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Traveling With History : Tel Aviv: Facing the Future With a Different Take on the Past © pictures and text, Allan Seiden, 2012 It was on a sunny day in 1909, with Palestine a province of the Ottoman Empire, that a group of Jewish residents of the ancient port city of Jaffa, feeling [...]
BY TED LANDPHAIR - The real-estate consortium that is organizing a public stock offering for the world-famous Empire State Building might consider this pitch line, slightly modified from the old slogan that worked splendidly for Avis Rent-a-Car: We’re No. 2! — Again No. 2 in height in New York City, that is, ever since workers [...]
Traveling With History © Allan Seiden, 2012 There is a very real divide that separates Israel’s two largest cities, with holy Jerusalem steeped in history and populated by those of ardent belief, and more secular Tel Aviv, having only recently celebrated the centennial of its founding, facing the future rather than focusing [...]
Part 1 of a 3 part series on Israel Story and pictures © Allan Seiden, 2012 Israel is a place that evokes diverse emotions. If it is not the “light unto the nations” that is its biblical imperative, [...]
Last of a four-part series on New Zealand’s North Island Text and pictures © Allan Seiden, 2012 As with Hawaii, New Zealand is a living landscape. On North Island, evidence of volcanic, seismic, and thermal [...]
Third in a series on New Zealand’s North Island Text and pictures © Allan Seiden, 2012 When European settlers cleared 80% of North Island’s densely forested landscape in the last decades of the 19thcentury to create pasture for the cows and sheep that soon outnumbered the island’s human population. Today it’s even [...]
Part two of a three part series on New Zealand’s North Island In terms of size, it’s something of an unfair comparison. With a metropolitan area of more than two million (about half the national population), sprawling Auckland is New Zealand’s commercial and financial capital. It’s highrise towers, capped by the futuristic 1,075-foot [...]
What's Not To Like ...A Visit to New Zealand's North Island Text and pictures by Allan Seiden My recent visit to New Zealand’s North Island proved not only memorable, but also worthy of a hop-on-a-plane recommend. On my first visit some years ago I’d spent my time on South Island with fabled attractions like the [...]
Story and photography by Allan Seiden I wasn’t sure I was prepared for the 27 below zero that greeted me on my first morning in West Yellowstone, the south Montana town that serves as the winter gateway to Yellowstone National Park. Winter is the perfect time to visit Yellowstone, a time when bison drift into [...]
Story and photography by Allan Seiden Every trip offers unique perspectives that begin as soon as take-off sets things in motion. I always try to book a seat early enough to secure a window free of the wing, ready to marvel at the diversity and beauty that are uniquely apparent [...]
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