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If you're looking for unique and charming homes in Austin, look to the Travis Heights neighborhood. It's in an urban part of town, but is very desirable because of the influx of young couples and local culture. It's nearby to downtown and the South Congress area which makes it a perfect location if you want to take in all that Austin nightlife has to offer. In fact, many residents are within walking distance of hip clothing stores, cutting edge restaurants and other exciting amenities.

Travis Heights is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Austin, Texas, with the first ground being broke in 1913. It is located in south Austin and juts up next to Lady Bird Lake on the north, I-35 on the east, Congress Avenue on the west and Oltorf Street on the south. Since it's so close to the interstate, Travis Heights is a prime location for commuting or a good starting point for exploring other parts of the city. However, there are no Capital Metro bus stops in the area.

It was founded in 1913 but buildings didn't really start coming up until the 1920s. General Stacy donated the land for the park along Blunn Creek which today bears the name "Stacy Park." Stacy is also the name sake for "Big Stacy" a spring-fed pool and the "Little Stacy" Avenue south residence brochure  park and swimming pool all within Travis Heights. Both were built as part of a WPA project during the 1930s.

Today, Travis Heights has a mixture of mansions, small homes and interesting apartment buildings, many of which date back nearly 100 years. It's considered to the most liberal, hip part of Austin and it attracts a diverse group of people, both young and old. It's definitely not typical suburbia in this neighborhood and perfect if you're looking for a home and neighbors that are outside of the box. In fact, Travis Heights' residents are among the biggest supporters of the "Keep Austin Weird" movement.

Travis Heights is services by a high school, middle school and elementary school. Students start at Travis Heights Elementary School and then attend Fulmore Middle School. Teens in the area go on to Travis High School.

Outdoor activity enthusiasts will enjoy the variety of different amenities. There is a free wading pool, a playground, tennis court, a volleyball court and a basket pall court at Little Stacy Park. Big Stacy Park, which is actually the smaller of the two, has a free swimming pool. There are also picnic tables and barbecue pits for outdoor meals.

Although there is plenty of shopping and restaurants in nearby South Congress, but Travis Heights also has many coffee shops of its own. For fine dining and more extensive restaurant experiences, you'll need to hop over to South Congress but it's only a few minutes away.

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To properly appreciate Central Belfast, visitors must begin their wanderings at the heart of the city, the magnificent City Hall, located on Donegall Square. North of City Hall is Donegall Place, a teeming shopping mecca that leads to the Cathedral Quarter and the Arts School. Towards the east, you'll find the River Lagan while Donegall Pass lies to the south. The Westlink carriageway borders off Central Belfast from the western suburbs.

Despite being safe nearly all the time, the streets of Central Belfast are surprisingly nearly empty after 8 p.m., reflecting years of curfews during troubled times. Obviously, the night life in Central Belfast is a lot more serene than, say, other cities of Britain and Ireland. But it does have its own allure, as typified by the following popular attractions.

1. City Hall This is undeniably the grand centrepiece of Central Belfast, home of Belfast's Council chambers and administrative offices. Visitors can join the daily guided tours (free) and marvel at the rich sense of history. In the grounds there's a statue of Queen Victoria and a memorial to the victims of the RMS Titanic, which was built in Belfast's shipyards. Avenue south residence price list  A series of broad pavements and grassy squares surround the main City Hall structure and serve as a favorite romantic hangout of couples. South African visitors often note City Hall's resemblance to the City Hall in Durban and they are right. Both were designed from architectural drafts from the British Empire's drafting office at the turn of the 20th century.

2. Saint Anne's Cathedral Like City Hall, Saint Anne's Cathedral is also located on Donegall St. at the other end of Royal Avenue, the main shopping vista. This stunning building lies at the heart of the "Cathedral Quarter," which is currently being redesigned as the city's cultural district. The area has many excellent cafes, bars and architectural structures that bring to mind the industrial and commercial heritage of Belfast.

3. Belfast Central Library For historical documentation on the city, head to the Belfast Central Library, an exquisite example of Victorian architecture located on Royal Avenue across the road from the Cathedral. Its newspaper library features extensive archives of all the major newspapers in Northern Ireland.

4. Belfast Exposed Located at 23 Donegall Street, Belfast Exposed is the lone photo gallery in Northern Ireland. It regularly features historical and cultural exhibits that are free and open to the public. Basically an upgraded exhibition space in a refurbished warehouse, Belfast Exposed has an impressive and well-maintained library. It also provides local photographers with darkroom and processing facilities. Gallery hours are from 11 am to 5 pm.

5. Place This diminutive shop at 40 Fountain Street is a fabulous forum promoting the architectural artistry of Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland. It is presently operated by the Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA).

6. Ormeau Baths Gallery Located on Ormeau Avenue, the OBG is another lively and vibrant art gallery operating under the auspices of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

7. Titanic Boat Tour For 5, tourists can take a boat tour to the shipyards where the ill-fated Titanic was built. A large portion of the shipyards are presently being developed in a commercial and residential neighbourhood known as the Titanic Quarter.

