taken i n 2008, was around 534,500 and Sheffield extends into a larger urban area as well.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Sheffield.

If you are ever interested about visiting Sheffield you will find that ther are plenty of things to do and see, for example
the Lyceum Theatre and the Crucible Theatre,
Millennium Galleries, which hosts the collection of the Guild of St George founded by John Ruskin, and visiting exhibitions from the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate collections.
The Sheffield Walk of Fame in the City Centre honours famous Sheffielders in a similar way to the Hollywood version.
Interior of a glasshouse.
The Sheffield Winter Garden
The Peace Gardens.
The Botanical Gardens
Heeley City Farm Weston Park Museum, the Kelham Island Museum, the Sheffield Fire and Police Museum, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, and Shepherd Wheel.
Thousands of different listed buildings that go through Sheffields history.

including the whole of the Sheffield postal district Of these, only five are Grade I listed. Fifty-nine are Grade II*, but the overwhelming majority are listed as Grade II.
Also there are many parks to visit including Millhouses Park, Endcliffe Park, Graves Park this is the largest within Sheffield.
Finally there are plenty of places to walk and drive around and as this city has been built around five rivers and hillsides there is plenty to do there. Lots of pubs and shops to visit as well. Also don’t forget for you football fans out there, you have Sheffield United and there ground Bramble Lane and Sheffield Wednesday and there ground Hillsborough.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Park Square in Sheffield.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the Sheffield Eye.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Sheffield City Hall.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the Sheffield Town Hall.

Learn about famous areas in the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA on Virtual-Tripping.

Mark — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:42:04 +0000

Welcome to a post about some famous areas in the Olympic Peninsula and the Olympic National Park, Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Olympic Peninsula happens to be a very large area of land which is situated in the western Washington state and is near Seattle. This area is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Strait of Juan de Fuca,
Puget Sound and Hood Canal. There are two other areas that are also included in the Olympic Peninsula, they are Cape Alava in the west and Cape Flattery in the north-west.

The Olympic National Park will be found in the Olympic Peninsula. This amazing park happens to be joined together by three particular parts of this region they are, the Pacific coastline, the Olympic Mountains, and the temperate rainforest.
It was created back in 1909, when the then American President Theodore Roosevelt created Olympic National Monument.
But it was not until 1938, when the then American President Franklin Roosevelt signed a legislation for National Park Status and voted for by the American Government.
Over the years this Park has become recognised as an International Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site and Olympic Wilderness and this means there is more protection of this area, than ever before.

This is a panoramio picture of the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic Peninsula in western Washington state, USA.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Hurricane Ridge in Washington’s Olympic National Park, western Washington state, USA.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Cape Flattery in Clallam County, Washington state, USA.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Willaby Creek Falls in the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington state, USA.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Rocks near Hoh Rain Forest in western Washington State, USA.

Kazan city, Republic of Tatarstan in Russia shows it’s beauty on V.T.

Mark — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:01:20 +0000

After last night mighty football result between Barcelona f.c and F.C.Rubin Kazan, I felt that this was V.T’s next visit. What can you say a Russian team goes to Barcelona to take on the European Champions and the Spanish Champions of 2008/09 season and beat them on their own ground. Barcelona have not been beaten on their home ground in the Spanish league this season yet. What an amazing result.
The city of Kazan is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia, and happens to also be one of the largest cities within the country of Russia. Kazan is also well known for her major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and will always remain as one of the most important cities for her Tatar culture.
Did you know that from April 2009, this city actually has the legal right to call itself “Third Capital” of Russia, this has been approved by the Russian Patent Office.
You will find the city of Kazan where it lies near the Volga and Kazanka rivers which are situated in central European Russia. Nearer to the western side of country rather than the eastern side. This city is not to far away from Moscow the capital of Russia, the larger cities close by apart from Moscow are Chelyabinsk and Samara. Finally this city is also well known for the Kazan Kremlin, which is a World Heritage Site.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Kazan City, Russia, Europe.

This is a panoramio picture taken at night of Tatar Village in Kazan City.

This is a panoramio picture taken of F.C.Rubin Kazan Football Stadium.

This is a panoramio picture taken of the Kazan Pyramid in Kazan.

Saudi Arabia’s capital city Riyadh.

Mark — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:49:00 +0000

Saudia Arabia’s capital city, Riyadh is the largest of all the cities within Saudi Arabia. As there is also a Riyadh Province which is like a state or county. This cityalso belongs to the historical regions of Nejd and Al-Yamama. You will find Riyah in the center of the Arabian Peninsula on large desert plateau. The latest population for Riyah is 1,444,500 people, and on the urban centre of the region there is a population of around 6 million people. Like some of the other capital cities you will find that there is 15 municipal districts, and they are of course run by senior members and managed by Riyadh Municipality, which is headed by the mayor of Riyadh and of course the Riyadh Development Authority which is chaired by the Governor of Riyadh Province, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz. But you will then find that Municipality of Riyadh, and her province is divided into 19 governorates muhafazat and 1 sub-governorate markaz. So this city and country is a well represented nation with a strong and sound government and the Royal Family will always be kept informed, much like the British Royal Family are kept updated on British economy and interests.

At this moment in time Riyadh’s current mayor is Abdul Aziz ibn Ayyaf Al Migrin, and he was appointed in 1998.
The modern day city of today is totally different to how it used to be, thanks to the western world providing finanical awards for Saudi’s oil and energy complexis. Riyadh has grown there are more and more well-known western companies moving into Riyadh and Saudi Arabia, aswell as Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, etc etc. Many British people live within these cities.

This is a great picture taken from panoramio of a smoggy or foggy capital city, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

This is a panoramio picture taken of Salam Park within Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The capital city, Riyadh is also the capital city of the province of Saudi Arabia, which is known as Al-Wosta. This provcince is found in the centre of Saudi Arabia. Because of the size of this province it is actually the second largest behind the Eastern Province and population behind Makkah Province. The estimated area of this province is 412,000 km² and the estimated population is around is heading towards the six million mark.