Sentences with phrase «port town made»

On the Waterfront This well - preserved 15th - century port town made its fortune from trade, but today it's all about the beaches, from the infamous China Beach to the willow - lined Cua Dai.

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The ports helped foster a lively export trade, and proximity to the Gulf's natural gas resources also made the energy industry important to the town.

This source tells me Tuticorin (a port town in the south Indian state of Tamilnadu) has its own version of meringues made with egg whites and cashewnuts.

As the old man Slimane (Habib Boufares), divorced and living in a dump of hotel owned by his new lover, works his way through the bureaucracy with the help of the doting daughter of his long - time girlfriend (she treats him like and adoptive grandfather), we see an entire world is seen in the background, the stories of the children and grandchildren of Arab immigrants making a life in this French port town and finding their identity in the mix of cultures.

Here, at the windy confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, it feels more southern than Midwest when you arrive at the old river port and factory town of Cairo, once made famous in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

First up, we'll make our way to the town's port by a classic means of transport, the triciclo or three - wheeled bike taxi.

An Awesome Adventures Fiji line leaves the beach a number of times throughout the week, making the short voyage south to the port - town of Denarau on the Fijian mainland.

In 1884, Canadian Pacific Railway president William Van Horne decided that with its natural port, the small town would make a good terminus for his transcontinental line.

Morocco's coastal cities and towns include Tangier, with its vibrant nightlife; glittering Casablanca, the country's economic and cultural capital made famous by the 1942 Humphrey Bogart movie; and whitewashed fishing ports, such as Asalih and Essaouira.

Our vision is to make your visit to our George Town Grand Cayman port of call, the Cayman Islands, the most enjoyable and memorable destination of your Caribbean Cruise.

Day Four Wednesday — Menindee — Mungo National Park — Mildura — After a wholesome breakfast we make our way to the Mungo National Park via Pooncarie, another old river port town along the Darling River.

Day Seven Sunday — Menindee — Mungo National Park — Mildura — Melbourne — After a wholesome breakfast we make our way to the Mungo National Park via Pooncarie, another old river port town along the Darling River.

Day Five Wednesday — Menindee — Mungo National Park — Mildura — After a wholesome breakfast we make our way to the Mungo National Park via Pooncarie, another old river port town along the Darling River.

In beach side towns many streets are named after the forces who liberated them and there are markers on the sites of many of the most significant battles, such as the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc and the Pegasus Bridge, and off the coast from Arromanches you can still see the remains of the Mulberry harbour, which was the man made temporary harbour dragged from England that enabled a full scale invasion bypassing the heavily fortified ports.

The Providence will make her new home port in Old Town Alexandria, with arrival expected in the early summer of 2019.

This series was made in Dunwich on the Suffolk coast, a town brought to literary fame in W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, once one of the most important ports in Europe and now a melancholic space of psychogeographic meditation.

The town is striving to make the venture succeed: offering cheap office space and allowing use of its idle port and tugboats.