8. Belfast Big Fish Big Fish is located right next to the Lagan Weir, which controls the flow of the Lagan River. The Lagan Weir also hosts the Lagan Lookout, which features an impressive exhibition on Belfast history and a model of the Titanic. At night, the entire complex features romantic lighting which makes it a favourite haven of couples.

9. The Waterfront Hall Located to the north of Donegall Square, the Waterfront Hall is the main concert and conference venue in Central Belfast. Its main auditorium is renowned for having the best acoustics of any performance hall in Europe and regularly hosts major musical shows. Since it was constructed in 1997, the Waterfront Hall has been a significant contributor to the Belfast economy, generating 10 for every 1 spent on its construction.

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Defined by, and developed because of, the Long Island Railroad, the slender, almost fish-profiled tract of land originally called Paumanok by indigenous Indians and now bridge- and tunnel-appendaged to New York, owes much of its existence to it.

Earthly distances require means, speed, and sometimes intermodal connections to traverse so that miles, as measurements, can be reduced to hours and minutes. Untethered to the continental Untied States, and thus surrounded by water, Long Island itself sought solutions for the population which grew after the farmers were attracted there by the promise of sprouting crops. But not immediately.

"The century year of 1800 found Long Island to be a largely rural region of remote villages located along the shores," according to Robert C. Sturm in his book, "The Long Island Rail Road Company: A History, 1834-1965" (Long Island-Sunrise Trail Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. 2014, p. 3). "The principle means of transpiration and communication were carriages and sailing vessels. The fact that travel was slow, arduous, and sometimes perilous meant that the average person rarely, if ever, traveled further than 20 miles from his or her place of birth."

Integral to the seed that evolved into the Long Island Railroad and ultimately resolved this dilemma was the ten-mile Avenue south residences condo  Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad Company, whose April 25, 1832 incorporation was envisioned as the first step in a land-and-sea link to Boston, essentially bypassing Long Island itself, but reducing the primitive, three-day horse-drawn coach and 16-hour all-steamer methods to 11 hours.

The second segment of the intermodal journey became reality on April 24, 1834, when the Long Island Rail Road Company was chartered to operate from Brooklyn to Greenport on the North Fork. The third was the cross-sound ferry voyage to Stonington, Connecticut, whose hilly and river-interspersed southern shore otherwise eclipsed technological, track-laying capabilities, and the fourth was the continued and final rail link to Boston on the Norwich and Worcester.

Two years later, on April 18, or the very day that the Brooklyn and Jamaica was completed, the barren island began sprouting tracks, along with its crops, reaching Farmingdale in Suffolk County in 1841, Deer Park the following year, and Medford two years after that, and met the North Fork-originating, westward-laid rails by summer, although a shortage necessitated a temporary, two-mile, heavy timber and strap iron crowned insertion until the final section was delivered from Britain.

Inaugurating service on July 27, 1844, the fledgling, steam-powered railroad immediately demonstrated its capability, covering the 94 miles from Brooklyn to Greenport in three-and-a-half hours.

But the ground which supported it began to crumble after only a few years of operation, since the previously considered "impossible" southern Connecticut rail route was conquered by 1850, eliminating the need for the Long Island Railroad's intermodal and inter-state purpose and leaving it to serve a sparsely populated farm community. Now, more than ever, it needed to grow branches that would cater to developing towns, after its initial, cross-island line spurred their development.

Today, tunnel-connected, beneath the East River, to Manhattan, the Long Island Railroad operates nine branches to 124 stations, covering more than 700 miles of track, and is both North America's busiest commuter railroad, feeding and fielding the daily workforce, and the oldest one still operating under its original name. In 2009, it celebrated its 175th anniversary and six years later carried 87.6 million annual passengers.

Its rich history can be gleaned through Long Island's many railroad-related sights.

2. Hicksville and the John Bull Locomotive:

Located on the flat, barren, 60,000-acre Hempstead Plains--the largest such prairie in the eastern United States-Hicksville was first claimed by Welsh settler, Robert Williams, in 1648. But, despite the promise of population, it remained just as virgin for another two centuries, until Valentine Hicks, a Jericho businessman, acquired the site and formed a land association to establish a town on it in 1834.

Because the first 15 miles of track had reached the area three years later, in March, its then terminus status transformed it into a destination or, in the reverse direction, a gateway to Manhattan in the west, establishing a tether to a major city.

Not coincidentally, Hicks himself became a Long Island Railroad board member and its second president, while the station, ultimately located at the crossroads of the Main Line and the Port Jefferson branch, evolved into a hub.

