SimplyWonderfulWorld

Ah Hawaii. Who can say the name without feeling its fresh tropical breezes and the scent of frangipani in the air? Its beauty is breathtaking and even though tourism to Hawaii is becoming more and more popular, the islands haven't been spoiled by it.  Sleepy villages, mountain ranges, hibiscus covered colonial homes, the bright clean sea and the easy life is still here and the island group is like a handful of jewels in a sparkling sea.

In 122AD, the Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered a wall built across the northern reaches of the Roman territory in what was then known as Britannia. The wall of stone and turf was 73 miles long, 8 feet wide in most places and 15 feet high and it stretched across the breadth of Britain. It took six years to complete. It’s a line between what is now Newcastle and Carlisle.
 

Bath has long been considered one of England's most elegant cities. It is lovely with it’s many buildings of light-colored stone, Roman architecture and beautiful Georgian terraced houses built up around the green landscape of the Avon Valley. It is tucked away and neatly surrounded by hills in a most treasured part of England, very near the charming Cotswold countryside. As a World Heritage Site, it is a sharp contrast between the rose-covered thatched cottages of the West Country and warm stone of Roman and Georgian Bath.
 

 
The vast majority of geologists and scientists today believe that the Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River over a period of about 4 to 6 million years, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park — one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the Grand Canyon area, visiting on numerous occasions to hunt
 
mountain lions and enjoy the scenery.