But financial panic at the time of its inception ensured that it remained the terminus for four years, until the intermodal connection could regain its momentum and ever eastward-laid track could imprint the ground. In the meantime, however, the railroad transported people, who, in sedentary form, translated into population, and the once barren farmland took root as a town comprised of stores, businesses, residences, and hotels. Its "Hicksville" name, again not coincidentally, reflected its Valentine Hicks founder.

The Long Island Railroad's first locomotive, the "Ariel" and the 19th constructed by Matthias W. Baldwin, was delivered in November of 1835 and, aside from providing motive power for the inaugural Hicksville service, was employed for some two decades.

"The original locomotives were of simple construction, comprising a five-tube boiler mounted on a frame that also accommodated a two-cylinder engine," wrote Sturm in "The Long Island Rail Road Company: A History, 1834-1965" (p. 10). "Hand-cut pine, which was conveniently harvested from the Pine Barrens, was the fuel. Water was carried on the tender car, either in casks or (in) an iron tank. There were no brakes; coasting to the station and finally 'plugging' the engine (running it in reverse) was the only method used to stop the trains."

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As so many times before, I used my Airmiles to book our flights to Calgary (with the Westjet Airmiles Mastercard you get to fly out west for only 1600 Airmiles instead of having to use 3000 Airmiles in high season with other airlines). As an astute traveller you have to look at every option of cutting your travel costs and Airmiles is one of my favourite tools. A direct flight took us from Toronto to Calgary in about three and a half hours.

We arrived at the Calgary Airport at roughly 11:25 am and the weather was rather overcast on arrival with an outside temperature of -12 degrees Celsius. Because we only had about a day in Calgary, an official tour of the city was going to really give us the lay of the land and Jocelyne Morrison from Time Out For Touring was there to pick us up. Jocelyne herself hails actually from Quebec, but has been living in Calgary for the last 10 years. And it turns out she loves the city and is an absolute expert in it.

The first thing that struck me upon arrival were all the statues and sculptures located at the baggage carousels, all with different themes. Obviously Calgary likes to entertain its visitors while they wait for their luggage at the airport. The next sight that caught my attention was a volunteer dressed up in a bright red vest and cowboy hat who was there to welcome tourists. Jocelyne explained that Calgary actually is a city of volunteers: Avenue south residence  7 out of 10 Calgarians volunteer their time for a good cause, and volunteers were some of the main reasons why the Calgary Olympic Games in 1988 were the first Olympic Games in history to actually make (rather than lose) money. Jocelyne packed us into the touring van and off we went on our very compact exploration of Calgary. The first thing that struck me about Calgary was its topography: it is located in a relatively flat area with a number of long, stretched out low-lying hills. On good days you can actually see the Rocky Mountains to the west, but unfortunately the weather was overcast, so we didn't get to see the Rockies today.

Calgary is divided north-south by the Bow River, and Centre Street divides the city's east from the west. As a result the city has 4 quadrants with streets running north-south and avenues running east-west. So in order to find an address you always have to know whether it is in the northwest, northeast, southwest or southeast quadrant in Calgary. Jocelyne explained that many of the streets in Calgary are named after native names, eg. Deerfoot Avenue (apparently named after a native person who was a really fast runner). Nose Hill is one of the most prominent hills in Calgary; it is a long-stretched out topographical feature without much vegetation. Jocelyne explained that this type of landscape is pretty much typical of Calgary as a prairie city. Much of Calgary's natural landscape is a mix between grassland and semi-arid forests. When it gets very dry in the summer, there are a lot of grass fires.

Calgary is also a booming city. Cranes are everywhere, and new subdivisions are growing out of the ground like mushrooms. Essentially only the downtown area has highrise buildings, while the residential areas outside of the core mostly consist of single-family homes rather than highrise apartments. Calgary, as the "Energy Capital of Canada" and the centre of Canada's oil industry, is experiencing rapid economic growth and people from all over Canada are migrating here. The population today is roughly 1 million.

Next we drove by McMahon Stadium, where Calgary's Stampeders football team is headquartered. This stadium was also used for the opening and closing ceremonies during the 1988 Olympic Games, another reason why Calgary made money on these games: by reusing and refunctioning existing facilities. Prudent financial management at work...... The next big item on the itinerary was "C.O.P.": Canada Olympic Park, a place so interesting it deserves its own story. After our guided tour through the Olympic facilities we drove on the Sarcee Trail to get into downtown Calgary. Coming into town from the west side we had a very nice view of the cluster of skyscrapers downtown. While driving in through the residential areas, Jocelyne explained that a large number of residential condominium developments are going up downtown. One example of the population explosion was the move of Canadian Pacific's headquarters from Montreal to Calgary in 1996 when 700 families moved into town at the same time.

Calgary pays a lot of attention to the quality of life of its residents. The city has hundreds of kilometers of walkways and trails, particularly beside the Elbow and Bow Rivers. Doglovers in particular have it good here since the city provides many off-leash areas to its dog-owners. 55 golf courses are located in the immediate vicinity of Calgary and golf is a very popular pastime here.